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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball
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The Iowa State Cyclones mens basketball team represents Iowa State University and competes in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I. The team is coached by Steve Prohm, he is in his 2nd year at Iowa State, the Cyclones play their home games at Hilton Coliseum on Iowa States campus. From 1907 to 1928, the Cyclones played in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, managing a few winning records in-conference, in 1929, the Cyclones moved to the Big Six Conference and named Louis Menze as head coach. Over the next 19 years, Menze would lead the Cyclones to four conference championships, two of these teams earned consideration for the then eight-team NCAA Tournament, the 1941 squad lost in a pre-Tournament qualifying game to Creighton. Neither these tournament wins, nor their regular season performances, qualified the Cyclones for postseason play in the 33 years between Menzes and Johnny Orrs stints in the coaching position. However, the 1957 Cyclones were ranked #3 in the nation after handing Wilt Chamberlains #1 Kansas its first loss, Gary Thompson outscored Chamberlain, while Don Medsker held Chamberlain to a career low in scoring and then hit the game winner at the buzzer. No.3 remains the schools national ranking. From the introduction of the Big Eights postseason tournament in 1977 until Johnny Orrs fifth season in 1985, Johnny Orr came to Iowa State from Michigan in 1980. Iowa States athletics director had called Orr to inquire about Michigan assistant Bill Frieder, when Orr learned of the salary Iowa State would offer Frieder, he negotiated the Iowa State head coaching job for himself. Orr is credited with building Hilton Magic and laying the foundation for Iowa States success in mens basketball, Orrs first team, led by junior forward Robert Estes produced a lackluster 9–18 record. Freshman forward Ron Harris, whom Orr considered his first prominent Cyclone recruit, led by sophomore Ron Harris and freshman recruit Barry Stevens of Flint, Michigan, Orrs 1981–82 team finished the season with a 10–17 overall record and a 5–9 record in Big Eight play. Harris gave the Cyclones 13.3 points per game, while Stevens contributed 13.0 points per game, senior Robert Estes added 10.3 points per game. The Cyclones improved to a 13–15 overall record in the 1982–83 season, many of the Cyclone faithful regard sophomore Barry Stevens buzzer-beating shot against 10th-ranked Missouri during the 1982–83 season as the foundational example of Hilton Magic. Stevens tallied per-game averages of 16.8 points and 5.2 rebounds for the season, Ron Harris contributed 14.3 points per game. The Cyclones played in the 1984 National Invitation Tournament, losing to Marquette in the first round, junior forward Barry Stevens averaged 22.2 points per game on the season. Seniors Terrence Allen and Ron Harris each averaged 11.0 points per game, Iowa State advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time under Orr and for just the second time in the history of the program. The Cyclones, the #13 seed in the Midwest Region, lost to #4 seed Ohio State by a score of 75–64, ISU managed to upset 10th-ranked Kansas twice during the regular season. Barry Stevens averaged 21.7 points per game, Jeff Hornacek recorded 12.5 points per game, and freshman Jeff Grayer averaged 12.2 points and 6.5 rebounds on the season
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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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University of Alabama
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The University of Alabama is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System. Founded in 1820, UA is the oldest and largest of the universities in Alabama. UA offers programs of study in 13 academic divisions leading to bachelors, masters, Education Specialist, the only publicly supported law school in the state is at UA. The school was a center of activity during the American Civil War, the University of Alabama varsity football program, which was inaugurated in 1892, ranks as one of 10 winningest programs in US history. In a 1913 speech then-president George H. Denny extolled the university as the capstone of the school system in the state, lending the university its current nickname. The University of Alabama has consistently ranked as one of the top 50 public universities in the nation by the U. S. News & World Report. In 1818, U. S. Congress authorized the newly created Alabama Territory to set aside a township for the establishment of a seminary of learning. When Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14,1819, the board chose as the site of the campus a place which was then just outside the city limits of Tuscaloosa, the state capital at the time. The new campus was designed by William Nichols, also the architect of newly completed Alabama State Capitol building, the universitys charter was presented to the first university president in the nave of Christ Episcopal Church. UA opened its doors to students on April 18,1831, an academy-style institution during the Antebellum period, the university emphasized the classics and the social and natural sciences. There were around 100 students per year at UA in the 1830s, consequently, only a fraction of students who enrolled in the early years remained enrolled for long and even fewer graduated. Those who did graduate, however, often had distinguished careers in Alabama, early graduates included Benjamin F. Porter and Alexander Meek. As the state and university matured, a literary culture evolved on campus. UA had one of the largest libraries in the country on the eve of the Civil War with more than 7,000 volumes, campbell, novelist William Gilmore Simms, and Professor Frederick Barnard. The addresses to those societies reveal a vibrant intellectual culture in Tuscaloosa, they illustrate the proslavery ideas that were so central to the university. Discipline and student behavior was an issue at the university almost from the day it opened. Early presidents attempted to enforce strict rules regarding conduct, Students were prohibited from drinking, swearing, making unauthorized visits off-campus, or playing musical instruments outside a one-hour time frame. Yet riots and gunfights were not an uncommon occurrence, to combat the severe discipline problem, president Landon Garland lobbied and received approval from the legislature in 1860 to transform the university into a military school
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Centenary Gentlemen basketball
