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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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Michael Jordan goes for a
slam dunk
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The first basketball court:
Springfield College
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The 1899 University of Kansas basketball team, with James Naismith at the back, right.
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A basketball game between the
Heart Mountain and Powell High School girls teams, Wyoming, March 1944
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Big 12 Conference
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The Big 12 Conference is a ten-school collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas. Its ten members, located in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, additionally, the Big 12 has ten affiliate members, six for the sport of wrestling, one for womens gymnastics, and 3 for womens rowing. The Big 12 Conference is a 501 nonprofit organization incorporated in Delaware, the Big 12 was formerly composed of 12 schools, hence its name, it was formed in 1996 when four schools from the collapsing Southwest Conference joined with the pre-existing Big Eight Conference. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were grouped with the four newcomers in the Big 12 South, TCU and West Virginia joined from the Mountain West and Big East Conferences respectively to offset two of the departing schools, bringing the conference to its current strength. Attempts to rename the Big 12 to reflect its current strength would lead to confusion with the current Big Ten Conference, the Big 12 Conference commissioner is Bob Bowlsby. Full members Assoc. member Other Conference The Big 12 Conference sponsors championship competition in ten mens, nonetheless, it is an open coed sport in NCAA college athletics, with mens, womens, and coed teams in all NCAA divisions competing against each other. TCU and West Virginia both field coed teams, through 2017, West Virginia with 19 national titles and TCU with two, together have won over half of the NCAA titles awarded since the inaugural NCAA championship in 1980. West Virginia also won four national titles. The Big 12 began athletic play in the fall of 1996, from its formation until 2011, its 12 members competed in two divisions. Between 2011 and 2012 four charter members left the conference while two joined in 2013. The Big 12 is unique among the current Power Five conferences in that it only has 10 members, despite the name, causing some confusion. From 1987 to 2015,12 or more members were required for a championship game. Former Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds and former football coach Mack Brown, along with Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops, critics argued it was a competitive advantage over other contract conferences. Conferences with a game have their division champions typically play one of their toughest games of the year in the last week of the regular season. Unlike the other Power 5 conferences in which a team plays a portion of the other teams in the conference each season. This theoretically allows for the declaration of a de facto champion without the need for a rematch between the top two teams in the conference. On June 3,2016, the conference announced it would reinstate the football game in the 2017 season. This followed the passage of a new NCAA rule allowing all FBS conferences to hold football championship games regardless of their membership numbers, the Big 12 population base is centered on the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, West Virginia and Iowa
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Big 12 Conference (Big 12)
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North Hollywood, California
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North Hollywood is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles. It is home to the NoHo Arts District and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, there is a municipal park and a recreation center. The neighborhood is an important transportation center, and it is also a place where many people have lived or worked. North Hollywood was established by the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company in 1887 and it was first named Toluca before being renamed Lankershim in 1896 and finally North Hollywood in 1927. It is not contiguous with Hollywood, being separated by parts of the San Fernando Valley. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 87,241, in 2000 the median age for residents was 30, considered an average age for city and county neighborhoods, the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the countys highest. The neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically within Los Angeles, the breakdown was Latinos,57. 7%, whites, 27%, Asians,5. 7%, blacks,5. 6%, and others, 4%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 46. 4% of the residents who were born abroad—a high percentage for Los Angeles, the percentages of never-married men and never-married women were among the countys highest. The median yearly income in 2008 dollars was $42,791, considered average for the city. The percentages of households that earned $40,000 or less were high for the county, renters occupied 75. 4% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 24. 6%. North Hollywood is bordered on the north by Sun Valley and on the northeast and east by Burbank, Toluca Lake borders North Hollywood on the southeast and south, and Studio City abuts it on the southwest. It is flanked by Valley Village and Valley Glen on the west, North Hollywood was once part of the vast landholdings of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, which was confiscated by the government during the Mexican period of rule. A group of investors assembled as the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association purchased the half of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. The leading investor was Isaac Lankershim, a Northern California stockman and grain farmer, in 1873, Isaac Lankershims son and future son-in-law, James Boon Lankershim and Isaac Newton Van Nuys, moved to the San Ferndando Valley and took over management of the property. Van Nuys thought the property could profitably grow wheat using the dryland farming developed on the Great Plains. In time the Lankershim property, under its name, the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Company. Lankershim established a townsite which the residents named Toluca along the old road from Cahuenga Pass to San Fernando, the land boom of the 1880s went bust by the 1890s, but despite another brutal drought cycle in the late 1890s, the fruit and nut farmers remained solvent. The Toluca Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1894, the next year the Southern Pacific opened a branch line slanting northwest across the Valley to Chatsworth
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Lankershim School, located near what is now the intersection of Vineland and Riverside, and the first school in the San Fernando Valley, c.1889
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Circus Liquor, landmark sign dating from 1959
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High-density property development in "NoHo"
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Te Aute College
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Te Aute College is a school in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand. It opened in 1854 with twelve pupils under Samuel Williams, an Anglican missionary and it has a strong Māori character. It was built on land provided by Te Whatuiapiti, a hapū of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi, in 1857, a Deed of Gift transferred the land from Te Whatuiapiti to the Crown, with a request that it be granted to the Bishop of New Zealand and his successors. After only five years in operation, a fire destroyed much of the college, Samuel Williams began fundraising for the reconstruction of the college, accumulating £700 by 1870 — in part thanks to financial assistance from an aunt, Catherine Heathcote. Rebuilding began in 1871 and was completed in 1872, the college was reopened in 1872 under John Reynolds as headmaster. It began to grow steadily, with 24 Māori and 3 English boarders in attendance by 1874, the college chapel was constructed in 1900, in a design by architect Charles Natusch. Between 1878 and 1912 Te Aute was led by headmaster John Thornton, in 1883 the college was visited by James Henry Pope, the government-appointed inspector of native schools, and received praise for Thorntons curriculum. Pope described the standards reached at Te Aute in mathematics and science as equal to those of any school in the country. I tried from the very first to raise the standard of the school, by 1900 Te Aute was renowned for high academic standards and had become pre-eminent among Māori boarding colleges, as it was sending several boys onto university each year. However in 1906 a Royal Commission of Inquiry was established to investigate the effectiveness of teaching at Te Aute, george Hogben, the newly appointed inspector of native schools, recommended that the college discontinue instruction in Latin, Euclid, and algebra, and increase agricultural and manual instruction. Thornton defended the existing academic curriculum, arguing that Māori opinion favoured academic instruction, in the following years the colleges attempted pivot toward vocational instruction began alienating academically gifted students, notably Golan Maaka. In 1922, Maaka became disillusioned with the focus on agricultural instruction. He left Te Aute as a result and completed his schooling in Dannevirke instead, in 1918 the college was damaged significantly by fire again. This coincided with the impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic, ultimately forcing the college to close temporarily, reconstruction planning began immediately, with college trustees opting for more modern brick buildings. While construction planning continued, the college reopened in 1919 under a new headmaster E. G. Loten, Loten was a proponent of agricultural education, and satisfied the Department of Educations wish for an agriculturally intensive curriculum. On 9 September 1922 the foundation stone of the first new facility was laid by Churchill Julius. It was named The Julius Wing and was opened in April 1923, later that year, the foundation stone of the second brick facility was laid by the Governor General, The Viscount Jellicoe, and the building was named The Jellicoe Wing. On 3 February 1931, the college was damaged by the Hawkes Bay earthquake
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Te Aute College Chapel, designed by
Charles Natusch
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Te Aute College playing school rugby in New Plymouth against
New Plymouth Boys' High School in 1968
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Los Angeles Valley College
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Los Angeles Valley College is a community college located in the Valley Glen district of Los Angeles, California in the east-central San Fernando Valley. The school is a part of the Los Angeles Community College District, the community college is adjacent to Grant High School. The sports teams are known as the Monarchs, and the colors are green. Los Angeles Valley College was founded on September 12,1949 to meet the growth of the San Fernando Valley during the 1940s. The college was chartered by the Los Angeles Board of Education in June 1949. In 1951 Valley College moved to its permanent 105-acre site on Fulton Avenue in Valley Glen, in 1954, members of the faculty founded the Athenaeum which began to offer community programs that brought the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the campus. The campus also had internationally known speakers including Eleanor Roosevelt, Clement Attlee, Margaret Mead, in 1969, the Los Angeles Community College District was formed and its nine colleges were separated from the Los Angeles Unified School District. Today, Valley College continues to meet the needs of the community by offering transfer education, career technical education. Valley College’s current enrollment is approximately 20,000 students with 199 full-time faculty and 401 part-time instructors, in December 2016, the college found that many of their electronic files had been maliciously encrypted disrupting voicemail, email, and computer files. In a ransom note, the college was informed they would receive a key that would be delivered upon the receipt of $28,000 in Bitcoin. The ransome needed to be paid within seven days or the files would be forever lost, the Los Angeles Community College District paid the amount and the delivered private key restored access to the affected systems. More than 140 associate degree programs and certificate programs are offered at Valley College, Los Angeles Valley College has its own honors society called Tau Alpha Epsilon. TAE was founded in 1949, the year that Los Angeles Valley College was established. In 1960, due to the popularity of junior colleges, a version of the four year honors society Phi Beta Kappa was created called Phi Theta Kappa. Because of this, PTK merged with TAE at Los Angeles Valley College, the purpose of TAE is to act as the honors society for Los Angeles Valley College, encourage academic excellence, and work with fellow clubs and organizations to better the campus and community. Los Angeles Valley College has its own stop on the Metro Orange Line and it is located at the intersection of Burbank Boulevard and Fulton Avenue. The nearest campus buildings are less than a 5-minute walk from the station, sean Astin - actor, best known for playing Sam in the Lord of the Rings films. Samuel Marcus - actor, known for The Peoples Couch and Teens React, ed Begley, Jr. - actor and environmentalist
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The college's sign and marquee at the corner of Fulton Ave & Oxnard St
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Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball
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The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball team represents the University of Hawaii at Manoa in NCAA mens competition. The team currently competes in the Big West Conference after leaving its home of the Western Athletic Conference in July 2012. The teams most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament was in 2016, the Rainbow Warriors are coached by Eran Ganot. The Rainbow Warriors have appeared in five NCAA tournaments, the Rainbow Warriors have appeared in eight National Invitational Tournaments. The Rainbow Warriors have appeared in two CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament and they have a combined record of 1–2. The Rainbow Warriors have appeared in the NAIA Tournament one time, originally called the Special Events Center it was renamed in 1998 after Stan Sheriff, the former UH Athletics Director, who had lobbied for its construction. Previously, the team had played from 1964–1994 at the 7,500 seat Neal S. Blaisdell Center, Hawaii Rainbow Wahine basketball Official website
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball
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Big East Conference
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The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that competes in NCAA Division I in all sports except football, which is not sponsored. The conference has officially recognized as a Division I multi-sport conference. Butler University, Creighton University, and Xavier University also joined the conference on its July 1,2013 launch date. The football-playing members of the old Big East, along several other schools, formed the American Athletic Conference. However, both conferences claim 1979 as their founding date, as part of the separation agreement, the basketball schools were able to retain the basketball records while the football schools retained the football records respectively. Val Ackerman, former WNBA president, has been commissioner since June 26,2013, on the same day Ackerman was named as commissioner, it announced that it will be headquartered in New York City. None of the schools sponsor varsity football in the top-level Division I FBS. Georgetown, Villanova, and Butler do operate football programs in the second-level Division I FCS, the core of the Big East formed when Providence, St. Johns, Georgetown, and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Connecticut, Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College. Holy Cross turned down the invitation, as did Rutgers initially, while BC, Seton Hall, gavitt became the Big Easts first commissioner, and Villanova and Pittsburgh joined the conference shortly thereafter. PR firm Duffy & Shanley is credited with the branding and naming work for the conference. The conference remained largely unchanged until 1991, when it began to sponsor football, adding Miami as a member, and Rutgers, Temple, Virginia Tech. Rutgers and West Virginia upgraded to full Big East membership in 1995, Notre Dame also joined as a non-football member effective in 1995. Temple football was kicked out after the 2004 season, but rejoined in 2012, the unusual structure of the Big East, with the football and non-football schools, led to instability in the conference. The conference reorganized following the period of realignment that hobbled the Big East between 2010 and 2013. The Big East was one of the most severely impacted conferences during the most recent conference realignment period, in all,14 member schools announced their departure for other conferences, and 15 other schools announced plans to join the conference. Three of the group later backed out of their plans to join. On March 14,2013, it was reported that the Big East would be adding members in the seven to ten days. At a news conference in New York City on March 20,2013, the league was formally introduced with Butler, Xavier
