Hall of Fame
• The men's basketball teams from 1993-94, 1994-95 and 1995-96 have been inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame as one group in the team category in the Class of 2023.
• In those three years, under the direction of Canisius Hall of Fame coach John Beilein, the Griffs won 62 total games and 29 MAAC regular-season games, marking the best three-year stretch in program history.
• The 1993-94 edition of the Griffs went 22-7 overall and 12-2 in MAAC play en route to the team's first MAAC regular-season conference championship. In that season, which culminated with the team's first berth into the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) in nine years, the Griffs won 16-straight games from Jan. 15 through March 5, the longest win streak in program history.
• The following season (1994-95), Beilein's third year at the helm of the team, Canisius won 21 games, highlighted by a comeback road win over nationally-ranked Cincinnati, and a second-straight berth into the NIT. In the 1995 NIT, Canisius defeated Seton Hall in the opening round before going on the road and beating Bradley, 55-53. In the tournament's quarterfinal round, the Griffs secured a trip to the NIT semifinals at Madison Square Garden by defeating Washington State 89-80 in front of 8,883 fans in The Aud. Canisius' run in the NIT ended in the semifinal round when the team lost to Virginia Tech, 71-59, on March 27, 1995.
• The 1995-96 Griffs won 19 games, but went just 7-7 in MAAC regular season play. As the No. 4 seed in the 1996 MAAC Men's Basketball Championship at Marine Midland Arena (now KeyBank Center), the Griffs ripped off three wins in three days, highlighted by the Blue and Gold's 52-46 win over Fairfield in the championship game, to secure the program's first, and only, MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament title.
• That win allowed Canisius to appear in the 1996 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the program's first NCAA berth in 39 years. There, the Blue and Gold lost to Utah in the first round by a final score of 72-43.
• Including Beilein, five of the 26 players that appeared on a Griffs roster between 1993-94 through 1995-96, have already been inducted into the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame. Those previously enshrined are Darrell Barley '96, Dana "Binky" Johnson '94, Micheal Meeks '96, Javone "Bam" Moore '97 and Craig Wise '96.
