The Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball program of the University of Kansas. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I and the team competes in th
The 1899 University of Kansas basketball team, with Dr. James Naismith at the back right
The 1923 Helms National Championship team. In the center is head coach Phog Allen and inventor of the game Dr. James Naismith
Wilt Chamberlain was one of the top centers to ever play for the Jayhawks.
Brown helped lead Kansas to the school's second-ever NCAA Tournament championship in 1988.
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James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.
Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball
…been in existence, Kansas has won at least a share of 21 regular-season conference titles. The Jayhawks' first coach was the inventor of basketball, James Naismith. Naismith, ironically, is the only coach in Kansas basketball history with a losing record. The Kansas basketball program has produced many notable…
Naismith holding a basketball and basket
Sculpture in Almonte, Ontario. Identical copies are located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Lawrence, Kansas.
The original 1891 "Basket Ball" court in Springfield College. It used a peach basket attached to the wall.