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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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TCU Horned Frogs men's 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
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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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North Hollywood, Los Angeles
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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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Hawke's Bay Hawks
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The Hawkes Bay Hawks are a New Zealand basketball team based in Napier. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball League and play their games at Pettigrew Green Arena. For sponsorship reasons, they are known as the Taylor Hawks, after winning the Conference Basketball League Invitational championship in 1982, the Napier Sunhawks were promoted to the National Basketball League for the 1983 season. They managed to make the playoffs in their first NBL season, but finished second last in 1984 and they did manage to recruit Jamie Dixon as an overseas player in the late 1980s. The following season, the Hawks continued their form, finishing third for the second straight year. It was then in 1995 that the Hawks got their first taste of the NBL finals before losing to the dominant Auckland Rebels and it was a huge transformation from a team struggling to keep their place in the league to a team who were genuine title contenders. Over the next two years under coach Keith Mair, the Hawks continued their playoff streak but lost comprehensively both times, the Hawks began a slow decline from the heights of the previous five years in 1998, as the side finished in second last. This finish demoted them to the CBL, where spent the 1999 season. However, after finishing as CBL runners-up in 1999, they were readmitted to the NBL in 2000, but finished last again. In the early 2000s, the league was dominated by Pero Camerons Waikato Titans and they faired a little better in 2003, finishing sixth with an 8–10 record. In 2004, with the likes of Australian Scott McGregor and local heroes Adrian Majstrovich, Paora Winitana, Paul Henare and Aidan Daly,2004 saw them lose after a second place regular season finish in the semi-final to the Nelson Giants, 69–51. Majstrovich was named the competitions Most Valuable Player, while CEO Jeremy Bayliss was named administrator of the year, CEO Jeremy Bayliss was once again named administrator of the year, while Paul Henare won another assists title and earned All-Star Five honours. In 2006, the Hawks won their first ever NBL championship with a win over the Auckland Stars. The win marked Willie Burtons first ever NBL championship after 21 years playing in the league and it was also Burtons last game in the New Zealand NBL. On February 22,2007, the Hawks played the 2006 ABA champions the Geelong Supercats at Pettigrew Green Arena in a challenge match initiated by the Hawks as a battle for Trans-Tasman supremacy, the final score was 84–69 in favour of the Hawks. The 2007 season was successful one as the team made the grand final before losing the best-of-three series 2–0 to the Nelson Giants. 2008 then saw the Hawks drop off as they finished the season in fourth spot and lost again to the Nelson Giants in the newly revamped quarter-finals. After losing Paul Henare and Paora Winitana to the Christchurch Cougars in 2009 and they surprised many with the side making the quarter-finals where they lost to the Wellington Saints, 80–75
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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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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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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's basketball
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The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos mens basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California, United States. The schools team competes in the Big West Conference. The current head coach is Joe Pasternack, the main rival of the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos mens basketball team is the Cal Poly Mustangs mens basketball team. The rivalry is a part of the larger Blue–Green Rivalry, which encompasses all sports from the two schools, source The Gauchos have appeared in five NCAA tournaments. The Gauchos have appeared in five National Invitation Tournaments, the Gauchos have appeared in one Vegas 16. The Gauchos have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational one time, the Gauchos have appeared in one CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament. The Gauchos have appeared in the NAIA Tournament one time
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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
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Northern Arizona Lumberjacks men's basketball
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The Northern Arizona Lumberjacks mens basketball team represents Northern Arizona University, located in Flagstaff, Arizona, in NCAA Division I mens competition. The schools team has competed in the Big Sky Conference since 1970, the teams most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament was in 2000. The Lumberjacks are currently coached by Jack Murphy, hired in April 2012 after a season in which previous head coach Mike Adras resigned in December. All NAU Lumberjack basketball games are broadcast on Hits 106 in Flagstaff, all games can be also heard online at Hits106. com The Lumberjacks have appeared in two NCAA Tournaments. The Lumberjacks have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament three times, the Lumberjacks have appeared in the CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament two times. The Lumberjacks have appeared in the NAIA Tournament four times
