University of Evansville

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Evansville, IN — Private liberal arts university, est. 1854; home of the Purple Aces; Missouri Valley Conference member; connected to Bob Griese's Evansville and Don Mattingly's hometown; tragically lost its entire 1977–78 basketball team (29 players, coaches, and staff) in a plane crash shortly after the season began — one of the most devastating disasters in American collegiate athletics; the program was rebuilt and has reached the NCAA Tournament multiple times since

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