Three teams will be recognized at the 2012 Roanoke College Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony to kick-off Alumni Weekend. The 1972 Men's Basketball Team, which is celebrating the 40^th anniversary of winning the NCAA College Division National Championship, will be honored. Also on the docket is the 1992 men's and women's lacrosse teams, which also celebrates the 20^th anniversary of their magical runs deep in the NCAA Div. III National Tournament. This special event will be held at the Wortmann Ballroom in the Colket Center Friday evening, April 13 at 7:30 p.m.

The 1972 men's basketball team entered the NCAA Tournament with a 23-4 record. Roanoke made a mockery of their opposition, winning their opening game against Mercer by six, followed by a 10-point win over Biscayne. The University of Missouri at St. Louis was dispatched with 24 points to spare in the quarterfinals, while Eastern Michigan fell by 26 in the semifinals. The Akron Zips, who upset tournament favorite Tennessee State in the semifinals, were the other team on the court, but no other College Division team in the nation played with the Maroons: Beatty Barnes, Jay Piccola, Everett Hurst, Dickie Adams, and Hal Johnston.

In 1992, the men's lacrosse team advanced to the national championship game for the third time in a 14-year span. After beating Gettysburg, 16-15, in the quarterfinals, the Maroons put up a post-season goals record vs. Ithaca, 20-10, in the semifinals. It is still the only national semifinal game hosted in Salem for the lacrosse program. After topping Ithaca, Roanoke took to the field in Philadelphia to play for a national championship on a neutral site for the first time ever in the history of the Div. III Men's Lacrosse Tournament.

En route to claiming the programs' 10^th ODAC title, the Maroons scored over 20 goals in five of six conference games (23 gpg) with an average win-margin of +14. RC finished with a home record of 9-1, with the only loss coming by one goal to the eventual national champion, Nazareth, 13-12. After a loss to Ohio Wesleyan, 8-7 on March 28, the Maroons won their next seven-straight against Div. III schools to advance to the national title game. The 12 wins that year tied the 1978 national championship team for the most in school-history.

The 1992 Roanoke women's lacrosse team went to heights that haven't been seen before or since for the program. The Maroons advanced to the national semifinals for the second time in three seasons with a 15-2 record. It was the third-straight NCAA Tournament appearance and the fourth in five years for Roanoke. They won the 1992 Old Dominion Athletic Conference regular season title with an undefeated 8-0 mark and posted an 8-1 record at home with a 7-0 ledger on the road.

The perfect regular- season record (13-0) was the second undefeated mark in program history, including two in the last three years! The women knocked off Frostburg State, 15-11, to advance to the national semifinals against The College of New Jersey, eventually falling to the Lions 17-3. They joined the 1992 men's lacrosse team as part of the best post-season run by any sport (men and women's) in the illustrious history of Roanoke Athletics.