Big East Conference
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Gold medal
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A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture, others offer only the prestige of the award. Many organizations now award gold medals either annually or extraordinarily, including UNESCO, while some gold medals are solid gold, others are gold-plated or silver-gilt, like those of the Olympic Games, the Lorentz Medal, the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the Nobel Prize medal. Nobel Prize medals consist of 18 karat green gold plated with 24 karat gold, before 1980 they were struck in 23 karat gold. In the United States, Congress would enact a resolution asking the President to reward those responsible, the commanding officer would receive a gold medal and his officers silver medals. Other countries similarly honored their military and naval victors in a similar fashion, Medals have historically been given as prizes in various types of competitive activities, especially athletics. Traditionally, medals are made of the metals, Gold Silver Bronze Occasionally. This standard was adopted for Olympic competition at the 1904 Summer Olympics, at the 1896 event, silver was awarded to winners and bronze to runners-up, while at 1904 other prizes were given, not medals. At the modern Olympic Games, winners of a sporting discipline receive a medal in recognition of their achievement. At the Ancient Olympic Games only one winner per event was crowned with kotinos, aristophanes in Plutus makes a remark why victorious athletes are crowned with wreath made of wild olive instead of gold. When Tigranes, an Armenian general learned this, he uttered to his leader, what kind of men are these against whom you have brought us to fight. Men who do not compete for possessions, but for honour, hence medals were not awarded at the ancient Olympic Games. At the 1896 Summer Olympics, winners received a silver medal, in 1900, most winners received cups or trophies instead of medals. The next three Olympics awarded the winners solid gold medals, but the medals themselves were smaller, the use of gold rapidly declined with the onset of the First World War and also with the onset of the Second World War. The last series of Olympic medals to be made of gold were awarded at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. Olympic Gold medals are required to be made from at least 92. 5% silver, all Olympic medals must be at least 60mm in diameter and 3mm thick. Minting the medals is the responsibility of the Olympic host, from the 1972 Summer Olympics through 2000, Cassiolis design remained on the obverse with a custom design by the host city on the reverse. Noting that Cassiolis design showed a Roman amphitheater for what originally were Greek games, Winter Olympics medals have been of more varied design
Gold medal
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The gold,
silver and
bronze medals of the
1964 Olympic Winter Games (
Olympic Museum).
Gold medal
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A medal on a ribbon designed to be worn around the winner's neck.
Gold medal
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At the
1896 Summer Olympics, the winners received a
silver medal. Since 1904, the winners receive a gold medal, the second-place finishers receive a
silver medal and the third-place finishers receive a
bronze medal.
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USA Basketball
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USA Basketball is a non-profit organization and the governing body for basketball in the United States. The organization represents the United States in FIBA and the mens and womens basketball teams in the United States Olympic Committee. Its chairman of the board is Jerry Colangelo and its director is Jim Tooley. The organization was founded in 1974 as the Amateur Basketball Association of the United States of America and it was renamed to USA Basketball on October 12,1989, after FIBA modified its rules to allow professional basketball players to compete in international competitions. In 2007, the USA was represented by the University of Northern Iowa, in 2003, the USA was represented by a Big 12 All Star team. In 2007, the USA was represented by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, william Jones Cup Team USA Womens Pan American Team United States womens national 3x3 team Official site Official facebook USA Basketball reports from Insidehoops. com
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USA Basketball
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Jim Phelan Award
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The Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award is an award given annually to the most outstanding mens college basketball head coach in NCAA Division I competition. He was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008, general Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award recipients
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Tubby Smith won the award in 2005.
Jim Phelan Award
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Tony Bennett won the award while at Washington State.
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Texas Christian Horned Frogs basketball
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The TCU Horned Frogs mens basketball team represents Texas Christian University, located in Fort Worth, Texas, in NCAA Division I mens basketball competition. Since 2016, the Horned Frogs have been led by TCU Lettermens Hall of Fame member, TCU joined the Big 12 Conference in 2012 after being in the Mountain West Conference since 2005. The Horned Frogs play their games on campus at Ed & Rae Schollmaier Arena, formerly known as Daniel–Meyer Coliseum. The Horned Frogs began varsity competition in mens basketball in 1908. In their first recorded game, the Frogs faced then-cross-town rival Baylor in a 6–37 loss, TCU moved its campus from Waco to Fort Worth, Texas, after a fire destroyed the central Texas schools main building in 2010. During the early, independent and TIAA years, TCU was led by at least six different coaches from 1908 through 1923, the Horned Frogs were led into the Southwest Conference in 1923 by a new basketball and football coach, Fort Worth native Matty Bell. Bell transformed the program, accruing a 71–41 record over his six seasons at TCU and leading the Horned Frogs to second, third, Bell was succeeded by Francis Schmidt, who left the Arkansas Razorbacks to coach TCU basketball and football. The 1931 SWC championship was the Frogs first league title in mens basketball, Schmidt departed Fort Worth after five seasons to become the head football coach at Ohio State. Coach Schmidts departure after the 1934 SWC championship season was followed by a 16-year draught for TCU basketball, meyers basketball record from 1934 through 1937 totaled on 10–37. Meyer was replaced by former TCU basketball and football player Mike Brumbelow, Brumbelow was quickly replaced by Hub McQuillan, who led the Frogs to middle-of-the-league finishes in the first 5 of his 7 years as head coach of TCU basketball. Buster Brannon, a former TCU player under Francis Scmidt, led Horned Frogs basketball for two decades, from 1948 through 1967. Brannons recorded faded in the 1960s, when the Frogs finished near the bottom of the league almost every year until Brannons retirement from coaching in 1967, the Brannon era saw the opening of Daniel–Meyer Coliseum in 1961. Johnny Swaim, a player for Brannon, coached the Frogs from 1967 through 1977. Swaim led the Frogs to Southwest Conference titles and the NCAA Tournament in 1967, his first season at the helm, the Frogs 1967 NCAA Tournament appearance saw the Frogs first-ever Tournament win and the programs only appearance in what is now known as the Elite Eight. Swaim abruptly retired from coaching after the 1977 season, remaining in Fort Worth as a businessman until his death in 1995, after Swaims retirement, Tim Somerville led the Frogs for the following two seasons, notching only a 10–43 record. On March 21,2016, TCU hired Pitt head coach, the Horned Frogs won the 2017 NIT Championship on March 30, to cap off Dixons first season with a 24–15 record. Legend, = Conference Regular Season Champion = Conference Tournament Champion = Conference Division Champion The Horned Frogs have appeared in seven NCAA Tournaments, the Horned Frogs have appeared in seven National Invitation Tournaments. They were NIT champions in 2017, the Horned Frogs have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational
Texas Christian Horned Frogs basketball
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University of Pittsburgh
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The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1787 after the American Revolutionary War, it was founded on the edge of the American frontier as the Pittsburgh Academy and it developed and was renamed as Western University of Pennsylvania by a change to its charter in 1819. For most of its history, Pitt was a private institution, the university also includes four undergraduate schools located at campuses within Western Pennsylvania, Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Titusville. The 132-acre Pittsburgh campus has multiple contributing historic buildings of the Schenley Farms Historic District, most notably its 42-story Gothic revival centerpiece, the university has an annual operating budget of approximately $2 billion, which includes nearly $900 million in research and development expenditures. It is the second-largest non-government employer in the Pittsburgh region behind UPMC, Pitt is ranked among the top public universities in the United States in both domestic and international rankings, and has been listed as a best value in higher education by several publications. Pitt students have access to arts programs throughout the campus and city. Pitts varsity athletic teams, collectively known as the Pittsburgh Panthers, compete in Division I of the NCAA, primarily as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh is one of the few universities and colleges established in the 18th century in the United States. It is the oldest continuously chartered institution of learning in the U. S. west of the Allegheny Mountains, the school began as a preparatory school, presumably in a log cabin, possibly as early as 1770 in Western Pennsylvania, then a frontier. A brick building was erected in 1790 on the side of Third Street. The small two-story brick building, with a gable facing the alley, within a short period, more advanced education in the area was needed, so in 1819 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania amended the schools 1787 charter to confer university status. The school took the name the Western University of Pennsylvania, or WUP, by the 1830s, the university faced severe financial pressure to abandon its traditional liberal education in favor of the state legislatures desire for it to provide more vocational training. The decision to remain committed to liberal education nearly killed the university and it was also during this era that the founder of Mellon Bank, Thomas Mellon, graduated and later taught at WUP. The universitys buildings, along with most of its records and files, were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1845 that wiped out 20 square blocks of Pittsburgh, classes were temporarily held in Trinity Church until a new building was constructed on Duquesne Way. Only four years later, in 1849, this also was destroyed by fire. Due to the nature of these fires, operations were suspended for a few years to allow the university time to regroup. By 1854, WUP had erected a new building on the corner of Ross and Diamond streets, langley was professor of astronomy and physics and remained at WUP until 1891, when he was succeeded by another prominent astronomer, James Keeler. Growing quickly during this period, WUP outgrew its downtown facilities, the university eventually found itself on a 10-acre site on the North Sides Observatory Hill at the location of its Allegheny Observatory
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Hugh Henry Brackenridge, founder of Pittsburgh Academy, the precursor to the University of Pittsburgh
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University of Pittsburgh
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The University in 1833 at its location on 3rd Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh
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The
Cathedral of Learning, the centerpiece of Pitt's campus and the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere
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Gold-medal
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A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture, others offer only the prestige of the award. Many organizations now award gold medals either annually or extraordinarily, including UNESCO, while some gold medals are solid gold, others are gold-plated or silver-gilt, like those of the Olympic Games, the Lorentz Medal, the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the Nobel Prize medal. Nobel Prize medals consist of 18 karat green gold plated with 24 karat gold, before 1980 they were struck in 23 karat gold. In the United States, Congress would enact a resolution asking the President to reward those responsible, the commanding officer would receive a gold medal and his officers silver medals. Other countries similarly honored their military and naval victors in a similar fashion, Medals have historically been given as prizes in various types of competitive activities, especially athletics. Traditionally, medals are made of the metals, Gold Silver Bronze Occasionally. This standard was adopted for Olympic competition at the 1904 Summer Olympics, at the 1896 event, silver was awarded to winners and bronze to runners-up, while at 1904 other prizes were given, not medals. At the modern Olympic Games, winners of a sporting discipline receive a medal in recognition of their achievement. At the Ancient Olympic Games only one winner per event was crowned with kotinos, aristophanes in Plutus makes a remark why victorious athletes are crowned with wreath made of wild olive instead of gold. When Tigranes, an Armenian general learned this, he uttered to his leader, what kind of men are these against whom you have brought us to fight. Men who do not compete for possessions, but for honour, hence medals were not awarded at the ancient Olympic Games. At the 1896 Summer Olympics, winners received a silver medal, in 1900, most winners received cups or trophies instead of medals. The next three Olympics awarded the winners solid gold medals, but the medals themselves were smaller, the use of gold rapidly declined with the onset of the First World War and also with the onset of the Second World War. The last series of Olympic medals to be made of gold were awarded at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. Olympic Gold medals are required to be made from at least 92. 5% silver, all Olympic medals must be at least 60mm in diameter and 3mm thick. Minting the medals is the responsibility of the Olympic host, from the 1972 Summer Olympics through 2000, Cassiolis design remained on the obverse with a custom design by the host city on the reverse. Noting that Cassiolis design showed a Roman amphitheater for what originally were Greek games, Winter Olympics medals have been of more varied design
Gold-medal
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The gold,
silver and
bronze medals of the
1964 Olympic Winter Games (
Olympic Museum).
