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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Enid, Oklahoma
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Enid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,379 and it is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, in 1991, the Oklahoma state legislature designated Enid the Purple Martin Capital of Oklahoma. Enid holds the nickname of Queen Wheat City and Wheat Capital of Oklahoma and the United States for its grain storage capacity. In summer 1889, M. A. Low, a Rock Island official, visited the railroad station then under construction. At that time, it was called Skeleton station, disliking the original name, he renamed the station Enid after a character in Alfred Lord Tennysons Idylls of the King. However, a fanciful story of how the town received its name is popular. According to that tale, in the following the land run, some enterprising settlers decided to set up a chuckwagon and cook for their fellow pioneers. Some other, more free-spirited settlers, turned that sign backward to read, of course, Enid, the rail station, was the original town site endorsed by the government. It was platted by the surveyor W. D. Twichell, then of Amarillo, the Enid-Pond Creek Railroad War ensued when the Department of the Interior moved the government site three miles south of the station prior to the land run, which was then called South Enid. During the run, due to the Rock Islands refusal to stop, by the afternoon of the run, Enids population was estimated at 12,000 people located in the Enids 80-acre town plat. A year later, the population was estimated at 4,410, growing to 10,087 by 1907, the towns early history was captured in Cherokee Strip, A Tale of an Oklahoma Boyhood by Pulitzer-winning author Marquis James, who recounts his boyhood in Enid. He writes of the town, A trip to Enid was surely a marvelous treat. First off, on the edge of the prairie was a house here and house there--and not so many of them sod houses, quite a few were even painted. Pretty soon the stores began, with the buildings touching each other and no front yards at all, then you came to the Square. You never saw so many rigs or so many people, Enid experienced a golden age following the discovery of oil in the region in the 1910s and continuing until World War II. Enids downtown saw the construction of buildings including the Broadway Tower, Garfield County Courthouse. In conjunction with the oil boom, oilmen such as T. T. Eason, H. H. Champlin, residential additions during this period include Kenwood, Waverley, Weatherly, East Hill, Kinser Heights, Buena Vista, and McKinley
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El Paso, Texas
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El Paso is the seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The city is situated in the far corner of the U. S. state of Texas. El Paso stands on the Rio Grande river across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the region of over 2.9 million people constitutes the largest bilingual and binational work force in the Western Hemisphere. The city hosts the annual Sun Bowl college football post-season game, El Paso has a strong federal and military presence. William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Biggs Army Airfield, and Fort Bliss call the city home, Fort Bliss is one of the largest military complexes of the United States Army and the largest training area in the United States. Also headquartered in El Paso are the DEA domestic field division 7, El Paso Intelligence Center, Joint Task Force North, Border Patrol El Paso Sector, and U. S. In 2010, El Paso received an All-America City Award, El Paso has been ranked the safest large city in the U. S. for four consecutive years and has ranked in the top three since 1997. As of July 1,2015, the estimate for the city from the U. S. Census was 681,124. Its U. S. metropolitan area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, the El Paso MSA forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces CSA, with a population of 1,053,267. The El Paso region has had human settlement for thousands of years, the evidence suggests 10,000 to 12,000 years of human habitation. The earliest known cultures in the region were maize farmers, when the Spanish arrived, the Manso, Suma, and Jumano tribes populated the area. These were subsequently incorporated into the Mestizo culture, along with immigrants from central Mexico, captives from Comanchería, the Mescalero Apache were also present. El Paso del Norte was founded on the bank of the Río Bravo del Norte. El Paso remained the largest settlement in New Mexico until its cession to the U. S. in 1848, the Texas Revolution was generally not felt in the region, as the American population was small, not being more than 10% of the population. However, the region was claimed by Texas as part of the treaty signed with Mexico, during this interregnum, 1836–1848, Americans nonetheless continued to settle the region. The present Texas–New Mexico boundary placing El Paso on the Texas side was drawn in the Compromise of 1850, El Paso County was established in March 1850, with San Elizario as the first county seat. The United States Senate fixed a boundary between Texas and New Mexico at the 32nd parallel, thus largely ignoring history and topography, a military post called The Post opposite El Paso was established in 1854. Further west, a settlement on Coons Rancho called Franklin became the nucleus of the future El Paso, a year later, pioneer Anson Mills completed his plan of the town, calling it El Paso
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Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team represents Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States in NCAA Division I mens basketball competition. The Cowboys currently compete in the Big 12 Conference, since 1938, the team has played its home games in Gallagher-Iba Arena. Prior to 1957, the school was known as Oklahoma A&M College, on March 21,2016, Brad Underwood was hired as head coach at Oklahoma State, replacing the fired Travis Ford. Just short of one year, on March 18,2017, assistant Mike Boynton was promoted to head coach on March 24. Oklahoma State University began varsity competition in mens basketball in 1908. The Cowboys rank 35th in total victories among all NCAA Division I college basketball programs, the Cowboys have made 22 total appearances in the NCAA Tournament, reaching the NCAA Final Four six times and the NCAA Regional Finals eleven times. Oklahoma State won the NCAA Championship in 1945 and 1946, the Cowboys rank tenth in all-time Final Four appearances and seventh in total NCAA Championships. Under nine head coaches in this period Oklahoma A&M found very little success, very little success was found early on and after a six-win fifteen-loss season under first-year coach John Maulbetsch things were not looking well. However, in the three seasons Maulbetsch turned around the program, leading the Aggies to a 41–20 record culminating with a first-place finish in their last season in the Southwest Conference. The move to the Missouri Valley Conference in 1925 would halt the progress under this budding coach, after Maulbetsch resigned from the positions of football, baseball and basketball coach the Aggies would not have another winning season until Henry Iba took the reins in 1934. This period in Oklahoma State basketball history was marked with mainly football coaches heading the football, baseball and basketball teams, Henry Iba came to Oklahoma A&M College in 1934 and remained for 36 years. He retired after the 1969–70 season, for most of his tenure at A&M/OSU, he doubled as athletic director. Ibas teams were methodical, ball-controlling units that featured weaving patterns, Ibas swinging gate defense was applauded by many, and is still effective in todays game. He was known as the Iron Duke of Defense, Ibas Aggies became the first to win consecutive NCAA titles. His 1945–46 NCAA champions were led by Bob Kurland, the games first seven-foot player and they beat NYU in the 1945 finals and North Carolina in the 1946 finals. He was voted coach of the year in both seasons and his 1945 champions also defeated National Invitation Tournament champion, DePaul, and 69 center George Mikan in a classic Red Cross Benefit game. Ibas 1949 and 1951 teams also reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament, Oklahoma A&M/Oklahoma State teams won 655 games,14 Missouri Valley Championships, and one Big Eight Championship, in 36 seasons with Iba as head mens basketball coach. Mr. Iba, as he is popularly known at OSU, remained a fixture on campus until his death in 1993
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UTEP Miners basketball
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UTEP Miners is the name given to the sports teams of the University of Texas at El Paso. They are informally referred to as the Miners, UTEP, or Texas–El Paso, UTEP was a member of the Western Athletic Conference from 1967 to 2005, when they joined Rice, Tulsa, and SMU in leaving the WAC for Conference USA. The UTEP Miners are best known as the team in Texas to win a NCAA Mens Basketball Championship. UTEPs colors are orange and blue and the mascot is a miner named Paydirt Pete, the athletic director for the Miners is Bob Stull. A member of Conference USA, UTEP sponsors teams in six mens and ten womens NCAA sanctioned sports, NOTE, playing their first game in 1914, the UTEP Miners football team currently competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The team plays its games in the Sun Bowl Stadium, and head coach Mike Price recently retired from his 9th, the winner of the UTEP vs. New Mexico State University football game receives a pair of traveling trophies, The Silver Spade, the first spade used for this purpose was an old prospectors shovel dug up from an abandoned mine in the Organ Mountains near Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1947. This was the symbol of victory, and the spade was given to the winner of the game between the Miners and Aggies each year. The idea of the present Silver Spade was from UTEP student Don Henderson, in 1955 Henderson secured the present spade and each year the score of the game is engraved on the blade. This game is commonly known as The Battle of I-10. UTEP was a member of the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association, from 1941-1961, the football team won a conference championship in 1956. As Texas Western, the Miners won the 1966 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament, the 72–65 victory over Kentucky at The University of Marylands Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland is considered one of the most important games in the history of college basketball. It marked the first time that a team started 5 African-American players in a title game, at this time, Kentucky had no African-American players. The impact of the game was primarily because it occurred during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The team was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, in June,2013, the Miners rifle team became a charter member of the Patriot Rifle Conference. UTEPs sports programs have won a total of 21 NCAA Division I national championships, UTEP is currently tied for 10th overall among schools in Mens Sports Division I championships. Mens basketball,1 Mens cross country,7 Mens indoor track & field,7 Mens outdoor track & field,6 UTEP students and alumni participated in track and field events. Don Haskins Center, seating capacity 12,000, was built in 1976 and is used by the mens and womens basketball teams
