the mules have been playing basketball since 1905, and are among the top two teams in all-time wins on the ncaa division ii level. the mules have won four national titles: in 1937, 1938 (both national association of intercollegiate athletics, before the ncaa sponsored a division ii tournament), in 1984 (when ucm, then central missouri state university, was the first school ever to win ncaa men's and women's basketball championships in the same season), and in 2014. ucm swept the division ii titles in 1984. (the feat was later duplicated by northwestern college (iowa) in naia division ii in 2001 and the university of connecticut in ncaa division i in 2004 and 2014, although the mules are the only team to win both championships on the same day and on the same court.)