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Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball
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The Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team represents the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in NCAA womens basketball competition. The university considers either Lady Volunteers or Lady Vols acceptable, the Lady Vols have won at least a share of the SEC regular season championship 17 times, won 17 SEC tournament championships, made 18 Final Four appearances, and won 8 national championships. The Lady Vols were coached by Pat Summitt for over four decades, under Summitt, the Lady Vols won numerous SEC titles, appeared in 18 NCAA Final Fours and 4 AIAW Final Fours, and won 8 NCAA titles including an undefeated season. Additionally, Tennessee is the team to have appeared in all 36 NCAA Tournaments. Summitts teams are known for participating in a regular season schedule, often toughest in the nation. This tough schedule has caused Tennessee to build up rivalries with many prominent teams, including Texas, Stanford, Louisiana Tech, Old Dominion, like other Tennessee teams, the Lady Vols compete in the SEC, which has historically been the most dominant conference in the sport. Within the conference, Tennessees main rivals are LSU, Vanderbilt, Summitt has led Tennessee to 1000 victories, with an 84. 2% win rate. The numbers at home are even stronger, as Tennessee has won 91% of home games and 93. 1% of in-conference home games, Lady Vols basketball began at the beginning of the 20th century. However, most seasons consisted of three or four games, the sport was dropped in 1926 and was not picked up again until 1960. Coach Joan Cronan went 8–10 over two seasons before being replaced by Margaret Hutson, who coached for four years with a 60–18 record, in 1974, Pat Head was named the new coach. Head had previously played basketball for the UT-Martin Pacers, and had just graduated. In the 1974–1975 season, Pat Head took over a 25–2 Lady Vols team, in her opening season, the Lady Vols won the TCWSF Eastern District Championship for the third straight year. However, the team finished only 4th overall in the TCWSF, after finishing 16–11 her second season, Head directed two 20-win teams, winning back-to-back AIAW Region-II championships. 1978 included the Lady Vols defeating 3-time AIAW champion Delta State by 20,1978 saw the Lady Vols participate in their first AIAW Final Four, where they finished 3rd. Head also recorded her 100th win during this season, a 79–66 victory over NC State, Tennessee finished up the 1970s by winning the first ever SEC tournament, and returning to the Final Four, where they finished runner-up to Old Dominion, 68–53. During the 1980–1981 season, the Lady Vols went 25–6, the team made it to the AIAW Final Four for the third straight year, but wound up as runner-up for the second consecutive year, losing to Louisiana Tech, 79–59. The 1981–1982 season featured the first ever NCAA Womens basketball tournament, the Lady Vols were one of 32 teams invited and named a 2 seed in their region. In the region championship, the Lady Vols upset first seeded USC 91–90 in overtime to advance to the Final Four and they would lose their Final Four match-up with Louisiana Tech who ended up winning the tournament
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University of Tennessee
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The University of Tennessee is a public sun- and land-grant university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It hosts almost 28,000 students from all 50 states, in its 2017 universities ranking, U. S. News & World Report ranked UT 103rd among all national universities and 46th among public institutions of higher learning. Seven alumni have been selected as Rhodes Scholars, James M. Buchanan,41, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics. Also affiliated with the university are the Howard H. Baker, the university is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, which is one of two Level I trauma centers in East Tennessee. UT is one of the oldest public universities in the United States, when Samuel Carrick, its first president and only faculty member, died in 1809, the school was temporarily closed until 1820. When it reopened, it began experiencing growing pains, thomas Jefferson had previously recommended that the college leave its confining single building in the city and relocate to a place it could spread out. Ironically, in the Summer of 1826, the trustees explored Barbara Hill as a potential site, in 1840, the college was elevated to East Tennessee University. Tennessee was a member of the Confederacy in 1862 when the Morrill Act was passed, on February 28,1867, Congress passed a special Act making the State of Tennessee eligible to participate in the Morrill Act of 1862 program. In January 1869, ETU was designated as Tennessees recipient of the Land-Grant designation, in accepting the funds, the university would focus upon instructing students in military, agricultural, and mechanical subjects. ETU eventually received $396,000 as its endowment under the program, Trustees soon approved the establishment of a medical program under the auspices of the Nashville School of Medicine and added advanced degree programs. East Tennessee University was renamed the University of Tennessee in 1879 by the state legislature, during World War II, UT was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission. The campus is headed by a Chancellor who functions as the executive officer of the campus, responsible for its daily administration. The chancellor reports to the president of the university system and is elected annually by the UT Board of Trustees at the recommendation of the system president, jimmy Cheek has been Chancellor of the Knoxville campus since February 1,2009. Joseph A. DiPietro has been president since January 1,2011. Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan D. Martin is responsible for the administration of the Knoxville campus. On December 15,2016 the UT Board of Trustees confirmed Dr. Beverly J. Davenport as the next Chancellor of the Knoxville campus and she will begin her role on February 15,2017. Campus policing and security is provided by the University of Tennessee Police Department.4 percent from 2000 to 2009, many doctors and nurses at UTMC have integrated careers as teachers and healthcare professionals, and the center promotes itself as the areas only academic, or teaching hospital. The new UT Medical Center Heart Hospital received its first patient on April 27,2010, in Fall 2016, the university enrolled 21,863 undergraduate and 5,982 graduate and professional students, 50% of students are female, 50% are male
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Rick Barnes
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Richard Dale Barnes is the current head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers mens basketball team, a post he has held since 2015. Barnes previously coached at George Mason University, Providence College, and he is a 1977 graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College where he was a member of the mens basketball team. Barnes success at Texas, a football powerhouse, sparked interest in college basketball at the university. Hired in April 1998, the program immediately displayed Barnes impact. Barnes received his third Big 12 Coach of the Year award on March 10,2008, at Texas, Barnes had great regular season success with 400+ wins and transformed the school into one of the top college basketball programs in the nation. He also led Texas to their first #1 ranking in 2010, however, he has won only one post-season conference tourney championship in his 21 years as a collegiate head coach. He has a record of 20–20 in the NCAA tournament. In nine of his fourteen years at Texas, the Longhorns went on to lose to a seed in the NCAA Tournament. In 2007 Barnes made a appearance in the NBC television series Friday Night Lights as a recruiter for the fictional school TMU. These former assistant coaches or players of Barnes later became head coaches at the level or higher, Dennis Felton, Western Kentucky, Georgia Fran Fraschilla, Manhattan
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Southeastern Conference
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The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the Southern part of the United States. Its fourteen members include the public universities of ten states. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, the SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I in sports competitions, for football, it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A. The SEC was also the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a game for college football and was one of the founding members of the Bowl Championship Series. The current SEC commissioner is Greg Sankey, the conference sponsors team championships in nine mens sports and twelve womens sports. The SEC consists of 14 member institutions located within the borders of 11 contiguous states and these divisional groupings are applied exclusively to football and baseball as well as their scheduling and standings. The other charter members were, The University of the South left the SEC on December 13,1940 and it is currently a member of the Division III Southern Athletic Association. Georgia Institute of Technology left the SEC in 1964, in 1975, it became a founding member of the Metro Conference, one of the predecessors to todays Conference USA. Georgia Tech competed in the Metro Conference in all sports except football, in 1978, Georgia Tech joined another Southern Conference offshoot, the Atlantic Coast Conference, for all sports, where it has remained ever since. Tulane University left the SEC in 1966, along with Georgia Tech, it was a charter member of the Metro Conference. Unlike Tech, however, Tulane remained in the Metro Conference until it merged with the Great Midwest Conference in 1995 to form Conference USA, Tulane remained an independent in football until C-USA began football competition in 1996. Tulane left C-USA in 2014 for the American Athletic Conference, in 1990, the SEC expanded from ten to twelve member universities with the addition of the Arkansas Razorbacks and the South Carolina Gamecocks. The two new members began SEC competition with the 1991–1992 basketball season, at the same time, the SEC organized competition for some sports into two divisions. Initially, the format was used in football, baseball. The divisional format was dropped for mens basketball following the 2011–2012 season, the 1992 and 1993 championship games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, and all championship games from 1994 onward have been held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. On November 6,2011 the SEC commissioner announced that the University of Missouri would also join the SEC on July 1,2012, for football, Texas A&M was scheduled to compete in the Western Division, and Missouri in the Eastern Division. Texas A&M and Missouri both left the Big 12 Conference, the office of Commissioner was created in 1940. Under the leadership of Michael F, the SECU rebranded its mission to better serve as a means through which the collaborative academic endeavors and achievements of Southeastern Conference universities would be promoted and advanced
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Knoxville, Tennessee
