Louisville: The field hockey team scored a program-record 12 goals in a win against Louisville during the 1996 season.
Morehead State: Susan D. Creasap, associate director of bands at Morehead State University, earned her Doctor of Arts in Wind Band Conducting from Ball State.
Ohio State: The Buckeyes swept the men's volleyball team in the MIVA championship match last season.
Siena: Professor of history Kevin Smith presented a paper at Siena in 1991 about Anglo?American shipping relations.
Utah: Kyle Brennan was Ball State's compliance director before leaving for Utah in January 2007.
Arizona: Softball coach Craig Nicholson is an assistant coach for the Chicago Bandits of the National Pro Fastpitch League, a team on which former Arizona pitcher Jennie Finch plays.
Wake Forest: Baseball pitcher Adam Quinn had three strikeouts in three innings against Wake Forest in 2007.
Cleveland State: The women's basketball team defeated Cleveland State 61-60 in the Preseason WNIT in November.
West Virginia: Assistant professor of viola Philip Tietze was also an assistant professor of viola at West Virginia before arriving at Ball State.
Dayton: The soccer team lost a home game to Dayton 2-0 in the 2008 season.
Kansas: The men's basketball team defeated then-No. 3 Kansas at the 2001 Maui Invitational.
North Dakota State: The Bison, a Football Championship Subdivision team, defeated the football team 29-24 in 2006 at Scheumann Stadium.
Boston College: The football team was outscored 110-40 in three losses to Boston College, including a 38-0 loss in 2006.
USC: Men's volleyball coach Joel Walton missed a 2003 road match against USC because of gallbladder surgery.
Michigan State: The gymnastics team lost to Michigan State in a three-team meet during Spring Break.
Robert Morris: Robert Morris is Ball State's associate provost for research, dean of the graduate school and a chemistry professor.
Connecticut: The last time the football team shut out a nonconference opponent was in 2000, when the Cardinals beat the Huskies 29-0.
Chattanooga: The Mocs beat the men's basketball team during the 2006-07 season, former coach Ronny Thompson's first loss as the Cardinals head coach.
BYU: Both the Ball State and BYU women's basketball teams received two votes in the 12th week of the 2006-07 Associated Press Top 25 Poll.
Texas A&M: Former men's volleyball player and 1973 MIVA Player of the Year Dave Schakel is now an assistant instructional professor of kinesiology at Texas A&M.
Purdue: The men's basketball team played in front of its largest crowd of the season, 8,381 people, in a 68-39 loss to Purdue in December in Worthen Arena.
Northern Iowa: The softball team lost 1-0 to Northern Iowa in the 2008 UT-Martin Tournament.
Washington: The softball team lost to 17th-ranked Washington 6-4 during the 2006 season.
Mississippi State: Former dean of the Miller College of Business, Lynne Richardson, left Ball State to become a dean and professor of marketing at Mississippi State.
Marquette: Former Ball State guard Maurice Acker starts for the Marquette men's basketball team.
Utah State: Adjunct professor Joan McFadden from the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences was the head of the Department of Human Environments at Utah State from 1992 to 2000.
Missouri: The Tigers beat the baseball team in three games of a four-game series during this year's Spring Break.
Cornell: Alpha Phi Alpha, a fraternity at Ball State, was founded at Cornell as the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for black students.
California: The gymnastics team beat California this season, its most recent victory of the season.
Maryland: Former Maryland men's basketball player Juan Dixon won the inaugural Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, which former men's basketball player Peyton Stovall was a finalist for last year.
Memphis: Former men's tennis players Joe and Jarrod Epkey beat Benedikt Fisher and Amrit Narasimhan of Memphis 8-1 in the first round of the 2006 Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Qualifying Tennis Championships.
Cal State Northridge: Assistant professor of religious studies Joseph Marchal formerly taught at Cal State-Northridge.
Pittsburgh: The football team lost to Pittsburgh 42-21 during the 2003 season, putting Ball State at a 108-35 scoring disadvantage through three games of the season.
