East Tennessee State

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Freedom Hall Civic Center

The East Tennessee State Buccaneers are the men's basketball team that represents East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in Johnson City, Tennessee. ETSU currently competes in the Southern Conference as of July 1, 2014. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in 2017. ETSU has been playing Division I basketball since the 1958–59 season when they joined the Ohio Valley Conference. In the 1979–1980 season ETSU joined the Southern Conference and after the 2004–2005 season they left the Southern Conference for the Atlantic Sun Conference. On July 1, 2014, they re-joined the Southern Conference.