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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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Norman, Oklahoma
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Norman /ˈnɔːrmən/ is a city in the U. S. state of Oklahoma 20 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City in its metropolitan area. The population was 110,925 at the 2010 census, Normans estimated population of 120,284 in 2015 makes it the third-largest city in Oklahoma, and the city serves as the county seat of Cleveland County. Norman was settled during the Land Run of 1889, which opened the former Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory to American pioneer settlement, the city was named in honor of Abner Norman, the areas initial land surveyor, and was formally incorporated on May 13,1891. The university is known for its sporting events by teams under the banner of the nickname Sooners. The university is home to museums, including the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, which contains the largest collection of French Impressionist art ever given to an American university, Norman lies within Tornado Alley, a geographic region where tornadic activity is particularly frequent and intense. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area, including Norman, is the most tornado-prone area in the world, the Storm Prediction Center, a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is located at the NWC. SPC forecasts severe storm and tornado outbreaks nationwide, additionally, research is conducted at the co-located National Severe Storms Laboratory, which includes field research and operates various experimental weather radars. In 2008, CNNs Money Magazine ranked Norman as the sixth best small city within the United States to live in, the Oklahoma region became part of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Treaties of 1832 and 1833 assigned the area today as Norman to the Creek Nation. Following the Civil War, the Creeks were accused of aiding the Confederacy, in the early 1870s, the federal government undertook a survey of these unassigned lands. Abner Ernest Norman, a 23-year-old surveyor from Kentucky, was hired to oversee part of this project. In 1887, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway began service to the area, which was later opened to settlement as part of the Land Run of 1889, early settlers decided to keep the name Norman. On April 22,1889, the Land Run saw the founding of Norman, with at least 150 residents spending the night in makeshift campsites, by the next morning a downtown was already being constructed. On December 19,1890, Larsh and Waggoner were successful with the passage of Council Bill 114, the City of Norman was formally incorporated on May 13,1891. The city has continued to grow throughout the decades, the rail lines eventually transitioned to freight during the 1940s as the United States Numbered Highway system developed. The city population reached 11,429 in 1940, in 1941, the University of Oklahoma and Norman city officials established Max Westheimer Field, a university airstrip, and then leased it to the U. S. Navy as a Naval Flight Training Center in 1942. The training center was used for training combat pilots during World War II, a second training center, known as Naval Air Technical Training Center, and a naval hospital were later established to the south
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Lloyd Noble Center
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The Lloyd Noble Center is an 11, 562-seat multi-purpose arena located in Norman, Oklahoma, some 19 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City. It opened in 1975 and is home to the University of Oklahoma mens and womens basketball teams, before the construction of the facility, the teams played in the much smaller OU Field House, located on campus near Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. This led to the popular colloquialism around Norman that Lloyd Noble Center is the house that Alvan built, the Ford Center in Oklahoma City was unavailable for one of the games against the Sacramento Kings, so it was moved to the Lloyd Noble Center. The center was named after Samuel Lloyd Noble, a Houston oilman and philanthropist, and founder of the Noble Corporation and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. As a concert venue, the Lloyd Noble Center can hold between 2,848 and 4,516 in a theater set-up,6,165 for end-stage concerts, and 11,238 for center-stage concerts. The arena contains 18,000 square feet of floor space as well as 22,534 square feet of concourse space. The arena stands only 51 feet tall since the majority of the structure is under ground, and contains a 40-by-60-foot portable stage, there are 12 concession stands at the concourse. Amy Grant recorded half of her albums, In Concert and In Concert Volume Two. Lloyd Noble Center Official site Lloyd Noble Center at Soonersports. com
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Oklahoma Sooners
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The Oklahoma Sooners feature 19 varsity sports teams, each of which represents the University of Oklahoma, located in Norman. The universitys athletic teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association s Division I, the universitys current athletic director is Joe Castiglione. In 2002, the University of Oklahoma was ranked as the third best college sports program in America by Sports Illustrated. When combined with Blake Griffins John Wooden Award and Sam Bradfords Heisman Trophy, the University of Oklahoma was a charter member of the Southwest Athletic Conference during its formation in 1914. Five years later, in 1919, OU left the SWC, in 1928, this conference split, and OU remained aligned with the teams that formed the Big Six Conference. Over the next 31 years, more schools were added and the conference underwent several name changes, four more universities were added then and the name was changed one more time to its current form, the Big 12 Conference. The Oklahoma Sooners are represented in the following NCAA Division I varsity sports, Oklahoma has scored the most points in Division I-A football history despite the fact they have played over 60 fewer games than the second place school on that list. OU also has the highest winning percentage of any team since the start of the AP poll in 1936. This number is 3rd only to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, watts, Keith Jackson and Jammal Brown. More than a dozen Sooner players have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Oklahoma has more Butkus award winners than any other school. Coaches Bennie Owen, Bud Wilkinson, and Barry Switzer have passed through the tunnel for the Sooners. Owen was the first highly successful coach at OU and was an advocate of the forward pass. The playing surface at Oklahomas Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium is popularly known as Owen Field in honor of his long tenure, the record of 47 straight wins is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in sports, and a streak that is unlikely to be broken. Switzer won three championships and forged arguably the fiercest rushing offense ever, the Oklahoma wishbone formation. Though the end of Switzers tenure at Oklahoma was marked by controversy and poor player behavior, during his 16 years as the Sooners head coach, Switzer led his team to 12 conference championships and never lost more than two games in a row. His winning percentage of.837 stands as the fourth-highest in the history of 1-A football, other Hall of Fame coaches whose tenure included stints at the University of Oklahoma are Lawrence Biff Jones and Jim Tatum. The mens basketball team is successful and rose to national prominence since the early 80s with head coach Billy Tubbs. It currently plays in the Lloyd Noble Center, which came to be known as the house Alvan Adams built, while the team has never won a national championship, it ranks second in most tournament wins without a championship behind Illinois
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University of Oklahoma
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The University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma, in Fall 2016 the university had 31,250 students enrolled, most located at its main campus in Norman. Employing nearly 3,000 faculty members, the school offers 152 baccalaureate programs,160 masters programs,75 doctorate programs, David Lyle Boren, a former U. S. Senator and Oklahoma Governor, has served as the president since 1994. The school is ranked first among universities in enrollment of National Merit Scholars. Located on its Norman campus are two prominent museums, the Fred Jones Jr, Museum of Art, specializing in French Impressionism and Native American artwork, and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, specializing in the natural history of Oklahoma. The school, well known for its programs, has won 7 NCAA Division I National Football Championships. Its baseball team has won 2 NCAA national championships and the softball team won the national championship in 2000,2013. Oklahomas admission into the union in 1907 led to the renaming of the Norman Territorial University as the University of Oklahoma, Norman residents donated 407 acres of land for the university 0.5 miles south of the Norman railroad depot. The universitys first president ordered the planting of trees before the construction of the first campus building because he could not visualize a treeless university seat. Landscaping remains important to the university, the universitys first president, David Ross Boyd, arrived in Norman in August 1892, and the first students enrolled that year. The university established a School of Pharmacy in 1893 because of demand for pharmacists in the territory. Three years later, the university awarded its first degree to a pharmaceutical chemist, the Rock Building in downtown Norman held the initial classes until the universitys first building opened on September 6,1893. On January 6,1903, the only building burned down. Construction began immediately on a new building, as other towns hoped to capitalize by convincing the university to move. President Boyd and the faculty were not dismayed by the loss, mathematics professor Frederick Elder said, What do you need to keep classes going. Two yards of blackboard and a box of chalk, as a response to the fire, English professor Vernon Louis Parrington created a plan for the future development of the campus. Most of the plan was never implemented, but Parringtons suggestion for the core formed the basis for the North Oval
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Bennie Owen
