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Everything you need to know before the opener against the Aces.

The University of Evansville is a Division I school located in Evansville, Ind., a few hours southwest of Champaign. The school boasts 2,500 students and the basketball team competes in the Missouri Valley Conference, along with the likes of Loyola-Chicago, Southern Illinois and Illinois State. Just like any good school you don’t know much about, they have an arbitrary story behind their nickname and mascot!

In 1924, Evansville defeated Louisville in a basketball game. The Lousville head coach supposedly said, “You didn’t have four aces up your sleeve, you had five!