2013-14 men's basketball schedule

The 2013-14 men's basketball schedule was announced today, featuring 12 home games and road trips to LSU, Hawaii, Minnesota, UTEP, and Michigan State.

The Privateers open their inaugural Southland Conference campaign with a trip to Nicholls on January 2, 2014.

Message board thread

Official release

Butler starts the AAA All-Star Game

Former Privateer Joey Butler, now with the Round Rock Express, started in RF and went 0-for-2 in the Triple-A All-Star Game in Reno, Nevada. He lined out to right in his first at-bat and struck out in his second at-bat.

Butler is hitting .303/.381/.451 on the season.

Maestri returns as baseball coach

At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon (video here), UNO announced that Ron Maestri will come out of retirement to return as the Privateers head baseball coach.

Maestri never had a losing season during his first tenure, taking New Orleans to the College World Series in 1984 before his retirement to full-time athletic director duties in 1985. Most recently, Maes was CEO of the New Orleans Zephyrs.

UNO joins Southland Conference

As of 12:01 a.m., the University of New Orleans, as well as Incarnate Word, Abilene Christian, and Houston Baptist, are the newest members of the now-14-team Southland Conference.

Official pages of our new Southland brethren, message boards, and more can be found at our Links page above.