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Benjamin Gilbert Bennie Owen was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. Owen was also the basketball coach at Oklahoma from 1908 to 1921, tallying a mark of 113–49. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951, Owen was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1875 and his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri when he was 12. After he finished school, his family moved, this time to Arkansas City. There Owen served as an apprentice to a doctor for three years. He then enrolled in the University of Kansas in 1897 to pursue his medical studies, Owen played football at Kansas under two excellent, but contrasting coaches. Wylie G. Woodruff, an All American player from the University of Pennsylvania came to Kansas to coach football in the fall of 1897. Owen got a job working as a medical assistant for Woodruff. Owen played under Woodruff for two seasons, Woodruff specialized in a tough, hard-hitting style of football. Woodruffs message to his players was hurdle the wounded, step on the dead, Woodruff was released at the end of the 1898 season and Kansas hired Fielding H. Yost from the University of Nebraska. Unlike, Woodruff, Yosts style of football was based on innovation, speed, Owen was the star quarterback for Yosts undefeated 1899 team. Upon graduating from Kansas, Owen took his first head coaching job at Washburn College, following a one-year stint there, he spent the 1901 season as Yosts assistant at the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, he helped Yost develop the famous Point-a-Minute teams built around halfback Willie Heston, Owen got his first exposure to the Oklahoma football team while head coach at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. His Bethany Swedes met and defeated two Sooner teams in 1903 and 1904, Owen took over the Oklahoma football team in 1905, succeeding one-year coach Fred Ewing. He stepped in and immediately turned the team around, giving Oklahoma its very first win over the rival Texas Longhorns. Owen was loved by the players as he regularly would involve himself in scrimmages when he felt his players were lagging, Owens first two years at Oklahoma were spent back and forth between Norman and Arkansas City. Due to a financial budget, Owen only remained on campus during the football season. In 1907, Owen lost his arm in a hunting accident
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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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Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball
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The Holy Cross Crusaders mens basketball team represents the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, in NCAA Division I competition. The team competes in the Patriot League and plays their games in the Hart Center. The program boasts such alumni as Boston Celtics legends Bob Cousy and Tom Heinsohn. Basketball first appeared at Holy Cross in 1900 but was discontinued several times until its reinstatement in 1939, the team entered the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. Along with UConn, Holy Cross is one of the two New England colleges to ever win the NCAA tournament, in the first match, Holy Cross defeated the Navy 55 to 47, in front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden. In the semi-final match, Holy Cross faced the City College of New York, the Crusaders, led by Kaftans 30-point game, defeated the Beavers 60 to 45. In the championship game, Holy Cross faced a Bruce Drake coached University of Oklahoma team in another game at Madison Square Garden. Kaftan followed up his semi-final game performance with 18 points in the title game, Holy Cross finished the 1947 championship season with 23 straight wins and became the first college from the New England area to win a national college basketball title. 35,000 people watched a parade in the honor on Holy Cross Day in Worcester. Future NBA legend Cousy was named AP and UP player of the year, in 1989, the NCAA voted teammate George Kaftan to the all-decade team of the 1940s. The Crusaders followed up their championship by advancing to the 1948 NCAA Tournaments Final Four, after advancing to the Elite Eight in 1953, the Crusaders would wait 63 years before claiming another win in the NCAA Tournament. In 1954, Holy Cross won the NIT Tournament behind another future NBA Hall-of-famer and this is widely recognized as the Colleges second national title in basketball due to the prestige of the NIT at the time. The following year,1978, Sports Illustrated ranked Holy Cross, following the teams championship years of the 40s and 50s, the Crusaders have been ranked only occasionally by the Associated Press. After appearing in 65 of 116 total weekly polls in the 1950s, the Crusaders have not been nationally ranked since January 1978. Holy Cross could have joined the newly founded Big East Conference in 1980, Holy Cross stayed independent until joining the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to start the 1983–84 season. It moved to the Patriot League in 1991, in recent decades, the mens basketball team has been the leading varsity program of the Holy Cross athletic department. The mens basketball team has won six Patriot League titles since the formation in 1991. In 2016, the Crusaders, led by stars Malachi Alexander, Anthony Thompson, the Crusaders then defeated Southern University marking the first NCAA win for the program since 1953
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Wayman Tisdale
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Wayman Lawrence Tisdale was an American professional basketball player in the NBA and a smooth jazz bass guitarist. A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma, he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009, Tisdale was born in Fort Worth, Texas. L. Tisdale Parkway in his honor, waymans older brother Weldon has been pastor of the church since 1997. Growing up, Tisdale was not interested in basketball, when older brothers Weldon and William played pickup games he usually quit before they finished, retreating to the familys sandbox. However, Tisdale began taking to the sport in the grade when he first learned to dunk. He met his future wife Regina in April 1981 at church and they were juniors at different Tulsa high schools, and she did not know he was one of the most heavily recruited basketball players in the country. Tisdale called music his first love, throughout his youth, and continuing through his college basketball career, he played bass guitar at his fathers church. Music and church were so important to Tisdale that after recruiting him to the University of Oklahoma and he moved the teams Sunday practice from the morning to the evening to allow Tisdale to play at morning services in his fathers church in Tulsa. Tisdale graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma and he still holds the record at Oklahoma for the most points scored by any player through his freshman and sophomore seasons. He won a medal as a member of the 1984 U. S. Olympic basketball team coached by Indiana Universitys Bobby Knight. The Indiana Pacers made Tisdale the second pick in the 1985 NBA Draft. As a center and power forward, Tisdale averaged over 15 points and six rebounds per game in a 12-season professional career with the Indiana Pacers, Sacramento Kings, and Phoenix Suns. His best season was in 1989–90 with the Kings, when he averaged 22.3 points and 7.5 rebounds a game, Tisdale and Mitch The Rock Richmond combined to form one of the most dynamic duos in the NBA. Tisdale retired in 1997 to focus on his musical career, Tisdale became the first player in any sport to have his jersey number retired by the University of Oklahoma in 1997. When Blake Griffin was granted permission to wear it during his career at OU, he sought, the outstanding freshman award in the NCAA is named the Wayman Tisdale Award. Tisdale launched his career with Power Forward in 1995 on the Motown Label. Primarily a bass player, he recorded eight albums, with the 2001 release Face to Face climbing to No.1 on Billboards contemporary jazz chart and he was awarded the Legacy Tribute Award by the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 2002. In an ESPN internet chat Tisdale said his influences included the funk bands of the 1970s
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri and the sixth largest city in the Midwest. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the city had an population of 475,378 in 2015. It is the city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a Missouri River port at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west, on June 1,1850 the town of Kansas was incorporated, shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued and the name Kansas City was assigned to them soon thereafter. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, but portions spill into Clay, Cass, along with Independence, it serves as one of the two county seats for Jackson County. Major suburbs include the Missouri cities of Independence and Lees Summit and the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Olathe, and Kansas City. The city is composed of neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east. Kansas City is also known for its cuisine, its craft breweries, Kansas City, Missouri was officially incorporated as a town on June 1,1850, and as a city on March 28,1853. The territory straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers was considered a place to build settlements. The Antioch Christian Church, Dr. James Compton House, the first documented European visitor to Kansas City was Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River. Criticized for his response to the Native American attack on Fort Détroit, Bourgmont lived with a Native American wife in a village about 90 miles east near Brunswick, Missouri, where he illegally traded furs. In the documents, he describes the junction of the Grande Riv des Cansez and Missouri River, French cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the descriptions to make the areas first reasonably accurate map. The Spanish took over the region in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French continued their fur trade under Spanish license. After the 1804 Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark visited the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, in 1831, a group of Mormons from New York settled in what would become the city. They built the first school within Kansas Citys current boundaries, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833, in 1833 John McCoy established West Port along the Santa Fe Trail,3 miles away from the river. In 1834 McCoy established Westport Landing on a bend in the Missouri to serve as a point for West Port. Soon after, the Kansas Town Company, a group of investors, began to settle the area, in 1850, the landing area was incorporated as the Town of Kansas
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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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Big Eight Conference