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United States men's national basketball team
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The USA Basketball Mens Senior National Team, commonly known as the United States Mens National Basketball Team, represents the United States in international mens basketball. The USA team is the most successful team in competition, winning medals in all eighteen Olympic tournaments it has entered. The United States is currently ranked first in the FIBA World Rankings, traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by FIBA allowed USA Basketball to field teams with professional players. The first such team, known as the Dream Team, won the medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. With the introduction of professionals, the team was able to spark a run of dominance after capturing only a bronze medal in 1988. A team of professional players competed at the 1994 FIBA World Championship, in 1996,2000,2008,2012, and 2016 the USA again captured gold medals at the Olympics. Facing increased competition, the USA failed to win a medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship, determined to put an end to these failures, USA Basketball initiated a long-term project aimed at creating better, more cohesive teams. The USA won its first seven games at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan before losing against Greece in the semi-finals, the USA won gold two years later, though, at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a dominant performance. The USA continued this streak of dominance by going undefeated and capturing gold once more at the 2012 Summer Olympics,2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the United States possessed a clear advantage in the early decades of international play. Through the next six tournaments, the United States went undefeated, collecting gold while not losing a single contest in the held in London, Helsinki, Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo. Roster until the formation of the 1992 Dream Team, the 1952 team included big man Clyde Lovellette of the University of Kansas, a future Hall of Famer and NBA star, but Kurland once again led the team to victory. The 1956 team was led by San Francisco Dons Bill Russell, the 1972 Olympic mens basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for the USA in Olympic play, is arguably the most controversial in Olympic history. The United States rode their seven consecutive gold medals and 63–0 Olympic record to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics, the team won its first eight games in convincing fashion, setting up a final against the Soviet Union. With three seconds left in the medal game, American forward Doug Collins sank two free throws to put the Americans up 50–49. However, the buzzer sounded before Collins second free throw, immediately following Collins free throws, the Soviets inbounded the ball and failed to score. But one official had whistled play to stop with one remaining after hearing the earlier horn. The Soviets argued that they had requested a timeout before Collins foul shots, the referees ordered the clock reset to three seconds and the games final seconds replayed. However, the clock was in the process of being reset when the referees put the ball in play
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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The tournament was created in 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was the idea of Ohio State University coach Harold Olsen. Played mostly during March, it has one of the most famous annual sporting events in the United States. The tournament teams include champions from 32 Division I conferences, and 36 teams which are awarded at-large berths, the 68 teams are divided into four regions and organized into a single-elimination bracket, which pre-determines, when a team wins a game, which team it will face next. Each team is seeded, or ranked, within its region from 1 to 32, after an initial four games between eight lower-ranked teams, the tournament occurs during the course of three weekends, at pre-selected neutral sites across the United States. The Final Four is usually played during the first weekend of April and these four teams, one from each region, compete in a pre-selected location for the national championship. The tournament has been at least partially televised since 1969, currently, the games are broadcast by CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV under the trade-name NCAA March Madness. Since 2011, all games are available for viewing nationwide and internationally, such as in the Philippines, as television coverage has grown, so too has the tournaments popularity. Currently, millions of Americans fill out a bracket, attempting to predict the outcome of all 67 games of the tournament. With 11 national titles, UCLA has the record for the most NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, the University of Kentucky is second, with eight national titles. The University of North Carolina is in place, with six titles, while Duke University. The University of Connecticut is sixth with four national titles, the University of Kansas and University of Louisville are tied with three championships. During that time Villanova, Michigan, UNLV, Duke, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Syracuse, the NCAA has changed the tournament format several times since its inception, most often representing an increase of the number of teams. This section describes the tournament as it has operated since 2011, for changes during the course of its history, and to see how the tournament operated during past years, go to Format history, below. A total of 68 teams qualify for the tournament played during March, thirty-two teams earn automatic bids as their respective conference champions. Of the 32 Division I all-sports conferences, all 32 currently hold championship tournaments to determine which team receives the automatic qualification. The Ivy League was the last Division I conference that did not conduct a tournament, through the 2015–16 season, if two or more Ivies shared a regular-season championship, a one-game playoff was used to decide the tournament participant. Since 2017, the league conducts their own postseason tournament, the committee also determines where all sixty-eight teams are seeded and placed in the bracket. The tournament is divided into four regions and each region has at least sixteen teams, the committee is charged with making each of the four regions as close as possible in overall quality of teams from wherever they come from
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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as the sports most complete library, in addition to promoting and preserving the history of basketball, dedicated to Canadian physician and inventor of the sport James Naismith, it was opened and inducted its first class in 1959. As of the induction of the Class of 2016 on September 9,2016, the Naismith Hall of Fame was established in 1959 by Lee Williams, a former athletic director at Colby College. In the 1960s, the Basketball Hall of Fame struggled to raise money for the construction of its first facility. The Basketball Hall of Fames Board named four inductees in its first year, in addition to honoring those who contributed to basketball, the Hall of Fame sought to make contributions of its own. In 1979, the Hall of Fame sponsored the Tip-Off Classic and this Tip-Off Classic has been the start to the college basketball season ever since, and although it does not always take place in Springfield, Massachusetts, generally it returns every few years. In the 17 years that the original Basketball Hall of Fame operated at Springfield College, the popularity of the Basketball Hall of Fame necessitated that a new facility be constructed, and in 1985, an $11 million facility was built beside the scenic Connecticut River in Springfield. As the new hall opened, it also recognized women for the first time, with such as Senda Berenson Abbott. In 2002, the Basketball Hall of Fame moved again—albeit merely 100 yards south along Springfields riverfront—into a $47 million facility designed by renowned architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, the buildings architecture features a metallic silver, basketball-shaped sphere flanked by two similarly symmetrical rhombuses. The dome is illuminated at night and features 80,000 square foot, including numerous restaurants, the second Basketball Hall of Fame was not torn down but rather converted into an LA Fitness health clubs. The current Basketball Hall of Fame features Center Court, a basketball court on which visitors can play. Inside the building there are a gallery, many interactive exhibits, several theaters. A large theater for ceremonies seats up to 300, the honorees inducted in 2002 included the Harlem Globetrotters and Magic Johnson, a five-time NBA champion, three-time NBA finals MVP and Olympic gold medalist. As of 2011, the current Basketball Hall of Fame has greatly exceeded attendance expectations, despite the new facilitys success, a logistical problem remains for the Basketball Hall of Fame and the City of Springfield. Urban planners at universities such as UMass Amherst have called for the I-91 to be moved, in 2010, the Urban Land Institute announced a plan to make the walk between Springfields Metro Center and the Hall of Fame easier. Since 2011, the induction process employs a total of seven committees to both screen and elect candidates, since 2011, the Veterans and International Committees also vote to directly induct one candidate for each induction class. Contributor Direct Election Committee Note that other committees may choose to elect contributors, for example, the 2014 class included two contributors. However, each screening committee is limited as to the number of candidates it can put forth to the Honors Committee—10 from the North American Committee, any individual receiving at least 18 affirmative votes from the Honors Committee is approved for induction into the Hall of Fame
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National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
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The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a hall of fame and museum dedicated to mens college basketball. The museum is a portion of the College Basketball Experience created by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The hall is meant as a complement to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, on November 17,2006 the NABC honored around 180 players, coaches and other notable contributors to college basketball by inducting them into the founding class of the Hall of Fame. Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Dean Smith, John Wooden, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts has indicated it will help with the exhibits. The other interactive portions of the College Basketball Experience are called The Entry Experience, The Fan Experience, the NABC recently renamed the Guardians Classic college tournament the CBE Classic to help promote it