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Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball
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The Pittsburgh Panthers mens basketball is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate mens basketball program of the University of Pittsburgh, often referred to as Pitt, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pitt mens basketball competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Panthers were retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion twice by the Helms Athletic Foundation, on March 28,2016, the school announced the hiring of Kevin Stallings as coach after the departure of Jamie Dixon. The University of Pittsburgh began playing basketball in 1905–06 under coach Benjamin Printz. The University did not field a team during the 1909–10 and 1910–11 seasons, flint led the Panthers to eight winning seasons during his ten years at the helm and coached future Pitt coach H. C. Henry Clifford Doc Carlson, MD took over as coach in 1922 and those teams were led by National Player of the Year, 3-time All-American and Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Hyatt. Carlson was a coach who would be inducted into the Naismith. He also developed the widely emulated Figure Eight Offense and also experimented with various conditioning techniques, under Carlson, and led by two-time All-American Claire Cribbs, Pitt continued success through the 1930s winning four Eastern Intercollegiate Conference Championships. On February 28,1940, Pitt played in the first ever televised basketball game, Carlson also led Pitt to its first ever NCAA appearance en route to the 1941 NCAA Final Four. Carlsons tenure at Pitts helm lasted for 30 consecutive years before he retired following the 1952–53 season, Pitt moved their competition into the Fitzgerald Field House in 1951, leaving the Pitt Pavilion, housed inside of Pitt Stadium. Pitt would continue to play in the Fieldhouse until 2002, timmons also led Pitt to an NCAA appearance in 1963 and its first NIT appearance in 1964. Timmons was succeeded by head coach Charles Buzz Ridl who became famous for his amoebe defense, with All-American Billy Knight, Ridl led Pitt to the Elite Eight in 1974, with early round victories over St. Josephs and Furman. Pitt lost to national champion North Carolina State in the Eastern Regional Final played in Raleigh. Following the graduation of Knight and Martin, Pitt made an NIT appearance the following year, Pittsburgh native Tim Grgurich, who was an assistant coach under Ridl, became Pitts next head coach. He led Pitt into the inaugural 1976–77 season of the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League and that initial year, Larry Harris, a 66 forward with an impressive outside shot and an ability to score points in traffic, won the league scoring title. Grgurich also led Pitt to the 1980 NIT, Grgurich was succeeded by Lafayette coach Dr. Roy Chipman who began Pitts rollercoaster-like ride back to national significance. In his first season at the helm, the Panthers won the Eastern Eight Conference Tournament, in the 1981 NCAA Tournament, Pitt defeated Idaho in overtime in the first round, they lost to North Carolina in the second round. Chipmans Panthers enjoyed similar success the season, defeating archrival West Virginia for their last Eastern Eight Tournament Championship
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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The tournament was created in 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was the idea of Ohio State University coach Harold Olsen. Played mostly during March, it has one of the most famous annual sporting events in the United States. The tournament teams include champions from 32 Division I conferences, and 36 teams which are awarded at-large berths, the 68 teams are divided into four regions and organized into a single-elimination bracket, which pre-determines, when a team wins a game, which team it will face next. Each team is seeded, or ranked, within its region from 1 to 32, after an initial four games between eight lower-ranked teams, the tournament occurs during the course of three weekends, at pre-selected neutral sites across the United States. The Final Four is usually played during the first weekend of April and these four teams, one from each region, compete in a pre-selected location for the national championship. The tournament has been at least partially televised since 1969, currently, the games are broadcast by CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV under the trade-name NCAA March Madness. Since 2011, all games are available for viewing nationwide and internationally, such as in the Philippines, as television coverage has grown, so too has the tournaments popularity. Currently, millions of Americans fill out a bracket, attempting to predict the outcome of all 67 games of the tournament. With 11 national titles, UCLA has the record for the most NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, the University of Kentucky is second, with eight national titles. The University of North Carolina is in place, with six titles, while Duke University. The University of Connecticut is sixth with four national titles, the University of Kansas and University of Louisville are tied with three championships. During