Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team was an NCAA Division I college basketball team representing Northwestern University in the Big Ten Conference. Men's basketball was first introduced at Northwestern in 1901. Home games were played at Welsh-Ryan Arena, located 5 miles north of Northwestern's campus in Evanston, Illinois.Although Northwestern had great success in the early part of the 20th century, it has spent most of the time since World War II in the bottom half of the Big Ten. It was retro-picked as national champion in 1931 by the Helms Athletic Foundation and has won only one other conference title, in 1933. It has only finished above fourth place twice since World War II, and has not had a winning record in conference play since 1968. Since then, only the 2003-04 team has managed to finish with even a .500 conference record. It is the only long-standing member of a power conference to have never appeared in an NCAA tournament (despite hosting the first NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game in 1939 and the 1956 NCAA Men's Final Four). Until 2008-09, it was one of the few long-standing members of Division I to have never had a 20-win season. It has appeared in the National Invitation Tournament seven times (1983, 1994, 1999, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).. }
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- Northwestern_Wildcats_men's_basketball abstract "The Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team was an NCAA Division I college basketball team representing Northwestern University in the Big Ten Conference. Men's basketball was first introduced at Northwestern in 1901. Home games were played at Welsh-Ryan Arena, located 5 miles north of Northwestern's campus in Evanston, Illinois.Although Northwestern had great success in the early part of the 20th century, it has spent most of the time since World War II in the bottom half of the Big Ten. It was retro-picked as national champion in 1931 by the Helms Athletic Foundation and has won only one other conference title, in 1933. It has only finished above fourth place twice since World War II, and has not had a winning record in conference play since 1968. Since then, only the 2003-04 team has managed to finish with even a .500 conference record. It is the only long-standing member of a power conference to have never appeared in an NCAA tournament (despite hosting the first NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game in 1939 and the 1956 NCAA Men's Final Four). Until 2008-09, it was one of the few long-standing members of Division I to have never had a 20-win season. It has appeared in the National Invitation Tournament seven times (1983, 1994, 1999, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).".