La Salle

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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Division: NCAA Division I FCS
Conference (football): Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
Stadium: McCarthy Stadium
Conference (basketball): Atlantic 10 Conference
Arena: Tom Gola Arena

The La Salle University Explorers compete as members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in NCAA Division I FCS football, and as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference in NCAA Division I basketball. La Salle is a private Catholic (Lasallian) institution located in the northwestern reaches of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has an undergraduate enrollment of around 4,000. The nickname, interestingly, is the result of a case of mistaken identity on the part of a sportswriter who assumed the school was named for a French explorer rather than a Catholic saint.