that time Villanova, Michigan, UNLV, Duke, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Syracuse, the NCAA has changed the tournament format several times since its inception, most often representing an increase of the number of teams. This section describes the tournament as it has operated since 2011, for changes during the course of its history, and to see how the tournament operated during past years, go to Format history, below. A total of 68 teams qualify for the tournament played during March, thirty-two teams earn automatic bids as their respective conference champions. Of the 32 Division I all-sports conferences, all 32 currently hold championship tournaments to determine which team receives the automatic qualification. The Ivy League was the last Division I conference that did not conduct a tournament, through the 2015–16 season, if two or more Ivies shared a regular-season championship, a one-game playoff was used to decide the tournament participant. Since 2017, the league conducts their own postseason tournament, the committee also determines where all sixty-eight teams are seeded and placed in the bracket. The tournament is divided into four regions and each region has at least sixteen teams, the committee is charged with making each of the four regions as close as possible in overall quality of teams from wherever they come from
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National Invitation Tournament
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The National Invitation Tournament is a mens college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Played at Madison Square Garden in New York City each March and April, over time it became eclipsed by the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament – known today informally as March Madness and The Big Dance. The NIT has since been regarded more as a tournament for teams that did not receive a berth in the NCAA tournament. A second, much more recent NIT tournament is played in November, formerly the Preseason NIT, it was founded in 1985. Like the postseason NIT, its final rounds are played at Madison Square Garden, both tournaments were operated by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association until 2005, when they were purchased by the NCAA, and the MIBA disbanded. Unless otherwise qualified, the terms NIT or National Invitation Tournament refer to the tournament in both common and official use. The first NIT was won by the Temple University Owls over the Colorado Buffaloes and this became the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association in 1948. Originally the tournament invited a field of 6 teams, with all games played at Madison Square Garden in downtown Manhattan. The field was expanded to 8 teams in 1941,12 in 1949,14 in 1965,16 in 1968,24 in 1979,32 in 1980, in 2007, the tournament reverted to the current 32-team format. Some conferences, such as the Southeastern Conference, were racially segregated, from its onset and at least into the mid-1950s, the NIT was regarded as the most prestigious showcase for college basketball. The winner of the National Invitation Tournament was regarded as more of a national champion than the actual, titular, national champion, several teams played in both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year, beginning with Colorado and Duquesne in 1940. Colorado won the NIT in 1940 but subsequently finished fourth in the NCAA West Region, in 1949, some Kentucky players were bribed by gamblers to lose their first round game in the NIT. This same Kentucky team went on to win the NCAA, the champions of both the NCAA and NIT tournaments played each other for a few years during World War II. From 1943 to 1945, the American Red Cross sponsored a charity game between each years tournament champions to raise money for the war effort. The series was described by Ray Meyer as not just benefit games, the NCAA champion prevailed in all three games. The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected the NIT champion as its champion for 1938. In 1943 the NCAA tournament moved to share Madison Square Garden with the NIT in an effort to increase the credibility of the NCAA Tournament. In 1945, The New York Times indicated that many teams could get bids to enter either tournament, the team played in the NIT instead, which it won
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College Basketball Invitational
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The College Basketball Invitational is a mens college basketball tournament created in 2007 by The Gazelle Group. The inaugural tournament occurred after the conclusion of the 2007–08 mens college basketball regular season, the CBI selects 16 teams that are not selected for the NCAA Tournament or the National Invitation Tournament, and who are willing to pay a $50,000 entry fee to participate. In the CBI, teams compete on home courts, the CBI is a single elimination tournament until the final two teams are determined, after which the championship is determined by a championship series with a best-two-out-of-three format. The 2008 College Basketball Invitational was the first new postseason tournament since the Collegiate Commissioners Association Tournament in 1974, the opening round was played on March 18,2008, and March 19,2008, with the second round being played on March 24,2008. The semifinals took place on March 26,2008, the championship was a best-of-three series with games being played on March 31, April 2, and April 4,2008. The bracketing was done in east, west, south and midwest regions, tulsa was crowned the champion in the 2008 tournament. On February 1,2016, the CBI announced a television partnership with ESPN to broadcast the Championship Series of the CBI. In the inaugural year, games were available in markets on Fox Sports Net. The games could also be viewed on the official website, the 2009 tournament broadcast was changed to HDNet with four first round games, two quarterfinal games, both semifinal games, and all three championship games being broadcast. HDNet changed its named to AXS and aired the 2013 tournament, CBS Sports Network televised the 2014 and 2015 tournaments. ESPNU televises the best-of-three Championship Series in 2016 and 2017, the following is an overview and list of the announcers and television networks to broadcast the College Basketball Invitational. 2008-2010 None 2011-2012 Zebra Pen 2013 Buick 2014-2016 None 2017 Five Four CBI bids by school Official website