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Knoxville is a city in the U. S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County. The city had an population of 185,291 in 2015. Knoxville is the city of the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The KMSA is, in turn, the component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette Combined Statistical Area. First settled in 1786, Knoxville was the first capital of Tennessee, the city struggled with geographic isolation throughout the early 19th century. The arrival of the railroad in 1855 led to an economic boom, during the Civil War, the city was bitterly divided over the secession issue, and was occupied alternately by both Confederate and Union armies. Following the war, Knoxville grew rapidly as a wholesaling and manufacturing center. The citys economy stagnated after the 1920s as the manufacturing sector collapsed, Knoxville is the home of the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee, whose sports teams, called the Volunteers or Vols, are extremely popular in the surrounding area. The first people to form settlements in what is now Knoxville arrived during the Woodland period. One of the oldest artificial structures in Knoxville is a burial mound constructed during the early Mississippian culture period, the earthwork mound is now surrounded by the University of Tennessee campus. By the 18th century, the Cherokee had become the dominant tribe in the East Tennessee region, although they were consistently at war with the Creek, the Cherokee people called the Knoxville area kuwandatalunyi, which means Mulberry Place. Most Cherokee habitation in the area was concentrated in the Overhill settlements along the Little Tennessee River, the first Euro-American traders and explorers were recorded as arriving in the Tennessee Valley in the late 17th century. There is significant evidence that Hernando de Soto visited Bussell Island in 1540, the end of the French and Indian War and confusion brought about by the American Revolution led to a drastic increase in Euro-American settlement west of the Appalachians. By the 1780s, Euro-American settlers were established in the Holston. The U. S. Congress ordered all illegal settlers out of the valley in 1785, as settlers continued to trickle into Cherokee lands, tensions between the settlers and the Cherokee rose steadily. In 1786, James White, a Revolutionary War officer, and his friend James Connor built Whites Fort near the mouth of First Creek, on land White had purchased three years earlier. In 1790, Whites son-in-law, Charles McClung—who had arrived from Pennsylvania the previous year—surveyed Whites holdings between First Creek and Second Creek for the establishment of a town, mcClung drew up 640. 5-acre lots. The waterfront was set aside for a town common, two lots were set aside for a church and graveyard
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Tennessee Volunteers
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The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 18 male and female varsity intercollegiate athletics programs that represent the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Southeastern Conference, in September 2011 Dave Hart, formerly the assistant athletic director at the University of Alabama, was introduced as Tennessees new athletic director. Mens and womens teams with the exception of womens basketball are called the Volunteers The Tennessee womens basketball team is called the Lady Volunteers and these names come from the nickname of Tennessee, The Volunteer State. The Tennessee Volunteers have competed in the Southeastern Conference since its inception in 1932, the Vols have adopted a tradition for competing in every sport often resulting in many teams being ranked in the top 25. Tennessee has been known for its football and womens basketball programs that have featured several famous coaches including Robert Neyland and Pat Summitt. Tennessees football team won the first ever BCS National Championship Game, Tennessee womens basketball team won the 2007 and 2008 National Championships earning Pat Summit her eighth national title, which is the most in womens basketball. The only Tennessee sport that does not compete in the SEC is womens rowing which competes in C-USA, many of Tennessees traditions come from the early 20th century. Tennessees orange and white colors were selected by Charles Moore, a member of the first football team in 1891 and they were later approved by a student body vote. The colors were chosen because of the common American daisy which grew on The Hill, the orange color is distinct to the school, dubbed UT Orange, and has been offered by The Home Depot for sale as a paint, licensed by the university. Home games at Neyland Stadium have been described as a sea of Orange due to the number of fans wearing the school color. Derives from the usage of UT Orange, Tennessee adopted the name Volunteers, or more commonly Vols, because of a now-official nickname that Tennessee received during the War of 1812, the Volunteer State. The name became more prominent in the Mexican War when Governor Aaron V. Brown issued a call for 2,800 men to battle Santa Ana. The iconized T that represents the mens Tennessee sports programs was introduced by Doug Dickey, when his name was called, he barked. The students cheered and Smokey threw his back and barked again. This kept going until the stadium was in an uproar and UT had found its mascot, changes came in 1983 and 2010, namely the direction of the team from simply turning around to going right and then left out of the T. From the teams locker room at the end zone. The Hill is another highly memorable aspect about UT because since the 19th century, the university, founded in 1794 as Blount College, moved to The Hill in 1828 and quickly grew around it. The main part of UTs old campus stands on this rise above the shore of the Tennessee River
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NCAA Division I
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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Ernie Grunfeld
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Ernest Ernie Grunfeld is the General Manager of the Washington Wizards. He was also once a basketball player. Born in Satu Mare, Romania, Grunfeld immigrated with his parents, Alex and Livia and he grew up in Forest Hills, in Queens, New York City, where he attended Forest Hills High School. Grunfeld was selected to participate as a member of the American basketball team at the 1973 Maccabiah Games, the U. S. team was defeated by Israel in the final game. He attended the University of Tennessee, where he played basketball with future NBA Hall of Famer Bernard King, nicknamed the Ernie and Bernie Show, they averaged over 40 points per game. With 2,249 points, he set a new record as the schools leading scorer. The record was broken by Allan Houston in 1993, Grunfeld played on the team that won a gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games. He also participated in the event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He became an American citizen that year, Grunfeld was drafted 11th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1977 NBA draft. He played with team for two years and moved to the Kansas City Kings for the 1979–82 seasons. In 1979 he led the NBA in games played, with 82, in 1981 he had a.535 field goal percentage. The Knicks signed him as an agent in 1982, and he played there for four years. He retired following the 1985–86 season, Grunfeld averaged 7.4 points per game in his NBA career. In 1982 he averaged 12.7 points a game, and 21.8 per 40 minutes, in 1986 he was third in the NBA in 3-point field goal percentage, with.426. He finished his career with a.477 field goal percentage and his playoff shooting percentages were even better. After he retired from the NBA, Grunfeld was the Knicks radio analyst for the MSG Network from 1986–89 and he then briefly worked under Stu Jackson as an assistant coach for the Knicks before starting his career in administration. Grunfeld was appointed director of administration in the 1990–91 season and was moved to vice-president of player personnel on April 23,1991 and he was then appointed vice president and general manager on July 21,1993. He became president and general manager on February 23,1996, during his time with the Knicks, Grunfeld and his family were residents of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
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Allan Houston
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Allan Wade Houston is an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association from 1993 to 2005. He is currently the assistant general manager for the New York Knicks and the manager for Knicks NBA D-League team. Houston was born in Louisville, Kentucky and played at Ballard High School in Louisville as they won the 1988 Kentucky state championship. He went on to play at the University of Tennessee and graduated in 1993 as the schools leading scorer. Houston is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, on March 6,2011 the University of Tennessee retired Houstons number during halftime ceremonies at a Tennessee-Kentucky game. Houston was selected in the first round by the Detroit Pistons in the 1993 NBA draft and his average increased to 14.5 and 19.7 points per game in the next two years. In 1996, after his contract expired, Houston signed as a free agent with the New York Knicks. In his first year as a Knick, Houston took the place of John Starks in the starting lineup, Houston kept his scoring average at 17 points per game, and helped lead the team to the 1999 NBA Finals. His most famous play came in the decisive Game 5 of the first round of the 1999 Eastern Conference quarterfinals against the Miami Heat, the Knicks would go on to the NBA Finals. He was a member of the USA mens national team that won the basketball tournament and gold medal along with 11 other NBA players at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Houston also made the All-Star team in 2000 and 2001, in April 2001, Houston and teammate Charlie Ward were quoted in a New York Times Magazine article making comments that were deemed anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League and the Knicks. After Ward had called Jews stubborn and persecutors of Christians, Houston cited a verse in support of Wards comments. During his career, Houston was known for his three-point shooting prowess, despite the on-court accolades, though, Houstons lasting legacy may be something that happened off the court, In 2001, Houston signed a maximum contract extension with the Knicks. Houstons yearly salary of over $20 million made him virtually untradeable, the knee injury would eventually force Houston to announce his retirement, on October 17,2005. On March 30,2007, while waiting for his current contract to expire with the Knicks, despite not having played in the league since 2005, Houston was the second highest paid player in the league two years later during the 2006-07 NBA season at $20.7 million. On June 27, it was reported that Houston was interested in making a comeback. The Knicks signed Houston to a contract, of terms were not disclosed. It was reported later that Houston would not end up wearing no,20, as the NBA does not allow jersey number changes without prior approval
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Donnie Tyndall
