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The University of Evansville (UE) is a small (approximately 2400 students), private university located in Evansville, Indiana. Founded in 1854 as Moores Hill College, it is located on the east side of the city of Evansville, just south of the Lloyd Expressway. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The University features liberal arts and sciences degrees, most with strong cooperative learning opportunities both on and off campus.

Official team picture, University of Evansville 1977-78 team.

On December 13, 1977 thirty people, including the entire University of Evansville basketball team, its coaches, trainers and sportscaster, were killed when a plane the school had chartered crashed and burned soon after it took off in dense fog from the Evansville airport in southwestern Indiana.