Blame this one on a reporter. After Evansville creamed Louisiville during the 1924-1925 basketball season, the losing coach said to his Evansville counterpart, John Harmon, “You didn’t have four Aces up your sleeve, you had five.” Harmon repeated the quote to Dan Scism, the sports editor at the Evansville Courier, saying he preferred it to the team’s original name, the Pioneers. Scism adopted it—with an an ulterior motive: the new name was much easier than the old one to squeeze into headlines.