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College basketball
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The history of basketball is traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The date of the first formal basketball game played at the Springfield YMCA Training School under Naismiths rules is generally given as December 21,1891, Basketball began to spread to college campuses by 1893. Governing bodies in Canada include U Sports and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association, each of these various organizations are subdivided into from one to three divisions based on the number and level of scholarships that may be provided to the athletes. The first basketball games in the United States were played at YMCAs in 1891 and 1892, by 1893, the game was being played on college campuses. The original rules for basketball were very different from todays modern rules of the sport, in the beginning James Naismith established 13 original rules, The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist, a player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, the ball must be held by the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it, no shouldering, holding, pushing, striking, or tripping in any way of an opponent is allowed. A foul will be called when a player is seen striking at the ball with the fist, or when violations of rules 3 and 4, if either side makes three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents. A goal shall be made when the ball is thrown or batted from the grounds into the basket and stays there, if the ball rests on the edges, and the opponent moves the basket, it shall count as a goal. When the ball out of bounds, it shall be thrown into the field. In case of dispute the umpire shall throw it straight into the field, the thrower-in is allowed five seconds. If he holds it longer, it shall go to the opponent, if any side persists in delaying the game, the umpire shall call a foul on them. The umpire shall be the judge of the men and shall note the fouls and he shall have power to disqualify men according to rule 5. The referee shall be judge of the ball and shall decide when the ball is in play, in bounds, to side it belongs. He shall decide when a goal has been made and keep account of the goals, the time shall be two fifteen-minute halves, with five minutes rest between. The side making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winner, the following is a list of some of the major NCAA Basketball rule changes with the year they went into effect. The first known college to field a team against an outside opponent was Vanderbilt University
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Henry Iba
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Henry Payne Hank Iba was an American hall-of-fame basketball coach, winner of two NCAA Mens Division I basketball championships and two Olympic gold medals. Iba was born and raised in Easton, Missouri and he played college basketball at Westminster College, where he became a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. The basketball court at Westminster is now named in his honor, after coaching stints at Maryville Teachers College and the University of Colorado, Iba came to Oklahoma A&M College in 1934. He stayed at Oklahoma A&M, renamed Oklahoma State University in 1957, for most of his tenure at A&M/OSU, he doubled as athletic director. Additionally, Iba coached OSUs baseball team from 1934 to 1941, Ibas teams were methodical, ball-controlling units that featured weaving patterns and low scoring games. Ibas swinging gate defense was applauded by many, and is effective in todays game. He was known as the Iron Duke of Defense, Iba is thought to be one of the toughest coaches in NCAA history. He was a very methodical coach, and he always wanted things done perfectly, Ibas Aggies became the first to win consecutive NCAA titles. His 1945–46 NCAA champions were led by Bob Kurland, the games first seven-foot player and they beat NYU in the 1945 finals and North Carolina in the 1946 finals. He was voted coach of the year in both seasons and his 1945 champions defeated National Invitation Tournament champion, DePaul, and 69 center George Mikan in a classic Red Cross Benefit game. A&M/State teams won 14 Missouri Valley titles and one Big Eight title, all told, in 40 years of coaching, he won 767 games—the second-most in college basketball history at the time of his retirement. As OSUs athletic director, he built a program that won 19 national championships in 5 sports over the years, after his retirement, Mr. Iba frequently showed up at practices, often giving advice to young players. In 1987, OSUs home arena, Gallagher Hall, was renamed Gallagher-Iba Arena in Ibas honor, a seat in the southeast concourse level of the arena is known as Mr. Ibas Seat, and it is maintained without a fan having sat in it. Iba died on January 15,1993, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Iba coached the USA Olympic basketball team in 1964,1968 and 1972. He is the first coach in USA Olympic basketball history to two gold medal winning teams. Coach Mike Krzyzewski was the second, the 1972 final resulted in a controversial loss to the Soviet Union breaking Team USAs 63-game win streak since basketball was introduced to the Olympics in 1936. Iba was indirectly responsible for a $165 million donation to the Oklahoma State University Athletic Program, in 1951, T. Boone Pickens, a graduate of OSU with a degree in petroleum geology, was looking for a job and asked Iba for help. Iba was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1965, Iba is known for his coaching tree, the group of prominent coaches who either coached or played for Iba himself, or are linked to Iba by playing for one of his pupils
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University of Texas at El Paso
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The University of Texas at El Paso is a public research university in El Paso, Texas, United States. The school was founded in 1914 as the State School of Mines and Metallurgy, following a reorganization of the University of Texas in 1920, the school was renamed the College of Mines and Metallurgy of the University of Texas. It became Texas Western College of the University of Texas in 1949, UTEP is part of the University of Texas System. UTEP is the second-largest university in the U. S. to have a majority Mexican American student population, the campus features a collection of buildings in the Dzong architectural style. It is located on hillsides overlooking the Rio Grande, with Ciudad Juárez in view across the Mexico-United States border. On April 16,1913, SB183 was signed by the Texas governor allocating funding for a new institution, making it the second oldest academic institution in the University of Texas system. The school officially opened on September 28,1914, with 27 students in buildings belonging to the former El Paso Military Institute on a site just adjacent to Fort Bliss on the Lenoria Mesa. By 1916, enrollment had grown to 39 students, including its first two students, Ruth Brown and Grace Odell. On October 29,1916, a fire destroyed the main building of the school. In 1917, the new facility was constructed on its present site above Mundy Heights. The resemblances between the terrain and mountainous features of Bhutan inspired her to propose designing early buildings of the mining school in the dzong style. Liking its distinctiveness, administrations have continued to choose that style for additional facilities, including the Sun Bowl football stadium, Dzong has characteristics such as sloping sides, markedly overhanging roofs, and bands of colored decoration. In 1919, the name was changed to the University of Texas Department of Mines and Metallurgy. In 1920, it was changed to the Texas College of Mines, tCMs students painted a large M for Miners on the Franklin Mountains in 1923, this was later moved to a site adjacent to the Sun Bowl Stadium in the 1960s where it remains today. The schools name was changed again in 1949, to Texas Western College of The University of Texas, in 1967, following the establishment of a reorganized University of Texas System, the school took on its current name, The University of Texas at El Paso. While the 1967 law designated U. T, El Paso as the schools official abbreviated name, the school is more commonly referred to by its trademarked name of UTEP. The school has had achievements in academic and sports areas, in 1969, UTEP won the first of seven NCAA Mens Cross Country Championships. In 1974, UTEPs first doctoral program in Geological Sciences was approved
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Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
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The Kentucky Wildcats mens basketball team is an American college basketball team that represents the University of Kentucky. Kentucky is the most successful NCAA Division I basketball program in history in terms of both wins and all-time winning percentage. The Wildcats are currently coached by John Calipari, further, Kentucky has played in 17 NCAA Final Fours,12 NCAA Championship games, and has won 8 NCAA championships. In addition to these titles, Kentucky won the National Invitation Tournament in both 1946 and 1976, making it the school to win multiple NCAA and NIT championships. Kentucky also leads all schools with 61 20-win seasons,15 30-win seasons, throughout its history, the Kentucky basketball program has featured many notable and successful players, both on the collegiate level and the professional level. Kentucky holds the record for the most NBA Draft selections as well as the most #1 NBA Draft picks, the Wildcats have also been led by many successful head coaches, including Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Eddie Sutton, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, Kentucky is the only program with 5 different NCAA Championship coaches. The first recorded intercollegiate game at the college was a 15–6 defeat to nearby Georgetown College, the team went 1–2 for their first season, also losing to Kentucky University but defeating the Lexington YMCA. Through 1908, the team did not manage a winning season, in the fall of that year a full-time head coach was hired. This made him the first paid coach in Kentuckys basketball history and that year, the team went 5–4, and only three years later, boasted their first undefeated season with nine victories and no losses. During this early era Kentucky was unstable in that the school went through multiple coaches, in 1919, George Buchheit became the new head coach of the Wildcats. An alumnus of the University of Illinois, he brought him a new system of basketball. The Buchheit system or Illinois system, focused on defense and featured one player standing under each basket, buckheit varied the system he learned in Illinois in one important way. While the Illinois system employed a zone defense, Buchheits system used an aggressive man-to-man scheme, on offense, he used a complicated system of passing called the zig-zag or figure eight offense. Both of these teams were composed entirely of native Kentuckians, anchored by All-American Basil Hayden, the tournament victory was considered Kentuckys first major success, and the 1921 team became known as the Wonder Team. In 1922, the team was unable to build on the success of the Wonder Team, although every player was eligible in 1922, two key players, Hayden and Sam Ridgeway, were injured before the start of the season. Hayden returned from his injury during the season, but was never able to play at the level he had the previous year. Ridgeway fought a battle with diphtheria, and although he recovered