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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an member of the MVIAA. The conference was dissolved in 1996, the Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1995, the Big Eight and the Southwest Conference announced that the two leagues had reached an agreement to form a new conference. The eight members of the Big Eight joined with SWC schools Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech to form the Big 12 Conference the following year. A vote was conducted on whether to keep the new headquarters in Kansas City. The two Oklahoma schools, all four Texas schools, and Colorado voted for the move while both Kansas schools, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa State voted for Kansas City. The University of Iowa who was also a member of the Western Conference was also a joint member of the conference, Iowa only participated in football and outdoor mens track and field. In 1908, Drake University and Iowa Agricultural College joined the MVIAA, Iowa who was a joint member departed in 1911 to only compete in the Western Conference, but Kansas State University joined the conference in 1913. Nebraska left in 1918 to play as an independent for two seasons before returning in 1920, in 1919, the University of Oklahoma and Saint Louis University applied for membership, but were disapproved due to deficient management of their athletic programs. The conference then added Grinnell College in 1919, with the University of Oklahoma applying again, Oklahoma A&M University joined in 1925, bringing conference membership to ten, an all-time high. At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 19,1928, Six of the seven state schools formed a conference that was initially known as the Big Six Conference. Just before the start of practice, the six schools announced they would retain the MVIAA name for formal purposes. However, fans and media continued to call it the Big Six, the three private schools – Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University – joined with Oklahoma A&M, becoming known as the Missouri Valley Conference. For the remainder of the Big Eights run, both conferences claimed 1907 as their date, as well as the same history through 1927. To this day, it has never been established which conference was the original. Conference membership grew with the addition of the University of Colorado on December 1,1947, later that month, Reaves E. Peters was hired as Commissioner of Officials and Assistant Secretary and set up the first conference offices in Kansas City, Missouri. With the addition of Colorado, the unofficial name became the Big Seven Conference, coincidentally
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Kelvin Sampson
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Kelvin Matthew Sampson is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Houston Cougars mens basketball team. He was a coach at Montana Tech from 1981 to 1985, Washington State University from 1987 to 1994, the University of Oklahoma from 1994 to 2006. He has also been an assistant coach for several NBA teams including the Milwaukee Bucks, Sampson was captain of his high school basketball team for two years, and played for his father John W. Ned Sampson. Later he played at Pembroke State University, concentrating on basketball and baseball, the point guard was team captain for the Braves as a senior and earned four letters in basketball and three in baseball. He earned Deans List recognition throughout his career and received the Gregory Lowe Memorial Award as the schools outstanding physical education major his senior year. After earning degrees from Pembroke State in both health and physical education and political science, Sampson pursued his masters degree in coaching and he left with his degree and a years experience as a graduate assistant under Jud Heathcote. Sampson is married to Karen Lowery and they have one daughter, Lauren, and one son, Kellen. Lauren is the Director of Sports Marketing at College of Charleston, Sampson then moved to Montana Tech where he became assistant coach. After serving as a coach for one season, Sampson guided the Orediggers to a 73–45 record in his final four seasons. Montana Tech had won just 17 games combined in the three years before his arrival, Sampson turned in three consecutive 22-win seasons and claimed three Frontier Conference championships at Montana Tech. He led his teams to two NAIA District 12 title games and was named the coach of the year in 1983 and 1985. In 2005 and 2006, Coach Sampson has been some of the nations best college basketball coaches participating in Operation Hardwood. Operation Hardwood is a basketball tournament for the troops which is located in Kuwait. Some of the coaches Sampson joined were Texas Rick Barnes, Michigan States Tom Izzo, after five years at Montana Tech Sampson joined the staff at Washington State University as an assistant to Len Stevens. After two years under Stevens, Sampson was named the coach of the Washington State Cougars in 1988. When Sampson led the team to the NIT in 1992, it marked the first time Washington State had participated in play since 1983. He was named Kodak District 14 Coach of the Year by the NABC for the time in three years. He first won the award in 1991 when his Cougar squad produced the schools first winning season since 1983, Sampson was also named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 1992
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Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which stories to the AP. Most of the AP staff are members and are represented by the Newspaper Guild, which operates under the Communications Workers of America. As of 2007, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television, the photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The AP operates 243 news bureaus in 120 countries and it also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, as part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP employs the inverted pyramid formula for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the storys essentials. Cutbacks at rival United Press International in 1993 left the AP as the United States primary news service, although UPI still produces and distributes stories and photos daily. Other English-language news services, such as the BBC, Reuters, some historians believe that the Tribune joined at this time, documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member shortly after its founding in September 1851, initially known as the New York Associated Press, the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press, which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, when the AP was founded, news became a salable commodity. The invention of the press allowed the New York Tribune in the 1870s to print 18,000 papers per hour. During the Civil War and Spanish–American War, there was a new incentive to print vivid, Melville Stone, who had founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, served as AP General Manager from 1893 to 1921. He embraced the standards of accuracy, impartiality, and integrity, the cooperative grew rapidly under the leadership of Kent Cooper, who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and, the Middle East. He introduced the telegraph typewriter or teletypewriter into newsrooms in 1914, in 1935, AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave AP a major advantage over other media outlets. While the first network was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually AP had its network across the whole United States, in 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. The decision facilitated the growth of its main rival United Press International, AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations, it created its own radio network in 1974
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United States Basketball Writers Association
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The United S The USBWA annually awards college scholarships to students pursuing careers in sports journalism and to children of USBWA members. The USBWA annually selects a player of the year and All-America teams for men and women in college basketball. The USBWA mens player of the award, called the Oscar Robertson Trophy, was first established in 1959 and is considered to be the nations oldest such award in college basketball. The USBWA also selects a coach of the year for men and women. The USBWA also chooses a USBWA National Freshman of the Year in mens and womens basketball, in addition, the USBWA presents a number of other awards, Two Most Courageous Awards—one for mens basketball, and the other for womens basketball. Each is presented to a player, coach, or official in college basketball who demonstrates extraordinary courage in life, the womens version is officially known as the Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award, named after the legendary Tennessee coach. The Katha Quinn award, in honor of the former Sports Information Director at St. Johns University, USBWA also divides the country into nine districts, naming for each a Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, and an All-District Team. The USBWA also honors past and current members for career achievements with the USBWA Hall of Fame
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Hollis Price
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Hollis Price is an American former professional basketball player. He is currently the director of development for the University of Houston mens basketball program. Price played college basketball at the University of Oklahoma from 1999 to 2003 and he helped to lead the Sooners to the Final Four in 2002. He is widely regarded as one of the best basketball players to come out of the University of Oklahoma since Wayman Tisdale and he previously played for BC Lietuvos Rytas of Lithuanias LKL, ALBA Berlin of Germany, Le Mans Sarthe Basket of France, and CB Sevilla of ACB. In the Euroleague 2007-2008, Price was the top scorer of the BC Lietuvos Rytas, Price was the first player signed by Dynamo Moscow following the hiring of coach David Blatt. He joined Olimpia Milano in 2009, in February 2010 Price moved to Artland Dragons. On August 3,2010 he returned to ALBA Berlin by signing a one-year contract, on May 1,2014, Price was hired as director of player development for the University of Houston mens basketball program. Note, The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season and he also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable. Eurocup Player Profile Player Profile @ ACB. com Basketpedya. com Player Profile Player Profile & SoonerSports. com
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Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball
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The Indiana Hoosiers mens basketball team is the intercollegiate mens basketball program representing Indiana University. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in NCAA Division I, the Hoosiers play on Branch McCracken Court at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana on the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Indiana has won five NCAA Championships in mens basketball — the first two under coach Branch McCracken and the three under Bob Knight. The Hoosiers five NCAA Championships are tied for fourth in history with Duke, trailing only UCLA, Kentucky, Indianas 1976 squad remains the last undefeated NCAA mens basketball champion. The Hoosiers are seventh in NCAA Tournament appearances, seventh in NCAA Tournament victories, ninth in Final Four appearances, the Hoosiers have won 22 Big Ten Conference Championships and have the best winning percentage in conference games at nearly 60 percent. No team has had more All-Big Ten selections than the Hoosiers with 53, the Hoosiers also rank seventh in all-time AP poll appearances and sixth in the number of weeks spent ranked No.1. Every four-year mens basketball letterman since 1973 has earned a trip to the NCAA basketball tournament, additionally, every four-year player since 1950 has played on a nationally ranked squad at Indiana. The Hoosiers are among the most storied programs in the history of college basketball, a 2012 study listed Indiana as the third most valuable collegiate basketball program in the country. Indiana has ranked in the top 15 nationally in basketball attendance every season since Assembly Hall opened in 1972. Indiana has three main rivalries including in-state, against the Purdue Boilermakers, and out-of-state, against the Kentucky Wildcats, Indiana players wear warm-up pants that are striped red and white, like the stripes of a candy cane. They were first worn by the team in the 1970s under head coach Bob Knight, at the time they were in keeping with the fashion trends of the 1970s, but despite changing styles they have since become an iconic part of playing for Indiana. IU star guard Steve Alford said, As you watch television and you watch the IU games, so when you finally got to put those on, those are pretty special. Rusty Stillions, Director of Indianas Equipment Operations, said the pants were originally only for team members. However, changes in licensing agreements permitted the public to buy them as well. They have since become a staple at games and other Indiana basketball events, beginning in 2014, during Hoosier Hysteria, former IU basketball players have presented to the new players their first pair of candy striped pants. This practice symbolizes a passing-of-the-torch and carrying on the rich tradition, the team is widely noted for their simple game jerseys. Unlike most schools, Indiana doesnt have players names on the back of jerseys that players wear on the court, the notion behind the nameless jerseys is that players play for the team name on the front, not the individuals name on the back. In keeping with Indianas longstanding principle of putting team over player, adidas is the current outfitter of Indiana athletics
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Jeff Capel III
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Felton Jeffrey Jeff Capel III is an American coach college basketball coach and former player. He played for Duke University and was a coach at Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Oklahoma. Capel is from a basketball family, as a senior at South View High School in Hope Mills, North Carolina, Jeff led his team to the 1993 state championship defeating Charlotte powerhouse South Mecklenburg 53–52 with a last second lay-up. He also set career records in points, rebounds. While at Duke University, he earned a position as a freshman and was a starting guard on the basketball team for four years. Capels college career was marked with success, during his years as a Blue Devil, he racked up 1,601 points,433 assists, and 220 three-point field goals. He finished his career among Dukes all-time Top 10 in minutes played, three-point field goal percentages, three-point field goals, following his graduation from Duke, Capel played professional basketball for two years, playing in France and the CBA. Capel was also drafted in 1997 by the Raleigh Cougars of the USBL, Capel began his coaching career serving as an assistant coach under his father, Jeff Capel II, at Old Dominion University for the 2000–2001 season. In 2001, he joined the staff of Virginia Commonwealth University as an assistant. He was promoted to coach of the Rams for the 2002–2003 season—making him, at the time. In his four years as coach at VCU, Capel guided the Rams to a record number of wins. Following the 2003–04 season, Capel was named both the Richmond Times-Dispatch and VaSID state Coach of the Year after leading the Rams to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1996, coaching highlights include a near-upset of Wake Forest in the 2004 NCAA Tournament. Surprisingly, one of his toughest opponents was the Division II crosstown rival, Capels Rams lost two years in a row to the Panthers on VCUs home court. However, he did lead the Rams to a 7–3 record against CAA rival, in 2005, Capel was named an assistant coach in the USA Mens World University Games Team, joining then Manhattan head coach Bobby Gonzalez in assisting Villanova head coach Jay Wright. The United States won the medal in İzmir, Turkey. On April 11,2006, Capel was named the coach of the Oklahoma mens basketball team. In his first year as coach, the Sooners finished 16–15. After going 9–4 in non-conference games, with losses to Memphis, Purdue, Villanova, and Alabama and they received a #6 seed in the NCAA Tournament, where they defeated St. Josephs in the first round before losing to #3 seed Louisville in the second round
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Scottie Reynolds
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Scottie Reynolds is an American professional basketball player who plays for Cibona of the Croatian League. Prior to his career he played college basketball for Villanova. Reynolds also played for the United States in the 2007 Pan Am Games, Reynolds was born in Huntsville, Alabama to an unwed, unemployed teenaged mother who reluctantly gave him up for adoption. Reynolds grew up in a family with his adoptive parents Rick and Pam Reynolds and siblings Eric, Kelli, Susie, Ross. He has lived in Athens, Alabama, Herndon, Virginia and he attended A. Scott Crossfield elementary school in Virginia and Helen Keller Jr. High in Schaumburg, Illinois Reynolds was a starter for Herndon High School in Herndon. He was the best player in the competitive Northern Region since Grant Hill and he led the Herndon Hornets to a state finals runner-up place in 2005–06. Averaging 40 points per game, he was a three-time Virginia Player of the Year, during his senior year, Reynolds was named a McDonalds All-American, the first player in the Northern Region to be so honored since Joey Beard. He was also a third-team Parade All-American, Reynolds owns many Herndon Hornets basketball records, including most points in a year, most points during a high school career, and most points in a game with 53 against I. C. Reynolds is 16th all-time in Virginia high school career scoring and he was at one point ranked the fourth best point guard in the nation. Reynolds averaged 28.4 points per game,4.5 assists per game, and 4.0 steals per game as a senior and he signed a letter of intent to play for Oklahoma but was released by the university after their coach Kelvin Sampson left. He was then recruited by Jay Wright of Villanova, playing in the Big East Conference of the NCAA. As a Villanova Wildcat, he became the Wildcats primary scoring threat by the end of his freshman year, Reynolds was named the 2006–07 Big East Rookie of the Year. Villanova made the Sweet 16 in the 2008 NCAA Tournament during Reynolds sophomore season before losing to eventual champion Kansas and he led the team in scoring with 15.9 points per game. During his Junior season, he was 2nd on the team with 15.2 PPG in leading Villanova to a 26-7 record and a #3 Seed in the 2009 NCAA Tournament. During Villanovas Elite Eight matchup versus #1 seed Pittsburgh in the Tournament, on April 21,2009, Reynolds declared for the 2009 NBA Draft, but did not hire an agent, he withdrew from the draft on 9 June 2009. On January 11,2010, Reynolds scored a season-high 36 points, on 5-of-5 three-pointers, as a Senior in 2009-10 season, the 62 Reynolds averaged 18.5 points and shot 40 percent from 3-point range in becoming the Wildcats go-to player with several spectacular second-half efforts. He led the Wildcats to a 25-8 season and a #2 seed in the NCAA tournament, Reynolds ended his career as the second-leading scorer in Villanova history with 2,222 points, falling only 21 points short of breaking Kerry Kittless all-time record
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Villanova Wildcats men's basketball
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Villanova Universitys mens basketball team has competed since the 1920–1921 season. Nicknamed the Wildcats, Villanova is a member of the Big East Conference and they were national champions in 1985 and 2016. Their 1985 NCAA Championship as an 8 seed still stands as the lowest seed ever to win the title, the game is referred to as The Perfect Game as they shot a record 78. 6% as a team for the game. Their 2016 NCAA Championship, is referred to as The Perfect Ending and is the only NCAA Mens Championship game to be won on a buzzer beating 3 pointer by Kris Jenkins. They made the Final Four in 1939,1971,1985,2009 and they have an NCAA Tournament record of 57–34. Villanova has defeated 5 #1 seeds in the NCAA tournament, which is 6th most all-time, the Villanova Wildcats have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 36 times, the 8th highest total in NCAA history. They have won the Big East regular season championship 8 times and they won the Big East Tournament in 1995,2015 and 2017. Villanova entered the 2016–2017 season with a winning percentage of. As of the end of the 2015–16 season Villanova has 1,685 wins, Villanova has won the Philadelphia Big Five 25 times which is the second most of any team, including 4 straight from 2014-2017. Villanova has appeared in the NIT17 times, winning in 1994, Michael Saxe coached for six seasons, from 1920–1926, compiling a 64–30 record. John Cashman coached three seasons, from 1926–1929, compiling a 21–26 record, George Doc Jacobs coached seven seasons, from 1929–1936, and had a 62–56 record. The team played its first game in 1920 in Alumni Hall on Villanovas campus, in the early years, Villanovas home courts were Alumni Hall and West Catholic High School. The Wildcats moved into the Villanova Field House in 1932, Villanova also played many home games at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 1929. The Wildcats played home games in both the Villanova Field House and the Palestra until 1986, alexander Severance coached Villanova for 25 seasons, from 1936 to 1961. It was under Severances leadership that Villanovas basketball program rose to prominence, the 1938–39 team won the first ever NCAA Tournament game, which put them in the inaugural Final Four. Severance led the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament again in 1949,1951, Villanova earned NIT bids in 1959 and 1960. The most storied player in Villanova history, Paul Arizin, played during this era, Severance discovered Arizin, already a Villanova student, playing basketball in the Villanova Fieldhouse. Arizin holds the Villanova record for most points in a game, other notable players from the Severance era include Joe Lord, Larry Hennessy, Bob Schafer and George Raveling