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His teams are known for pressing and playing an unconventional match-up zone, a highly successful variation of the defensive system employed by coach Rick Pitino at Louisville. After graduating from Morehead State University in 1993, Tyndall began coaching at the college level. From 1994 to 1996, he was assistant coach at Iowa Central Community College, Tyndall had his first head coaching position in the 1996–97 season at St. Catharine College in Springfield, Kentucky. Tyndall led St. Catharine to a 30–5 record and the schools first-ever NJCAA tournament appearance, in 1997, Tyndall earned NJCAA Region 7 National Coach of the Year and Kentucky Junior College Coach of the Year honors. After his season at St. Catharine, Tyndall got his first NCAA Division I coaching position as an assistant at LSU under John Brady, Tyndall helped LSU finish first in the SEC West Division in the 1999–00 season and make the Sweet 16 round of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. This LSU team also featured Stromile Swift, the #2 pick in the 2000 NBA draft, in the 2001–02 season, Tyndall served as associate head coach at Idaho under Leonard Perry. From 2002 to 2006, Tyndall was associate head coach at Middle Tennessee under Kermit Davis, Middle Tennessee had winning seasons all four of those seasons. In his first Division I head coaching job, Tyndall served as coach at his alma mater Morehead State from 2006 to 2012. Morehead State under Tyndall won the Ohio Valley Conference tournaments of 2009 and 2011, Morehead State also made the 2010 College Basketball Invitational. In August 2010, the NCAA placed Morehead State on two years probation for violations by boosters, as a #13 seed, Morehead State upset #4 seed Louisville 62-61 in the first round of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. Tyndall was the coach at the Southern Miss from 2012 to 2014. Southern Miss made the National Invitation Tournament in 2013 and 2014, Tyndall went 56–17 as head coach at Southern Miss, but in 2016, the NCAA vacated all 56 wins due to academic fraud. On April 22,2014, Tyndall was hired as basketball coach at the University of Tennessee. On March 27,2015, Tennessee fired Tyndall after the NCAA notified Tennessee officials of major violations at Southern Miss. The violations centered around improper financial aid for two players, as well as problems with junior college transfers. At a press conference announcing Tyndalls firing, athletics director Dave Hart said that he would have never hired Tyndall had the extent of the violations at Southern Miss been known. On April 8,2016, the NCAA imposed a 10-year show-cause penalty on Tyndall, to run until April 7 and it also stipulates that any penalties imposed on Tyndall will follow him to any NCAA member school if he is ever hired again. According to the NCAA, Tyndall told his assistants to complete papers for players, USA Today called it the most severe penalty that the NCAA has ever meted out to a head coach
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Wittenberg University
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Wittenberg University is a private four-year liberal arts college in Springfield, Ohio, US serving 2,000 full-time students representing 37 states and approximately 30 foreign countries. A German American pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Rev. Ezra Keller was the principal founder and its initial focus was to train clergy with the Hamma School of Divinity as its theological department. One of its missions was to Americanize Lutherans by teaching courses in the English language instead of German, unlike the nearby Capital University in Columbus. The first class consisted of eight students at the beginning of the academic year. With a faculty of one professor and two tutors, classes were held in Springfield, Ohio in a church on land that was donated, in 1874, women were admitted to the college, and, the following year, blacks were admitted. For decades, Hamma and Wittenberg in Springfield were associated with the local English-speaking regional synods in the Midwest, in 1978, Hamma Divinity School merged with the nearby Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary in the Bexley suburb of the state capital of Columbus, Ohio, associated with Capital University. Ezra Keller Samuel Sprecher John B, eight pre-professional programs are offered to students,70 percent of whom eventually pursue graduate studies. The Universitys science facilities are housed in the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, krieg Hall is the home of the music department. Wittenbergs art department is housed in Koch Hall, Thomas Library contains 400,000 volumes and provides access to OhioLINK, a consortium of Ohio college and university libraries as well as the State Library of Ohio. The library houses the Kemper Special Collection Area which contains the Luther-Reformation Collection with more than 400 items written by Martin Luther, the library was built 1956 to the designs of Thomas Norman Mansell of Mansell, Lewis & Fugate of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. In that instance, the Wittenberg administration overruled the faculty personnel boards authority and asserted its right to deny tenure for reasons beyond teaching, research, the current administration makes no such assertion. In 2010, the journal Princeton Review ranked Wittenberg 11th in the nation for Best Classroom Experience, in addition, Princeton Review ranked the colleges campus the 18th most beautiful in the nation in 2009. The University also has top programs in Communication, the communication program was named by the National Communication Association as the Nations Best Program. Along with that Wittenberg University has been named one of only 23 institutions in the nation by the Fiske Guide to Colleges for Small Colleges and Universities Strong in Drama, the elite ranking, places Wittenberg alongside such schools as Juilliard, Vassar, Oberlin, Otterbein and Princeton. In the last 10 years, Wittenberg faculty members have won 16 Fulbright Awards, chronicle of Higher Education says the University is one of 11 bachelor’s programs with more than two professors doing research under Fulbright auspices. Wittenberg professors have won seven Ohio Professor of the Year Awards since the award was established in 1981, Blair Hall is where the education department is housed for the university. Undergraduates and Graduate students take classes in this if they are planning to pursue to become a teacher. The Springfield-Wittenberg Teacher Institute and Upward Bound are both housed in Blair, the business and sociology departmental building
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Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
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The Kentucky Wildcats mens basketball team is an American college basketball team that represents the University of Kentucky. Kentucky is the most successful NCAA Division I basketball program in history in terms of both wins and all-time winning percentage. The Wildcats are currently coached by John Calipari, further, Kentucky has played in 17 NCAA Final Fours,12 NCAA Championship games, and has won 8 NCAA championships. In addition to these titles, Kentucky won the National Invitation Tournament in both 1946 and 1976, making it the school to win multiple NCAA and NIT championships. Kentucky also leads all schools with 61 20-win seasons,15 30-win seasons, throughout its history, the Kentucky basketball program has featured many notable and successful players, both on the collegiate level and the professional level. Kentucky holds the record for the most NBA Draft selections as well as the most #1 NBA Draft picks, the Wildcats have also been led by many successful head coaches, including Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Eddie Sutton, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, Kentucky is the only program with 5 different NCAA Championship coaches. The first recorded intercollegiate game at the college was a 15–6 defeat to nearby Georgetown College, the team went 1–2 for their first season, also losing to Kentucky University but defeating the Lexington YMCA. Through 1908, the team did not manage a winning season, in the fall of that year a full-time head coach was hired. This made him the first paid coach in Kentuckys basketball history and that year, the team went 5–4, and only three years later, boasted their first undefeated season with nine victories and no losses. During this early era Kentucky was unstable in that the school went through multiple coaches, in 1919, George Buchheit became the new head coach of the Wildcats. An alumnus of the University of Illinois, he brought him a new system of basketball. The Buchheit system or Illinois system, focused on defense and featured one player standing under each basket, buckheit varied the system he learned in Illinois in one important way. While the Illinois system employed a zone defense, Buchheits system used an aggressive man-to-man scheme, on offense, he used a complicated system of passing called the zig-zag or figure eight offense. Both of these teams were composed entirely of native Kentuckians, anchored by All-American Basil Hayden, the tournament victory was considered Kentuckys first major success, and the 1921 team became known as the Wonder Team. In 1922, the team was unable to build on the success of the Wonder Team, although every player was eligible in 1922, two key players, Hayden and Sam Ridgeway, were injured before the start of the season. Hayden returned from his injury during the season, but was never able to play at the level he had the previous year. Ridgeway fought a battle with diphtheria, and although he recovered
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National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
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The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a hall of fame and museum dedicated to mens college basketball. The museum is a portion of the College Basketball Experience created by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The hall is meant as a complement to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, on November 17,2006 the NABC honored around 180 players, coaches and other notable contributors to college basketball by inducting them into the founding class of the Hall of Fame. Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Dean Smith, John Wooden, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts has indicated it will help with the exhibits. The other interactive portions of the College Basketball Experience are called The Entry Experience, The Fan Experience, the NABC recently renamed the Guardians Classic college tournament the CBE Classic to help promote it
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Adolph Rupp
