After the 1990 – 91 basketball season, all members of the Sun Belt except WKU, South Alabama, Jacksonville, and incoming member Arkansas – Little Rock departed for other conferences.

In most sports, WKU has been a member of the Sun Belt Conference since 1982.

The Hilltoppers ' biggest Sun Belt rivals are the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders, who are located less than two hours away from WKU.

While Diddle was best known for coaching men's basketball, he also coached football, baseball, and women's basketball at WKU, although men's basketball was his only coaching job for the vast majority of his tenure at the school.

E. A. Diddle Arena, the basketball venue at WKU, built in 1963, is named for him.

In addition to being one of the homes for WKU Athletics, Diddle Arena also contains classrooms and activity areas for the Department of Physical Education and Recreation as well as the WKU Army ROTC program.

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An extensive rivalry with Eastern Kentucky University, known as the Battle of the Bluegrass, ended in 2008 as WKU moved into FBS football.

Category: WKU Hilltoppers football coaches

Category: WKU Hilltoppers football players

Category: WKU Hilltoppers football coaches

Category: WKU Hilltoppers football players

Category: WKU Hilltoppers football coaches

In the fall of 2009, WKU began its bachelor's degree program in popular culture studies, being only the second university in America to offer such a program ( the other being Bowling Green State University ).

Also in the fall of 2009, an independent Doctor of Education ( EdD ) program in educational leadership began at WKU.

In the rankings of " America's Best Colleges 2009 ," WKU is No. 10 among public master's universities in the South, up from No. 12 in the 2008 rankings.

Diddle Arena was built in 1963 and is named after legendary WKU men's coach and Basketball Hall of Famer Edgar " E. A.

WKU is also home to the largest American master's degree program in folklore ; it is contained within the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology.

In 2002, WKU won the NCAA Division I FCS National Football championship.

Over the next ten years the conference would add WKU, Old Dominion, UAB, and Virginia Commonwealth.

Western Kentucky University ( WKU ) is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA.

WKU has a student body of over 21, 000 students.

WKU sits atop the highest point in south-central Kentucky, a hill with a commanding view of the Barren River valley.

Besides the main campus at College Heights, WKU operates satellite campuses in Bowling Green ( WKU South Campus Academic Wing ) and regionally in Glasgow, Elizabethtown / Fort Knox and Owensboro.

WKU also offers fifteen associate degree programs and five certificate programs.

The WKU Honors College became the first and only Honors College in the Commonwealth of Kentucky on July 1, 2007.

The WKU swim team consistently places in the top 5 in the Mid-Major National Rankings.

In April 2010, the WKU baseball team defeated the University of Kentucky 24-8 in a game at Bowling Green Ballpark.

WKU also made three appearances in the NIT Final Four while it was the premier post-season tournament.

In fact, in Street & Smith's publications, " 100 Greatest Programs ", WKU ranked # 31.

WKU also has the 3rd most conference titles in NCAA history with 41 trailing only the University of Kentucky and Kansas University, 6th in NCAA history with 40 twenty win seasons, 8th in NCAA history in winning percentage at 67. 2 %, and recorded the first 30 win season in NCAA history in the 1937-1938 season with a record of 30-3.

Coach Heard is a former WKU player who has spent the last five years as an assistant at the University of Louisville under former WKU assistant coach Jeff Walz.

In 1917, Sun Yat-sen moved his base of operations to Guangzhou, and Chiang joined him in 1918.

This is the name under which Sun Yat-sen knew him when Chiang joined the republicans in Guangzhou in the 1910s.

In 1985, Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa.

The Philadelphia Eagles Helmet Cart sat at Joseph A. Scirrotto Jr .' s ( Designer of the 74 Helmet ) " Joe's Gulf Gas Station " at Rising Sun Ave & Van Kirk St. 1974 off season year to raise money for " The Eagles Fly for Leukemia ", where every weekend Eagles NFL Team Members joined to help raise awareness and funds.

In early 1989, the Unicode working group expanded to include Ken Whistler and Mike Kernaghan of Metaphor, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and Joan Aliprand of RLG, and Glenn Wright of Sun Microsystems, and in 1990 Michel Suignard and Asmus Freytag from Microsoft and Rick McGowan of NeXT joined the group.

For Cisco's first product, Bosack adapted multiple-protocol router software originally written some years before by William Yeager, another Stanford employee who later joined Sun Microsystems.

On 20 August 1905 Sun joined forces with revolutionary Chinese students studying in Tokyo, Japan to form the unified group Tongmenghui ( United League ), which sponsored uprisings in China.

The 2010 tribute Million Dollar Quartet is based on the famous photograph of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis grouped round Elvis Presley at the piano, the night when the four joined in an impromptu jam at Sun Record's one-room sound studio, the " Million Dollar Quartet " of 4 December 1956.

Derek Forbes, Chrissie Hynde and Johnny Marr joined the band onstage during the Love Song / Sun City medley on the final night.

" After the death of Sun Yat-sen, Li also repulsed Tang Jiyao's revolt and joined the Northern Expedition establishing Republican control over other warlords.

Noel also joined friend Paul Weller onstage in London on 21 April 2010, and played the Oasis song " Mucky Fingers " and a song he co wrote with Weller, " Echoes Round the Sun ".

* In 1996, he joined as Chief Java Security Architect the JavaSoft division at Sun Microsystems ( in Cupertino, California ).

" After the death of Sun Yat-sen, Li also repulsed Tang Jiyao's revolt in the Yunnan – Guangxi War and joined the Northern Expedition establishing Republican control over other warlords.

In the same year he joined his father Ringo Starr on Sun City by Artists United Against Apartheid.

In 1958, the Sun and the Province joined to create the Pacific Press in response to the rising costs of producing newspapers.

A new team, the Connecticut Sun, joined the league in 2003 with a nickname and logo which were extremely reminiscent of the Miami Sol.

When another civil war broke out in 1917, Peng's regiment split from the rest of its army and joined the forces of Tang Shengzhi, who was aligned with Tan Yankai and Sun Yat-sen, against those aligned with the northern warlord Wu Peifu.

After the failed Second Revolution against President Yuan Shikai, Lin fled with Sun Yat-sen to Japan and joined his Chinese Revolutionary Party.

With the " Sword of the Sun " reforged, he is soon joined by the stone giant Mogue.

Sun Jian joined the general Zhu Jun to quell the rebellion in Yuzhou ( 豫州, present day southern Henan and northern Anhui ) area.

Sun Jian also raised an army with ten-thousands of troops and joined Yuan Shu, one of the leaders of the coalition at Luyang ( 魯陽, present day Lushan County, Henan ).

In 1994, Steele joined Sun Microsystems and was invited by Bill Joy to become a member of the Java team after the language had been designed, since he had a track record of writing good specifications for existing languages.

Notable members of the firm include partners John Doerr, Ray Lane, and Brook Byers, as well as high-profile individuals such as Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy ( who joined as partner in January 2005 ), former U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell ( who joined in July 2005 in the newly-created position of " strategic limited partner "), Vinod Khosla and former U. S. Vice President Al Gore, who joined as partner in November 2007 as part of a collaboration between KPCB and Gore's firm Generation Investment Management ( GIM ) to promote green technology, business and policy solutions.