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Damion James
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Damion Marquez Williams James is an American professional basketball player for the Guaros de Lara of the Liga Profesional de Baloncesto. He played college basketball for Texas, considered a five-star recruit by Rivals. com, James was listed as the No.7 small forward and the No.17 player in the nation in 2006. James started all 35 games, along with fellow freshmen Kevin Durant, James averaged 25.9 minutes per contest, with 7.6 points and 7.2 rebounds. James averaged 13.2 points and 10.3 rebounds, while talking about the Texas Longhorns on Selection Sunday, Dick Vitale said that James may be the most athletic player in all of college basketball. He also shot 43. 6% from behind the arc, James, along with A. J. Abrams and Justin Mason, started all 35 games for the Texas Longhorns that went 23–12 and advanced to the second round of the 2009 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. He averaged 15.4 points and 9.2 rebounds with double doubles in 16 of the games on his way to earning a spot on the All-Big 12 Conference Second Team. On April 15,2009, James entered his name into the 2009 NBA draft, without hiring an agent, on June 13,2009, it was reported that James pulled his name from the draft after not being guaranteed a first-round draft position. As a senior, James averaged 18.0 points,10.3 rebounds, James was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 24th overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft. His rights were traded to the New Jersey Nets for the rights of the 27th pick Jordan Crawford. On July 15,2010, he signed a deal with the Nets. On December 9,2010, James got his first career start against the Dallas Mavericks, on September 12,2012, he signed with the Atlanta Hawks. However, he was waived by the Hawks on October 27,2012. On November 1,2012, James was acquired by the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA D-League, on January 13,2013, he signed a 10-day with the Brooklyn Nets. On January 23,2013, he returned to the Jam, on February 4,2013, James was named to the Prospects All-Star roster for the 2013 NBA D-League All-Star Game. In July 2013, James joined the Brooklyn Nets for the Orlando Summer League, on September 30,2013, James signed with the Denver Nuggets. However, he was waived by the Nuggets on October 26,2013. On December 5,2013, James was reacquired by the Bakersfield Jam, on February 20,2014, he was traded to the Texas Legends. On April 3,2014, he signed a 10-day contract with the San Antonio Spurs, on April 13,2014, he signed with the Spurs for the rest of the season
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Memphis Tigers men's basketball
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The Memphis Tigers mens basketball team represents the University of Memphis in NCAA Division I mens college basketball. The Tigers have competed in the American Athletic Conference since 2013, as of 2011, the Tigers had the 29th highest winning percentage in NCAA history. They play home games at the FedExForum, ESPN Stats and Information Department ranked Memphis as the 19th most successful basketball program from 1962 to 2012 in their annual 50 in 50 list. The predecessor of the University of Memphis, West Tennessee State Normal School, zach Curlin began coaching the team in 1924. The Tigers joined the Mississippi Valley Conference in 1928, the team played its early home poines a local high school gym, a local YMCA, and in a room on campus called the Normal Cage which allowed only six inches from the court lines to the walls. In 1929, a $100,000 facility on campus named Memorial Gym became the Tigers home, curlins last season coaching the Tigers was in 1948, by which time the school had been renamed Memphis State College, it would become Memphis State University in 1957. In 1951, the new $700,000 Field House gym was opened for Tiger home games, in 1952, John Wallesea became the first Memphis State player to be drafted by the NBA. Forest Arnold became the schools first All-American in 1954, the Tigers made the NCAA tournament for the first time in 1955 under coach Eugene Lambert. Bob Vanatta became the coach in 1956 and took the Tigers to the NIT final. Win Wilfong became the teams second All-American in 1957, in 1962, Dean Ehlers took over coaching duties. The Tigers began playing its games at the Mid-South Coliseum in 1964. Moe Iba became the coach in 1966, the same year the team joined the Missouri Valley Conference. Ibas four years running the program are considered the low point in the history of Memphis basketball, however, the Tigers did not remain down for long. In 1970, Gene Bartow was named head coach, the 1970 season also saw the first games of Larry Finch and Ronnie Robinson, two all-time greats. Larry Finch scored 24 points in his first appearance as a freshman, in 1971, the Tigers led by Finch and Robinson upset conference rival Louisville. At 11-2, they were ranked #19 after not reaching the Top 20 in a decade, early in the 1971–1972 season, Memphis State fell in a heart breaker to No.2 Marquette after leading by five points with five minutes to go. After defeating Louisville in Freedom Hall, the Tigers shared the Missouri Valley Conference title in 1972 with Louisville, Louisville won a playoff to represent the MVC in the NCAA Tournament while the Tigers went to the NIT for their fifth time. During the 1972–1973 season, seniors Finch and Robinson led the Tigers to one of their most successful seasons, Memphis State won the MVC outright in 1972 after winning 14 straight games
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Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball
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The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and is a member of the Big Ten Conference. Purdue basketball has the most Big Ten Championships with 23, the Boilermakers have reached two NCAA Tournament Final Fours. The 1931–32 team was named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Purdue has sent more than 30 players to the NBA, including two overall No.1 picks in the NBA draft, Purdue shares a traditional rivalry with in-state foe Indiana University, and holds a 117–89 all-time series lead. The history of Purdue basketball dates back to 1896 with their first game against the Lafayette YMCA, in the 1902–03 season, head coach C. I. Freeman, in his season, led them to an undefeated 8–0 record. Upon conclusion of the season, the university recognized the popularity of the sport, the Boilermakers began play in the Big Ten Conference three years later, with its first championship coming in 1911 under the direction of Ralph Jones. In 1917, Ward Piggy Lambert, a basketball player at Wabash College, was named head coach of the Boilermakers. What followed was one of the most dominant eras of Purdue Basketball on the conference, under Lambert, Purdue became a front-runner in the development of the fast-paced game as it is today. Lambert compiled a record of 371–152, a.709 winning percentage. His 228 wins in Big Ten play have been bested by only Indianas Bob Knight, Lambert won an unprecedented 11 Big Ten Championships, which Bobby Knight later tied for most in conference history. In 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively recognized Purdue as its champion for 1932. The Premo-Porretta Power Poll later recognized the Boilermakers as the 1932 national champion as well, Ward Lambert announced his resignation on January 23,1946. That same year and the following under new head coach Mel Taube. Center Paul Hoffman became the only Boiler to be named a First Team-All Big Ten selection four times in 1947, after Mel Taubes four and a half seasons, Ray Eddy, a former player and teammate of John Wooden under Lambert, took over as head coach. In 1955, his team played one of the longest games in basketball history. Schaus led the Boilermakers to the 1974 NIT Championship, becoming the first Big Ten team to capture the NIT title, in the 1978–79 season, new head coach Lee Rose introduced Purdue basketball to a new approach with a slowed-down, controlled style of play. With All-American center Joe Barry Carroll, he led them to the 1979 NIT Finals, in 1980, Gene Keady, the head coach of Western Kentucky and former assistant to Eddie Sutton with the Arkansas Razorbacks, was named the new head coach of the Boilermakers
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Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball
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The Alabama Crimson Tide mens basketball team represents the University of Alabama in NCAA Division I mens basketball. The program has a history of being among the best of the Southeastern Conference, in the conference it trails only long-time basketball powerhouse Kentucky in basketball wins and SEC tournament titles, and is third behind Kentucky and LSU in SEC regular season conference titles. Alabama was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion for the 1929–30 season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll, the team is currently led by head coach Avery Johnson. The mens basketball program has spent most of its history in the shadow of Alabamas football team, under former coach Mark Gottfried, the team achieved a No.1 national ranking briefly in 2003, and competed for a NCAA Regional Tournament Championship in 2004. The program was notable as a conference basketball contender in the 1980s and early 1990s under the direction of coach Wimp Sanderson. Alabama has eight NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearances, in the 2003–04 season, the team defeated #1-seeded Stanford in the NCAA Tournament, and reached the Elite Eight round where they lost to the eventual national champion, Connecticut. Other coaches include John Dee, Floyd Burdette, and Charles A. Bernier, rupp recommended C. M. Newton, a former backup player at Kentucky who had been at Transylvania University for 12 years. In twelve seasons at Alabama, Newton led the Tide to a record of 211–123, the Crimson Tide won three straight SEC titles under Newton, the only program besides Kentucky to accomplish this feat. Newton also guided Alabama to four NIT and two NCAA Mens Division I Championship tournament berths, prompting the school to name a recruiting suite in his honor in 2006. Just as he did at Transylvania, Newton recruited Alabamas first black player, Wendell Hudson, in 1969, Newton resigned as head coach after the 1980–81 season to become assistant commissioner of the SEC. He was succeeded by his top assistant, Wimp Sanderson and he had been at Alabama since 1960 as a graduate assistant to Newtons predecessor, Hayden Riley, he was named a full-fledged assistant in 1961. In 12 years as head coach his teams averaged 21.8 wins a year, with a 267–119 record and they played in one NIT and eight NCAA tournaments making the Sweet 16 five times. Sanderson is the coach in Alabama history to win 200 or more games in his first 10 years. He was the SEC Coach of the Year in 1987,1989 and 1990, Sanderson was best known for wearing garish plaid sports jackets on the sidelines. At one point, Coleman Coliseum was known as the Plaid Palace, as an assistant, he had the opportunity to coach such All-SEC performers as Robert Horry, James Hollywood Robinson and Latrell Sprewell. When Sanderson left Alabama following the 1992 season, Hobbs was named head coach, in his first season, the Tide finished 16–13 and advanced to the NIT. In 1994 and 1995, Alabama recorded 20-win seasons and advanced to the NCAA Tournament behind the play of future NBA All-Star Antonio McDyess, in 1996, Hobbs led UA to a 19–13 mark and a berth in the NIT Final Four. He resigned his post following the 1998 season after compiling a 110–76 career record, Mark Gottfried served as the Crimson Tides head coach from the 1998–99 season until midway through the 2008–09 season