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Adolph Frederick Rupp was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is ranked fifth in total victories by a mens NCAA Division I college coach, Rupp is also second among all mens college coaches in all-time winning percentage, trailing only Clair Bee. Rupp was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13,1969, Rupp was born September 2,1901 in Halstead, Kansas to Heinrich Rupp, a German immigrant, and Anna Lichi, an Austrian immigrant. The fourth of six children, Rupp grew up on a 163-acre farm that his parents had homesteaded and he began playing basketball as a young child, with the help of his mother who made a ball for him by stuffing rags into a gunnysack. Mother sewed it up and somehow made it round, he recalled in 1977, Rupp was a star for the Halstead High School basketball team, one of the first in the area to play with a real basketball. He averaged 19 points a game, former teammates described Rupp as the teams unofficial coach. After high school, Rupp attended the University of Kansas from 1919 to 1923 and he worked part-time at the student Jayhawk Cafe to help pay his college expenses. He was a reserve on the team under legendary coach Forrest Phog Allen from 1919 to 1923. Assisting Allen during that time was his coach and inventor of the game of basketball, James Naismith. In Rupps junior and senior seasons, Kansas had outstanding basketball squads. Later, both of these standout Kansas teams would be awarded the Helms National Championship, recognizing the Jayhawks as the top team in the nation during those seasons and he received a MA from Teachers College, Columbia University. Rupp began his career in coaching by accepting a job at Burr Oak High School. After a one-year stay, Rupp moved on to Marshalltown, Iowa, where he coached wrestling and he did lead the Marshalltown team to a state wrestling title in 1926. In 1926–30, Rupp accepted the head coaching position at Freeport High School. During his four years at Freeport, Rupp compiled a record of 66-21, while at Freeport High School Rupp started William Mose Mosely, the first African-American to play basketball at Freeport and the second to graduate from the school. University of Illinois head basketball coach Craig Ruby was invited to speak at the banquet following the 1929–30 season. Ruby informed Rupp of the Kentucky head coaching job and followed up by recommending him for the job, during his time in Freeport, Rupp met his future wife, Esther Schmidt. Rupp coached the University of Kentucky mens basketball team from 1930 to 1972, there, he gained the nicknames, Baron of the Bluegrass, and The Man in the Brown Suit
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Joe B. Hall
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Joe Beasman Hall was the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985. He previously coached at Central Missouri State University and Regis University before returning to UK in 1965 to serve as an assistant coach under Adolph Rupp, Hall was given a difficult task—to follow in the footsteps of his legendary predecessor, Adolph Rupp. In the 1978 NCAA Tournament, he coached the Wildcats to their fifth NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship and he was named National Coach of the Year in 1978 and Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year on four different occasions. His record at UK was 297–100, and 373–156 over his career, along with the 1978 title, Hall also guided Kentucky to a runner-up finish to UCLA in the 1975 NCAA tournament, a Final Four appearance in the 1984 NCAA Tournament, and an NIT championship in 1976. He won 8 Southeastern Conference regular season championships and one Southeastern Conference tournament championship, Hall played one year of varsity basketball at Kentucky before transferring to the University of the South, where he completed his basketball playing eligibility but did not graduate. After Sewanee, Hall toured with the Harlem Globetrotters and later returned to Kentucky to complete his undergraduate studies, Hall graduated from Kentucky in 1955. The university says the sculpture was produced over a period of eight months, beginning as a clay sculpture. The Joe B. and Denny Show ended on October 30,2014 after WVLK-FM, list of NCAA Mens Division I Final Four appearances by coach University of Kentucky Coaching Record at BigBlueHistory. net
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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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Basketball positions
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The five basketball positions normally employed by organized basketball teams are the point guard, the shooting guard, the small forward, the power forward, and the center. While these position names are used, most modern teams use a point guard. The rules of basketball do not mandate them, and they are not used. Typically, the point guard is the leader of the team when on the court and this position requires substantial ball handling skills and the ability to facilitate the team during a play. The shooting guard, as the name implies, is often the best shooter and they are probably capable of shooting accurately from longer distances. Generally, they also have good ball-handling skills, the small forward often has an aggressive approach to the basket when handling the ball. The center is typically the larger of the two, during the 1980s, as team strategy evolved, more specialized roles developed, resulting in the five position designations utilized today. Team strategy and available personnel, however, still dictates the positions used by a particular team, for example, the Dribble drive motion offense and the Princeton offense utilize four interchangeable guards and one center. The point guard, also known as the one, is typically the teams best ball handler and passer, therefore, they often lead their team in assists and steals. They are often quick and are able to hit shots either outside the three-point line or in the paint, point guards are looked upon as the floor general or the coach on the floor. They should study the game and game film to be able to recognize the weaknesses of the defense, good point guards increase team efficiency and generally have a high number of assists. They are often referred to as dribblers or play-makers, in the NBA, point guards are usually the shortest players on the team and are mostly 6 feet 5 inches or shorter. The shooting guard is known as the two or the off guard. Along with the forward, a shooting guard is often referred to as a wing because of its use in common positioning tactics. As the name suggests, most shooting guards are good shooters from three-point range, besides being able to shoot the ball, shooting guards tend to have good ball handling skills and the ability to drive the ball to the basket, often creating their own shots off the dribble. A versatile shooting guard will have good passing skills, allowing them to point guard responsibilities known as combo guards. In the NBA, shooting guards usually range from 6 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 7 inches, the small forward is considered to be perhaps the most versatile of the main five basketball positions. Versatility is key for small forwards because of the nature of their role and this is why the small forward and shooting guard positions are often interchangeable and referred to as wings
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National Invitation Tournament
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The National Invitation Tournament is a mens college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Played at Madison Square Garden in New York City each March and April, over time it became eclipsed by the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament – known today informally as March Madness and The Big Dance. The NIT has since been regarded more as a tournament for teams that did not receive a berth in the NCAA tournament. A second, much more recent NIT tournament is played in November, formerly the Preseason NIT, it was founded in 1985. Like the postseason NIT, its final rounds are played at Madison Square Garden, both tournaments were operated by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association until 2005, when they were purchased by the NCAA, and the MIBA disbanded. Unless otherwise qualified, the terms NIT or National Invitation Tournament refer to the tournament in both common and official use. The first NIT was won by the Temple University Owls over the Colorado Buffaloes and this became the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association in 1948. Originally the tournament invited a field of 6 teams, with all games played at Madison Square Garden in downtown Manhattan. The field was expanded to 8 teams in 1941,12 in 1949,14 in 1965,16 in 1968,24 in 1979,32 in 1980, in 2007, the tournament reverted to the current 32-team format. Some conferences, such as the Southeastern Conference, were racially segregated, from its onset and at least into the mid-1950s, the NIT was regarded as the most prestigious showcase for college basketball. The winner of the National Invitation Tournament was regarded as more of a national champion than the actual, titular, national champion, several teams played in both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year, beginning with Colorado and Duquesne in 1940. Colorado won the NIT in 1940 but subsequently finished fourth in the NCAA West Region, in 1949, some Kentucky players were bribed by gamblers to lose their first round game in the NIT. This same Kentucky team went on to win the NCAA, the champions of both the NCAA and NIT tournaments played each other for a few years during World War II. From 1943 to 1945, the American Red Cross sponsored a charity game between each years tournament champions to raise money for the war effort. The series was described by Ray Meyer as not just benefit games, the NCAA champion prevailed in all three games. The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected the NIT champion as its champion for 1938. In 1943 the NCAA tournament moved to share Madison Square Garden with the NIT in an effort to increase the credibility of the NCAA Tournament. In 1945, The New York Times indicated that many teams could get bids to enter either tournament, the team played in the NIT instead, which it won
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Brooklyn Nets
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The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Nets compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its games at Barclays Center. They are one of two NBA teams located in New York City, the other are the New York Knicks, the team was established in 1967 as a charter franchise of the NBAs rival league, the American Basketball Association. They played in New Jersey as the New Jersey Americans during their first season, before moving to Long Island in 1968, during this time, the Nets won two ABA championships. In 1976, the ABA merged with the NBA, and the Nets were absorbed into the NBA along with three other ABA teams, in 1977, the team returned to New Jersey and played as the New Jersey Nets from 1977 to 2012. During this time, the Nets won two consecutive Eastern Conference championships, but failed to win a league title, in the summer of 2012, the team moved to Barclays Center, and took its current geographic name. The Brooklyn Nets were founded in 1967 and initially played in Teaneck, New Jersey, in its early years, the team led a nomadic existence, moving to Long Island in 1968 and playing in various arenas there as the New York Nets. Led by Hall of Famer Julius Dr. J Erving, the Nets won two ABA championships in New York before becoming one of four ABA teams to be admitted into the NBA as part of the ABA–NBA merger in 1976. The team then moved back to New Jersey in 1977 and became the New Jersey Nets, the Boston Celtics were once rivals of the Nets during the early 2000s because of their respective locations and their burgeoning stars. The Nets were led by Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin, while the Celtics were experiencing newfound success behind Paul Pierce, the rivalry began to heat up in the 2002 Eastern Conference Finals, which was preceded by trash-talking from the Celtics who claimed Martin was a fake tough guy. Things progressed as the series started, and on-court tensions seemed to spill into the stands, celtic fans berated Kidd and his family with chants of Wife Beater. in response to Kidds 2001 domestic abuse charge. When the series returned to New Jersey, Nets fans responded, referring to a night club incident in 2000 in which Pierce was stabbed 11 times. When asked about the fan barbs being traded, Kenyon Martin stated, Our fans hate them, rondo was suspended for two games in the aftermath, while Wallace and Kevin Garnett were fined. The story was revisited on December 25, when Wallace grabbed Garnetts shorts and this move was billed as a merger of the two Atlantic Division teams. Celtics announcer Sean Grande said Its almost as if you found a home for these guys. You couldnt have found a better place and these guys will be in the New York market, theyll be on a competitive team, theyll stay on national TV. Its funny, because the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so with Celtics fans feeling the way they do about the Heat, feeling the way they do about the Knicks, the Nets are going to become almost the second team now