Gold-medal
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A medal on a ribbon designed to be worn around the winner's neck.
Gold-medal
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At the
1896 Summer Olympics, the winners received a
silver medal. Since 1904, the winners receive a gold medal, the second-place finishers receive a
silver medal and the third-place finishers receive a
bronze medal.
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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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A map of all NCAA Division I basketball teams.
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Texas Christian University
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Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university in Fort Worth, Texas established in 1873 by Addison & Randolph Clark as the AddRan Male & Female College. The campus is located on 272 acres about three miles from downtown Fort Worth, TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ. The university consists of 8 constituent colleges and schools and has a liberal arts curriculum. Its mascot is the frog, the state reptile of Texas. For most varsity sports TCU competes in the Big 12 conference of the NCAAs Division I, the university enrolls around 10,394, with 8,892 being undergraduates. As of February 2016, TCUs total endowment was $1.514 billion, Texas Christian University was founded by East Texas brothers Addison & Randolph Clark, together with the support of their father Joseph A. Clark. The Clarks were scholar-preacher/teachers associated with the Restoration Movement and these early leaders of the Restoration Movement were the spiritual ancestors of the modern Disciples of Christ, as well as major proponents of education. Following their return from service in the Civil War, brothers Addison and this school, known as the Male & Female Seminary of Fort Worth, operated from 1869 to 1874. Both Clarks nourished a vision for an institution of education that would be Christian in character. They purchased five blocks of land in downtown Fort Worth in 1869 for that purpose, but from 1867–1872, the character of Fort Worth changed substantially due to the commercial influence of the Chisholm Trail, the principal route for moving Texas cattle to the Kansas rail heads. A huge influx of cattle, men, and money transformed the frontier village into a booming, brawling cowtown. Its rough and rowdy reputation had, by 1872, acquired it the nickname of Hells Half Acre, the Clarks feared that this negative environment undermined the fledgling universitys mission. In 1873 the Clark brothers moved South and founded AddRan Male & Female College, TCU recognizes 1873 as its founding year, as it continues to preserve the original college through the AddRan College of Liberal Arts. AddRan College was one of the first coeducational institutions of higher education west of the Mississippi River, and this was a progressive step at a time when only 15% of the national college enrollment was female and almost all were enrolled at womens colleges. At Thorp Spring the fledgling university expanded quickly, the inaugural enrollment in Fall 1873 was 13 students, though this number rose to 123 by the end of the first term. Shortly thereafter, annual enrollment ranged from 200 to 400, at one time more than 100 counties of Texas were represented in the student body. The Clark brothers also recruited prestigious professors from all over the South to join them at Thorp Spring, the standards of the school and the efficiency of its work came to be recognized throughout the United States, and many graduates were welcomed at universities throughout the country. In 1889 AddRan College formed a partnership with what would become the Christian Church
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Statue of TCU founders Addison and Randolph Clark.
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Part of TCU's Campus
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Washington Bullets
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The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D. C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association, as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its games at the Verizon Center, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington. The team now known as the Wizards began playing as the Chicago Packers in 1961, as the first modern expansion team in NBA history, an expansion prompted by Abe Sapersteins American Basketball League. Rookie Walt Bellamy was the star, averaging 31.6 points per game,19.0 rebounds per game. During the All-Star game, Bellamy represented the team while scoring 23 points, Bellamy was named the league Rookie of the Year, but was the team finished with the NBAs worst record at 18-62. The teams original nickname was a nod to Chicagos meatpacking industry, their home arena, however, it was extremely unpopular since it was the same nickname used by the NFLs Green Bay Packers, bitter rivals of the Chicago Bears. After only one year, the changed its name to the Chicago Zephyrs. Their only season as the Zephyrs boasted former Purdue star Terry Dischinger, in their first year in Baltimore, the Bullets finished fourth in a five–team Western Division. Prior to the 1964–65 NBA season the Bullets pulled off a trade, sending Dischinger, Rod Thorn and Don Kojis to the Detroit Pistons for Bailey Howell, Don Ohl, Bob Ferry. The trade worked out well, Howell proved to be a hustling, in the 1965 NBA Playoffs, the Bullets stunned the St. Louis Hawks 3–1, and advanced to the Western Conference finals. In the finals, Baltimore managed to split the first four games with the Los Angeles Lakers before losing the series 4–2. In the late 1960s, the Bullets drafted two future Hall of Fame members, Earl Monroe, in the 1967 draft, number two overall, and Wes Unseld, in the 1968 draft, also number two overall. The team improved dramatically, from 36 wins the season to 57 in the 1968–69 season. The Bullets reached the playoffs with high expectations to go far, the next season the two teams met again in the first round, and although this one went to seven games, the Knicks emerged victorious again. In the 1970–71 season, the 42–40 Bullets again met the 1970–71 Knicks and they were swept in four games by the powerful Milwaukee Bucks led by future Hall of Fame members Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson. Even after the trades of Earl Monroe and Gus Johnson, the Bullets remained a playoff contender throughout the 1970s. Following a less than spectacular 1971–72 season, Baltimore acquired Elvin Hayes from the Houston Rockets and drafted Kevin Porter in the third round, out of St. Francis in Pennsylvania
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A ticket for a
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The Wizards moved to the MCI Center (now named
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Michael Jordan served as president of basketball operations and was a minority owner.
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1987 NBA draft
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The 1987 NBA draft was held on June 22,1987, in New York City. This draft is notable for the selection of two members of the NBA50 Greatest Players list, David Robinson and Scottie Pippen. Other notable selections include Kevin Johnson, Kenny Smith, Horace Grant, Reggie Lewis, Muggsy Bogues, Mark Jackson, and Šarūnas Marčiulionis. Also in this draft, former Florida Gators head mens basketball coach Billy Donovan, note that David Robinson did not join the NBA until the 1989–90 season due to his service commitment with the United States Navy. This was the last NBA draft to go three rounds, as it was reduced to exactly three next year and later to two since 1989. These draft picks played at least one game in the NBA but were selected after the second round and these players were not selected in the draft but still appeared in at least one regular or postseason NBA game
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David Robinson, the 1st pick
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Scottie Pippen, the 5th pick
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Kenny Smith, the 6th pick
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Kevin Johnson, the 7th pick
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Continental Basketball Association
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The Continental Basketball Association was a professional mens basketball minor league in the United States. For most of its existence the CBA was the second-tier of mens basketball in the United States behind the National Basketball Association. The NBA formed an agreement to develop players and referees in the CBA during the 1980s. Until the NBA formed the National Basketball Development League in 2001, the Continental Basketball Association was a professional basketball minor league from 1946 to 2009. It billed itself as the Worlds Oldest Professional Basketball League, since its founding on April 23,1946 pre-dated the founding of the National Basketball Association by two months. The leagues original name was the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, it fielded six franchises – five in Pennsylvania – with a team in New York. In 1948, the league was renamed the Eastern Professional Basketball League, over the years it would add franchises in several other Pennsylvania cities, including Williamsport, Scranton, and Sunbury, as well as teams in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Massachusetts. The CBAs first commissioner was Harry Rudolph, steve A. Kauffman, currently a prominent basketball agent, succeeded Rudolph as Commissioner in 1975. Kauffman executed a plan to bring the Anchorage Northern Knights into the beginning with the 1977-78 season. Kauffman kept the name because he felt having a team in the Eastern league from Alaska might get the league additional notice. The establishment of the Anchorage franchise garnered national attention, including a feature story in Sports Illustrated. The league was renamed the Continental Basketball Association the following season, Kauffman served as Commissioner until 1978, when his Deputy Commissioner, Jim Drucker, took the reins. Kauffman remained the Leagues legal counsel for two years, Drucker continued his 12-year association with the CBA until 1986 as Commissioner and general counsel. From 1986 to 1989 he supervised the production of CBA telecasts on ESPN as President of CBA Properties, during Druckers term the league expanded from 8 to 14 teams, landed its first national TV contract and saw franchise values increase from $5,000 to $500,000. The league also instituted a series of rule changes including sudden-death overtime, a no foul-out rule. Under the 7-Point System, seven points were awarded each game, as a result, a winning team would wind up with four to seven points in the standings, while a losing team could collect from zero to three points. The league used this method to calculate division standings from its implementation in 1983 until the end in 2009. In May 1984 Drucker announced plans for a CBA development league to be known as CBA East, before the 1984–85 season Ducker announced that the CBA had signed a cable television contract with Black Entertainment Television
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Continental Basketball Association (CBA)
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National Basketball League (New Zealand)
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The National Basketball League is the pre-eminent semi-professional mens basketball league in New Zealand. Seven teams competed in the 2017 season with teams based in Auckland, Christchurch, Invercargill, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, some have even gone on further to make the NBA, such as Kirk Penney and Steven Adams. The league has a limit of two imports per team with many of the coming from the United States. The league also only allows one naturalised New Zealand player per team, in the leagues early days, Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury dominated the competition. By the mid-1990s, Auckland and Nelson were the teams to beat, with New Zealand basketball legends Pero Cameron and Phill Jones dominating during this era for Auckland and Nelson, respectively. Through the 1970s, basketball games in New Zealand were organised between neighbouring teams, or in annual tournaments organised as club or provincial national tournaments. Other competitions were held during Easter tournaments or in small regional leagues. Tall Blacks such as Stan Hill, Dave Edmonds, Glen Denham, Byron Vaetoe, Peter Pokai, however, Americans dominated the league during the 1980s. The big city such as Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington dominated in the early years, but when the Hutt Valley Lakers won 1991 and 1993. The Nelson Giants won their first championship in 1994 and Auckland became the first team to win three titles in a row from 1995–97, after the Waitakere Rangers, Hutt Valley Lakers and Northland Suns left in the late 1990s, the leagues level of competitiveness took a hit. The mid-1990s saw a shift in the level of the New Zealand players. Star players like Pero Cameron and Phill Jones began to lead their respective squads to success, players like Pero Cameron, Phill Jones, Dillon Boucher, Lindsay Tait, Mika Vukona, Pāora Winitana and Paul Henare became household names in New Zealand and Australian basketball circles. In the past, the NBL sides have usually relied on Americans to fill their import player positions, in 2004, the trend of using American imports started to change with New Zealand gaining an ANBL side in the New Zealand Breakers. Many of the NZNBL teams began to use Australians as their imports, many New Zealanders who play for the New Zealand Breakers and the national side, the Tall Blacks, have played in the NBL since its inception. In recent years, many of players have dominated in the local New Zealand league. Examples have been Dillon Boucher, Lindsay Tait, Aaron Olson, Paul Henare, Pāora Winitana, Pero Cameron, Mark Dickel, Phill Jones, Thomas Abercrombie, Alex Pledger, Mika Vukona and Corey Webster. In December 2016, NZME joined forces with Basketball New Zealand, Maori Television will also show delayed coverage of a second game every week on a Saturday afternoon during the season. During their time in the competition, the Auckland Stars were the benchmark of the NBL and they won a league-best 9 titles, a record matched by Wellington in 2016
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Basketball New Zealand Logo
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Secondary school
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A secondary school is both an organization that delivers level 2 junior secondary education or level 3 secondary education phases of the ISCED scale, and the building where this takes place. Level 2 junior secondary education is considered to be the second, Secondary schools typically follow on from primary schools and lead into vocational and tertiary education. Attendance is compulsory in most countries for students between the ages 11 and 16, the systems and terminology remain unique to each country. School building design does not happen in isolation, schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, storage, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from the roll of the school. A general classroom for 30 students needs to be 55m2, or more generously 62m2, a general art room for 30 students needs to be 83m2, but 104 m2 for 3D textile work. A drama studio or a specialist science laboratory for 30 needs to be 90 m2, examples are given on how this can be configured for a 1,200 place secondary. The building providing the education has to fulfil the needs of, The students, the teachers, the support staff, the adminstrators. It has to should meet health requirements, minimal functional requirements- such as classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity, textbooks, Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establish building costs. Future plans are audited to ensure that standards are not exceeded. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula in 2014 and it said the floor area should be 1050m² +6. 3m²/pupil place for 11- to 16-year-olds + 7m²/pupil place for post-16s. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m², a secondary school, locally may be called high school, junior high school, senior high school. Sweden, gymnasium Switzerland, gymnasium, secondary school, collège or lycée Taiwan, Junior High School, Senior High School, Vocational High School, Military School, in Nigeria, secondary school starts from JSS1 until SSS3. Most students start at the age of 10 or 11 and finish at 16 or 17, Students are required to sit for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. To progress to university students must obtain at least a credit in Maths, English, in Somalia, secondary school starts from 9th grade until 12th. Students start it when they are around 14 to 15 years of age, Students are required to study Somali and Arabic, with the option of either English or Italian depending on the type of school. Religion, chemistry, physics, biology, physical education, textile, art, design, when secondary school has been completed, students are sent to national training camp before going to either college, or military training. In South Africa, high school begins at grade 8, Students study for five years, at the end of which they write a Matriculation examination