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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
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Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
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The Big East Mens Basketball Tournament is the championship tournament of the Big East Conference in mens basketball. The winner receives the automatic bid to the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship. Since 1983, the tournament has been held in Madison Square Garden, as such, the tournament is the longest running conference tournament at any one site in all of college basketball. In 2011, Connecticut, led by Kemba Walker, became the first, the 2009 tournament featured a six-overtime game in the quarterfinals between the Connecticut Huskies and the Syracuse Orange, in which Syracuse prevailed, 127–117. The game, the second longest in NCAA history, started on the evening of March 12, only two players have achieved repeat MVP honors, Georgetowns Patrick Ewing and Louisvilles Peyton Siva. In the last four tournaments before the Big East split into two leagues in 2013, all schools participating in the tournament were seeded in the tournament based on their conference records. Ties were broken using a set of tiebreaker rules, with the first two tiebreakers being head-to-head record and common record against the next best conference team. The 2014 tournament, the first held after the split, involved all 10 members of the reconfigured Big East and it is expected that all members will continue to play in future tournaments. Prior to the 2009 tournament, only the top 12 teams in the conference competed, in 2009, the tournament expanded to include all 16 of the conferences teams. The teams seeded #9 through #16 played first-round games, teams seeded #5 through #8 received a bye to the round. In that tournament, the teams seeded #11 through #14 played in the first round, italics indicate school is no longer a member of the Big East Conference. 2011 marked the first year the tournament was broadcast in 3D on ESPN 3D, beginning with the 2014 tournament, FS1 is the television home for the Big East tournament
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2008 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2008 Big East Mens Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2007-08 NCAA Division I mens basketball season, took place from March 12–March 15,2008 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Its winner received the Big East Conferences automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Tournament and it is a single-elimination tournament with four rounds and the four highest seeds received byes in the first round. The 12 Big East teams with the best conference records were invited to participate, Georgetown, the Big East regular season winner, received the number one seed in the tournament. The first round of the tournament saw no upsets, as each of the higher seeds won their games, however, the second round had three of the four lower seeds winning their games. In the semi-finals, number one seed, Georgetown, easily won, while the seed, Pittsburgh. The two teams played each other for the tournament championship and Pittsburgh was victorious, winning the conferences automatic bid, after the tournament, eight of the teams that participated were invited to the NCAA Tournament. It was Pittsburghs second Big East Tournament championship, before the beginning of the season the leagues coaches voted Georgetown, the 2006-07 Big East regular season and tournament winner, and Louisville to share the conference title. Additionally, it was decided that each teams conference schedule would expand from 16 to 18 games so all of the teams would play each other. Fifteen Big East teams reached the beginning of their schedules with winning records, with four teams having only one loss. The out of schedule for the league included four teams playing in the inaugural Big East/SEC Invitational, where they went 3–1. At the end of play, Georgetown, who was ranked tenth in the Coaches Poll. Six teams ended the season ranked, while eight ended with over 20 wins, the top–12 teams in the standings were invited to the tournament. Rankings reflect Coaches Poll as of March 10,2008 The twelve teams that were invited to the tournament were seeded according to their records, Georgetowns win of the regular season title entitled the team to the top seed. Connecticut, two games behind Georgetown, got the fourth seed, and the final first round bye, West Virginia and Marquette both finished four games behind Georgetown in fifth place, but West Virginias win over Marquette on January 6 granted them the fifth seed and Marquette the sixth. Pittsburgh finished five games behind Georgetown and were awarded the seventh seed, Villanova and Syracuse both finished six games behind Georgetown and split games in the regular season. Villanovas win over Connecticut, coupled with Syracuses loss, gave Villanova the advantage and eighth seed, Cincinnati, at seven games behind Georgetown, and Seton Hall, at eight games behind, received the tenth and eleventh seeds, respectively. Providence and DePaul finished nine games behind Georgetown, but Providences win on February 5, gave the team the twelfth seed, the first round of the tournament was played on March 12 with each of the higher seeds winning. The day started with Villanova playing Syracuse, in what was called a game for the NCAA Tournament