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Milwaukee Bucks
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The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball franchise based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 as a team. The team is valued at $675 million according to Forbes. The Bucks have won one title, two conference titles, and 13 division titles. On January 22,1968, the NBA awarded a franchise to Milwaukee Professional Sports and Services, Inc. a group headed by Wesley Pavalon, a fan contest was held to name the new team, with over 40,000 fans participating. One fan, R. D. Trebilcox, was awarded a new car for his part in reasoning why the Bucks was a nickname, saying that bucks were spirited, good jumpers, fast. In October, the Bucks played their first NBA regular-season game against the Chicago Bulls before a Milwaukee Arena crowd of 8,467, as is typical with expansion teams, the Bucks first season was a struggle. Their first victory came in their game as the Bucks beat the Detroit Pistons 134–118. The Bucks record that earned them a coin flip against their expansion cousins. It was a conclusion that the first pick in the draft would be Lew Alcindor of UCLA. The Bucks won the flip, but had to win a bidding war with the upstart American Basketball Association to secure him. Despite the Bucks stroke of fortune in landing Alcindor, no one expected what happened in 1969–70 and they finished with a 56–26 record – a nearly exact reversal of the previous year and good enough for the second-best record in the league, behind the New York Knicks. The 29-game improvement was the best in league history – a record which would stand for 10 years until the Boston Celtics jumped from 29 wins in 1978–79 to 61 in 1979–80. The Bucks defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in five games in the Eastern semifinals, Alcindor was a runaway selection for NBA Rookie of the Year. The following season, the Bucks got a gift when they acquired Oscar Robertson, known as the Big O. Subsequently, in only their season, the Bucks finished 66–16 – the second-most wins in NBA history at the time. During the regular season, the Bucks recorded a then-NBA record 20-game win streak and they then steamrolled through the playoffs with a dominating 12–2 record, winning the NBA Championship on April 30,1971, by sweeping the Baltimore Bullets in four games
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Sports Illustrated
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Sports Illustrated is an American sports media franchise owned by Time Inc. Its self-titled magazine has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million people each week and it was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. Its swimsuit issue, which has published since 1964, is now an annual publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos. There were two magazines named Sports Illustrated before the current magazine began on August 16,1954, in 1936, Stuart Scheftel created Sports Illustrated with a target market for the sportsman. He published the magazine from 1936 to 1938 on a monthly basis, the magazine was a life magazine size and focused on golf, tennis, and skiing with articles on the major sports. He then sold the name to Dell Publications, which released Sports Illustrated in 1949, dells version focused on major sports and competed on magazine racks against Sport and other monthly sports magazines. During the 1940s these magazines were monthly and they did not cover the current events because of the production schedules, there was no large-base, general, weekly sports magazine with a national following on actual active events. It was then that Time patriarch Henry Luce began considering whether his company should attempt to fill that gap, at the time, many believed sports was beneath the attention of serious journalism and did not think sports news could fill a weekly magazine, especially during the winter. A number of advisers to Luce, including Life magazines Ernest Havemann, tried to kill the idea, but Luce, the goal of the new magazine was to be basically a magazine, but with sports. Launched on August 16,1954, it was not profitable and not particularly well run at first, but Luces timing was good. The popularity of sports in the United States was about to explode. The early issues of the magazine seemed caught between two opposing views of its audience, after more than a decade of steady losses, the magazines fortunes finally turned around in the 1960s when Andre Laguerre became its managing editor. A European correspondent for Time, Inc, in May 1956, Luce brought Laguerre to New York to become assistant managing editor of the magazine. He was also one of the first to sense the rise of national interest in professional football, Laguerre also instituted the innovative concept of one long story at the end of every issue, which he called the bonus piece. His genius as an editor was that he made you want to please him, Laguerre is also credited with the conception and creation of the annual Swimsuit Issue, which quickly became, and remains, the most popular issue each year. Regular illustration features by artists like Robert Riger, high school football Player of the Month awards. In 2015 Sports Illustrated purchased a group of companies and combined them to create Sports Illustrated Play. The magazines photographers also made their mark with innovations like putting cameras in the goal at a hockey game, by 1967, the magazine was printing 200 pages of fast color a year, in 1983, SI became the first American full-color newsweekly
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30 for 30
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30 for 30 is the umbrella title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks, and online highlighting interesting people and events in sports history. This includes three volumes of 30 episodes each, a 13-episode series under the ESPN Films Presents title in 2011–2012, the series has also expanded to include Soccer Stories, which aired in advance of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The idea for the series began in 2007 from ESPN. com columnist and Grantland. com founder Bill Simmons, Volume I premiered in October 2009 and ran through December 2010, chronicling 30 stories from the ESPN era, beginning with the networks founding in 1979. Subsequent films, including Volume II and online-only shorts, expanded the series beyond the ESPN era, in 2010, John Dahl, Connor Schell and Simmons served as 30 for 30s executive producers. Unless otherwise noted, the films are all 60 minutes in length. Other films were announced for Volume I of the series but were not included. These films, which began airing in 2011, are a continuation of 30 for 30, according to 30 for 30 producer Bill Simmons, Were spinning off the 30 for 30 series next year into something that will probably be called 30 for 30 Presents or something like that. Were going to be putting out 4–5 sports docs per year on the level of the best 30 for 30 docs and we have some terrific ideas in the hopper. So even though the SMU doc will be the 30th one dont think the spirit of the series is going away. These additional films include, On May 15,2012, it was announced that the 30 for 30 series would return in October 2012, the documentaries were integrated with Grantland. com by podcasts, feature stories and oral histories. Unless otherwise noted, the films are all 90 minutes in length. In September 2015, it was announced that 30 for 30 would return for a volume of 30 films. Made in America, which was directed by Ezra Edelman, was billed as an event in the 30 for 30 series. The five-part documentary series examines the life of O. J and it ultimately received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards. Additionally, a 10-part vignette series, titled Coraçao, about Brazils rich history, on September 7,2016, it was announced that ESPN Films and ESPN Audio would produce 30 for 30 Podcasts, set to launch in early 2017. The series will report on new stories using a narrative podcasting approach. The series had a slow beginning, the first film, Peter Bergs Kings Ransom, a chronicle of Wayne Gretzkys trade from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings, premiered on October 6,2009 to poor ratings. Kings Ransom drew a 0.5 national rating and a viewership of 645,000.5 rating
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Harlem Globetrotters
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The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater, and comedy. Over the years they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 122 countries and territories, the teams signature song is Brother Boness whistled version of Sweet Georgia Brown. Their mascot is an anthropomorphized globe named Globie, the team plays over 450 live events worldwide each year. The team is owned by Herschend Family Entertainment. The executive offices for the team are located in suburban Atlanta, the Globetrotters originated in the south side of Chicago, Illinois, in the 1920s, where all the original players were raised. In 1928, several players left the team in a dispute and that autumn, several of the players, led by Tommy Brookins, formed a team called the Globe Trotters and toured Southern Illinois that spring. Abe Saperstein became involved with the team as its manager and promoter, by 1929, Saperstein was touring Illinois and Iowa with his basketball team called the New York Harlem Globe Trotters. In fact, the Globetrotters did not play in Harlem until 1968, the Globetrotters were perennial participants in the World Professional Basketball Tournament, winning it in 1940. In 1952, the Globetrotters invited Louis Red Klotz to create a team to them on their tours. This team, the Washington Generals, were the Globetrotters primary opponents up until 2015, the Generals were effectively stooges for the Globetrotters, with the Globetrotters handily defeating them in thousands of games. In 1959, the Globetrotters played nine games in Moscow after Saperstein received an invitation from Vasily Gricorevich, the team, which included Wilt Chamberlain, was welcomed enthusiastically by spectators and authorities, they met Premier Nikita Khrushchev and collectively received the Athletic Order of Lenin medal. However, according to one report, spectators were initially confused, A Soviet audience of 14,000 sat almost silently, as if in awe and it warmed up slightly in the second half when it realized the Trotters are more show than competition. The Globetrotters brought their own opponent—not the Washington Generals, but the San Francisco Chinese Basketeers, a review in Pravda stated, This is not basketball, it is too full of tricks but praised the Globetrotters skills and suggested that they have some techniques to show us. The American press—particularly Drew Pearson—made note of the fact that the Globetrotters were paid the equivalent of $4,000, which could be spent only in Moscow. The games were used as evidence that U. S. –Soviet relations were improving, that Moscow was backing off its criticism of race relations inside America, many famous basketball players have played for the Globetrotters. Greats such as Wee Willie Gardner, Connie The Hawk Hawkins, Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain, the Globetrotters signed their first female player, Olympic gold medalist Lynette Woodard, in 1985. The Globetrotters have featured 13 female players in their illustrious history, baseball Hall of Famers Ernie Banks, Bob Gibson, and Ferguson Jenkins also played for the team at one time or another. Because almost all of its players have been African American, and because of the involved in many of the Globetrotters skits
