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Message: [QUOTE="Kolumbo, post: 3913507, member: 4613"] Throw in the Maccabees from Manhattan for diversity. Why hasn't NYU returned to Division I. "Before it was scrapped at the height of a budget crisis in 1971, NYU's men's basketball program was a national power whose teams played for sellout crowds at Madison Square Garden. NYU still boasts winning records against several [I][B]top schools like Connecticut, Georgetown[/B][/I] and North Carolina and on May 8, the school will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1959-60 season when the Violets reached the NCAA tournament's Final Four. Although it was reinstated in 1983, NYU's men's team is no longer a candidate March Madness. It now plays in Division III against the likes of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and Lebanon Valley College. And the wounds from the 1971 death sentence still linger. "It came as a total shock," says Stan McKenzie, a former NYU star who was playing in the NBA when he heard the news. "It happened in some smoke-filled room where someone just said, 'This is over.' Bam! And that was it."" [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703871904575216363243298780']Why Isn't NYU a Sports Power? - WSJ[/URL] [/QUOTE]