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Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
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The Big 12 Mens Basketball Tournament is the championship mens basketball tournament in the Big 12 Conference. It is a tournament of four rounds, with the top four seeds getting byes in the first round. Starting in 2012, the top six seeds will get byes in the first round, seeding is based on regular season records. The tournament has been every year since the first full basketball season was completed in 1997. Since that time, it was held in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri in early March for every year up until 2003, and also in 2005. In 2003,2004, and 2006 it was held at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, in 2008 it was again held in Kansas City, but this time at the Sprint Center. The 2009 edition of the championship was held in Oklahoma City, on June 1,2012, it was announced that the Big 12 Tournament would stay in Kansas City through 2016. Kansas has won the most Big 12 postseason titles as well, numbers in parentheses refer to each teams finish/seed in the tournament for that year. Teams are seeded in order of highest conference record
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Kansas Jayhawks
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The Kansas Jayhawks, commonly referred to as KU, are the teams of the athletic department at the University of Kansas. KU is one of three schools in the state of Kansas that participate in NCAA Division I, the Jayhawks are also a member of the Big 12 Conference. The name Jayhawks comes from the Kansas Jayhawker freedom fighter and anti-slavery movement during the Bleeding Kansas era of the American Civil War, the University of Kansas officially sponsors the below sports. In addition, there are also club sports for rugby, ice hockey. The school used to sponsor a team, though the sport was discontinued during the 1960s. The origin of the term Jayhawk is uncertain, the term was adopted as a nickname by a group of emigrants traveling to California in 1849. The origin of the term may go back as far as the Revolutionary War, the term became part of the lexicon of the Missouri-Kansas border in about 1858, during the Kansas territorial period. The term was used to describe militant bands nominally associated with the free-state cause, in September 1861, the town of Osceola, Missouri was burned to the ground by Jayhawkers during the Sacking of Osceola. On the 150th anniversary of that event in 2011, the town asked the University of Kansas to remove the Jayhawk as its mascot, over time, proud of their states contributions to the end of slavery and the preservation of the Union, Kansans embraced the Jayhawker term. The term came to be applied to people or items related to Kansas, when the University of Kansas fielded their first football team in 1890, like many Universities at that time, they had no official mascot. They used many different independent mascots, including a pig, eventually, sometime during the 1890s, the team was referred to as the Jayhawkers by the student body. Over time, the name was supplanted by its shorter variant. The Jayhawk appears in several Kansas cheers, most notably, the Rock Chalk, Jayhawk chant in unison before and during games. In the traditions promoted by KU, the jayhawk is said to be a combination of two birds, the jay, a noisy, quarrelsome thing known to rob other nests, and the sparrow hawk. The link between the term Jayhawkers and any kind of mythical bird, if it ever existed, had been lost or at least obscured by the time KUs bird mascot was invented in 1912. The originator of the mascot, Henry Maloy, struggled for over two years to create a pictorial symbol for the team, until hitting upon the bird idea. As explained by Mr. Maloy, the term ‘jayhawk’ in the school yell was a verb, KUs current Jayhawk tradition largely springs from Frank W. Blackmar, a KU professor. In his 1926 address on the origin of the Jayhawk, Blackmar specifically referenced the blue jay, Big 12 Conference champions have the best conference regular season record, and titles are awarded to the winner of the postseason championship tournament
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Blake Griffin
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Blake Austin Griffin is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, when he was named the Consensus National Player of the Year as a sophomore, Griffin was selected first overall by the Clippers in the 2009 NBA draft, and has since been a five-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA selection. Griffin had a high school career at Oklahoma Christian School, winning state titles each of his four years under his father. Griffin played two seasons of college ball for the Sooners before entering the 2009 NBA draft, when he was selected by the Clippers, during the final pre-season game of 2009, he broke his left kneecap, had surgery, and missed the entire 2009–10 season. Griffin made his NBA debut as a rookie the following season, in which he was selected as an All-Star, won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, in 2011, Sports Illustrated called him one of the NBAs 15 Greatest Rookies of All Time. Griffin was born on March 16,1989, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Tommy Griffin, who is of Afro-Haitian descent, and Gail Griffin, as a result, Griffin is bi-racial. His father was a center and track standout at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Griffin and his brother, Taylor Griffin, were home-schooled by their mother from first grade until Taylor was in the tenth grade. Growing up, Griffin was good friends with future NFL quarterback Sam Bradford, bradfords father owned a gym where Blake and Taylor played basketball. Before deciding to focus on basketball, Griffin also played baseball as a first baseman and football as a receiver, safety. In 2003, Griffin followed his brother to Oklahoma Christian School and they played together during the 2003–04 and 2004–05 high school seasons, winning two state basketball championships. In his freshman year, the Oklahoma Christian Saints posted a perfect 29–0 season and won the Class 3A boys state championship game at the State Fair Arena against Riverside Indian School, 55–50. In Griffins sophomore year, the Saints repeated as Class 3A state champions, defeating Sequoyah-Tahlequah 51–34, the team finished the season with a 24–2 record, with Griffin averaging 13.6 points per game. He was later named to the Little All-City All-State team in what was his high school season with his brother. Taylor went on to accept a scholarship to college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners. During the summer of 2005, Blake was a member of the Athletes First AAU team, where he played against Kevin Durant and Ty Lawsons AAU team, during Griffins junior season, the Oklahoma Christian basketball team was moved down to Class 2A from Class 3A. As he began his season with the Saints, he was quickly developing as a player. He scored 22 points, grabbed 9 rebounds, and recorded 6 blocks in the finals as Oklahoma Christian defeated Washington High School, 57–40
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St. Joseph's Hawks men's basketball
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The Saint Josephs Hawks mens basketball team represents Saint Josephs University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The program is classified in the NCAAs Division I, and the team competes in the Atlantic 10 Conference, Saint Joes competes as well as part of the Philadelphia Big 5. Saint Josephs home court is the Hagan Arena, the team is currently led by coach Phil Martelli in his 22nd year. Through the years they have produced a number of NBA players, Saint Josephs most bitter rivalry is with the Villanova Wildcats. Other rivals include the Temple Owls, the La Salle Explorers, Saint Josephs basketball program was ranked 43rd best of all-time by Smith & Streets magazine in 2005. Mens basketball is the most popular sport at Saint Josephs University, the Hawks have competed in twenty-one NCAA Tournaments and sixteen NIT Tournaments. Throughout the schools history,29 different players have been drafted into the NBA, the Hawks have been ranked 77 times in their history,51 of which have been in the top 10. The Hawks appeared in 11 NCAA Tournaments between 1959 and 1974, the Hawks were coached by Hall of Fame coach Dr. Jack Ramsay from 1955 to 1966. Ramsay compiled a 234–72 record in his 11 years at Saint Josephs and they reached Final Four in 1961. Ramsay went on to coach several NBA teams and won the 1977 NBA Championship, Jack McKinney took over after Ramsay left and led the Hawks to four more NCAA Tournaments between 1969 and 1974. Following the 1974 season, the Hawks, with 11 fellow larger schools from the Middle Atlantic Conference, in 1980–81, the Hawks, led by coach Jim Lynam, finished in second place in ECC play and won the ECC Tournament to receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament. As a #9 seed, the Hawks defeated Creighton in the First Round and upset #1 seeded, the Hawks defeated Boston College to advance to the Elite Eight before losing to eventual National Champion, Indiana. Lynam also left the Hawks to enjoy a career as a coach. Saint Josephs joined the Atlantic 10 Conference prior to the 1982–83 season, the 2003–2004 Saint Josephs University Hawks were the last Division I College Basketball team to finish the Regular Season undefeated before the Wichita State Shockers did so in 2013–14. Saint Josephs ended the season with a 27–0 record and secured a #1 national ranking. The Hawks were led by a backcourt of Jameer Nelson and Delonte West, the Hawks advanced to the Elite Eight with wins over Liberty, Texas Tech, and #17 Wake Forest. In the Elite Eight, they lost to Oklahoma State 64–62, Nelson was named National Player of the Year while coach Phil Martelli was named Coach of the Year. In 2009, the 2004 Hawks were named the best single-season team of the decade by Sports Illustrated, the 2004–05 team attempted to repeat the prior years success without its two star players