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Adolph Rupp
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Adolph Frederick Rupp was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is ranked fifth in total victories by a mens NCAA Division I college coach, Rupp is also second among all mens college coaches in all-time winning percentage, trailing only Clair Bee. Rupp was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13,1969, Rupp was born September 2,1901 in Halstead, Kansas to Heinrich Rupp, a German immigrant, and Anna Lichi, an Austrian immigrant. The fourth of six children, Rupp grew up on a 163-acre farm that his parents had homesteaded and he began playing basketball as a young child, with the help of his mother who made a ball for him by stuffing rags into a gunnysack. Mother sewed it up and somehow made it round, he recalled in 1977, Rupp was a star for the Halstead High School basketball team, one of the first in the area to play with a real basketball. He averaged 19 points a game, former teammates described Rupp as the teams unofficial coach. After high school, Rupp attended the University of Kansas from 1919 to 1923 and he worked part-time at the student Jayhawk Cafe to help pay his college expenses. He was a reserve on the team under legendary coach Forrest Phog Allen from 1919 to 1923. Assisting Allen during that time was his coach and inventor of the game of basketball, James Naismith. In Rupps junior and senior seasons, Kansas had outstanding basketball squads. Later, both of these standout Kansas teams would be awarded the Helms National Championship, recognizing the Jayhawks as the top team in the nation during those seasons and he received a MA from Teachers College, Columbia University. Rupp began his career in coaching by accepting a job at Burr Oak High School. After a one-year stay, Rupp moved on to Marshalltown, Iowa, where he coached wrestling and he did lead the Marshalltown team to a state wrestling title in 1926. In 1926–30, Rupp accepted the head coaching position at Freeport High School. During his four years at Freeport, Rupp compiled a record of 66-21, while at Freeport High School Rupp started William Mose Mosely, the first African-American to play basketball at Freeport and the second to graduate from the school. University of Illinois head basketball coach Craig Ruby was invited to speak at the banquet following the 1929–30 season. Ruby informed Rupp of the Kentucky head coaching job and followed up by recommending him for the job, during his time in Freeport, Rupp met his future wife, Esther Schmidt. Rupp coached the University of Kentucky mens basketball team from 1930 to 1972, there, he gained the nicknames, Baron of the Bluegrass, and The Man in the Brown Suit
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National Invitation Tournament
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The National Invitation Tournament is a mens college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Played at Madison Square Garden in New York City each March and April, over time it became eclipsed by the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament – known today informally as March Madness and The Big Dance. The NIT has since been regarded more as a tournament for teams that did not receive a berth in the NCAA tournament. A second, much more recent NIT tournament is played in November, formerly the Preseason NIT, it was founded in 1985. Like the postseason NIT, its final rounds are played at Madison Square Garden, both tournaments were operated by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association until 2005, when they were purchased by the NCAA, and the MIBA disbanded. Unless otherwise qualified, the terms NIT or National Invitation Tournament refer to the tournament in both common and official use. The first NIT was won by the Temple University Owls over the Colorado Buffaloes and this became the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association in 1948. Originally the tournament invited a field of 6 teams, with all games played at Madison Square Garden in downtown Manhattan. The field was expanded to 8 teams in 1941,12 in 1949,14 in 1965,16 in 1968,24 in 1979,32 in 1980, in 2007, the tournament reverted to the current 32-team format. Some conferences, such as the Southeastern Conference, were racially segregated, from its onset and at least into the mid-1950s, the NIT was regarded as the most prestigious showcase for college basketball. The winner of the National Invitation Tournament was regarded as more of a national champion than the actual, titular, national champion, several teams played in both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year, beginning with Colorado and Duquesne in 1940. Colorado won the NIT in 1940 but subsequently finished fourth in the NCAA West Region, in 1949, some Kentucky players were bribed by gamblers to lose their first round game in the NIT. This same Kentucky team went on to win the NCAA, the champions of both the NCAA and NIT tournaments played each other for a few years during World War II. From 1943 to 1945, the American Red Cross sponsored a charity game between each years tournament champions to raise money for the war effort. The series was described by Ray Meyer as not just benefit games, the NCAA champion prevailed in all three games. The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected the NIT champion as its champion for 1938. In 1943 the NCAA tournament moved to share Madison Square Garden with the NIT in an effort to increase the credibility of the NCAA Tournament. In 1945, The New York Times indicated that many teams could get bids to enter either tournament, the team played in the NIT instead, which it won
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Benjamin
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Benjamin was the last-born of Jacobs thirteen children, and the second and last son of Rachel in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin, in the Hebrew Bible unlike Rachels first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamins name appears as Binyaamem, in the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, textual scholars regard these two names as fragments of naming narratives coming from different sources - one being the Jahwist and the other being the Elohist. The etymology of the name interpreted as son of the right side, being associated with the right hand side was traditionally a reference to strength and virtue. This is, however, not the literal translation, as the root for right is identical to that for south. This meaning is advocated by several classical sources, which argue that it refers to the birth of Benjamin in Canaan. Inside the Samaritan Pentateuch, the name is written as בן ימים, with a terminal mem, making it Benjamim. Some classical rabbinical literature argues that this was the form of the name and was a reference to the advanced age of Jacob when Benjamin was born. According to classical sources, Benjamin was only born after Rachel had fasted for a long time. By then Jacob had become over 100 years old, Benjamin is treated as a young child in most of the Biblical narrative, but at one point is abruptly described as the father of ten sons. The narrative goes on to state that when Judah begged Joseph not to enslave Benjamin and instead enslave him and this caused Joseph to recant and reveal his identity. However, some classical rabbinical sources argue that Joseph identified himself for other reasons, the Quran, in the narrative of Joseph, refers to Benjamin as the righteous youngest son of Jacob. Biblical scholars regard it as obvious, from their geographic overlap and their treatment in older passages, that originally Ephraim and Manasseh were considered one tribe, that of Joseph. According to several scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe. According to Genesis 46,21, Benjamin had ten sons, Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, the name of his wife/wives are not given. Material on the tribe, its territory, Rabbinical tradition and Islam
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Hedley, Texas
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Hedley is a city in Donley County, Texas, United States. The population was 329 at the 2010 census, down from 379 at the 2000 census, Hedley is located in southeastern Donley County at 34°52′2″N 100°39′35″W. U. S. Highway 287 passes through the community, leading northwest 14 miles to Clarendon, the county seat, Texas State Highway 203 leads east from Hedley 30 miles to Wellington. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 0.73 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 379 people,161 households, the population density was 520.1 people per square mile. There were 209 housing units at a density of 286. 8/sq mi. The racial makeup of the city was 91. 29% White,1. 85% African American,1. 58% Native American,5. 01% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 9. 76% of the population. 37. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 25. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 3.13. In the city, the population was out with 28. 8% under the age of 18,6. 9% from 18 to 24,19. 0% from 25 to 44,21. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 42 years, for every 100 females there were 83.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 74.2 males, the median income for a household in the city was $25,750, and the median income for a family was $39,375. Males had an income of $22,500 versus $20,208 for females. The per capita income for the city was $11,568, about 10. 8% of families and 20. 4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13. 0% of those under age 18 and 40. 5% of those age 65 or over. The city is served by the Hedley Independent School District and is home to the Hedley High School Owls
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Dumas, Texas