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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
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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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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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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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United States men's national basketball team
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The USA Basketball Mens Senior National Team, commonly known as the United States Mens National Basketball Team, represents the United States in international mens basketball. The USA team is the most successful team in competition, winning medals in all eighteen Olympic tournaments it has entered. The United States is currently ranked first in the FIBA World Rankings, traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by FIBA allowed USA Basketball to field teams with professional players. The first such team, known as the Dream Team, won the medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. With the introduction of professionals, the team was able to spark a run of dominance after capturing only a bronze medal in 1988. A team of professional players competed at the 1994 FIBA World Championship, in 1996,2000,2008,2012, and 2016 the USA again captured gold medals at the Olympics. Facing increased competition, the USA failed to win a medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship, determined to put an end to these failures, USA Basketball initiated a long-term project aimed at creating better, more cohesive teams. The USA won its first seven games at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan before losing against Greece in the semi-finals, the USA won gold two years later, though, at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a dominant performance. The USA continued this streak of dominance by going undefeated and capturing gold once more at the 2012 Summer Olympics,2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the United States possessed a clear advantage in the early decades of international play. Through the next six tournaments, the United States went undefeated, collecting gold while not losing a single contest in the held in London, Helsinki, Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo. Roster until the formation of the 1992 Dream Team, the 1952 team included big man Clyde Lovellette of the University of Kansas, a future Hall of Famer and NBA star, but Kurland once again led the team to victory. The 1956 team was led by San Francisco Dons Bill Russell, the 1972 Olympic mens basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for the USA in Olympic play, is arguably the most controversial in Olympic history. The United States rode their seven consecutive gold medals and 63–0 Olympic record to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics, the team won its first eight games in convincing fashion, setting up a final against the Soviet Union. With three seconds left in the medal game, American forward Doug Collins sank two free throws to put the Americans up 50–49. However, the buzzer sounded before Collins second free throw, immediately following Collins free throws, the Soviets inbounded the ball and failed to score. But one official had whistled play to stop with one remaining after hearing the earlier horn. The Soviets argued that they had requested a timeout before Collins foul shots, the referees ordered the clock reset to three seconds and the games final seconds replayed. However, the clock was in the process of being reset when the referees put the ball in play
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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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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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Washington Wizards
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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UCLA Bruins men's 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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2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The University of Detroit Mercy hosted the Final Four, which was the 71st edition. Prior to the start of the tournament, the top ranked team was Louisville in both the AP Top 25 and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Polls, followed by North Carolina, Memphis, only the Tar Heels of North Carolina were the regional winners and played in the Final Four. The Tar Heels completed one of the most dominant runs in the history by winning each of their games by at least twelve points. For the first time since seeding began, all seeds made it into the Sweet 16. Sixty-five teams were selected for the tournament, thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a tournament, went to Cornell. The remaining 34 teams were granted at-large bids by the NCAA Selection Committee, two teams play an opening-round game, popularly called the play-in game. The winner of that game advances to the draw of the tournament as a 16 seed. The 2009 game was played on Tuesday, March 17, at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio, All 64 teams were seeded 1 to 16 within their regions, the winner of the play-in game automatically received a 16 seed. The Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65, SEC commissioner Mike Slive served his last year as chairman of the committee. