page_title: UT Arlington Mavericks men's basketball
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: UT Arlington Mavericks men's basketball / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Grubbs Vocational College Hornets basketball team holding ball that reads "Champs".
context_page_description: The UT Arlington Mavericks men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Sun Belt Conference. Home games are played at College Park Center, located on the University of Texas at Arlington's campus in Arlington. The team appeared in the 2008 NCAA tournament, losing against the #1 seed Memphis in the first round, although Memphis was later forced to vacate the win due to infractions committed by the program.
context_section_description: The Mavericks are one of the founding teams of the Southland Conference, which began with five institutions on March 15, 1963. Although only 19 of 58 seasons have resulted in an overall winning record, 8 of the past 10 seasons have winning records, including a school record 27 wins in the 2016–2017 season (as of the conclusion of the 2016–17 season). The team won an outright regular season championship in 2012, along with a tie for the 2004 regular season champion and a 2008 conference tournament championship that led to their first NCAA Tournament appearance. The Mavericks played in the Western Athletic Conference in 2012–13 before joining the Sun Belt Conference in 2013–14.  The program earned its first Sun Belt regular season title in the record-setting 2016–17 season.
caption: Grubbs Vocational College men's basketball team, 1922
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