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Dumas is a city in Moore County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Moore County. Located approximately fifty miles north of Amarillo, the city is named for its founder, Dumas Avenue, the main thoroughfare, is also United States Highways 287 and 87. Window on the Plains Museum, which offers exhibits on Moore County and the Texas Panhandle, is located on South Dumas Avenue, Dumas is home to Moore County Airport, a general aviation airport 2 miles west of the central business district. The Dumas government claims, with documentation, that the song Im a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas was written about the city. Composed in the late 1920s by Phil Baxter and Carl Moore, Dumas is located at 35°51′45″N 101°58′1″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 5.52 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 14,691 people,4,979 households, the population density was 2,660 people per square mile. There were 5,340 housing units at a density of 1047 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 74. 9% White, 2% African American,0. 9% Native American,4. 7% Asian,0. 0% Pacific Islander,15. 6% from other races, and 1. 8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 50. 5% of the population,20. 9% of all households were made up of individuals living alone and 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the family size was 3.40. In the city, the population was out with 31. 4% under the age of 18,7. 9% from 15 to 19,33. 3% from 25 to 44,21. 8% from 45 to 64. For every 100 females there were 101 males, of the population over the age of 18, for every 100 females there were 98 males. The median income for a household in the city was $44,298, males had a median income of $37,589 versus $25,498 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,614, about 8. 3% of families and 11. 4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19% of those under age 18 and 6. 3% of those age 65 or over. The current mayor is Pat Sims, Dumas Independent School district serves the cities of Dumas and Cactus. Amarillo College, a fully accredited community college, has a branch campus in Dumas
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African Americans
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African Americans are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. The term may also be used to only those individuals who are descended from enslaved Africans. As a compound adjective the term is usually hyphenated as African-American, Black and African Americans constitute the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved peoples within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of 73. 2–80. 9% West African, 18–24% European, according to US Census Bureau data, African immigrants generally do not self-identify as African American. The overwhelming majority of African immigrants identify instead with their own respective ethnicities, immigrants from some Caribbean, Central American and South American nations and their descendants may or may not also self-identify with the term. After the founding of the United States, black people continued to be enslaved, believed to be inferior to white people, they were treated as second-class citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U. S. citizenship to whites only, in 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States. The first African slaves arrived via Santo Domingo to the San Miguel de Gualdape colony, the ill-fated colony was almost immediately disrupted by a fight over leadership, during which the slaves revolted and fled the colony to seek refuge among local Native Americans. De Ayllón and many of the colonists died shortly afterwards of an epidemic, the settlers and the slaves who had not escaped returned to Haiti, whence they had come. The first recorded Africans in British North America were 20 and odd negroes who came to Jamestown, as English settlers died from harsh conditions, more and more Africans were brought to work as laborers. Typically, young men or women would sign a contract of indenture in exchange for transportation to the New World, the landowner received 50 acres of land from the state for each servant purchased from a ships captain. An indentured servant would work for years without wages. The status of indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland was similar to slavery, servants could be bought, sold, or leased and they could be physically beaten for disobedience or running away. Africans could legally raise crops and cattle to purchase their freedom and they raised families, married other Africans and sometimes intermarried with Native Americans or English settlers. By the 1640s and 1650s, several African families owned farms around Jamestown and some became wealthy by colonial standards and purchased indentured servants of their own. In 1640, the Virginia General Court recorded the earliest documentation of slavery when they sentenced John Punch. One of Dutch African arrivals, Anthony Johnson, would own one of the first black slaves, John Casor
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Nolan Richardson
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Nolan Richardson Jr. is a former American basketball head coach best known for his tenure at the University of Arkansas, where he won the 1994 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. During his 22 seasons of coaching in NCAA Division I, Richardson made a tournament appearance 20 times. Richardson was born in El Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, United States to Nolan Richardson Sr. Clareast died from a mysterious disease in 1944, leaving behind three children, Shirley, age 5, Nolan Jr. three, and Helen, six months. Eventually they moved in with the grandmother, Rose Richardson or Ol Mama. Ol Mama had a impact on Nolan by helping instill the drive. Nolans father would visit, but often did not live with the family, Nolan Richardson played college basketball at Texas Western College, playing his junior and senior years under Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins for the Miners. Richardson began his career at Bowie High School in El Paso. He then moved to Western Texas Junior College, where he won the National Junior College championship in 1980, Richardson was the head coach at Tulsa from 1981 to 1985, leading Tulsa to the NIT championship in 1981. This was the first time an African American coach won an NIT championship, Nolan had a.763 winning percentage at the school. He became the first coach in NCAA history to win 50 games in his first two seasons, while coaching at Tulsa, Richardson became known for wearing an assortment of polka dot ties. This trademark eventually led Tulsa students to don polka dots during home games, in 1985, Richardson became the head coach at the University of Arkansas after Eddie Sutton left for Kentucky. Richardson became the first African-American coach at a university in the South. He inherited a team and program that was used to Suttons halfcourt-oriented, Richardsons frenetic, up-tempo system was something new to Arkansas fans, and people questioned it after finishing 12-16 his first season. However, by year two he had Arkansas back in the post season with an NIT berth, by year three he had Arkansas in the NCAA Tournament. The Hogs would stay there for 13 of the next 15 seasons, in all, Arkansas under Richardson enjoyed 15 post season appearances during the 17 seasons of his tenure. He led Arkansas to three Final Fours—losing to Duke in the semifinals in 1990, winning the National Championship in 1994 against Duke and he was named the National Coach of the Year in 1994. Nolans Arkansas teams recorded a 20 win season twelve times as well as four 30 win seasons during his 17 years and his teams typically played an up tempo game with intense pressure defense - a style that was known as 40 Minutes of Hell. In 2012 his coaching philosophy was featured in the documentary 40 Minutes of Hell on ESPN as part of the networks SEC Storied series and he is the winningest Basketball coach in Arkansas history, compiling a 389-169 record in 17 seasons
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Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball
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The Arkansas Razorbacks basketball team represents the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States in NCAA Division I mens basketball competition. The schools team competes in the Southeastern Conference. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament in 2017 and they lost in the second round to the University of North Carolina. The basketball team plays its games in Bud Walton Arena on the University of Arkansas campus. Under the coaching leadership of Nolan Richardson, the Hogs won the championship in 1994, defeating Duke, and appeared in the championship game the following year. The Razorbacks have made NCAA Final Four appearances in 1941,1945,1978,1990,1994, Arkansas had a relatively late start in basketball, it did not field its first team in the sport until 1924. Francis Schmidt coached the Razorbacks from the 1924 season until the 1929 season, in the 1930 season, Charles Bassett took over as head coach. He would coach until the 1933 season, Arkansas finished first in the Southwest Conference during his first year, but would not finish above third place for the rest of his reign. After 4 seasons, his record was 62-29. Glen Rose took over in the 1934 season and would leave after the 1942 season, the Razorbacks took first place in the Southwest Conference outright three times and tied for first twice more during this nine-year run. In the 1941 season, Rose led Arkansas to the NCAA Final Four, eugene Lambert took the helm for the 1943 season and would last until the 1949 season. During these four seasons, Arkansas tied for first place of the Southwest conference twice, Arkansas was selected for the NCAA tournament in the 1944 season, but had to withdraw after two of their players were involved in a car accident. The next year they were selected again and would make it to the Final Four and they would not make the tournament again, however until the 1949 season when they reached the NCAA Regional. Presley Askew would take over in 1950 and would only last until 1952, Arkansas would tie for first place in the Southwest conference in his first season, but would get progressively worse. The Razorbacks would not make the NCAA tournament during this tenure, glen Rose would take back over in 1953 and would last until 1966. Roses overall record for his time at Arkansas was 325-204, duddy Waller would become head coach for the 1966-67 season, but only lasted until the 1970-71 season. His overall record during his 4 seasons was 31-64, which was the worst overall winning percentage, at 0.326, Waller was replaced by Lanny Van Eman, who lasted from the 1970-71 season through the 1973-74 season. Van Eman finished his career at Arkansas with a 48-56 record, Arkansas failed to finish above second place under during the tenure of these 2 coaches, and would not receive any invitations to the NCAA tournament
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Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball