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The Centenary Gentlemen basketball team represents Centenary College, located in Shreveport, Louisiana, in NCAA Division III mens basketball competition. The Gentlemen nickname is exclusive to athletes and teams, Ladies is used for womens teams. The team is a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, prior to 2011, Centenary was a member of the NCAA Division I, and competed in the Summit League. The Gentlemen were coached by Rob Flaska from 2005 until 2008 and his contract was not renewed after the 2007-08 season. Greg Gary was hired to replace him, mark Richmond has become the assistant coach for the Gents and brings big-time Big East experience from West Virginia to the staff. He has worked under both Bob Huggins and John Beilein, in 2010 Adam Walsh became the head coach of The Gents. Robert Parish Larry Robinson See Category, Centenary Gentlemen basketball players Official website
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Tulane Green Wave men's basketball
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The Tulane Green Wave mens basketball team represents Tulane University in NCAA Division I college basketball. The team competes in the American Athletic Conference and they play home games on campus in Devlin Fieldhouse, the 9th-oldest active basketball venue in the nation. The teams last appearance in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament was in 1995 and it rejoined many of its previous conference mates when it became a member of the American Athletic Conference in 2014. Tulanes mens basketball played its first game on December 9,1905. Clyde Eads and Jon Johnson were granted immunity to testify against Williams, although he was indicted, the judge eventually declared a mistrial, and no sentence was handed down. Williams spent the next nine years with the NBAs Cleveland Cavaliers, within days of Williams indictment, the entire basketball coaching staff and the athletic director resigned. Shortly afterward school president Eamon Kelly disbanded the basketball program and he didnt intend to ever allow its return but relented in 1988 after several students convinced him that they were being punished for something that occurred when they werent at Tulane. New head coach Perry Clark rebuilt the program to unprecedented success, including a 1991–92 season that started 13–0, the 1992–93 and 1994–95 teams matched that teams success, but Tulane hasnt approached such heights since. Clark resigned in 2000 to coach the Miami Hurricanes, the Green Wave failed to make any postseason tournament under Clarks successor, Shawn Finney, or under former Maryland assistant Dave Dickerson. Ed Conroy was hired as the new coach in 2010. His teams have seen initial success against out-of-conference foes in each of its seasons but have done poorly in conference games, the 2010–11 team finished 13–17 after a 12–3 start, while his 2011–12 team finished 15–16 after starting 14–6. On March 14,2016, Tulane fired Ed Conroy after six years as head coach and he was replaced by Mike Dunleavy, Sr. The Green Wave have appeared in three NCAA Tournaments, the Green Wave have appeared in six National Invitation Tournaments. The Green Wave have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational, the Green Wave have appeared in one CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament. The following Green Wave players have played in the NBA, Hot Rod Williams Linton Johnson Paul Thompson Jerald Honeycutt List of NCAA Division I mens basketball programs Basketball Reference Website
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Murray State Racers men's basketball
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Murray State Racers mens basketball program represents intercollegiate mens basketball at Murray State University. The school competes in the Ohio Valley Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and play games at the CFSB Center in Murray. Murray State made its 15th appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 2012, three times the Racers advanced in the tournament, most recently when it defeated Colorado State in 2012. In 1988, Murray State defeated North Carolina State in the first round, in 2010,22 years to the date of the 1988 win, the Racers beat Vanderbilt and lost to eventual runner-up Butler in the second round. Murray States first basketball venues were Wilson Hall, Lovett Auditorium, which had a capacity of 1,500, and Carr Health Building, Racer Arena opened in 1954 and entertained Racer fans for 43 years. While its capacity was 5,500, over 6,000 people crowded the arena on numerous occasions, Racer Arena is now a volleyball-only facility, the largest in NCAA Division I. Replacing Racer Arena is the CFSB Center, the current home of Murray State mens basketball, constructed in June 1998 at a cost of $20 million, the facility is a state-of-the-art arena which can host other events besides basketball. The CFSB Center sits 8,602 and includes a $250,000 scoreboard, the first basketball game at the CFSB Center was against Southern Illinois on November 14,1998, a 65-62 victory for the Racers in front of 7,633 spectators. Murray State basketball has consistently recognized as one of the best college basketball programs in the history of the sport. In 2005, Street & Smiths named the Racers the 52nd best program of all time, in their prestige system, ESPN ranked Murray State the 30th best programs from 1984 to 2008, breaking a tie with Villanova due to a higher winning percentage. The Racers are the highest true mid-major team in their rankings, Carlisle Cutchin launched the Murray State basketball program in 1925. At the time, Murray State was a college and the nickname was the Thoroughbreds. In the 1935–36 season, Cutchin coached Murray State to its highest win percentage for a season at.920 and that season also included Murray States best start, at 19-1. In his final season, he led the Thoroughbreds to the game of the 1941 NAIA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. Since he retired in 1941, he has maintained his position as the all-time winningest coach in Murray State basketball history, rice Mountjoy was hired as the next mens basketball coach from Danville High School, where he was athletic director. In his only season with the Thoroughbreds, he coached the team to an 18-4 record and that season was marked by strong play from early jump shot proponent Joe Fulks, who transferred from Millsaps College. Mountjoy left after the 1941–42 season to coach Augusta Tilghman High School in nearby Paducah, former Murray State basketball player and then-freshman team coach John Miller replaced Mountjoy as head basketball coach. His best season was his first, when he led the team to a 21–5 record, from Southern Illinois, Harlan Hodges led the team to two NAIA Tournaments and two No.16 AP rankings in his six seasons, with a 109–66 record
