Co-champions of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference at the time basketball was discontinued in 1959, Xavier had consistently turned out strong teams since the sport was organized on the campus, and the local university, in the early 1930s, producing a number of players for top professional teams, such as Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton of the Harlem Globetrotters.

[3] After the school-wide athletics hiatus, the men's basketball program returned to competitive play with the 1967-68 school year.

[10] Xavier University formerly sponsored a varsity football team starting in 1925,[11] and had been referred to as both "The Golden Wave,"[12] and "The Yellow Jackets.

[14] In 1955, Xavier played the Keesler Air Force Base team in Louisiana's first integrated college football game.

As part of the growth of the Xavier main campus as well as the athletics department, the Convocation Center Annex project was completed in 2012.

The mostly flat course is approximately three miles from the XU campus and is near the corner of Wisner Boulevard and Harrison Avenue.

Xavier competed twice at City Park in 2014, including the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Championships.

City Park holds the world's largest collection of mature live oak trees, some older than 600 years in age.

The baseball field features professional-sized artificial turf with a clay pitcher's mound and two fenced bullpens.

The $3.6 million facility is built between the Living Learning Center and St. Martin de Porres Hall, Xavier's two largest student residences on the site of the former B. Samuels building, which was bought and demolished.