Northern Arizona Lumberjacks men's basketball

Northern Arizona Lumberjacks men's basketball
2024–25 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks men's basketball team
UniversityBig Sky
Head coachShane Burcar (6th season)
LocationFlagstaff, Arizona
ArenaWalkup Skydome
(capacity: 11,230 Student section = “The Jack Pack”)
ColorsBlue and gold[1]
   
NCAA tournament appearances
1998, 2000
Conference tournament champions
1998, 2000
Conference regular season champions
1986, 1997, 1998, 2006

The Northern Arizona Lumberjacks men's basketball[2] team represents Northern Arizona University, located in Flagstaff, Arizona, in NCAA Division I men's competition. The school's team has competed in the Big Sky Conference since 1970. The team's most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was in 2000. Northern Arizona also appeared in the NCAA tournament in 1998. In 2023, the Lumberjacks have reached the Big Sky conference tournament title game as a Cinderella team as they were the 9th seed in the tournament. The Lumberjacks are currently led by head coach Shane Burcar who replaced Jack Murphy in June 2019. NAU Lumberjack basketball games are broadcast on KAFF Country Legends 93.5/AM 930 in Flagstaff, Fun Oldies 1450 AM/100.9 in Prescott and KDUS AM 1060 in Phoenix, with commentary provided by the "Voice of the Lumberjacks" Mitch Strohman, Coach Dave Brown with the play-by-play and Dave Zorn, host of the NAU Halftime Report. All games can be also heard online at KAFFLegends.com

  1. ^ "Northern Arizona University Visual Identity Guide". Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  2. ^ Northern Arizona uses "Lumberjacks" as its athletic nickname for both sexes. This contrasts with the other NCAA Division I school with that nickname, Stephen F. Austin State University—the latter school uses "Lumberjacks" only for men's teams and "Ladyjacks" for women's teams.

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