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis The four regionals are officially named after their areas, between 2004 and 2006, the regionals were named for their host cities. Results to date * – Denotes overtime period All times in U. S. EDT, winner advanced to 16th seed in Midwest Regional vs. Louisville. Goran Suton of Michigan State was the Midwest regional most outstanding player and he was joined by Spartan teammates Kalin Lucas and Travis Walton, Louisvilles Earl Clark and Kansass Cole Aldrich on the NCAA Tournament All-Midwest Regional team. To play the top-seeded Louisville Cardinals in the first round, Morehead State defeated Alabama State 58–43 and this marked the first time either team had played in the tournament in five years, the Eagles had not played since 1984. Morehead State fell to Louisville 74–54, the 100th time a 1 seed beat a 16 seed in the tournament since seeding began, however, the Eagles managed to keep the game close until halftime, when Louisville led by only 2 points. In the second half, the Cardinals began to apply their signature fullcourt pressure, forcing turnovers, leon Buchanans 17 points for the Eagles were not enough to upset Louisville, whose top scorers, Samardo Samuels and Terrence Williams, scored a combined 28 points. Morehead State has not beaten Louisville in 52 years, in two overtimes, the Siena Saints beat the Ohio State Buckeyes 74–72. Ohio State had the advantage of playing an hour from their campus, and received 25 points, nine rebounds, the Saints made 6 out of 23 3-pointers and had 22 turnovers
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Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team represents Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States in NCAA Division I mens basketball competition. The Cowboys currently compete in the Big 12 Conference, since 1938, the team has played its home games in Gallagher-Iba Arena. Prior to 1957, the school was known as Oklahoma A&M College, on March 21,2016, Brad Underwood was hired as head coach at Oklahoma State, replacing the fired Travis Ford. Just short of one year, on March 18,2017, assistant Mike Boynton was promoted to head coach on March 24. Oklahoma State University began varsity competition in mens basketball in 1908. The Cowboys rank 35th in total victories among all NCAA Division I college basketball programs, the Cowboys have made 22 total appearances in the NCAA Tournament, reaching the NCAA Final Four six times and the NCAA Regional Finals eleven times. Oklahoma State won the NCAA Championship in 1945 and 1946, the Cowboys rank tenth in all-time Final Four appearances and seventh in total NCAA Championships. Under nine head coaches in this period Oklahoma A&M found very little success, very little success was found early on and after a six-win fifteen-loss season under first-year coach John Maulbetsch things were not looking well. However, in the three seasons Maulbetsch turned around the program, leading the Aggies to a 41–20 record culminating with a first-place finish in their last season in the Southwest Conference. The move to the Missouri Valley Conference in 1925 would halt the progress under this budding coach, after Maulbetsch resigned from the positions of football, baseball and basketball coach the Aggies would not have another winning season until Henry Iba took the reins in 1934. This period in Oklahoma State basketball history was marked with mainly football coaches heading the football, baseball and basketball teams, Henry Iba came to Oklahoma A&M College in 1934 and remained for 36 years. He retired after the 1969–70 season, for most of his tenure at A&M/OSU, he doubled as athletic director. Ibas teams were methodical, ball-controlling units that featured weaving patterns, Ibas swinging gate defense was applauded by many, and is still effective in todays game. He was known as the Iron Duke of Defense, Ibas Aggies became the first to win consecutive NCAA titles. His 1945–46 NCAA champions were led by Bob Kurland, the games first seven-foot player and they beat NYU in the 1945 finals and North Carolina in the 1946 finals. He was voted coach of the year in both seasons and his 1945 champions also defeated National Invitation Tournament champion, DePaul, and 69 center George Mikan in a classic Red Cross Benefit game. Ibas 1949 and 1951 teams also reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament, Oklahoma A&M/Oklahoma State teams won 655 games,14 Missouri Valley Championships, and one Big Eight Championship, in 36 seasons with Iba as head mens basketball coach. Mr. Iba, as he is popularly known at OSU, remained a fixture on campus until his death in 1993
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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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North Carolina State University
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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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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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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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