 Basketball has been played at Baltimore City College for more than a century . One of the earliest recorded results in program history is a one @-@ point overtime road loss to the University of Maryland Terrapins ( then known as the Maryland Agricultural College Aggies ) on January 25 , 1913 . The most successful head coach in school history was George Howard " Jerry " Phipps , who led the Knights to a record of 133 – 27 , four Maryland Scholastic Association ( MSA ) championships , and a streak of forty straight games without a loss spanning two seasons between 1960 – 1968 . In all , the school won twelve MSA A @-@ Conference basketball championships ( 1922 , 1923 , 1934 , 1935 , 1938 , 1939 , 1940 , 1961 , 1963 , 1965 , 1966 , 1967 , 1969 ) . 
