With an electrifying reaction from the crowd, Point Park’s new mascot, the Bison, stampeded on to the court in his debut at the intermission between the women’s and men’s basketball games on Saturday afternoon. The Bison, dressed head to hoof in dark brown fur complete with white horns and a tail ran along the crowd and danced to music during the men’s basketball game.”I thought it was great. He was charismatic, he was exciting [and] he got the people pumped. That’s what he should do and hopefully we just build on that,” Sports Information Director Kevin Taylor said on Saturday.The Bison has been Point Park’s mascot since 1966, when Alpha Phi Omega and the Varsity Club bought a baby bison from Southwick Animal Farm in Blackstone, Ma. The bison was named Black Diamond II, after the one featured on the U.S. nickel at the time.In 1968, the school first introduced a costumed bison mascot which attended a variety of school events for much of the next decade. In 2010, interest in the Bison returned and a different outfit was used in conjunction with the cheerleaders.The new costume will now be featured at upcoming sporting events. “I thought he was really good,” sophomore United Student Government Senator Zack Grant said Saturday. “I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t think he was going to be out here, but from what I saw he was really good and I can’t wait to see him again.”