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SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
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The SEC Mens Basketball Tournament is the conference tournament in basketball for the Southeastern Conference. It is a tournament that involves all league schools. Its seeding is based on season records. With the abandonment of divisions in SEC mens basketball starting in 2011–12, bracketing was identical to that of the SEC Womens Basketball Tournament—note that SEC womens basketball has long been organized in a single league table without divisions. Since the SEC expanded to 14 schools with the arrival of Missouri and Texas A&M in 2012, both mens and womens tournaments have the four bottom seeds playing opening-round games, with the top four seeds receiving a double-bye into the quarterfinals. Before 2012, the top two teams in both the Eastern and Western Divisions received byes in the first round, while #3 in the East played #6 from the West, #4 played #5, etc. The brackets were set up so that #2 would play the winner of the game involving #3 from the other division, from 1933–50, the SEC Champion was determined by a tournament, except for 1935. Beginning in 1951, a schedule was introduced and the SEC title was awarded to the team with the highest in-conference winning percentage. From 1951–64, the round-robin consisted of 14 games, in 1965 and 1966, it was expanded to 16 games with the departure of Georgia Tech from the league. From 1967–91, the schedule was 18 games due to Tulanes departure. The league also began awarding division championships, in 1979, the tournament was renewed with the winner receiving the SECs automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but the official league champion remained the team with the best regular season record. Since then, the feat has been accomplished twice, first in 2008 by Georgia, in 2009, Mississippi State repeated that feat, defeating Georgia, South Carolina, LSU and Tennessee to receive the conferences automatic bid to the NCAA Basketball Championships. The first seven games of the 2008 Mens Tournament were played at the Georgia Dome, during overtime of Game 7 between Mississippi State and Alabama, a tornado struck the downtown Atlanta area, damaging the Georgia Dome and several buildings surrounding it, including CNN Center. Only credentialed individuals were allowed to attend, including families, bands, cheerleaders. No other spectators were allowed in the building, Note A, No tournament was held in 1935. Note B, No tournament was held from 1953–1978. Note C, No MVP Selection made from 1933–1952. †Former member of the SEC Kentucky defeated Georgia in the 1988 SEC Tournament final, but the tournament title was vacated later because of NCAA violations
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball
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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish mens basketball team is the intercollegiate mens basketball program representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. The program competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference of NCAA Division I, on September 12,2012, Notre Dame announced they would be moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference, they joined the conference on July 1,2013. The school holds two retroactively awarded national championships in basketball from the Helms Foundation, for the 1927 and 1936 seasons and they have also played in the NCAA Tournament 35 times, good for 9th all time, and reached the Final Four in 1978. They are also the first Big East team to go undefeated at home two straight seasons and they play their home games in the Purcell Pavilion at the Edmund P. Joyce Center. Since moving to the Purcell Pavilion in 1968, they have had 44 winning seasons at the Purcell Pavilion and have had only 4 losing seasons at the Purcell Pavilion, jeff Sagarin and ESPN listed the program 12th in the college basketball all-time rankings in the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia. The Fighting Irish are currently coached by Mike Brey, the Fighting Irish have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 36 times. From 2011–2015 the round of 64 was known as the Second Round, Round of 32 was Third Round NCAA Tournament Seeding History The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition, single-Game scoring performances, The Fighting Irish have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament 11 times. Source, Source, 1926–27 Helms Foundation National Champions 1935–36 Helms Foundation National Champions The wins include several wins over the defending NCAA Tournament Champion. Both wins over UCLA were in seasons immediately following UCLA claiming the NCAA Championship with the 1971 win coming over a team that would be the tournament champion. The 1954 win in the NCAA tournament over Indiana prevented IU from back-to-back national titles after claiming the 1953 NCAA Tournament Title, the 1978 win over Marquette was another instance of the Irish defeating the defending national champion. The 1948 win over Kentucky saw the Irish defeat the eventual Tournament champion who would go on to win both the 1948 and 1949 titles. The 1948 win over NYU was a victory over the eventual NIT runner-up, also of note is that the 2005 win over Boston College and the 2012 win over Syracuse saw 20–0 teams traveling to South Bend and leaving with their first loss of the season. Boston College, in its year as a member of the Big East. The 2012 Syracuse team began the game against the Irish with the goal of breaking Boston Colleges record, as in 2005, the Irish defeated Syracuse and cemented their place as the streak stopper. * – Occurred in NCAA Tournament, Indiana was #2 in the AP sportswriters poll and #1 in the UPI coaches poll. ** – UCLAs 88 game win streak started immediately after the 1971 loss to Notre Dame, the Irish bookended the streak, an NCAA mens basketball record. *** – Kentucky was #2 in the AP sportswriters poll and #1 in the UPI coaches poll, **** – North Carolina was #2 in the AP sportswriters poll and #1 in the USA Today coaches poll. S
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West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball
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The West Virginia Mountaineers mens basketball team represents West Virginia University in NCAA Division I college basketball competition. They are a member of the Big 12 Conference, WVU has won 13 conference tournament championships, and has 26 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, including two Final Fours, most recently in 2010. The Mountaineers have also appeared in 16 National Invitation Tournaments, and have won two championships, in 1942 and 2007 and they are led by former Mountaineer player, Bob Huggins, who has been head coach since 2007. WVU plays their games at the WVU Coliseum, their home venue since 1970. West Virginia mens basketball has competed in three basketball championship final matches, the 1959 NCAA final, the 1942 NIT final, in 1949, future Mountaineers head coach, Fred Schaus, became the first player in NCAA history to record 1,000 points. The most points scored in a game was 132 points against Alaska-Fairbanks in 1994, while the largest margin of victory was against Salem College, the largest margin of defeat in Mountaineer basketball history came in 1978 against Louisville, when the Cardinals beat the Mountaineers 106–60. West Virginias basketball legacy began in 1955, with the emergence of sophomore guard Hot Rod Hundley, the Mountaineers finished with a 19–11 record, and earned the first NCAA Tournament appearance in school history under Hundleys lead. The team entered the tournament with a #19 ranking, the first Top 20 ranking in school history, however, they lost to the #3 La Salle Explorers in the first round of the tourney, 95–61. The following season,1956, the Mountaineers posted a 21–9 record in Hundleys junior season, the team began the season with a #14 ranking, however lost consecutively to #13 George Washington University and #2 North Carolina State, dropping them out of the rankings. They eventually worked their way back to a #19 ranking, before losing to Villanova, La Salle, the squad never entered the rankings again on the season until the NCAA Tournament, when they reached the #14 ranking. However, they again lost in the first round to Dartmouth College. In Hundleys senior season,1957, the team opened with eight straight victories, the team also reached the #13 ranking before the Duke victory, and then rose to the #8 ranking in the final two victories. It marked the first time a Mountaineer squad was ranked in the Top 10 nationally, going into the Dixie Classic, the Mountaineers achieved a #4 ranking, but lost three straight games in the tourney. The team posted 11 consecutive wins afterwards, rising from a #19 ranking to a #10 ranking and they dropped to #14 after a loss to Penn State, but won the next six games, including the Southern Conference Championship. The #7 Mountaineers were dropped in the first round of the NCAA Tournament again however, to the #20 Canisius team, after Hot Rod Hundleys graduation and departure to the NBA, sophomore guard Jerry West emerged for the Mountaineers and Fred Schaus. In his rookie season, West helped the Mountaineers to a 26–2 record. The Mountaineers began the season with a #8 ranking, as they earned defeats over Penn State, #19 Richmond, the following game, the Mountaineers upset the #1-ranked nationally North Carolina, 75–65, to win the Kentucky Tourney. After the UNC victory, the Mountaineers rose to the first-ever #1 ranking in school history, in the two wins in the tourney, West totaled 29 points and 19 rebounds
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Tennessee River
