Northern Arizona men’s basketball to launching ‘Astrojacks’ on Thursday

On Thursday, the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks males’s basketball team will take the court with a distinctive new look. In truth, they will not be the Lumberjacks at all.They’ll be the Northern Arizona Astrojacks.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated Over the summer season, the Northern Arizona athletic department revealed a distinct “alternate identity” for the school’s athletic programs, a short-term rebranding of groups’ uniforms and mascot (the “incredibly space leader” Blouie the Space Ox) to be released in specific games.The Astrojacks

competed in beach ball and soccer throughout the fall. They also played 2 games of females’s basketball last month. Now, they’ll make their males’s basketball debut for the program’s next 2 games.New Appearance, Same Mission pic.twitter.com/eLKCIALzAI!.?.!— NAU Guys’s Basketball(@NAUBasketball) February 17, 2025 Northern Arizona’s uniforms for the Astrojacks’debut use a stark modification from the group’s usual all-white home threads. Various tones of blue make up the leading half of the jersey, with a cosmic-themed”A”changing the standard”NAU”nameplate.The alternate identity pays homage to the abundant astronomical history of the area and city the university calls home. Among the tones featured on the Astrojacks’jerseys is”Pluto Blue”– the dwarf world Pluto was very first found in Flagstaff, Arizona. Flagstaff was also named the first International Dark Sky City– a distinction that licenses a location’s dedication to preserving dark sky sites– in 2001. The Astrojacks will tip off their inaugural men’s basketball game this Thursday at 8 p.m. ET against the Idaho Vandals, before suiting up one more(and last, a minimum of for this year )time on Saturday versus the Eastern Washington Eagles. Especially, the Astrojacks have actually never ever lost a game– the school’s change ego is 3-0-1 throughout all competitions it’s been utilized in.