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The Kansas State Wildcats mens basketball team represents Kansas State University in college basketball competition. The program is classified in the NCAA Division I, and is a member of the Big 12 Conference, the current head coach is Bruce Weber. The program began competition in 1902, and has a history of success. The first two major-conference titles captured by the school were won in the sport, in 1917 and 1919, Kansas State has gone on to capture 18 regular season conference crowns in the sport. Following the 2015–2016 season, the Wildcats had a record of 1612–1121, through the years Kansas State University has appeared in 29 NCAA basketball tournaments, most recently in 2017. The teams all-time record in the NCAA tournament is 34–32, Kansas States best finish at the tournament came in 1951, when it lost to Kentucky in the national championship game. The school has reached the Final Four 4 times, the Elite Eight 12 times, the team also had some notably successful seasons before the creation of the NIT and the NCAA tournament, including conference titles in 1917 and 1919 under coach Zora G. Clevenger. The best season in the history may have been 1959. K-State has finished ranked in the Top 10 of one of the two polls on ten occasions, and in the final top 25 polls nineteen total times, the team has also posted a winning record at home every year since 1946. After a lengthy period with little success during the 1990s and 2000s, following a twelve-year absence, the team returned to the NCAA tournament after the 2007–08 season. Following that season, Kansas State freshman Michael Beasley was named an All-American, in the 2009–10 season, the team spent much of the year ranked in the Top 10 of the AP Poll and finished second in the Big 12 with an 11–5 record. The team received a #2 seed in the 2010 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament, and beat North Texas and BYU to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, where the Wildcats faced Xavier. The game was a thriller won by Kansas State 101–96. Kansas State lost in the round to Butler, the eventual national runner-up. On March 31,2012, Bruce Weber was announced as coach after Frank Martin left for South Carolina. During the 2012–2013 season, Webers first in Manhattan, Kansas State won its first regular season title since 1977. K-State has appeared in the NCAA tournament three times in Webers five seasons, Kansas State has a total of 36 All-Americans,18 regular-season conference championships and nine conference tournament championships. Kansas State University has finished in the rankings of the AP Poll or Coaches Poll on nineteen occasions throughout its history
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Oklahoma City Stars
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The Oklahoma City Stars are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma City University, located in Oklahoma City, in the U. S. state of Oklahoma. Until 1986, the Stars competed in the NCAA Division I Horizon League, which was known as the Midwestern City Conference at that time. Oklahoma City has made 18 NAIA tournament appearances,1987,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2010. As a member of the NCAA, Oklahoma City went to the NCAA tournament 11 times, the most of any school no longer a member of the NCAA. OCU appeared in the NCAA tournament in 1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1963,1964,1965,1966, and 1973, Oklahoma City has had 71 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965. In 2012, Kevin Patrick Hardy became OCUs first national champion in wrestling, taking the title at 165 pounds. Hardy was a Division 1 three time champion at Solon High School in Ohio. Through the Spring 2012 sports season, Oklahoma City has won 41 national championships, of these,36 are NAIA championships, and four are WCWA championships. Oklahoma City won the NACDA Directors Cup for the NAIA in 2002, the first and most successful innovation was credited to opposing coach Dike Beede when the football team played in the 1941 Oklahoma City vs. Youngstown football game. This game marks the first American football game to use a penalty flag, the second innovation was an unsuccessful venture to allow a coach to be on the field with the offense to help call plays and provide additional coaching as time allows. Doenges proposed tests with opposing coaches and at least two agreed to test the idea, however, the concept itself was considered a success and rules changes eventually allowed coaches on the sidelines to call plays and send plays in with a substitute. Also, Doenges is credited with inventing the offensive V formation while at Oklahoma City, nicknamed Three dots and a dash, the program presented the new offensive formation to great fanfare before losing to the Southwestern Moundbuilders by a score of 7–0. The team played Toledo in the 1948 Glass Bowl, losing 27–14, the school is currently known as the Stars, but was known as the Goldbugs or Gold Bugs in the 1920s, 30s and early 40s
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Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball
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The Cincinnati Bearcats mens basketball program represents the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. The schools team competes in the American Athletic Conference, the Bearcats are coached by Mick Cronin, who has been UCs head coach for over a decade now. With over 1700 wins, the Bearcats are one of the 20 winningest basketball programs of all-time, the schools merits include 2 National Titles,6 Final Fours, and 31 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament appearances. Cincinnati has appeared in the last 7 NCAA Tournaments, and 21 of the last 26,30 All-Americans have played for the Bearcats as well. Cincinnati has been playing its games since 1989 at Fifth Third Arena. Cincinnati joined the Big East Conference in the 2005–06 season after participating in Conference USA. After the Big East splintered in 2013, Cincinnati and the football-playing schools re-branded the league as the American Athletic Conference, Cincinnati lost to Yale but defeated a team from the University of Kentucky while compiling a 5–4 record, the remaining games being against non-collegiate teams. Home games were played in a gym in the basement of McMicken Hall, pillars on the court gave UC a home-court advantage. Cincinnati opened its new arena, Armory Fieldhouse, with a 97-65 win over Indiana in 1954. One of the first of Cincinnatis long list of standouts was Jack Twyman and he went on to NBA stardom and is in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Oscar Robertson made his debut in 1957, and quickly emerged as one of the top players in the country. The Big O is still recognized as one of the greatest to ever play the sport—college or professional. A unanimous three-time All-American, he was college basketballs leading scorer at the close of his career. His 33.8 scoring average today ranks third on the NCAA career charts, the Bearcats celebrated their entry into the Missouri Valley Conference by winning the league title. Cincinnati made its first NCAA tournament appearance, losing to Kansas State in overtime at the Midwest Regional, with a rookie head coach and without Robertson, the Bearcats won their first national title in 1960–61. Then to prove that its 1961 championship was no fluke, UC repeated as champion in 1961–62, during those five seasons, UC recorded a 37-game win streak and posted a 161–16 ledger. The five straight Final Four appearances is a feat topped only by UCLA, the Bearcats during the 1970s compiled a 170–85 record. Cincinnati inaugurated the Metro Conference by winning the leagues first two tournament championships and made four appearances, including a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1975
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Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball
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The Kansas Jayhawks mens basketball program is the intercollegiate mens basketball program of the University of Kansas. It is one of the oldest and is one of the most successful programs in the history of basketball, the program is classified in the NCAAs Division I and the team competes in the Big 12 Conference. The Jayhawks first coach was the inventor of the game, James Naismith, Allen founded the National Association of Basketball Coaches and, with Lonborg, was an early proponent of the NCAA tournament. In 2008, ESPN ranked Kansas second on a list of the most prestigious programs of the college basketball era. The program ranks third in Division I all-time winning percentage and second in Division I all-time wins, following a 19–11 defeat of William Jewell on February 10,1908, the Jayhawks had a winning all-time record for the first time. The Jayhawks havent had a losing record since. Since the opening of Allen Fieldhouse in 1955, the Jayhawks have established a record of 750–109. Under head coach Bill Self, the Jayhawks have a 212–10 record at Allen Fieldhouse, which includes win streaks of 69,33, Kansas ranks second all-time in NCAA Division I wins with 2,198 wins, against 837 losses. This record includes a 750–109 mark at historic Allen Fieldhouse, the Jayhawks are first in NCAA history with 97 winning seasons, and tied for first in NCAA history with 100 non-losing seasons with Kentucky. Kansas has the fewest head coaches of any program that has been around 100 years, every head coach at Kansas since the inception of the NCAA Tournament has led the program to the Final Four. Kansas has had four head coaches inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame, a perennial conference powerhouse, Kansas leads Division I all-time in regular season conference titles with 60 in 110 years of conference play through the 2016–17 regular season. The Jayhawks have won a record 17 conference titles and a record 10 conference tournament titles in the 21 years of the Big 12s existence. The program also owns the best Big 12 records in both areas with a 274–57 record in conference play and a 41–10 record in tournament play. The mens basketball program began in 1898, following the arrival of Dr. James Naismith to the school. Naismith was not initially hired to coach basketball, but rather to be a chapel director, other common opponents were Haskell Institute and William Jewell College. Under Naismith, the team played just one game against a current Big 12 school, Naismith was, ironically, the only coach in the programs history to have a losing record. Including his years as coach, Naismith served as the Athletic Director, Naismith died in 1939, and his remains are buried in Lawrence, Kansas. The basketball court in Allen Fieldhouse is named James Naismith Court, on December 10,2010, the David Booth family purchased Dr. James Naismiths 13 Original Rules of the game at a Sothebys auction in New York City for the sum of $4.3 million
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Utah Utes men's basketball