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Louisville Cardinals men's basketball
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The Louisville Cardinals mens basketball team is the mens college basketball program representing the University of Louisville in the Atlantic Coast Conference of NCAA Division I. The Cardinals have won three NCAA championships and have been to 10 Final Fours in 42 NCAA tournament appearances while compiling 76 tournament wins, bernard Peck Hickmans 1944 team finished with a 16–3 record and started a string of 46 consecutive winning seasons, which was an NCAA record. Hickman led Louisville to its first championship on a level by winning the NAIB Tournament in 1948. In 1956, led by All-American Charlie Tyra, the Cardinals won the NIT Championship, in 1956 his team was placed on two years probation, to include bans on postseason play, by the NCAA due to recruiting violations. In 1959, Louisville made its first NCAA Final Four appearance behind the play of All-American Don Goldstein, the Cardinals never had a losing season in Hickmans 23 seasons as head coach. He coached 11 20-win teams, appeared in five NCAA tournaments, coached six NIT appearances and finished with a 443–183 overall record, John Dromo was Hickmans assistant for 17 years and succeeded him at head coach in 1967. In four seasons as coach, Dromo led the Cardinals to a 68–23 record. A heart attack during the 1970–71 season forced Dromo to retire and his assistant, Howard Stacey, was named interim head coach for the final 20 games of the season. Denny Crum was hired as coach from his alma mater, UCLA. It was under the guidance of Crum that Louisville became a basketball power. In his first season, he guided the Cardinals to the NCAA Final Four, Overall, Crum had six Final Fours with the Louisville Cardinals. He is fifth all-time in Final Four appearances, the Cardinals won the 1980 NCAA Tournament championship by defeating UCLA 59–54. Six years later, Louisville would overcome Duke 72–69 for a second title, Crum is one of only 11 coaches to win two or more national championships. He was named National Coach of the Year in 1980,1983 and 1986 and he took the Cardinals to 23 NCAA tournaments, where they had an overall record of 43–21. While in the Metro Conference, the Cardinals won 12 regular season titles and 11 tournament championships, in its 19 years of naming a champion, the Metro had Louisville as first or second place 17 times. In 1993, Crum became the second fastest coach to reach 500 wins, Crum was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 1994. He retired in 2001 with a record of 675–295 over 30 seasons. He was a member of the College Basketball Hall of Fames inaugural class in 2006, rick Pitino was hired in 2001 after four years as head coach of the Boston Celtics, and previously as head coach of Louisvilles in-state rival, Kentucky
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Texas Longhorns men's basketball
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The Texas Longhorns mens basketball team represents The University of Texas at Austin in NCAA Division I intercollegiate mens basketball competition. The Longhorns currently compete in the Big 12 Conference, the University of Texas began varsity intercollegiate competition in mens basketball in 1906. Among Big 12 Conference mens basketball programs, Texas is second only to Kansas in both wins and all-time win percentage. The Texas basketball program experienced substantial success during the decades of its existence. Since 1977, the team has played its games in the Frank Erwin Special Events Center. The team is led by second-year head coach Shaka Smart. Mainland had been a nationally known basketball player as a student at Wheaton College prior to coming to UT. His Wheaton team placed out of the three competing college basketball teams in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, the first Olympic Games featuring the young sport. The Longhorns took the court for the first time on March 10,1906, Texas traveled to Waco two weeks later for a three-game series with the Bears and won all three games behind the play of Mainland. The Longhorns ultimately won seven of the eight games scheduled in the programs inaugural season. Due to inadequate funding, the UT Athletic Council canceled the program after two seasons, leaving Texas without a basketball team for the 1908 season. The Athletics Council revived the program in 1909, owing in part to the efforts of Longhorn player Morgan Vining. Metzenthin finished with an record of 13–14, not until 1959 would another UT basketball coach leave with a losing overall record. Taylor, also the Texas track coach, assumed head coaching responsibilities for the 1913 season. Taylor came to UT with a reputation for basketball expertise. At the conclusion of the 1912–13 academic year, the UTs Cactus yearbook declared and it always has been so considered until this year Prof. Carl Taylor took charge of the work and infused new life into it, L. Bellmonts teams contributed 25 victories to a winning streak that would ultimately grow to 44 games. Hendersons team recorded Texas third consecutive undefeated season in 1916 to extend the total to 40 consecutive victories. S, Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson in 1914
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Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball
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With Smiths departure to coach the Memphis Tigers, the school hired former Arkansas-Little Rock coach Chris Beard on April 15,2016. Texas Techs basketball program was founded the year the school opened its doors in 1925. The inaugural game was a 37–25 loss to Daniel Baker College, Tech would lose two more games before finally clinching their first ever victory—35–21 at Sul Ross University. Grady Higginbotham was the first coach, earning a 14–18 record over two seasons, until Pat Knight, Higgenbotham was the only Tech basketball coach to garner an overall losing record during his stay. Following Higgenbothams departure, Victor Payne led the Matadors from 1927 to 1930 and his final tally stood at 32 wins and 20 losses. W. L. Golightly coached only one season, bringing in an 11–9 record, dell Morgan held the head coaching job from 1931 to 1934, chalking up 42 wins to 29 losses. He was followed by Virgil Ballard, though Ballard coached only a single season, it was during his time that the team won their milestone 100th game, a one-point victory over House of David. Ballard left with a 15–9 record, berl Huffman was twice the head basketball coach at Texas Tech—first from 1935 to 1942 and then from 1946 to 1947. During his total of eight seasons, he garnered a record of 121–67, polk Robison was the only other person to serve two different times as the head basketball coach at the school. When Huffman left in 1942, Robison took the job, and, when Huffman left a second time in 1947, it was Robison who again filled the position, this time remaining until 1961. At a total of 18 seasons, his stay is the second longest of any Red Raiders basketball coach and he departed after leading his teams to 254 wins,195 losses, and the first two NCAA tournaments in school history. Gene Gibson followed Robison into the position, in his eight seasons, he chalked up the second best conference record in Texas Tech history and lead the Raiders to a Southwest Conference Championship in 1962. HeBob Bass led the program to a 22–15 record over a season-and-a-half before returning to basketball coaching duties. Gerald Myers became coach of the Red Raiders mid-year during the 1970/71 season and his stay was the longest of any head basketball coach at Tech, and several milestones were passed during his tenure, including wins #600, #700, #800, and #900. With a Texas Tech career record of 326–261, Myers has more wins with the Red Raiders than any mens basketball coach in school history. Myers led Tech to 16 winning seasons, two Southwest Conference championships, three SWC tournament titles, and four NCAA Tournament berths, Myers served as the schools athletic director from 1996 to 2011. James Dickey replaced Myers as head coach prior to the 1991/92 season, during his 10 seasons at Texas Tech, Dickey amassed a 166–124 win-loss record. The program also won its 1, 000th game under Dickey—a 71–62 victory at UALR, in his second year as head coach, the Red Raiders won the Southwest Conference tournament championship, the schools fourth, to secure the leagues automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament
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Lubbock, Texas
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Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the part of the state. According to a 2015 Census estimate, Lubbock had a population of 249,042, making it the 83rd most populous city in the United States of America and the 11th most populous city in the state of Texas. The city is the center of the Lubbock metropolitan area. The area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world and is dependent on water drawn from the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation. Lubbock was selected as the 12th best place to start a business by CNNMoney. com. CNN mentioned the traditional business atmosphere, low rent for commercial space, central location. Lubbock is home to Texas Tech University, the sixth-largest college by enrollment in the state, Lubbock High School has been recognized for three consecutive years by Newsweek as one of the top high schools in the United States based in part on its international baccalaureate program. Lubbock County was founded in 1876 and it was named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock, former Texas Ranger and brother of Francis Lubbock, governor of Texas during the Civil War. As early as 1884, a federal post office existed in Yellow House Canyon, a small town, known as Old Lubbock, Lubbock, or North Town, was established about three miles to the east. In 1890, the original Lubbock merged with Monterey, another small town south of the canyon, the new town adopted the Lubbock name. The merger included moving the original Lubbocks Nicolett Hotel across the canyon on rollers to the new townsite, Lubbock became the county seat in 1891, and was incorporated on March 16,1909. In the same year, the first railroad train arrived, Texas Technological College was founded in Lubbock in 1923. A separate university, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, opened as Texas Tech University School of Medicine in 1969, both universities are now overseen by the Texas Tech University System, after it was established in 1996 and based in Lubbock. Lubbock Christian University, founded in 1957, and Sunset International Bible Institute, South Plains College and Wayland Baptist University operate branch campuses in Lubbock. At one time, Lubbock was home to Reese Air Force Base located 6 miles west of the city, the bases primary mission throughout its existence was pilot training. The base was closed 30 September 1997 after being selected for closure by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission in 1995 and is now a research, the city is home to the Lubbock Lake Landmark, part of the Museum of Texas Tech University. The landmark is an archaeological and natural preserve at the northern edge of the city