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The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. The river was once known as the Cherokee River, among other names, as many of the Cherokee had their territory along its banks, especially in eastern Tennessee. Its current name is derived from the Cherokee village Tanasi, the Tennessee River is formed at the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers on the east side of present-day Knoxville, Tennessee. From Knoxville, it flows southwest through East Tennessee toward Chattanooga before crossing into Alabama and it loops through northern Alabama and eventually forms a small part of the states border with Mississippi, before returning to Tennessee. At this point, it defines the boundary between two of Tennessees Grand Divisions, Middle and West Tennessee and this waterway reduces the navigation distance from Tennessee, north Alabama, and northern Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico by hundreds of miles. The final part of the Tennessees run is in Kentucky, where it separates the Jackson Purchase from the rest of the state and it flows into the Ohio River at Paducah, Kentucky. The river has been dammed numerous times, primarily in the 20th century by Tennessee Valley Authority projects since the 1930s, a navigation canal located at Grand Rivers, Kentucky, links Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. The canal allows for a trip for river traffic going from the Tennessee to most of the Ohio River. Maps from the early 18th century call it Cussate, Hogohegee, Callamaco, a 1755 British map showed the Tennessee River as the River of the Cherakees. By the late 18th century, it had come to be called Tennessee, the river was a major highway to transport goods and explorers in the years when Tennessee was not yet settled. Some major towns that still exist today, and major ports at them were established by those who rode down the river, and settled along it. The Tennessee River begins at mile post 652, where the French Broad River meets the Holston River, in the late 18th century, the mouth of the Little Tennessee River was considered to be the beginning of the Tennessee River. Through much of the 19th century, the Tennessee River was considered to start at the mouth of Clinch River, at various points since the early 19th century, Georgia has disputed its northern border with Tennessee. Georgia made several attempts to correct what Georgia felt was an erroneous survey line in the 1890s,1905,1915,1922,1941,1947 and 1971 to resolve the dispute. Crews Townsend, Joseph McCoin, Robert F. Parsley, Alison Martin and Zachary H. Greene, writing for the Tennessee Bar Journal, a publication of the Tennessee Bar Association, appearing on May 12,2008. In 2008, as a result of a drought and resulting water shortage. In a two-page resolution passed overwhelmingly by the senate, Georgia declared that it, not its neighbor to the north
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Alcoa, Tennessee
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Alcoa is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, United States, south of Knoxville. Its population was 8,449 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. As its name suggests, Alcoa is the site of an aluminum smelting plant owned and operated by the Alcoa corporation. Formerly known as North Maryville, the town was incorporated under its present name in 1919, the company considered several potential plant sites in Knoxville, Etowah, and Monroe County, but chose North Maryville due in part to the influence of Maryville mayor Samuel Everett. By 1914, the company had completed the purchase of 700 acres in North Maryville. ALCOAs chief engineer Edwin Fickes and hydraulic engineer Robert Ewald drew up plans for the town to house the plants workers. The town design initially called for the acquisition of 7,500 acres, Hall, named for the inventor of the aluminum electrolytic process, was originally a segregated community for the plants African-American workers. Oldfield, a community between the planned town and Maryville, would later be annexed by the city of Alcoa. World War I brought about a spike in the demand for aluminum, in 1919, a rolling mill was completed, and the company purchased the Knoxville Power Company for its Little Tennessee Valley holdings. That same year, the town officially incorporated as Alcoa. C. L. Babcock was the towns first mayor, Hultquist, who was also ALCOAs superintendent of construction, remained city manager until 1948, and oversaw much of the towns early development. In 1920, Alcoa had a population of 3,358 people living in 700 houses, early Alcoa was a classic company town, with the company maintaining a paternalistic relationship with the city. The citys welfare was almost wholly dependent upon the companys fortunes and this presented a problem for the company, which feared that its workforce would leave to look for jobs elsewhere during times of low production. Thus, during the Great Depression, the company maintained steady production levels in spite of the lack of demand for aluminum, managers sought to cut workers hours— which at one point dropped to 30 hours per week— rather than slash jobs. By the end of the decade, the company had stockpiled 42,000 tons of aluminum, the Depression also brought about increased labor union activity in Alcoa. A strike in 1934 was forcibly ended when Hultquist deployed a large police force, a second strike in 1937 was broken in a similar fashion, with two striking workers shot and killed and the National Guard forced to intervene. World War II proved immensely profitable for ALCOA, as aluminum was needed for aircraft construction, production increased 600% during the war, and the companys Alcoa operations workforce swelled to 12,000. In the early 1940s, the company built its North Plant, after World War II, the city of Alcoa became less and less dependent upon its parent company
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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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Kevin O'Neill (basketball)
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Kevin James ONeill is an American basketball coach with experience as the head coach of various college and National Basketball Association teams. Most recently he was the coach of the USC Trojans basketball team, ONeill was born in Malone, New York and attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Born in Malone, New York, ONeill grew up in nearby Chateaugay, ONeills head coaching career began with tenures at North Country Community College, Marycrest College, Marquette, Tennessee and Northwestern. During his tenure as the Northwestern coach ONeill is most notably remembered for a game with Indiana where the rowdy Northwestern faithful chanted Hoosier Daddy at opposing coach Bob Knight, of course this did not sit well with Knight as he and ONeill got into it during the contest. However all was settled under a practice gym basket well after the game as ESPN camera crews caught the coaches talking their issues out and he would eventually become an assistant coach under Jeff Van Gundy with the New York Knicks. In 2001, he joined the Detroit Pistons under head coach Rick Carlisle, as the head coach at Marquette, ONeill led the then-Warriors to two 20+ win seasons, two NCAA tournament appearances, and a Great Midwest Conference Championship. ONeill played a prominent role in the 1994 Oscar-nominated documentary, Hoop Dreams, the McGill University graduate returned to Canada in June 2003 as the head coach of the Toronto Raptors. His tenure was marked by inconsistency among his players, but the team was 25–25 after 50 games, however, injuries to key players resulted in the team going 8–24 to finish the season three games out of a playoff spot. On April 17,2004, ONeill was fired in the aftermath of a disappointing 2003–2004 season, in the 2004–2005 season he was hired as an assistant coach with the Indiana Pacers where he rejoined head coach Rick Carlisle. On May 1,2007 it was announced that ONeill would replace Jim Rosborough as the assistant coach to Hall of Famer Lute Olson at the University of Arizona. ONeill was an assistant under Olson during Arizonas rise to prominence in the 1980s. On November 4,2007, Olson announced that he was taking a leave of absence. On December 6 Olson released a statement stating that he would be extending his leave of absence for the remainder of the season. He cited personal reasons that required his immediate attention, the next day. The same day it was announced that ONeill would remain the head coach for the rest of the season. Later the same month, on December 18, Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood announced ONeill as the successor to Olson. Olson said at the time he planned to return for the 2008–09 season, in March 2008, Olson confirmed that he would return as head coach for the 2008–2009 season, and said that he planned to coach until his contract ended in 2011. With the announcement of Olsons return, the ONeill succession plan was thrown into question amidst media rumors of disagreement between Olson and ONeill, only a month later, Lute Olson announced that ONeill would not be retained on the University of Arizona staff
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Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball
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The Northwestern Wildcats mens basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team representing Northwestern University in the Big Ten Conference coached by Chris Collins. Mens basketball was first introduced at Northwestern in 1901, although Northwestern had great success in the early part of the 20th century, it has spent most of the time since World War II in the bottom half of the Big Ten. On March 1,2017, the Wildcats won their 10th conference game to clinch a record in Big ten play. That season also saw the Wildcats make their first NCAA Tournament in school history, the Wildcats have also appeared in the National Invitation Tournament seven times. Sources, The Wildcats have appeared in the NCAA Tournament once, the Wildcats have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament seven times
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Oregon Ducks men's basketball
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The Oregon Ducks mens basketball team is an intercollegiate basketball program that competes in the NCAA Division I and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference, representing the University of Oregon. The Ducks play their games at Matthew Knight Arena. Oregon, then coached by Howard Hobson, won the first NCAA mens basketball championship in 1939. The basketball team has appeared in the NCAA tournament 15 times and has won the championship six times. The University of Oregon mens basketball played its first season in 1902–03 with Charles Burden as the head coach. Only two games were played that season with Oregon losing both games, Oregon did not record a win until its fourth season in 1907 against Roseburg. The season ended with a record of 4–3, under Hugo Bezdek. Bezdek left after that season to coach at Arkansas until 1913 when he went back to Oregon to coach until 1917, during Bezdeks absence, the basketball team was coached largely by William Hayward, Oregons track coach. In 1923, William Reinhart took over as the head coach, Coach Reinhart suffered only one losing season at Oregon. Howard Hobson, an alumnus of the university, became the coach in 1935. His ideas were considered cutting edge during his years at Oregon and he ran a fast break offense little used by anyone else in the country at the time and his defenses were an unorthodox hybrid defense. He lobbied for the installment of a clock and three-point field goal years before they were first introduced. In 1939, the Oregon Ducks became the first team to win the NCAA Basketball Championship, sports editor L. H. Gregory coined the phrase Tall Firs to describe the Oregon players due to their taller stature compared to other teams in the country. The season started with a trip to the east coast for a series of games. The Ducks went 6–3 during that trip but gained experience for the remainder of the season. Oregon went 14–2 to claim the North Division title in the Pacific Coast Conference, the Ducks won two games straight to claim the conference title. The Ducks returned to San Francisco for the NCAA regional series where they defeated the Texas Longhorns in the first game 56–41 then the Oklahoma Sooners 55–37, the Ohio State Buckeyes had defeated Wake Forest and Villanova in their regional series to earn their right in the championship game. On March 27, Oregon and Ohio State squared off to claim the national title, Oregon emerged victorious to claim the first NCAA national championship trophy, defeating Ohio State 46–33