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Piarist Secondary School in
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Secondary school in
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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The University of California, Santa Barbara is a public research university and one of the 10 campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a 1, 022-acre site near Goleta, California, tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers college, UCSB joined the University of California system in 1944 and is the third-oldest general-education campus in the system. UCSB is one of Americas Public Ivy universities, which recognizes top public universities in the United States. The university is a doctoral university and is organized into five colleges. UCSB was ranked 37th among National Universities, 8th among U. S. public universities, the university was also ranked 48th worldwide for 2016-17 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 42nd worldwide by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2016. UC Santa Barbara is a high activity research university with twelve national research centers. UCSB was the No.3 host on the ARPAnet and was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1995, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos compete in the Big West Conference of the NCAA Division I. The Gauchos have won NCAA national championships in soccer and mens water polo. UCSB traces its origins back to the Anna Blake School which was founded in 1891 and offered training in home economics and industrial arts. The Anna Blake School was taken over by the state in 1909 and became the Santa Barbara State Normal School, the State College system sued to stop the takeover, but the Governor did not support the suit. A state initiative was passed, however, in 1946 to stop subsequent conversions of State Colleges to University of California campuses, from 1944 to 1958 the school was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California, before taking on its current name. When the vacated Marine Corps training station in Goleta was purchased for the growing college. Originally, the Regents envisioned a small, several thousand-student liberal arts college, chronologically, UCSB is the third general-education campus of the University of California, after Berkeley and UCLA. The original campus the Regents acquired in Santa Barbara was located on only 100 acres of largely unusable land on a seaside mesa, all of this change was done in accordance with the California Master Plan for Higher Education. In 1959, UCSB professor Douwe Stuurman hosted the English writer Aldous Huxley as the universitys first visiting professor, Huxley delivered a lectures series called The Human Situation. In the late 1960s and early 1970s UCSB became nationally known as a hotbed of anti-Vietnam War activity, a bombing at the schools faculty club in 1969 killed the caretaker, Dover Sharp. UCSBs anti-Vietnam activity impelled then Governor Ronald Reagan to impose a curfew, weapon-carrying guardsmen were a common sight on campus and in Isla Vista during this time. On May 23,2014, a killing spree occurred in Isla Vista, California, all six people killed during the rampage were students at UCSB
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The
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A view over the school's lagoon to one of the Channel Islands
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Henley Gate (eastern entrance) at sunset
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University of Hawaii
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All schools of the University of Hawaii system are accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The U. H. systems main administrative offices are located on the property of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu CDP, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is the flagship institution of the University of Hawaiʻi system. It was founded as a land-grant college under the terms of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, the second-largest institution is the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, with over 3,000 students. The smaller University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu in Kapolei primarily serves students who reside on Honolulus western, the University of Hawaiʻi Community College system comprises four community colleges island campuses on Oahu and one each on Maui, Kauaʻi, and Hawaiʻi. University of Hawaiʻi education centers are located in remote areas of the State and its several islands. Inouye College of Pharmacy School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology John A. Burns School of Medicine William S. M, the Board oversees all aspects of governance for the university system, including its internal structure and management. The board also appoints, evaluates, and if necessary removes the President of the University of Hawaiʻi, the Universitys governing board includes a current student appointed by the Governor of Hawaiʻi to serve a two-year term as a full voting regent. The practice of appointing a student to the Board was approved by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in 1997, alumni of the University of Hawaiʻi system include many notable persons in various walks of life. Senator Daniel Inouye and Tammy Duckworth both are veterans of the US military who were injured during in the line of duty then later entered government service, bette Midler and Georgia Engel are successful entertainers on the national stage. President Barack Obamas parents, Barack Obama, Sr. and S, ann Dunham, and half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, also earned degrees from the Mānoa campus, where his parents met in a Russian language class. His mother earned three degrees from the University of Hawaiʻi including a Ph. D. in anthropology, the University of Hawaiʻi system has had many faculty members of note. Many were visiting faculty or came after they won awards like Nobel Laureate Dr. Georg von Békésy. Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, principal investigator of the group that developed a method of cloning from adult animal cells, is still on the faculty. University of Hawaii Marching Band Robert, Kamins, mālamalama, A History of the University of Hawaiʻi. The Politics of Higher Education In Hawaiʻi, 1985-1992, official website University of Hawaiʻi Athletics
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Ben Howland
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Benjamin Clark Howland is an American college basketball coach for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and former player. Howland became the first mens coach in college basketball history to be fired shortly after winning an outright power-conference title. He is one of the few NCAA Division I coaches to take three different teams to the NCAA tournament, Northern Arizona, Pittsburgh, and UCLA. Born in Lebanon, Oregon, Howland first attended Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, for a year transferred to Cerritos High School in Cerritos. While at Cerritos, he was a two-time All-CIF and two-time Suburban League Most Valuable Player in basketball, after high school Howland played college basketball for Santa Barbara City College then transferred to Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, a member of the Big Sky Conference. Known as a defensive specialist, he played professional basketball in Uruguay. He earned a degree in physical education at Weber State. 1972-73, Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, California 1973-76, Cerritos High School, Cerritos, California 1976-78, Santa Barbara City College, led the Vaqueros to California State finals in 1978. 1978-80, Weber State College, named WSCs defensive MVP both years and led Wildcats to consecutive Big Sky titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in 1979 and 1980,1980, Played professionally in Bohemios First Division Uruguay, South America. Howland wanted to be a coach since his years living in Santa Barbara. At the age of twenty-four, he became an assistant at Gonzaga. His childhood friend Jay Hillock, the new coach, recruited Howland. At Gonzaga, one of Howlands duties was to guard future NBA all-star John Stockton in practice, after a year at Gonzaga, Howland got his first paid coaching job at the University of California, Santa Barbara as an assistant coach to Ed DeLacy. After Jerry Pimm replaced DeLacy in 1983, Howland helped Pimm lead the Gauchos to five appearances between 1988 and 1994. Starting in 1992, Howland applied for head coaching jobs at UC Irvine, Howlands first head coaching job was at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Under Howland, Northern Arizona captured the Big Sky Conference Championship in the 1996-97 season and he then led the Lumberjacks to the Big Sky Tournament Championship the following year, sending them to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history. While at NAU, he was considered for head coaching jobs at UC Irvine again and at UCSB and he later ended up replacing Ralph Willard at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Big East Conference. He also took Pitt to three straight Big East Championship games, winning the 2003 tournament title, the first in school history, in 2002, Howland also earned several national coach-of-the-year awards
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Howland with
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Northern Arizona University
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Governed by the Arizona Board of Regents and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, the university offers 155 baccalaureate and graduate degree programs. As of fall 2016,30,368 students were enrolled,22,134 at the Flagstaff campus. The average cost of tuition and fees for a full-time, Arizona resident undergraduate student for two semesters is $10,764, and out-of-state undergraduates will pay an estimated $24,144. NAU also participates in the Western Undergraduate Exchange Program, which offers lower tuition rates for students from the Western United States, for 2016 –2017, WUE tuition and fees are $15,638. NAU offers Flagstaff undergraduate students the Pledge Program, which guarantees the same rate for four years. According to the university rankings published by the Times Higher Education in 2016. The first graduating class, in 1901, consisted of four women who received credentials to teach in the Arizona Territory, in 1925, the Arizona State Legislature allowed the school, which was now called the Northern Arizona State Teachers College, to grant bachelor of education degrees. In 1929, the school became Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff, also in 1929, the Great Depression struck the nation, and the ASTC found new meaning in community outreach. Rather than collapsing, the school endured through the depression, in fact, Grady Gammage, the school president at the time, described higher education as a depression industry that fared well in hard times. Despite financial difficulties, enrollment increased from 321 students to 535 students between 1930 and 1940, and graduate work was introduced in 1937, ASTC was known for its diverse student body and ethnic tolerance. In fact, the first Hopi to receive a degree was Ida Mae Fredericks in 1939. Students came from farms, mining families, the East Coast. During the depression, lots of fraternities and clubs sprang up, reflecting the diversity of background, enrollment dropped sharply at the beginning of World War II, dropping to 161 in 1945. During this time, ASTC became a Navy V-12 program training site, however, the end of World War II brought increased enrollment as returning veterans returned to continue their education. The end of the war also expanded programs beyond teaching degrees, especially in the fields of art, also in 1958, the Forestry Program was introduced. With further growth over the two decades, the Arizona Board of Regents granted Arizona State College university status as Northern Arizona University in 1966. Snow is common in winter, with accumulations most prevalent in January, February, winter skiing is accessible at Arizona Snowbowl, an alpine ski resort located on the San Francisco Peaks,7 miles northwest of Flagstaff, with an average annual snowfall of 260 inches. NAU offers 91 bachelors degree programs,49 masters degree programs and 11 doctoral degree programs, the university was charged by the Arizona Board of Regents in 2006 to develop innovative ways to provide access and affordability to all Arizona residents
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Sechrist Hall
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Robin Braun, United States Navy Vice Admiral
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Rick Renzi, Arizona Congressman, District 1
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UCLA Bruins basketball
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The UCLA Bruins mens basketball program represents the University of California, Los Angeles in mens college basketball. Established in 1919, UCLA has won a record 11 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, UCLA teams coached by John Wooden won 10 national titles in 12 seasons, from 1964 to 1975, including seven straight from 1967 to 1973. UCLA went undefeated a record four times, in 1964,1967,1972, Coach Jim Harrick led the team to another NCAA title in 1995. Former coach Ben Howland led UCLA to three consecutive Final Four appearances from 2006 to 2008, UCLA won 13 consecutive regular season conference titles between 1967 and 1979, an NCAA record they currently share with Kansas, whose streak is currently active. On March 30,2013, Steve Alford was named the schools 13th head mens basketball coach, UCLA mens basketball has set several NCAA records. 11 NCAA titles 7 consecutive NCAA titles 12 NCAA title game appearances*10 consecutive Final Four appearances 25 Final Four wins*38 game NCAA Tournament winning streak 134 weeks ranked No, cozens coached the basketball team for two seasons, finishing with an overall record of 21–4. Caddy Works was the coach of the Bruins from 1921 to 1939. Works was a lawyer by profession and coached the only during the evenings. According to UCLA player and future Olympian Frank Lubin, Works was more of a coach with little basketball knowledge. Wilbur Johns was the UCLA basketball head coach from 1939 to 1948, from 1948 to 1975, John Wooden, nicknamed the Wizard of Westwood, served as head coach at UCLA. He won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, seven of those in a row, within this period, his teams won a mens basketball-record 88 consecutive games. Prior to Woodens arrival, UCLA had only won two championship seasons in the previous 18 years. By 1962, with the no longer in place, Wooden had returned the Bruins to the top of their conference. This time, however, they would take the next step, a narrow loss, due largely to a controversial foul call, in the semifinal of the 1962 NCAA Tournament convinced Wooden that his Bruins were ready to contend for national championships. The result was a increase in scoring, giving UCLA a powerhouse team that went undefeated on its way to the schools first basketball national championship. Woodens team repeated as champions the following season before the 1966 squad fell briefly. UCLA was ineligible to play in the NCAA tournament that year, in January 1968, UCLA took its 47-game winning streak to the Astrodome in Houston, where Lew Alcindor squared off against Elvin Hayes in the Game of the Century before a national television audience. Houston upset UCLA 71-69 as Hayes scored 39 points, in a post-game interview, Wooden said, We have to start over
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John Wooden coached 10 national championships.