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Missouri Tigers men's basketball
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The Missouri Tigers mens basketball team represents the University of Missouri in the SEC. Prior to the 2012–2013 season, the team represented the school in the Big 12 Conference. They are located in Columbia, Missouri, playing games at Mizzou Arena. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament in 2013, the Tigers next season in 2017–18 will be their first under new head coach Cuonzo Martin, who was hired away from California to replace the fired Kim Anderson. The Missouris mens basketball program was a member of the Big 12 Conference. Following the 2016–17 season, the Tigers had a record of 1, 593–1,133. 2Missouri vacated all wins from the 2013–2014 season in 2015, the Tigers have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 26 times. However, their appearance in 1994 has been vacated by the NCAA making their official record 19–25, * Vacated by the NCAA The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition. The Tigers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament eight times, the Tigers appeared in one of the only two ever National Commissioners Invitational Tournaments
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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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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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Morgan State University
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Morgan State University is a public research university and historically black college in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Morgan is Marylands designated public urban university and the largest HBCU in Maryland and it became a university in 1975. MSU is a member of Thurgood Marshall College Fund, although a public institution, MSU is not a part of the University System of Maryland, the school opted out and possesses its own governing Board of Regents. MSU offers baccalaureate degrees in 45 fields, masters degrees in 35 fields, doctoral degrees in 15 fields, and online programs in 9 fields through its colleges, schools. Morgan State University was founded in 1872 as the Centenary Biblical Institute, at the time of his death, Thomas Kelso, cofounder and president of the board of directors, endowed the Male Free School and Colored Institute through a legacy of his estate. It later broadened its mission to both men and women as teachers. The school was renamed Morgan College in 1890 in honor of the Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its Board of Trustees, who donated land to the college. In 1895, the institution awarded its first baccalaureate degree to George F. McMechen, after whom the building of the school of business, George F. McMechen later obtained a law degree from Yale University and later became one of Morgans main financial supporters. In 1915 Andrew Carnegie gave the school a grant of $50,000 for an academic building. The terms of the grant included the purchase of a new site for the College, payment of all outstanding obligations, the College met the conditions and moved to its present site in northeast Baltimore in 1917. Then a controversy exploded, in 1918, the community of Lauraville was incensed that the Ivy Mill property. It attempted to have the sale revoked by filing suit in the court in Towson. They then appealed the case to the state Court of Appeals, the appellate court upheld the lower court decision, finding no basis that siting the college at this location would constitute a public nuisance. Despite some ugly threats and several demonstrations against the project, Morgan College was allowed to be constructed at the new site, Carnegie Hall, the oldest original building on the present MSU campus, was erected a year later. Morgan remained an institution until 1939. That year, the state of Maryland purchased the school in response to a study that determined that Maryland needed to provide more opportunities for its black citizens. Morgan College became Morgan State College, in 1975, Morgan added several doctoral programs and its Board of Directors petitioned the Maryland Legislature to be granted University status. Morgan State University has undergone a physical renaissance, the latter two buildings, plus one of the two parking garages, are in the far north of the campus, connected by a new Communications Bridge over Herring Run
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Syracuse Orange men's basketball
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The Syracuse Orange mens basketball program is an intercollegiate mens basketball team representing Syracuse University. The program is classified in the NCAAs Division I, and the team competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Orange currently hold an active NCAA-record 46 consecutive winning seasons. In those games, the Orange lost to Indiana in 1987 and Kentucky in 1996, Syracuse fielded its first varsity basketball team in 1900-01. The program rose to prominence early in its history, being recognized by the Helms Athletic Foundation as national champions for 1918 and 1926. The program made National Invitation Tournament appearances in 1946 and 1950, won the 1951 National Campus Tournament, notable early era players included Hall of Famer Vic Hanson and racial pioneer Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The modern era of Syracuse basketball began with the arrival of future Hall of Famer Dave Bing. As a sophomore in 1964, Bing led the team to an NIT appearance and as a senior in 1966, he led the team to its second NCAA Tournament appearance, Bings backcourt partner on these teams was future Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim. Syracuse remained competitive after Bings departure, with NIT appearances in 1967,1971, under coach Roy Danforth, in 1973, the team began a string of consecutive NCAA appearances highlighted by a Final Four appearance in 1975. The 1975 squad featured guard Jim Lee and forward Rudy Hackett and was known as Roys Runts. Following the 1976 season, Danforth was hired away by Tulane University, Boeheim extended the string of NCAA appearances to nine, with bids in each of his first four seasons, a period in which his teams won 100 games. These teams featured star forward Louis Orr and center Roosevelt Bouie and were referred to as the Louie and Bouie Show. Syracuse was a member of the Big East Conference in 1979, along with Georgetown University, St. Johns University. Over the next ten seasons, these two schools met eight times in the Big East Tournament, four times in the finals, Syracuse won the Big East Tournament in 1981, but was passed over by the NCAA Tournament. The team, featuring Danny Schayes and Leo Rautins, finished runner-up in the NIT, the team returned to the NIT in 1982, before beginning another extended streak of NCAA appearances in 1983. Heralded high school phenomenon Dwayne Pearl Washington joined the team in 1983, and led the school to NCAA appearances in 1984,1985, led by guard Lawrence Moten and forward/center John Wallace, the school returned to the NCAAs in 1994 and 1995. The 1997 squad won 19 games but was bypassed by the NCAA Tournament, the 1998,1999, and 2000 squads featuring guard Jason Hart and center Etan Thomas all earned NCAA bids. In 2000, the University also named its All-Century Team, recognizing its greatest players of the 20th century, the team made a fourth consecutive NCAA appearance in 2001, but returned to the NIT in 2002, despite having a 20-win season. This marked the first time a school with 20 wins from the Big East Conference was denied a bid to the NCAA Tournament, Anthony was named NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player
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North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
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The North Carolina Tar Heels mens basketball program is the intercollegiate mens basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolinas six NCAA Tournament Championships are third-most all-time, behind UCLA, the program has produced many notable players who went on to play in the NBA, including three of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, Billy Cunningham, Michael Jordan and James Worthy. Many Tar Heel assistant coaches have gone on to head coaches elsewhere. From the Tar Heels first season in 1910–11 through the 2016–17 season, the Tar Heels also have the most consecutive 20-win seasons with 31 seasons from the 1970–71 season through the 2000–2001 season. On March 2,2010, North Carolina became the college basketball program to reach 2,000 wins in its history. The Tar Heels are currently ranked 3rd all time in wins trailing Kentucky by 33 games, the Tar Heels are one of only four Division I Mens Basketball programs to have ever achieved 2,000 victories. Kentucky, Kansas, and Duke are the other three, Carolina has played 160 games in the NCAA tournament. The Tar Heels have appeared in the NCAA Tournament Championship Game 11 times, the Tar Heels have made it into the NCAA tournament 45 times, and have amassed 116 victories. North Carolina also won the National Invitation Tournament in 1971, additionally, the team has been the number one seed in the NCAA Tournament 16 times, the latest being in 2017. North Carolina has ended the season ranked in the Top-25 of the AP Poll 43 times, further, the Tar Heels have finished the season ranked #1 in the AP Poll 5 times and ranked #1 in Coaches Poll 5 times. In 2008, the Tar Heels received the first unanimous preseason #1 ranking in the history of either the Coaches Poll or the AP Poll, in 2012, ESPN ranked North Carolina #1 on its list of the 50 most successful programs of the past 50 years. North Carolina played its first basketball game on January 27,1910, in 1921, the school joined the Southern Conference. The 1924 Tar Heels squad went 26–0, and was awarded the national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1943. Overall, the Tar Heels played 32 seasons in the Southern Conference from 1921 to 1953, during that period they won 304 games and lost 111 for a winning percentage of 73. 3%. The Tar Heels won the Southern Conference regular season 9 times, in 1953, North Carolina split from the Southern Conference and became a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The title game was the triple overtime final game in championship history. In 1960, the Tar Heels were placed on NCAA probation for improper recruiting entertainment of basketball prospects, as a result, they were barred from the 1961 NCAA tournament and also withdrew from the 1961 ACC Tournament. Following the season, Chancellor William Aycock forced McGuire to resign, as a replacement, Aycock selected one of McGuires assistants, Kansas alumnus Dean Smith
