Georgia southern university basketball division. Georgia southern university is a large scale small feel public research university offers practical knowledge in more than 100 degree programs in business education science engineering technology and the arts. Athletics the georgia southern eagles compete nationally on the division i level as a member of the sun belt conference. The official 2018 19 mens basketball schedule for the georgia southern university eagles.
Statesboro still and will always be the proverbial rome in the growing eagle empire. Georgia southern university is a large regional institution now. The first year of mens basketball at georgia southern was 1926 and the first year the school played in division i was 1971.
Division ii schools like west georgia and valdosta state have larger arenas than georgia southern does. Georgia southern hires texas tech assistant burg. Georgia southern fields 6 mens teams football baseball basketball tennis soccer and golf and 9 womens teams volleyball track and fieldcross country soccer swimming and diving basketball softball tennis.
2019 season schedule scores stats and highlights. Its flagship campus is in statesboro and other locations include the armstrong campus in savannah and the liberty campus in hinesvillefounded in 1906 as a land grant college georgia southern is the fifth largest institution in the university system of georgia and is the largest center of higher. 6 georgia southern basketball player roger moore was the first african american athlete to receive a scholarship in the university system of georgia.
About 400 student athletes participate in 15 sports. Brian burg spent four years as part of chris beards staff at texas tech including the teams run to the national title game in 2019.