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Lew Alcindor (
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) makes a reverse two hand
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Bill Walton taking a shot.
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NCAA Division I
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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Main logo used by the NCAA in Divisions I, II, and III.
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North Carolina State
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North Carolina State University is a public research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, the university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle together with Duke University in Durham and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The North Carolina General Assembly founded the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now NC State, on March 7,1887, Today, NC State has an enrollment of more than 34,000 students, making it the largest university in the Carolinas. NC State has historical strengths in engineering, statistics, agriculture, life sciences, textiles and design, the graduate school offers 104 masters degrees,61 doctoral degrees, and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. The North Carolina General Assembly founded NC State on March 7,1887 as a land-grant college under the name North Carolina College of Agriculture, in the segregated system, it was open only to white students. As a land-grant college, NC State would provide a liberal and practical education while focusing on tactics, agriculture. Since its founding, the university has maintained these objectives while building on them, after opening in 1889, NC State saw its enrollment fluctuate and its mandate expand. In 1918, it changed its name to North Carolina State College of Agriculture, during the Great Depression, the North Carolina state government, under Governor O. Max Gardner, administratively combined the University of North Carolina, the Womans College, and NC State. This conglomeration became the University of North Carolina in 1931, following World War II, the university grew and developed. Bill enabled thousands of veterans to college, and enrollment shot past the 5,000 mark in 1947. State College created new programs, including the School of Architecture and Landscape Design in 1947, the School of Education in 1948. In the summer of 1956, following the US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v, in 1962, State College officials desired to change the institutions name to North Carolina State University. Consolidated university administrators approved a change to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, frustrating many student, in 1963, State College officially became North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina. The at Raleigh part is omitted even on official documents such as diplomas. In 1966, single-year enrollment reached 10,000, in the 1970s enrollment surpassed 19,000 and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences was added. Celebrating its centennial in 1987, NC State reorganized its internal structure, also in this year, it gained 700 acres of land that was developed as Centennial Campus. Since then, NC State has focused on developing its new Centennial Campus and it has invested more than $620 million in facilities and infrastructure at the new campus, with 62 acres of space being constructed. Sixty-one private and government agency partners are located on Centennial Campus, NC State has almost 8,000 employees, nearly 35,000 students, a $1.01 billion annual budget, and a $984 million endowment
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First freshman class at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1889.
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Panoramic photo of campus taken around 1909
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Holladay Hall, the first building built on NC State's campus in 1889, now houses the Chancellor's Office.
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Everett Case
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Everett Norris Case, nicknamed Gray Fox, was a basketball coach most notable for his tenure at North Carolina State University, from 1946 to 1964. Born in Anderson, Indiana, Case graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1923 and he compiled a 726-75 record while coaching 23 years in high school basketball, including winning 4 Indiana state championships while coaching in Frankfort, Indiana. Frankforts Case Arena is named after him, Case is one of only five coaches to win at least 4 state titles in Indiana basketball. Case enlisted in the U. S. Navy in 1941 and he was commissioned a senior-grade lieutenant and reported to Annapolis for a four-week training course. He also served as director at the Alameda Naval Air Station. In 1943, DePauw University began a naval preparatory school. An abbreviated basketball schedule was used, and Case, now a lieutenant commander, upon leaving the Navy in 1946, Case assumed coaching duties at N. C. In 18 years, he compiled a 377-134 record—still the best in school history and he won nine straight conference titles from 1946 to 1955. He added a fourth in 1959, Case himself was aptly rewarded, earning three ACC Coach of the Year awards, in 1954,1955 and 1958. Cases teams finished third in the 1947 NIT and third in the 1950 NCAA Tournament, the ACC Tournaments Most Valuable Player award is named in his honor. State had already begun construction on Reynolds Coliseum in 1941, Case persuaded the administration to build a 12, 400-seat arena, instead of the 10, 000-seat facility originally planned. The ACCs basketball tournament was largely Cases idea, with Reynolds Coliseum hosting the first 13 ACC tournaments from 1954 through 1966. It was Cases idea to get the ACC to recognize the tournament winner as the conference champion—and thus the winner of the conferences berth in the NCAA tournament. From 1949 to 1960, it hosted the Dixie Classic. Cases teams went on to win seven Dixie Classic titles, when Case came to Raleigh, North Carolina was, like most states in the South, enraptured by college football. However, he is credited with making basketball a craze in the state. For example, in his first year in Raleigh, the fire marshal canceled a game because people were spilling onto the floor of tiny Thompson Gymnasium and climbing in through windows. The other three schools along Tobacco Road--Duke, North Carolina and Wake Forest—responded by upgrading their facilities and recruiting budgets to counter the red menace in Raleigh
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Case pictured in Agromeck 1951, NC State yearbook
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Doc Carlson
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Henry Clifford Doc Carlson is a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee as the mens college basketball coach of his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, from 1922 to 1953. At Pitt he compiled a record of 367–247 record, Carlson also led Pitt to the Final Four in 1941. As a student at the university, Carlson was also a First Team All-American end on Pitts football team under coach Pop Warner, Carlson also lettered in basketball and baseball. Carlson was born in Murray City, Ohio and he played high school football, basketball, and baseball at Bellefonte Academy in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. During his undergraduate years at the University of Pittsburgh he earned three letters in basketball, two in baseball, four in football. He played on the 1916 Pitt football team that is regarded as that seasons national champion and was selected as an All-American football player while playing for Pitts undefeated 1917 team. After graduation in 1918, Carlson completed his degree at Pitt in 1920. When in 1922 Andrew Kerr, who was Pitts basketball coach and assistant football coach, left to become head coach at Stanford University. Simultaneously he practiced as a physician for the Carnegie Steel Company, Carlson was famous for his Figure 8 offense, an innovation that many coaches copied. In 1928 Pittsburgh went a perfect 21–0 and the national championship and his Panthers won another national title in 1930. He also led the Panthers to Eastern Intercollegiate Conference championships in four out of the seven years of the conferences existence and he also wrote the book You and Basketball. Carlson became Pitts director of student health services in 1932 and held that position until his retirement in 1953, apart from his brief stint in the NFL, he spent the first 43 years of his adult life at Pitt as a student and coach. He died November 1,1964 at his home in Ligonier, * Eastern Intercollegiate Conference championships between teams with identical records were decided by a one-game playoff in these seasons. Sciullo, Sam, Jr. Pitt,100 Years of Pitt Basketball, cS1 maint, Multiple names, authors list 2008-09 Pittsburgh Mens Basketball Media Guide. Basketball Hall of Fame profile Doc Carlson at Find a Grave
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The undefeated
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Mark Few
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Mark Norman Few is an American college basketball coach who has been the head coach at Gonzaga University since 1999. Few was born in Creswell, Oregon, the son of a Presbyterian pastor and he then transferred to the University of Oregon, hoping to play baseball there, but the Ducks had dropped their varsity baseball program by the time he arrived in Eugene. He graduated from Oregon with a B. S. in physical education in 1987, during this time, he also worked at Oregons summer basketball camps. He had some familiarity with the program, as he had befriended Dan Monson, then a Gonzaga assistant and later the head coach, in 1990, he was promoted to a full-time assistant. As an assistant, Few helped lead Gonzaga to its first four postseason appearances--the 1994,1996 and 1998 National Invitation Tournaments, in April 1999, Monson, who had just finished his second year as Gonzaga head coach, promoted Few to associate head coach. In the West Regional finals Gonzaga lost to national champions UConn by five points. When Monson left in July to take the head coaching job at Minnesota, Few. He led them into the NCAA Sweet Sixteen each of the first two years and he was only the second head coach in the nation to achieve this feat since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. The following year, Few set a record for NCAA Division I mens coaches by collecting 81 wins in his first three years as a head coach. The record stood until 2010 when Brad Stevens of Butler surpassed it, in 2017 Mark Few became the 3rd fastest coach to reach 500 wins in NCAA Division I history. The programs success has continued as Gonzaga has made the NCAA tournament in one of Fews 18 seasons, indeed. The Bulldogs have also advanced to the WCC Tournament title game in season during Fews tenure. They have been to every final since 1998, and all, Few was named the West Coast Conference Coach of the Year for six consecutive seasons. The Zags played an especially brutal nonconference schedule, with no fewer than nine opponents that would make the NCAA tournament. The teams second-leading scorer and leading rebounder in 2006–07, Josh Heytvelt, was suspended after being arrested on charges in February 2007. The Zags ended the season at 21–10, their first season with double digits in losses since 1997–98. It had generally been thought that Gonzaga would have to win the WCC tournament to earn a bid to the NCAA tournament. However, Gonzaga would go on to win the conference tournament and they would go out in the first round of the NCAA tournament to Indiana
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Few in February 2008
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Roy Williams (coach)
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Roy Allen Williams is an American college basketball coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He first started his coaching career at North Carolina as an assistant coach for Dean Smith in 1978. In 2003, Williams left Kansas to return to his alma mater North Carolina, since returning to North Carolina Williams has won three national championships, eight Atlantic Coast Conference conference titles, and two ACC Coach of the Year awards. He is second all-time for most wins at both Kansas and North Carolina, Williams is currently ranked seventh in total victories by a mens NCAA Division I college coach, winning 816 games to date. He is also tenth all-time in the NCAA for winning percentage among mens college basketball coaches, on April 4,2005, Williams won his first national title as his Tar Heels defeated the University of Illinois in the 2005 NCAA championship game. In 2007, Williams was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame and he again led the Tar Heels to a national title on April 6,2009, against the Michigan State Spartans. Williams won his national championship when he led the Tar Heels on April 3,2017 to victory against the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Williams is one of six NCAA Mens Division I college basketball coaches to have won at least three national championships, Williams is the only basketball coach in NCAA history to have 350 or more victories at two NCAA Division 1 schools, Kansas and North Carolina. As a head coach, Williams has coached in a total of six NCAA championship games, Williams was born in Marion General Hospital in Marion, North Carolina, and spent his early years in the small western North Carolina towns of Marion and Spruce Pine. As a child his family relocated to nearby Asheville, where he grew up, Williams lettered in basketball and baseball at T. C. Roberson High School in Asheville, NC all four years, Williams has stated that Coach Baldwin was one of the biggest influences in his life. Williams went on to play on the team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When Williams was a sophomore at Carolina, he asked Smith if he could attend his practices, Williams also volunteered to keep statistics for Smith at home games and worked in Smiths summer camps. Williams first coaching job was in 1973 as a school basketball and golf coach at Charles D. Owen High School in Black Mountain. He coached basketball and boys golf for five years and ninth-grade football for four years, in 1978, Williams came back to the University of North Carolina and served as an assistant to Coach Dean Smith from 1978 to 1988. During his tenure as assistant coach, North Carolina went 275–61 and won the NCAA national championship in 1982, the first for Smith, one of Williams more notable events came as assistant coach when he became instrumental in recruiting Michael Jordan. He was hired just months after the Danny Manning-led Jayhawks won the 1988 NCAA championship, weeks after Williams took the position, KU was placed on probation for violations that took place prior to his arrival. As a result, the Jayhawks were barred from play for the 1988–89 season