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The Utah Utes mens basketball team represents the University of Utah as an NCAA Division I program that plays in the Pac-12 Conference. They are currently led by head coach Larry Krystkowiak and play their games at the Jon M. Huntsman Center. The school has made the NCAA Tournament 27 times, which ranks 20th in NCAA history and tied for 3rd behind UCLA and they last made the tournament in 2016. Utah won the NCAA Championship in 1944, defeating Dartmouth College 42–40 for the schools only NCAA basketball championship, however, the school also claims the 1916 AAU National Championship, which was awarded after winning the AAU national tournament. They have also won the NIT once, defeating Kentucky in 1947, in 1998 the Utes played in the NCAA championship game, losing to Kentucky. Utah began play in 1908, finishing with a record of 3–8, however, by 1916, they won their first national championship, the team would compete in the tournament two other times, in 1918 and 1919. But it wasnt until 1927 that Utah really began laying the foundation for what would one of the winningest programs in college basketball. That began with the hiring of Vadal Peterson, who would become the winningest coach in Utah basketball history, Peterson would guide Utah to 6 conference and state championships and reached the ultimate prize in 1944, when the Utes won the national championship. Oddly enough, Utah had turned down a bid to the NCAA Tournament because they wanted to play in the NIT, back then, the NIT was a far more prestigious tournament and typically drew the big time college basketball programs. However, after being bounced in the first round by Kentucky, the Arkansas Razorbacks were forced to withdraw after two of their players were badly injured in a car accident. Needing another team to take the Razorbacks place, the NCAA invited Utah, the Utes accepted and went on to defeat Dartmouth 42–40. The legendary Arnie Ferrin was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player after scoring 28 points in the two games. Three years later, Peterson would lead Utah to the more prestigious NIT championship, as they defeated, ironically enough, Peterson would retire from Utah with a 385–230 record and is the only coach in Utah history to have won a national championship. After Peterson retired, Utah basketball was known as one of the strongest in the west and that tradition helped convince Kansas State head coach Jack Gardner to accept the job. Gardner had led the Wildcats to two Final Fours prior to accepting the job and during his 18 years at Utah, he built a legacy that many feel is the strongest in Utah history. Jack Gardner was known for his quick offenses, which is where Utah got its name as the Runnin Redskins, because of his radical offensive sets, the Utes were widely regarded as the team that helped usher in a new era of college basketball. By his second season, Gardner had the Utes in their first NCAA Tournament since the 1945 season, finishing the year 24–4, Utah reached #7 in the rankings, but was eliminated in the second round. In Gardners third season he once again guided the Utes to a conference championship and an NCAA tournament berth
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Nate Archibald
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Nathaniel Tiny Archibald is an American retired professional basketball player. He spent 14 years playing in the NBA, most notably with the Cincinnati Royals, Kansas City–Omaha Kings, in 1991, he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Archibald was a willing passer and a shooter from midrange. However, it was his quickness and speed and shiftiness that made him difficult to guard in the open court and he returned to the team as a junior. During his time without basketball, Archibald briefly flirted with dropping out of school after having been largely truant in past years, but with the help of two mentors, Floyd Layne and Pablo Robertson, Archibald turned it around. Despite only playing in blowouts as a junior, the shy, quiet teen managed to blossom into a star, being named team captain. Off the court, Archibald began to school regularly and worked to improve his poor academic standing. To improve his chances of playing college basketball, Archibald enrolled at Arizona Western College. He had three seasons at El Paso, from 1967 to 1970 under Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins. Archibald was selected in the round of the 1970 NBA draft by the Cincinnati Royals. He was also drafted by the Texas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association, in 1972–73 season, Archibald led the NBA in scoring and assists, becoming the only player to win the titles in both categories in the same season. His scoring average of 34.0 points per game broke the NBA record for a guard and his 910 assists that season was also an NBA record at the time, breaking Guy Rodgers mark of 908. He was named the Sporting News NBA MVP that season, Archibald played for the Kansas City Kings from 1970 to 1976. Although he was the Kings most popular player, he was traded to the New York Nets for two draft picks and two players in 1976, injured for much of the 1976–77 season, he was traded by the Nets to the Buffalo Braves before the 1977–78 season. Archibald tore his achilles tendon and never played a game for the Braves. Buffalo traded him to the Boston Celtics as part of a 7-player deal before the start of the next season and his career at the Celtics started poorly. He showed up 20 pounds overweight, however, he adjusted and helped guide the Celtics to the best record in the NBA for three consecutive years. Archibald won his first and only NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in the 1980–81 season alongside young NBA star Larry Bird, Archibald was an All-NBA First Team selection three times and an All-NBA Second Team selection two times
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Tim Hardaway
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Timothy Duane Hardaway Sr. is an American retired basketball player, currently serving as an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association. Standing at six feet tall, he was best known for his crossover dribble which was dubbed the UTEP Two-step by television analysts and he is the father of current NBA player Tim Hardaway Jr. of the Atlanta Hawks. Hardaway was born in Chicago and graduated from Carver Area High School there, then he attended the University of Texas at El Paso and played under coach Don Haskins, a future member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Hardaway was twice named MVP of El Pasos Sun Bowl Invitational Tournament, in 1987 and 1988, at UTEP he won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the best college player in the nation six feet tall or under. Hardaway was selected as the 14th pick of the first round, in his rookie season, Hardaway wore number 5, as Manute Bol wore Hardaways 10. After Bol left the Warriors, Hardaway inherited it, Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullin formed Run TMC. As part of the Warriors attack, Hardaway was responsible for leading Run TMCs fast break, displaying his excellent passing and one-on-one skills to complement Richmonds slashing, Golden State made the playoffs during the 1990–1991 season, Hardaways second season and his first season in the playoffs. Hardaway averaged a career high 23.4 points a game in the 1991–1992 season, as a Warrior, Hardaway made the NBA All-Star Game three straight years, and a knee injury kept him out of the entire 1993–1994 season. He reached 5,000 points and 2,500 assists faster than any other NBA player except Oscar Robertson. Hardaway played for the Warriors until the middle of 1995–96 season when he was traded to the Miami Heat along with Chris Gatling in exchange for Kevin Willis and Bimbo Coles. Following the midseason trade to Miami, Hardaway started 28 games to finish the season, Miami made the playoffs but were swept in the first round by the 72 win Chicago Bulls. Hardaway started in 81 games, averaging 20.3 points,8.6 assists and he also played in the 1997 NBA All-Star Game, scoring 10 points in 14 minutes. Miami would once again fall to the defending champion Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals in 5 games, in the 1997–1998 NBA Season, Hardaway averaged 18.9 points and 8.3 assist per game, and was selected to play in the 1998 NBA All-Star Game. The Heat won 55 games and won the Atlantic Division, in the lockout shortened 1998–1999 season, Hardaway averaged 17.4 points a game with 7. Hardaways production slipped in the 1999–2000 season, with Alonzo Mourning, Hardaway averaged 13.4 points with 7.4 assists a game, but shot a personal best.367 percent from beyond the three point arc. After playing just 52 games, Hardaway was further limited in the playoffs, as Miami defeated the Detroit Pistons and that summer Hardaway and Mourning won a gold medal playing for the U. S. A. mens basketball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Before the 2000–2001 season Mourning would be diagnosed with a kidney disease. Following the 2001 season, and with his skills declining with age, Hardaway was traded to the Dallas Mavericks on August 22,2001 and he was at one time Miamis all-time leader in assists
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Antonio Davis
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Antonio Lee Davis is an American retired National Basketball Association player. Davis is also the president of the NBA Players Association. On October 31,2012, ESPN announced the hiring of Davis as a studio analyst for NBA broadcasts, Davis played college basketball at UTEP under coach Don Haskins from 1986 to 1990. His senior year the Miners still won 21 games with Davis averaging 10 points with 7 rebounds a game, they would lose to the number six seed coming out of the tournament that year. After four seasons at UTEP Davis declared for the 1990 NBA draft, Davis was drafted by the Indiana Pacers in the second round, 45th overall of the 1990 NBA draft. He initially went on to play with teams in Europe. He played with Panathinaikos in the Greek League from 1990–92, and with Philips Milano of the Italian League, during the 1992–93 season. He also played in Europes 3rd-tier level league, the FIBA Korać Cup, in 1993, Davis returned to the United States to play in the NBA for the 1993-94 season when he signed with the Indiana Pacers as a free agent. The Pacers then returned to New York with the chance to clinch the Eastern Conference title but lost game six, in the playoffs the Pacers faced the Atlanta Hawks for the second consecutive season. Miller added 2 free throws and gave the Pacers a comeback win, the Pacers lost Game 2 and the series returned to Indiana. After four games, the Pacers took a 3–1 series lead, however the Knicks bounced back, the Pacers emerged victorious as Patrick Ewings last-second shot did not go in the basket. With a 1-point win, the Pacers qualified for the Eastern Conference Finals for the consecutive season. As with their first and second-round opponents, the Pacers played a young talented Orlando Magic team led by Shaquille ONeal, the Pacers pushed Orlando to a 7th game before losing the series. In the playoffs the Pacers were defeated by the sixth-seeded Atlanta Hawks in five games.5 points with 7.3 rebounds a game.6 points a game and 6. The Pacers entered the season as a favorite, because Michael Jordan had retired. Once again, the Pacers were up against the New York Knicks, with couple of Eastern Conference Finals disappointments coupled with Davis begging for more playing time, Davis announced his intentions to be traded. On August 1,1999, Davis was traded to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for the 5th pick of the 1999 NBA draft in high schooler Jonathan Bender, in the 1999–00 season he solidified his role as a starter and started almost all 79 games that he appeared in. He averaged 11.5 points,8.8 rebounds with 1.0 points with 8.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocks a game, Davis averaged 9.5 points a game with 6.8 rebounds in 6 playoff games
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Tim Floyd
