basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament, the first athletic national championship in school history. In only its second year in Division I, the Bellarmine men's basketball team captured the ASUN Championship in 2022.
== History ==
=== Early history ===
Bellarmine University has been led by four presidents: Alfred Horrigan (1950–1972), Eugene V. Petrik (1973–1990), Joseph J. McGowan (1990–2016), and Susan M. Donovan (2017–present). Horrigan, elevated to Domestic Prelate by the pope in 1955, led the school during its formative years. Petrik strengthened Bellarmine's financial footing. McGowan led the school in a massive building program, culminating in his Vision 2020 plan. Raymond J. Treece served as interim president in 1972–73, between presidents Horrigan and Petrik. John Oppelt served as acting president during McGowan's sabbatical in 1999.
The first important public announcement of the establishment of Bellarmine College was made in November 1949 by the Archbishop of …
