[2] Before St. Mary's was recognized as a senior college in 1925, there was no formal conference competition, so the rivalry between the downtown and Woodlawn campuses was fierce.

With the onset of the Depression, intercollegiate baseball disappeared only to be resurrected in 1947 by then-athletics director Brother Bill Siemer, S.M.

Conference tournament champion The school hosted the NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship at the Bill Greehey Arena in 2009, 2012 and 2013.

Conference tournament champion St. Mary's first individual national championship came in 2006, when Jamie Amoretti won the NCAA Division II Men's Golf title.

[3] In 1939, both Collier's and Life magazines feature full-page spreads on the St. Mary's football team and their cross country trips in a ragged bus, the "Blue Goose".

[3] Basketball head coach and athletics director Herman A “Buddy” Meyer has also been inducted into the Heartland Conference Hall of Fame.

Legend holds that the football practice field had to be cleared of diamondback rattlesnakes on a regular basis, thus leading to the designation.