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Timothy Fitzpatrick Tim Floyd is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the University of Texas at El Paso Miners mens basketball team. He is also a head coach of several teams in both the NCAA and the NBA, most recently the University of Southern California mens college basketball team. Floyd is also known as the coach of the Chicago Bulls, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Floyd is a 1977 graduate of Louisiana Tech University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in health and physical education. He originally was a player at the University of Southern Mississippi. His father, who was also a coach, died when Floyd was 18, Floyd and wife Beverly have one daughter, Shannon. In November 2009, a video surfaced on YouTube depicting Floyd breaking up a fight in the court of a casino in Palm Desert. Floyd confirmed the accuracy, telling ESPN. com that I was leaving and then this thing happened in the food court. It looks like a bar but its a food court, all I can say is that it was more physical than anything Id seen in the Pac-10 and decided somebody needed to break it up. Floyds first coaching job was as an assistant at UTEP under Hall of Famer Don Haskins from 1977 to 1986, while Floyd was at UTEP, the Miners went to three straight NCAA Tournaments. They also went to the NIT three times, and UTEP won four Western Athletic Conference championships in those years. Tim Floyds first assignment as a coach came at the University of Idaho, succeeding Bill Trumbo. Floyd coached the Vandals for two years, in his first season, the Vandals posted their first winning record since Don Monson left for Oregon after the 20–91983 season. At the University of New Orleans, Floyd tallied a 127–58 mark in six seasons as head coach, during his tenure, UNO advanced to postseason play five times, including two NCAA Tournament appearances in 1991 and 1993 and the NIT three times. At UNO, Floyd averaged 21 wins a season, Floyd is one of only four Division I coaches who have won four conference championships in the first five years at their school. In his final season at New Orleans in 1994, the team finished 20–10, Floyd reached the 20-win plateau for the sixth time in eight seasons, and UNO made its seventh postseason appearance in eight years. Floyd was hired at Iowa State University in May 1994 as the 15th basketball coach in ISU history, in his four years at ISU, Floyd posted an 81–49 record. He is one of two coaches in Iowa State history to post three consecutive 20-win seasons along with his player and former ISU basketball coach Fred Hoiberg. He also led the team to three appearances in the NCAA Tournament and three straight first-round victories
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1972 Summer Olympics
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The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11,1972. The sporting nature of the event was overshadowed by the Munich massacre in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches. Five Black September Palestinian terrorists died, the 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under the Nazi regime. The logo of the Games was a blue solar logo by Otl Aicher, the Olympic mascot, the dachshund Waldi, was the first officially named Olympic mascot. The Olympic Fanfare was composed by Herbert Rehbein, a companion of Bert Kaempfert, the Olympic Park is based on Frei Ottos plans and after the Games became a Munich landmark. The competition sites, designed by architect Günther Behnisch, included the Olympic swimming hall, the Olympics Hall and the Olympic Stadium, and an Olympic village very close to the park. The design of the stadium was considered revolutionary, with sweeping canopies of acrylic glass stabilized by metal ropes, Munich won its Olympic bid on April 26,1966, at the 64th IOC Session at Rome, Italy, over bids presented by Detroit, Madrid, and Montréal. Montreal would eventually host the following Olympic games in 1976, the Games were largely overshadowed by what has come to be known as the Munich massacre. Two of the hostages who resisted were killed in the first moments of the break-in, the German authorities planned to ambush them there, but underestimated the numbers of their opposition and were thus undermanned. During a botched attempt, all of the Israeli hostages were killed. Four of them were shot, then incinerated when one of the terrorists detonated a grenade inside the helicopter in which the hostages were sitting, the five remaining hostages were then machine-gunned to death. All but three of the terrorists were killed as well, although arrested and imprisoned pending trial, they were released by the West German government on October 29,1972, in exchange for a hijacked Lufthansa jet. Two of those three were supposedly hunted down and assassinated later by the Mossad, jamal Al-Gashey, who is believed to be the sole survivor, is still living today in hiding in an unspecified African country with his wife and two children. A memorial ceremony was held in the Olympic stadium. The attack prompted heightened security at subsequent Olympics beginning with the 1976 Winter Olympics, security at Olympics was heightened further beginning with the 2002 Winter Olympics, as they were the first to take place since September 11,2001. The massacre led the German federal government to re-examine its anti-terrorism policies and this led to the creation of the elite counter-terrorist unit GSG9, similar to the British SAS. It also led Israel to launch a campaign known as Operation Wrath of God, in which those suspected of involvement were systematically tracked down, the events of the Munich massacre were chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentary, One Day in September. An account of the aftermath is also dramatized in three films, the 1976 made-for-TV movie 21 Hours at Munich, the 1986 made-for-TV movie Sword of Gideon and Steven Spielbergs 2005 film Munich
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Munich
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Munich is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, the Munich Metropolitan Region is home to 5.8 million people. According to the Globalization and World Rankings Research Institute Munich is considered an alpha-world city, the name of the city is derived from the Old/Middle High German term Munichen, meaning by the monks. It derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who ran a monastery at the place that was later to become the Old Town of Munich, Munich was first mentioned in 1158. From 1255 the city was seat of the Bavarian Dukes, black and gold—the colours of the Holy Roman Empire—have been the citys official colours since the time of Ludwig the Bavarian, when it was an imperial residence. Following a final reunification of the Wittelsbachian Duchy of Bavaria, previously divided and sub-divided for more than 200 years, like wide parts of the Holy Roman Empire, the area recovered slowly economically. In 1918, during the German Revolution, the house of Wittelsbach, which governed Bavaria since 1180, was forced to abdicate in Munich. In the 1920s, Munich became home to political factions, among them the NSDAP. During World War II, Munich was heavily bombed and more than 50% of the entire city, the postwar period was characterised by American occupation until 1949 and a strong increase of population and economic power during the years of the Wirtschaftswunder after 1949. The city is home to corporations like BMW, Siemens, MAN, Linde, Allianz and MunichRE as well as many small. Munich is home to national and international authorities, major universities, major museums. Its numerous architectural attractions, international events, exhibitions and conferences. Munich is one of the most prosperous and fastest growing cities in Germany and it is a top-ranked destination for migration and expatriate location, despite being the municipality with the highest density of population in Germany. Munich nowadays hosts more than 530,000 people of foreign background, the year 1158 is assumed to be the foundation date, which is the earliest date the city is mentioned in a document. The document was signed in Augsburg, by that time the Guelph Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, had built a bridge over the river Isar next to a settlement of Benedictine monks—this was on the Old Salt Route and a toll bridge. In 1175, Munich was officially granted city status and received fortification, in 1180, with the trial of Henry the Lion, Otto I Wittelsbach became Duke of Bavaria and Munich was handed over to the Bishop of Freising. In 1240, Munich was transferred to Otto II Wittelsbach and in 1255, Duke Louis IV, a native of Munich, was elected German king in 1314 and crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328. He strengthened the position by granting it the salt monopoly
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Bob Knight
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Robert Montgomery Bob Knight is a retired American basketball coach. Knight is best known as the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000. He also coached at Texas Tech and at Army, while at Indiana, Knight led his teams to three NCAA championships, one National Invitation Tournament championship, and 11 Big Ten Conference championships. He received National Coach of the Year honors four times and Big Ten Coach of the Year honors eight times. In 1984, he coached the USA mens Olympic team to a gold medal, Knight was one of college basketballs most successful and innovative coaches, having perfected and popularized the motion offense. He has also praised for running clean programs and graduating most of his players. Knight remains the object of near fanatical devotion from his former players, in 2008, Knight joined ESPN as a mens college basketball studio analyst during Championship Week and for coverage of the NCAA Tournament. He continued covering college basketball for ESPN through the 2014-15 season, Knight was born in Massillon, Ohio, and grew up in Orrville, Ohio. Knight began his career as a player at Orrville High School and he continued under Basketball Hall of Fame coach Fred Taylor at Ohio State in 1958. The Buckeyes lost to the Cincinnati Bearcats in each of the next two NCAA Championship games, of which Knight was also a part. Due in part to the power of those Ohio State teams, playing time was usually scarce for Knight. In the 1961 NCAA Championship game, Knight came off the bench with 1,41 on the clock and Cincinnati leading Ohio State, 61-59. In the words of then-Ohio State assistant coach Frank Truitt, Knight got the ball in the front court. Then crossed over like he worked on it all his life and drove right in and laid it up. That tied the game for us, and Knight ran clear across the floor like a 100-yard dash sprinter and ran right at me and said, See there, coach, to which Truitt replied, Sit down, you hot dog. Youre lucky youre even on the floor, Knight graduated with a degree in history and government in 1962. After graduation in 1962, Knight coached junior varsity basketball at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio for one year, in six seasons at West Point, Knight won 102 games, with his first as a head coach coming against Worcester Polytechnic Institute. One of his players was Mike Krzyzewski, who served as his assistant before becoming a Hall of Fame head coach at Duke
