 The JU men's basketball team became notable in the early 1970s, when they made the NCAA Championship game with future American Basketball Association star Artis Gilmore.Like UNF they are members of the non-football Atlantic Sun Conference for most sports, but also field a football team in the NCAA Division I-AA Pioneer Football League.JU's varsity sports are, in men's sports, baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, football, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, and tennis; and in women's sports, basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.