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Williams at a North Carolina press conference
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Basketball Hall of Fame Jersey on display at the
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UNC Asheville
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The University of North Carolina at Asheville is a co-educational, four year, public liberal arts university. The university is known as UNC Asheville. Located in Asheville, Buncombe County, in the U. S. state of North Carolina, UNC Asheville is member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. In 2016, The Princeton Review ranked the university number one in its listing of Best Schools for Making an Impact, UNC Asheville was founded in 1927 as Buncombe County Junior College, part of the Buncombe County public school system. In 1930 the school merged with the College of the City of Asheville to form Biltmore Junior College, in 1934 the college was renamed Biltmore College and placed in the control of a board of trustees. 1936 brought both a change of name to Asheville-Biltmore College, and control was transferred to the Asheville City Schools. The house, no part of the college, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1961 Asheville-Biltmore College moved to the present UNC Asheville campus in north Asheville, in 1963 it became a state-supported four-year college, and awarded its first bachelors degrees in 1966. Its first residence halls were built in 1967 and it adopted its current name in 1969 upon becoming part of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, since 1972 called the University of North Carolina System. It is designated as one of three liberal arts universities within that system, and has classified as a Liberal Arts I institution since 1992. UNC Asheville has more than 215 full-time faculty members and an enrollment of approximately 3,600 students, the schools quality and value has drawn praise from national college guidebooks. UNC Asheville ranks eighth in the nation among liberal arts colleges in U. S. News & World Reports 2016 Best Colleges. The Princeton Review features UNC Asheville among “The Best 380 Colleges”2016 Edition, selected based on academic strength. Students quoted said, UNC Asheville’s professors “are brilliant and are invested in their students. ”“Lectures are a rarity and most time is spent in discussion. ”UNC Asheville’s environment is “incredibly welcoming and open-minded. ”“A personalized, liberal education at a public school price. ”“A smaller university in a beautiful city, ” a “perfect student town” that offers “incredible restaurants, night life, music, dancing. State University - the only North Carolina public universities to earn a place on this ranking list reflecting academic quality and affordability. For 12 consecutive years, UNC Ashevilles Environmental Studies Program has been named to the list of programs with unusual strength in preparing students for careers. UNC Asheville offers four-year undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, the university is led by Mary K. Grant the chief administrative officer, along with Provost Joseph Urgo and several advisory groups. The institution operates under the guidance and policies of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, sGAs authority is derived from the Chancellor and the Board of Governors
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Ramsey library, UNCA campus
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Lightning over the Wilma M. Sherrill Center.
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Butler University
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Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana. It comprises a 295-acre campus located five miles from downtown Indianapolis. On January 15,1850, the Indiana State legislature adopted Ovid Butlers proposed charter for a new Christian university in Indianapolis, attorney and university founder Ovid Butler provided the property. In 1930, Butler merged with the Teachers College of Indianapolis, founded by Eliza Blaker, the Jordan College of Fine Arts, the universitys fifth college, was established in 1951, following a merger with the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. Butlers School of Religion, established in 1924, became independent in 1958 and is known as the Christian Theological Seminary. Butler University was founded by members of the Christian Church, though it was never controlled by the church, the university charter called for a non-sectarian institution free from the taint of slavery, offering instruction in every branch of liberal and professional education. The university was the first in Indiana and the third in the U. S. to admit men and women. Butler was the first university in the United States to endow a chair designated specifically for a woman, catharine Merrill, the first person to hold the chair, became the second woman to be named a professor in an American university. The university established the first professorship in English literature and the first Department of English in the state of Indiana, the original location of the school was 13th Street and College Avenue on the near-northside of Indianapolis. The campus consisted of buildings, including an observatory, most of which were demolished in 1939. Enrollment at Butler increased following the end of World War I, the new and current campus, designed in-part by noted architect George Sheridan, was formed on the site of Fairview Park, a former amusement park on the citys northwest side. Classes began on the campus in 1928, the first building on the Fairview campus was Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall, designed by Robert Frost Daggett and Thomas Hibben. Also, in 1928, the Butler Fieldhouse was completed after being designed by architect Fermor Spencer Cannon, the building remained the largest indoor sports facility in the United States until the mid-1960s. The Religion Building and Sweeney Chapel were completed in 1942 and these structures, designed by Burns and James, were remodeled into Robertson Hall in 1966. The building now serves as the alumni and admissions offices. Following World War II, construction began on the student center and this building was remodeled in 1993 and includes an on-campus Starbucks. McGuire and Shook also designed Ross Hall, a dormitory originally designed for men but is now coed, and Schwitzer Hall, art Lindbergh, with help from Daggett, designed the Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium, which was dedicated in 1955. This building houses Indianas largest telescope, acclaimed architect Minoru Yamasaki, who designed the World Trade Center, designed Irwin Library which opened in 1963 and serves as the universitys main library
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The bell tower within Holcomb Gardens
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Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium, home to the largest telescope in the state of Indiana
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Brandin Knight
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Brandin Adar Knight is a former American professional basketball player and current assistant basketball coach for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. He is the brother of Brevin Knight, a 60 guard, Knight played for the Pittsburgh Panthers mens basketball team, where he scored 1,440 career points. He was one of ten players named to the 2002–03 Wooden All-American team and was Associated Press honorable mention All-American that same season, Knight was also selected as an Associated Press Third Team All-American and Sporting News Second Team All-American in 2002-02. In 2001–02, Knight was named Big East Conference co-Player of the Year, Big East Most Improved Player, First Team All-Big East, Knight achieved Second Team All-Big East honors in 2002–04. He was a two-time United States Basketball Writers Association All-Region selection and he won the USBWA Region Player of the Year in 2001–02. Knight finished his career at Pitt holding the records for career assists, career assist average, career steals, season assists. Knights #20 jersey was retired by Pitt prior to the Marquette game on March 4,2009 and he played professionally for two seasons with the Asheville Altitude of the NBDL. Knight signed a contract with the NBAs Houston Rockets, but suffered a two weeks later that effectively ended his playing career. Knight grew up in East Orange, New Jersey, and played high school ball at Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, on April 13,2016, Knight was officially introduced as the new assistant head coach for Rutgers following eight seasons at Pittsburgh
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Knight in 2014
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Barry Rohrssen
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Barry Slice Rohrssen is an American college basketball coach and the former head mens basketball coach at Manhattan College. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he was named the 22nd head coach in Manhattan basketball history on April 25,2006, Rohrssen was fired on March 9,2011 after going 58-95 over five seasons. He has also served as an assistant under John Calipari at Kentucky, prior to being appointed at Manhattan, Rohrssen served as an assistant coach at St. Francis, UNLV and Pitt. He was later promoted to Associate Head Coach at Pitt and he is well known for his ability as a recruiter and was directly responsible for opening the pipeline from New York City to Pittsburgh. He did so by signing NYC natives like Levance Fields & Carl Krauser, Rohrssen has also worked as an actor, with minor roles in several films, including Glengarry Glen Ross. Bio at UKAthletics. com Barry Rohrssen at the Internet Movie Database
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Barry Rohrssen in 2014
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Hank McCamish Pavilion
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McCamish Pavilion, nicknamed The Thrillerdome and originally known as Alexander Memorial Coliseum, is an indoor arena located on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the home of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets mens basketball, the venue previously hosted the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association from 1968 to 1972 and again from 1997 to 1999. Techs womens volleyball team uses the facility as well, primarily for NCAA tournament games. The 270-foot-diameter Alexander Coliseum opened in 1956 at the intersection of 10th Street, the building was named for William A. Alexander, Georgia Techs football coach from 1920 to 1944 and the third athletic director, his tenure as coach included the 1928 Rose Bowl team. The huge dome was constructed in a way in there are no support pillars to obstruct the view of any fans during games. It served as a replacement for the Third Street Gymnasium on the campus of Georgia Tech, the arenas original capacity was 6,996 seats, though crowds larger than that sometimes assembled for big games. Between 1956 and 1996, the Coliseum had undergone three major renovations, in 1986,2,150 seats were added in what was previously an upper walkway around the rim of the arena. In 1989–1990,750 seats were added in the end zone areas, the last major renovation was during 1995–1996, prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics. The floor was lowered 4 feet to increase seating,12 luxury suites were added, sightlines were also improved for those sitting in the first few rows of the side of the court opposite the benches. Connected to the end of the Coliseum are the Luck Building. During the latter period, the Hawks played most of their games at the Georgia Dome with the remainder at the Coliseum. During the 1996 Summer Olympics, the hosted the Olympic boxing tournament. For most of its life, the Coliseum has hosted rounds of the Georgia High School Association mens and womens state tournament games. The first integrated high school tournament in Georgia history was played there before record overflow crowds in 1967. The arena received its nickname, The Thrillerdome, from former Tech color radio announcer and former ESPN broadcaster Brad Nessler, in 2003, the playing surface was renamed Cremins Court in honor of Bobby Cremins, Georgia Techs head coach from 1979 to 2000. The decision to cancel the game was based on the fact that officials at the game could not find where the water was coming through, the game was delayed for about a half-hour, and then ultimately postponed until March 3,2008. On March 14,2008, a tornado ripped through downtown Atlanta, causing damage to the CNN Center, Philips Arena, during the weekend, the SEC was set to play at the Georgia Dome on Thursday through Sunday. The tornado struck while the third of four games was in overtime
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The Alexander Memorial Coliseum in July 2010
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View of Alexander Memorial Coliseum from the southeast
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Alexander Memorial Coliseum from the Southwest.
