1962-63 NAIA Team Inducted: Class of 2007

The Bronc basketball team that captured the 1963 NAIA National Championship became the first team to be inducted into the UTPA Athletics Hall of Fame... finished with a 26-6 record and were ranked 12th in the nation heading into the post-season tournament... won 17 of their final 19 games of the season, including a 73-62 victory over Western Carolina in the national title game... were led by some of the greatest players in program history that season in Luke Jackson, Mitchell Edwards, Jim McGurk, Paul Friddle and Marty Urand and were coached by the legendary Sam Williams.