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1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team
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The 1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. Tennessee entered the 1998 season coming off an 11–2 record in 1997, the Volunteers were given a preseason ranking of No.10 in the AP Poll. The Vols won their second undisputed national title, and sixth overall, after defeating Florida State in the Fiesta Bowl, the 98 Vols beat eight bowl teams, including six January bowl teams, four top ten teams, and three BCS bowl-bound teams. The 1998 Tennessee Volunteers were ranked as the No.3 college football team of all time by the Billingsley Report computer ratings, Tennessee was expected to have a slight fall off after their conference championship the previous season. They had lost quarterback Peyton Manning, wide receiver Marcus Nash, Manning was the first pick overall in the 1998 NFL Draft. Tennessee was also coming off a difficult 42–17 loss to Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, nonetheless, the Volunteers ended their season in Tempe, undefeated, becoming only the fourth school in modern college football history to complete a 13–0 season. FB Shawn Bryson PK Jeff Hall G Mercedes Hamilton LB Al Wilson QB Tee Martin K Jeff Hall hit a 27 Yard field goal as time expired to give the Vols a key road win and this was the second game winning kick of Halls career. In his first game as a starter QB Tee Martin went only 9-of-26 for 143 yards, HB Jamal Lewis led the Vols with 140 yards rushing and a touchdown. WR Peerless Price had two touchdown receptions, QB Donovan McNabb gave the Volunteer defense fits, putting up 300 yards with a 22-for-28 day Tennessee broke a 5-game losing streak against the Gators. Florida K Collins Cooper missed a FG in overtime and set off a celebration at Neyland Stadium that saw the goalposts. The Vols won despite racking up only 235 yards of total offense, the Florida Gators lost 4 fumbles,2 caused by hits by Al Wilson. K Jeff Hall made his goal in the first overtime, setting the stage for the Florida miss. The Vols also held the Gators to −13 net rushing on 30 attempts, FB Shawn Bryson scored on a 57-yard run. Junior QB Tee Martin had his party against the Houston Cougars. Jamal Lewis added 135 yards rushing and 1 touchdown, leading the Vols to 334 rushing yards and 589 total yards, the Vols defense held Houston to 239 total yards and recorded 3 sacks with 8 tackles for loss. The Vols jumped out to an early lead behind the running of Jamal Lewis, however, following a season ending ACL injury, Lewis left the game and the Tennessee Defense held on for the 17–9 win. In a rematch of the high scoring 1997 SEC Championship Game, the Defense needed a score by DE Shaun Ellis and they did so without senior captain Al Wilson, who missed the game with a shoulder injury. Tennessee entered their 3rd game in the 1998 SEC season as underdogs, however, behind the running of substitute HBs Travis Henry and Travis Stephens, and a strong defensive effort, the Vols dominated the Bulldogs
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BCS National Championship Game
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The participating teams were determined by averaging the results of the final weekly Coaches Poll, the Harris Poll of media, former players and coaches, and the average of six computer rankings. The methodologies of the BCS system and its selections proved to be controversial, 3-ranked team, the University of Oklahoma, over the No. 1-ranked team in that poll, the University of Southern California, the expanded format was called the Bowl Championship Series. The Bowl Alliance and its predecessor, the Bowl Coalition, featured games in the 1992–1997 seasons. However, these could not always ensure a matchup between the top two ranked teams because of the lack of participation by the Big Ten and Pac-10. The BCS National Championship Game was initially rotated among the four participating bowl games, the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, however, beginning with the 2006 season, the BCS National Championship Game was added as a separate contest, played after New Years Day. The game rotated its location among the Fiesta, Sugar, Orange, * The American Athletic Conference was known as the Big East during the 1991–2012 seasons. Because of a split between the schools and FBS schools, the conference adopted its present name for the 2013 season. * Miami and Virginia Tech moved to the ACC in 2004, * Nebraska moved to the Big Ten in 2011. ** LSUs loss in the 2012 BCS Championship Game was to fellow SEC member Alabama, *** Alabamas win in the 2012 BCS Championship Game was over fellow SEC member LSU. † USC vacated its win in the 2005 Orange Bowl, critics of the BCS National Championship argued against the internal validity of a so-called national championship being awarded to the winner of a single postseason game. The end of the 2010 season was one of the best examples of this, without any objective criteria for evaluation of the teams, the BCS forced voters to impose their own standards and tiebreakers. Critics noted that the system inherently fostered selection bias, and therefore lacked both internal validity and external validity, controversies surrounding teams inclusion in the BCS National Championship Game were numerous. In 2001, Oregon, ranked second in the AP poll, was bypassed in favor of Nebraska despite Nebraskas 62-36 blowout to Colorado in its regular season game. In 2003, USC was not included in the championship game, the following season, undefeated Auburn, Boise State, and Utah teams were left out of the national title game. In 2008, the University of Utah was excluded from the BCS championship for a time despite being the only undefeated FBS team. In 2010, three teams, Oregon, Auburn, and TCU, all finished the year with undefeated records, gee retracted his statement and apologized after TCU defeated Wisconsin in the 2011 Rose Bowl. On June 24,2009, the BCS presidential oversight committee rejected the Mountain West Conferences proposed eight-team playoff plan, in May 2011, the NCAA rejected all appeals of USCs penalties, which included Bushs ineligibility and a two-year bowl ban
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Pat Summitt
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Patricia Sue Pat Summitt was an American womens college basketball head coach who, over the course of her career, accrued 1,098 career wins, the most in NCAA basketball history. She served as the coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012. She won eight NCAA championships, a number surpassed only by the 10 titles won by UCLA mens coach John Wooden and she was the first NCAA coach, and one of four college coaches overall, with at least 1,000 wins. Summitt also won two Olympic medals, a gold as head coach of the 1984 U. S. womens basketball team and she was named the Naismith Basketball Coach of the Century in 2000. In 2009, the Sporting News placed her at number 11 on its list of the 50 Greatest Coaches of All Time in all sports, in 38 years as a coach, she never had a losing season. In 2012, Summitt was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama, Summitt was born Patricia Sue Head on June 14,1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee, the daughter of Richard and Hazel Albright Head. In her early years, she was known as Trish and she had four siblings, older brothers Tommy, Charles, and Kenneth, and a younger sister, Linda. She married Ross Barnes Summitt II in 1980 from whom she filed for divorce in 2007 and they have one son, Ross Tyler Summitt, born in 1990. When Summitt was in school, her family moved to nearby Henrietta. In 1970, with the passage of Title IX still two years away, there were no athletic scholarships for women, each of Summitts brothers had gotten an athletic scholarship, but her parents had to pay her way to college. She later co-captained the United States womens national team as a player at the inaugural womens tournament in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Eight years later in 1984, she coached the U. S. womens team to an Olympic gold medal, becoming the first U. S. Olympian to win a basketball medal and coach a medal-winning team. In what ESPN. com columnist Gene Wojciechowski called a bittersweet irony, Summitt earned $250 monthly and washed the players uniforms – uniforms purchased the previous year with proceeds from a donut sale. Summitt recalled that era of basketball during a February 2009 interview with Time. I had to drive the van when I first started coaching, one time, for a road game, we actually slept in the other teams gym the night before. We had mats, we had our little sleeping bags, when I was a player at the University of Tennessee–Martin, we played at Tennessee Tech for three straight games, and we didnt wash our uniforms. We played because we loved the game and we didnt think anything about it. She coached her first game for Tennessee on December 7,1974 against Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and her first win came almost a month later when the Lady Vols defeated Middle Tennessee State, 69–32 on January 10,1975
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Buzz Peterson
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Robert Bower Buzz Peterson, Jr. is an American college basketball coach. Most recently, Peterson was the coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks mens basketball team. He was fired by UNC Wilmington at the conclusion of the 2014 season, Peterson was the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers basketball team for four years before being fired in 2005. He previously coached a second stint at Appalachian State—he coached the 2009–10 Mountaineers and he was a member of the Tar Heels team that won the 1982 national championship. He was later drafted in 1985 by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 7th round of that years NBA draft, in his first stint as head coach at Appalachian State, he led the Mountaineers to the Southern Conference Tournament Championship during the 1999–2000 season. During his single season at Tulsa, 2000–01, Peterson led the Golden Hurricane to their second NIT championship, Peterson is currently the Senior Advisor to Mens Basketball operations for the Charlotte Hornets