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North entrance of the pavilion on 10th Street
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The 2010 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by head coach Gary Patterson and played its home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth. They were members of the Mountain West Conference and were defending conference champions and they defeated the Badgers 21–19, capping off their first undefeated and untied season since 1938, and only the second overall in the schools 115-year football history. TCU finished the season as the conference leader in scoring offense. Andy Dalton won his 30th career victory as TCUs starting quarterback, the Horned Frogs made their way to Pasadena as the first team from a non-BCS school to play in the Rose Bowl in the BCS era. The team has recorded two consecutive regular seasons and has appeared in six straight bowl games. The Rose Bowl was their second consecutive BCS bowl game, both teams scored double digit points in the first quarter, a Rose Bowl record. The game was close throughout, and was not decided until Wisconsin failed to convert a two-point conversion late in the quarter to tie the game. The game marks second time that the Rose Bowl was decided by two points, joining the 1966 game
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Atlantic Coast Conference
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The ACC sponsors competition in twenty-five sports with many of its member institutions athletic programs held in high regard nationally. ACC teams and athletes have claimed dozens of championships in multiple sports throughout the conferences history. Generally, the ACCs top athletes and teams in any sport in a given year are considered to be among the top collegiate competitors in the nation. Also, the conference enjoys extensive media coverage, the ACC was one of the six collegiate power conferences, which had automatic qualifying for their football champion into the Bowl Championship Series. With the advent of the College Football Playoff in 2014, the ACC is one of five conferences with a contractual tie-in to an access bowl, the additions in recent years extended the conferences footprint into the Northeast and Midwest. The most recent expansion in 2013 saw the additions of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pittsburgh, in 2012, the University of Marylands Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the ACC to join the Big Ten Conference effective July 1,2014. On November 28,2012, the ACCs Council of Presidents voted unanimously to invite the University of Louisville as a full member, replacing Maryland effective July 1,2014. Seven universities in the South Atlantic States were charter members of the ACC, Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, previously members of the Southern Conference, they left partially due to that leagues ban on post-season football play. After drafting a set of bylaws for the creation of a new league, the bylaws were ratified on June 14,1953, and the ACC was created, becoming the second conference formed by schools collectively withdrawing from the SoCon, after the Southeastern Conference. On December 4,1953, officials convened in Greensboro, North Carolina, and admitted Virginia, in 1960, the ACC implemented a minimum SAT score for incoming student-athletes of 750, the first conference to do so. This minimum was raised to 800 in 1964, but was struck down by a federal court in 1972. In 1971, South Carolina left the ACC to become an independent, the ACC operated with seven members until the addition of Georgia Tech from the Metro Conference on April 3,1978. The total number of member schools reached nine with the addition of Florida State, also formerly from the Metro Conference, on July 1,1991. The expansion was controversial, as Connecticut, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia filed lawsuits against the ACC, Miami, and Boston College for conspiring to weaken the Big East Conference. The ACC Hall of Champions opened on March 2,2011, next to the Greensboro Coliseum arena, on September 17,2011, Big East Conference members Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh both tendered formal written applications to the ACC to join its ranks. The two schools were accepted into the conference the day, once again expanding the conference footprint like previous expansions. Because the Big East intended to hold Pitt and Syracuse to the 27-month notice period required by league bylaws, however, on July 16,2012, the Big East and Syracuse came to an agreement that allowed Syracuse to leave the Big East on July 1,2013. Two days later, the Big East and Pittsburgh reached an identical agreement, on September 12,2012, Notre Dame agreed to join the ACC in all sports except football and hockey as the conferences first member in the Midwestern United States
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Steven Adams
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Steven Funaki Adams is a New Zealand professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. After playing college basketball for Pittsburgh, he was labelled a top prospect for the NBA. Adams was selected by the Thunder with the 12th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft, Adams mother is Tongan, and his father, Sid, was an Englishman who settled in New Zealand after serving in the Royal Navy. Adams is the youngest of Sids 18 children with five different women and his siblings and half-siblings are notable for their exceptional size and athletic prowess, his brothers average 2.06 m and his sisters average 1.83 m. His sister Valerie Adams is a double Olympic gold medalist and four-time world champion shot-putter, Adams has identified his fathers death in 2006 as one of the defining events of his life. In a 2012 interview, Adams recalled, When I lost my dad, I didnt have that parental guidance, and I kind of took advantage of it because I was a stupid idiot. I decided not to go to school a couple of times, I always lied to my brothers and sisters. Theyd ask, Are you going to school, one of his brothers, Warren, stepped in to fill the gap, rescuing him from the streets of Rotorua and brought him to Wellington to live with him. Warren placed him in a basketball academy, and the head of the academy arranged for him to attend Scots College. Although some commentators in New Zealand believed Adams would not qualify to play for college basketball, much like his sister, Adams was a gifted shot-putter in high school. He made it to the nationals before being beaten by Jacko Gill, after graduating from Scots College in December 2011, Adams enrolled at Notre Dame Preparatory School, a well-known basketball prep school in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for one semester. He was rated as the number 6 player in the ESPNU100 class of 2012, Adams attended the University of Pittsburgh in 2012–13 where he made the Big East All-Rookie Team. During his freshman season, he averaged 7.2 points on 57. 1% field goal shooting,6.3 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in 23.4 minutes per game. His field goal percentage ranked 1st, blocks 2nd and rebounds 6th amongst first year players in Pittsburghs history, on 2 April 2013, he declared for the NBA draft, forgoing his final three years of college eligibility. In February 2011, Adams signed with the Wellington Saints for the 2011 New Zealand NBL season and he went on to garner Rookie of the Year honours and helped Wellington win the NBL championship. Adams was selected with the 12th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder and he also became the first player out of Pittsburgh to be selected in the first round since 1999 when Vonteego Cummings was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 26th overall pick. On 12 July 2013, Adams signed his rookie contract with the Thunder. That same day, he helped the Thunder become the champions of the Orlando Summer League with an 85–77 win over the Houston Rockets
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Adams playing in an intercity basketball game in Wellington, New Zealand
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2013 NBA draft
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The 2013 NBA draft was held on June 27,2013, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. National Basketball Association teams took turns selecting amateur U. S. college basketball players and other eligible players, the lottery took place on May 21,2013. This was the first draft for New Orleans under their new Pelicans name after playing as the New Orleans Hornets previously. The selection of Anthony Bennett very much surprised Bill Simmons, who was an analyst at the draft and he was replaced by current commissioner Adam Silver beginning with the 2014 NBA draft. These players were not selected in the 2013 NBA draft but have played at least one game in the NBA, the draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the leagues new 2011 collective bargaining agreement with its players union. The CBA that ended the 2011 lockout instituted no immediate changes to the draft, as of 2012, the basic eligibility rules for the draft are listed below. All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the year of the draft. In terms of dates, players eligible for the 2013 draft must be born on or before December 31,1994. Any player who is not a player, as defined in the CBA. Player who are not automatically eligible must declare their eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 60 days before the draft, for the 2013 draft, this date fell on April 28. Under NCAA rules, players only have until April 16 to withdraw from the draft. A player who has hired an agent will forfeit his college eligibility. Also, while the CBA allows a player to withdraw from the draft twice, forty-five college players declared for the draft. Fifteen players who did not attend college in the US or Canada between the ages of 18 and 22 declared for the draft. Players who do not meet the criteria for players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria. If they graduated high school in the U. S. but did not enroll in a U. S. college or university. They have signed a contract with a basketball team outside of the NBA, anywhere in the world. Players who meet the criteria for players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria
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Victor Oladipo was selected second by the
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2009 NBA draft
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The 2009 NBA draft was held on June 25,2009, at the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In this draft, the National Basketball Association teams took turns selecting amateur U. S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. The Los Angeles Clippers, who won the lottery on May 19,2009. However, he missed the entire 2009–10 season due to surgery on his left kneecap. Tanzanian-born Hasheem Thabeet from University of Connecticut was drafted second by the Memphis Grizzlies, Thabeet became the first player born in Tanzania to be drafted by an NBA team. James Harden was drafted 3rd by the Oklahoma City Thunder and this made him the first player to be drafted by the franchise as the Oklahoma City Thunder whose franchise moved from Seattle to OKC in 2008. Spanish teenager Ricky Rubio was drafted 5th by the Minnesota Timberwolves, 23rd pick Omri Casspi became the first Israeli player to be drafted in the first round, and later he became the first Israeli to play in the NBA. The 2009 draft marked the first time three sons of former NBA players were selected in the top 15 picks of the draft, stephen Curry, son of Dell Curry, was drafted 7th by the Golden State Warriors. Gerald Henderson Jr. son of Gerald Henderson, was drafted 12th by the Charlotte Bobcats, austin Daye, son of Darren Daye, was drafted 15th by the Detroit Pistons. The draft also marked the first time a high school player who skipped college to play professional basketball in Europe was selected in an NBA draft. Brandon Jennings, who skipped college to professional basketball with Italian team Lottomatica Roma, was drafted 10th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the draft. Of the 60 players drafted, four were freshmen, nine were sophomores,12 were juniors,22 were seniors, and 13 were international players without U. S. college basketball experience. The University of North Carolinas Tar Heels had the most players selected in the draft and this marked the second time ever that four Tar Heels players were selected in the first two rounds of an NBA draft. The Minnesota Timberwolves had the league-high four first-round draft picks and the first time in history that the team held two top-10 draft picks. The Timberwolves also had two draft picks and became the team with the most draft picks in the 2009 draft with a total of six draft picks. The Houston Rockets and the Orlando Magic were the only NBA teams who did not have a draft pick this year, ^ a, Nick Calathes was born in the United States, and has dual U. S. and Greek citizenship by birth. He had represented Slovenia internationally in 2008, before switching to Turkey. ^ d and these players were not selected in the 2009 NBA draft but have played at least one game in the NBA. The basic requirements for eligibility are, All drafted players must be born on or before December 31,1990
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Blake Griffin was selected first overall by the
Los Angeles Clippers.
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James Harden was selected third by the
Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Tyreke Evans was selected fourth by the
Sacramento Kings.