East Tennessee State: East Tennessee State is a founding member of the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy, a group of 10 universities - including Ball State - that operates a 0.9-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
Oklahoma State: Ball State men's volleyball's all-time kills leader during the rally scoring era Nick Meyer attends graduate school at Oklahoma State.
Tennessee: Paul Everett, associate professor of music performance, received his master's degree at Tennessee.
Florida State: The arrest of the football team's kicker, Ian McGarvy, put Ball State ahead of Florida State for first place in this season's Fulmer Cup standings.
Wisconsin: The football team's offensive line coach, Jason Eck, played for the Badgers from 1995 to 1998 and was a graduate assistant at the school from 1999 to 2001.
Xavier: The women's basketball team won at Xavier 69-63 in 2007.
Portland State: Portland State is one of 10 members of the Software Engineering Research Center, to which Ball State is the home and one of the four original university members.
UCLA: The men's volleyball team swept then-No. 7 UCLA during the 2008 season.
Virginia Commonwealth: President Jo Ann Gora's husband, Roy Budd, got his bachelor's and master's degree at Virginia Commonwealth.
Villanova: Ball State's All-Girl Cheerleading Squad placed seventh in the nation at the 2007 Universal Cheerleaders Association National Championships in Orlando, Fla., three spots ahead of Villanova.
American: Professor of political science Teh-Kuang Chang earned his Ph.D. at American.
Texas: The men's tennis team competed in the Texas Invitational last year.
Minnesota: Women's volleyball coach Dave Boos was an assistant head coach at Minnesota prior to coming to Ball State.
Duke: Men's tennis coach Bill Richards is on the ITA Board of Directors with Duke coach Jamie Ashworth.
Binghamton: Director of the Clinical Exercise Physiology Laboratory and Fitness Center Leonard Kaminsky got his bachelor's degree from Binghamton.
North Carolina: North Carolina beat the gymnastics team in an invitational in February in which Ball State posted its season best score of 193.350.
Radford: The baseball team beat Radford 9-8 after scoring two runs in the top of the eighth inning during the 2003 season.
LSU: The softball team began the 2008 season with a 4-2 loss to LSU in the Louisiana State Tournament.
Butler: Ball State and Butler played for the 100th time in men's basketball this season, a game Butler won 64-55.
Illinois: Women's basketball starting forward Danielle Gratton transferred to Ball State from Illinois before the 2007-08 season.
Western Kentucky: Ball State received $85,000 from Western Kentucky in 2008 for playing a road football game against the Hilltoppers.
Gonzaga: In his first two seasons at Lehigh, men's basketball coach Billy Taylor won the Patriot League's Coach of the Year honors, becoming the first coach in NCAA basketball to win a conference's coach of the year honors in his first two seasons since Gonzaga's Mark Few.
Akron: Ball State lost to Akron, the Mid-American Conference's NCAA Tournament representative, 63-55 earlier this season.
Arizona State: Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins was listed as having earned a bachelor's degree in marketing from Arizona State in 1982 in Arizona State media guides from 1992 to 2000 although he did not earn his bachelor's degree until 2003 - a degree he received from Northern Arizona.
Temple: Trailing with less than 10 minutes to play in their only meeting in men's basketball, Temple scored 15 consecutive points to beat Ball State 75-70 in 2006.
Syracuse: The field hockey team is 8-3-1 all-time against Syracuse and won the teams' last meeting 1-0 in 2000.
Stephen F. Austin: Frederick Kitterle, a candidate for the provost position in 2002, was dean of liberal arts at Stephen F. Austin for three years.
Clemson: Former men's tennis player Matt Baccarani lost to Clemson's Clement Reix 6-4, 6-4 at the 2006 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship.
Michigan: The football team played in front of its largest crowd in program history - 109,359 people - at Michigan in 2006.
Oklahoma: When the football team entered the Associated Press Top 25 Poll for the first time in program history during the 2008 season, Oklahoma was ranked No. 1.
Morgan State: Morgan State assistant professor of architecture and planning Paul Voos got his bachelor's degree from Ball State in urban planning & development.
ElimatedAlabama State: Cedric Hicks, the lead circulation librarian at Alabama State, received his first of two bachelor's degrees in telecommunications at Ball State.
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