Fairfield Univ. Athletics

Fairfield men's basketball will host Fresh Air Fund Day when the team takes on MAAC rival Iona on Sunday beginning at 1:30 p.m. at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn.

Fairfield University's men's basketball team will take on the defending NCAA champion Louisville Cardinals on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The Stags are coached by Sydney Johnson.

Fairfield University will honor Dick “Hoops” Weiss and Jim “Oc” O’Connell with the inaugural “Stags Lifetime Achievement Award: Leader Of The Herd” for long & meritorious service to college basketball on Thursday, October 24

Irish actor Malachy McCourt will attend as men and women ruggers remember five decades of Fairfield University rugby in its 50th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, October 5 at Lt. Hans Grauert Memorial Field.

Fairfield Univ. graduate Colin Nickerson was drafted the second round of the NBL Canada Draft, becoming the second Stag to sign a pro contract following Derek Needham inking with Lithuania.

Fairfield University has extended the contract of Head Women's Basketball Coach Joe Frager through the 2017-18 season. The Stags have won more than 20 games in three of Frager's six years at the helm.

Fairfield Univ. Athletics has signed prominent New York PR executive John Cirillo, former Knicks, MSG Vice President, as public relations and marketing consultant. The Division I Stags compete in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).

Fairfield University announced on Tuesday (June 18) that the men’s lacrosse program will join the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) as an associate member. The Stags will begin CAA competition in 2015.