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DeJuan Blair
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DeJuan Lamont Blair is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA Development League. He played college basketball for the Pittsburgh Panthers from 2007 to 2009, after an outstanding sophomore season, he entered the 2009 NBA draft where he was selected in the second round, 37th overall by the San Antonio Spurs. The oldest of four children, Blair grew up in Pittsburghs Hill District, Blair attended the same school as his parents did, Schenley High School. While there, he played for the team and scored 1,563 career points and finished with an overall 103–16 team record. He was named the AP player of the state and made first-team all-state his junior and senior year and he was also named Pittsburgh City League Player of the year three times. After two surgeries during his school years, Blair was left without any anterior cruciate ligaments in his knees. Blair was heavily recruited coming out of high school, besides Pitt, other schools pursuing him included Florida, Kansas State, Indiana, Marquette, Miami, West Virginia, Wake Forest and Tennessee. Blair himself had problems making up his mind, while considering as many as 18 different scholarship offers, he was so confused that one day he threw his cell phone across a room, breaking it. She told Dixon that they were having a reunion at the house that day, and invited him to come. When Dixon was down to his last scholarship in the 2007 recruiting cycle, he called her, in the end, Saddler made the decision for him, telling him Pitt is it. She liked Dixon and the proximity of her home to the school, also, she was well aware that Pitt would be losing starting center Aaron Gray to graduation, which would have made Blair a likely candidate to start if he attended. Blair became the starter during his year at the University of Pittsburgh. He made the All-American Freshman team, helping the Panthers win the Big East Conference tournament, the Panthers won their first-round game against Oral Roberts, but lost in the second round to fifth-seeded Michigan State. Blair was named the Big East Co-Rookie of the Year, earned All-Big East honorable mention honors and he also set Pitt freshman school records for most starts, rebounds and field goals made, and became the first freshman in Pitt history to finish with 400+ points and 300+ rebounds. In the 2008–09 season, Blair helped Pittsburgh earn a one seed in the NCAA tournament. Blair and Connecticut center Hasheem Thabeet shared co-Big East Player of the Year honors for the 2008–09 season and he was a consensus first-team All-American selection by the Associated Press, USBWA and The Sporting News. In April 2009, Blair declared for the NBA draft, forgoing his final two years of college eligibility, on June 25,2009, Blair was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with 37th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft. His stock fell because of surrounding his durability and knee surgeries
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Blair with the San Antonio Spurs in December 2010
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Aaron Gray
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Aaron Michael Gray is an American former professional basketball player who played nine seasons in the National Basketball Association. A heart condition forced him into retirement in July 2016. He is currently an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons, Gray played high school basketball at Emmaus High School in Pennsylvanias highly competitive Lehigh Valley Conference. Gray did not start playing for the varsity team until the middle of his sophomore season, while at Emmaus, Gray was recruited by, and committed to attend, the University of Pittsburgh. He chose Pitt over Penn State and Rutgers, which also aggressively recruited him, in Grays senior season, he won the Pennsylvania Gatorade Player of the Year. At the NBAs 2007 pre-draft camp, Gray was the player whose height measured at least seven feet without shoes. He was selected with the 49th overall pick by the Chicago Bulls in the 2007 NBA draft, Gray made his NBA debut with the Bulls on November 2,2007 against the Philadelphia 76ers. On April 16,2008 against the Toronto Raptors, he recorded 19 points,22 rebounds and 2 assists in 35 minutes of play, in the 2007–08 season, Gray scored 262 points and recorded 168 rebounds for the Bulls. On January 25,2010, the Bulls traded Gray to the New Orleans Hornets for Devin Brown, on July 15,2010, the Hornets re-signed Gray. On December 11,2011, Gray was signed to a contract by the Toronto Raptors. On July 27,2012, Gray was re-signed by the Raptors, on January 28,2013, Gray recorded a career high 22 points, along with 10 rebounds, in a 114-102 loss to Golden State Warriors. On December 9,2013, the Raptors traded Gray, along with Rudy Gay and Quincy Acy to the Sacramento Kings for Greivis Vásquez, Patrick Patterson, John Salmons, on August 18,2014, Gray signed with the Detroit Pistons. On September 29,2014, the Pistons announced Gray would miss training camp while rehabbing from a cardiac episode suffered following a workout in late August. On October 26,2014, he was waived by the Pistons, on June 19,2015, Gray decided to retire after a blood clot was discovered in his leg had spread to his heart, resulting in a severe heart attack, which prematurely ended his playing career. Subsequently joining Stan Van Gundys staff at the Detroit Pistons as an assistant coach to work with the big men. Career statistics and player information from Basketball-Reference. com NBADraft. net Profile Pittsburgh bio DraftExpress. com Profile
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Gray with the Raptors in 2013
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2007 NBA draft
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The 2007 NBA draft was held on June 28,2007 at the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. It was broadcast on television in 115 countries, in this draft, National Basketball Association teams took turns selecting amateur U. S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. Freshman Greg Oden from Ohio State University was drafted first overall by the Portland Trail Blazers, however, he missed the 2007–08 season due to microfracture surgery on his right knee during the pre-season. Another freshman, Kevin Durant, was drafted second overall from the University of Texas by the Seattle SuperSonics, Oden and Durant became the first freshmen to be selected with the top two picks in the draft. Al Horford, the son of former NBA player Tito Horford, was drafted third by the Atlanta Hawks, the Portland Trail Blazers and the New York Knicks were also involved in a multi-player trade that sent Zach Randolph to the Knicks and Steve Francis to the Blazers. Apart from those two trades, nine further draft-day trades were announced, the 2007 Draft marked the first time three players drafted in the top 10 came from the same school, the University of Florida. Florida joined nine other schools, including Connecticut, that had five players selected in an NBA draft, second only to UNLV and this draft also set the record number of freshmen drafted in the first round when eight freshmen were selected. Of the 60 players drafted, eight were freshmen, five were sophomores,14 were juniors,20 were seniors, and 13 were international players without U. S. college basketball experience. He has represented France internationally since 2011. ^ c, Taurean Green and he has represented Georgia internationally since 2010. These players were not selected in the 2007 NBA Draft but have played at least one game in the NBA, the basic requirements for draft eligibility are, All drafted players must be at least 19 years of age during the calendar year of the draft. Any player who is not a player, as defined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The basic requirement for automatic eligibility for a U. S. player is the completion of his college eligibility, players who meet the CBA definition of international players are automatically eligible if their 22nd birthday falls during or before the calendar year of the draft. A player who is not automatically eligible must declare his eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 60 days before the draft. An early entry candidate is allowed to withdraw his eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 10 days before the draft. The first 14 picks in the draft belonged to teams that had missed the playoffs, the lottery would determine the three teams that would obtain the first three picks on the draft. The remaining first-round picks and the second-round picks were assigned to teams in order of their win-loss record in the previous season. On April 20,2007, the NBA performed a tie-breaker to determine the order of the picks for teams with identical win-loss record, the lottery was held on May 22,2007 in Secaucus, New Jersey. The Portland Trail Blazers, who had the seventh-worst record in the season, won the lottery with just a 5. 3% chance to win
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Greg Oden was selected first overall by the
Portland Trail Blazers.
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Kevin Durant was selected second by the
Seattle SuperSonics.
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Al Horford was selected third by the
Atlanta Hawks.
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Mike Conley was selected fourth by the
Memphis Grizzlies.
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2005 NBA draft
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The 2005 NBA draft took place on June 28,2005 in the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In this draft, NBA teams took turns selecting college basketball players and other first-time eligible players, such as players from high schools. The NBA announced that 49 college and high school players and 11 international players had filed as candidates for the draft. This was the last NBA draft for which high school players were eligible, the new collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players union established a new age limit for draft eligibility. As of 2016, the players to have declared for the NBA draft straight out of high school ever since these restrictions took place were Satnam Singh Bhamara. This draft is notable for a most recent draft pick from an NAIA school in any round and these players who declared or were automatically eligible for the 2005 draft, were not selected but have played in the NBA. B Portland acquired the rights to 22nd pick Jarrett Jack from Denver in exchange for the draft rights to 27th pick Linas Kleiza. C Cleveland acquired the rights to 44th pick Martynas Andriuškevičius from Orlando in exchange for a 2006 second-round draft pick. D Memphis acquired the rights to 55th pick Lawrence Roberts from Seattle in exchange for 2006 and 2007 second-round draft picks. E Orlando acquired the rights to 57th pick Marcin Gortat from Phoenix in exchange for cash considerations. Prior to the draft, the trades were made and resulted in exchanges of draft picks between the teams. F Hours before the start of the draft, Utah acquired the 3rd pick from Portland in exchange for the 6th pick, the 27th pick and a 2006 first-round draft pick. Previously, Utah acquired a 2005 first-round draft pick on June 24,2004 from Dallas in exchange for the rights to Pavel Podkolzine. Utah used the 3rd pick to draft Deron Williams and Portland used the 6th, G On June 22,2004, Charlotte acquired Clevelands first-round draft pick from Phoenix in exchange for an agreement to select Jahidi White in the 2004 Expansion Draft. Previously, Phoenix acquired a 2005 first-round draft pick on October 1,1997 from Cleveland in a trade with Cleveland. Previously, New Jersey acquired Philadelphias 2005, Denvers 2006 and L. A. Clippers 2006 first-round draft picks on July 15,2004 from Denver in exchange for Kenyon Martin. Previously, Denver acquired a 2005 first-round draft pick, Mark Bryant and Art Long from Philadelphia in a trade with Philadelphia. Toronto used the 16th pick to draft Joey Graham, I On June 24,2004, Denver acquired Washingtons first-round draft pick from Orlando in exchange for the draft rights to Jameer Nelson
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Andrew Bogut, the 1st pick
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Marvin Williams, the 2nd pick
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Deron Williams, the 3rd pick
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Lamar Patterson
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Lamar Patterson is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Pittsburgh, Patterson, a 65 swingman from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, starred at J. P. McCaskey High School, then Saint Benedicts Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey. He chose to play basketball for the Pitt Panthers. During his freshman year, he suffered an injury in a game against Wichita State in November,2009 and missed the majority of the season. Patterson returned to the court for the 2010–11 season and became a key player for the Panthers. As a redshirt sophomore in 2011–12, Patterson became a starter and he finished the season on a high note, as he led the team to the 2012 College Basketball Invitational title. Patterson averaged 13.3 points,6 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game for the tournament and was named MVP, as a junior, Patterson helped lead the Panthers back to the NCAA Tournament. Once there, however, Pitt lost to eventual Final Four participant Wichita State, Patterson returned for his senior season as the Panthers moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference. Patterson enjoyed a season as he was one of the top players in the league. At the close of the season, Patterson was named second team All-ACC by both the coaches and media. On June 26,2014, Patterson was selected with the 48th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks and he was later traded to the Atlanta Hawks on draft night. In July 2014, he joined the Hawks for the 2014 NBA Summer League, on August 5,2014, he signed with Tofaş Bursa of the Turkish Basketball League. In 29 TBL games for Tofaş in 2014–15, he averaged 11.2 points,3.4 rebounds,2.2 assists and 1.0 steals per game. On July 24,2015, Patterson signed with the Atlanta Hawks after averaging 13.1 points,5.1 rebounds,3.4 assists and 1.6 steals in seven Summer League games for the team. On October 27,2015, he made his debut for the Hawks, during his rookie season, using the flexible assignment rule, Patterson received multiple assignments to the Austin Spurs and Canton Charge of the NBA Development League. On July 12,2016, he was waived by the Hawks, on July 15,2016, Patterson was claimed off waivers by the Sacramento Kings. On October 19,2016, he was waived by the Kings after appearing in four preseason games, on October 31,2016, Patterson was acquired by the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Development League as an affiliate player of the Kings. On January 29,2017, Patterson signed a 10-day contract with the Atlanta Hawks, on February 8,2017, he signed a second 10-day contract with the Hawks
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