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Event Center Arena
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The Event Center was built in 1989 for the purpose of supporting and providing entertainment as well as recreational opportunities for the student body and university community. The facility is home to the San Jose State Spartans mens and womens basketball teams, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Event Center at SJSU is the premier mid-sized venue in Northern California. The Event Center was designed to accommodate different events, including musical concerts, sporting events, conferences. The facility has played host to national entertainment acts such as Eric Clapton, George Lopez, Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Kelly Clarkson, Conan OBrien, Korn. It also hosts the fall and spring convocation ceremonies for both the College of Engineering and the College of Business at San José State University and it also played host to WWE NXT on the Friday before Wrestlemania 31. Annually, the Event Center hosts the FIRST Robotics Competition Silicon Valley Regional, the Event Center also has a fully equipped gym including basketball and racquetball courts and a weight room for students. San Jose State University Event Center Official Site
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West Coast Conference
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The West Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated in NCAA Division I consisting of ten member schools across the states of California, Oregon, Utah and Washington. All of the current members are private, faith-based institutions, seven members are Catholic Church affiliates, with four of these schools being Jesuit institutions. Pepperdine is an affiliate of the Churches of Christ, Brigham Young University is an affiliate of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The conferences newest member, the University of the Pacific, is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, during the massive upheaval of conference affiliations in the 1990s, the WCC remained very stable. Before the 2010 realignment that eventually led to Brigham Young joining the conference, the last change of membership was in 1980, at the time, only the Ivy League and Pac-10 had remained unchanged for a longer period. The league was chartered by five northern California institutions, four from the Bay Area and one, Pacific and it began as the California Basketball Association, playing its first game on January 2,1953. After two seasons under that name, the conference expanded to include Los Angeles-area schools Loyola and Pepperdine in 1955, after more than three decades as the WCAC, the name was shortened in the summer of 1989, dropping the word Athletic. The WCC participates at the NCAA Division I level and is considered to be one of the better mid-major conferences in the country, the conference sponsors 13 sports but does not include football as one of them. San Diego and Brigham Young are the only schools fielding a football team, the rest have all dropped the sport, some as early as the 1940s, before the conference existed, and one as late as 2003. Historically, the WCCs strongest sports have been soccer and tennis, the conference has also made its presence felt nationally in mens basketball. San Francisco won two national titles in the 1950s with all-time great Bill Russell. Although the WCACs stature declined in the 1960s, San Francisco was reckoned as a basketball power until the early 1980s. Also of note was Loyola Marymounts inspired run to the Elite Eight in 1990 following the death of Hank Gathers during that seasons WCC championship tournament. As San Francisco was from the 1940s to the early 1980s, Gonzaga has gained recognition as a basketball power. In 2016-17, the Bulldogs advanced all the way to the national championship game--the deepest run by a WCC team since San Francisco went to three consecutive Final Fours from 1955 to 1957. Saint Marys has also made marks for the conference as the Gaels appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2005,2008,2010,2012, and 2013. On May 28,2009, NBA referee Violet Palmer was hired as coordinator of basketball officials for the West Coast Conference and will remain with the NBA. Eventually, with the 2010 realignment opening up new avenues for expansion, the conference decided that it would only seek out private schools, but would not limit its search to faith-based institutions
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The Bronx
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The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, within the U. S. state of New York. Since 1914, the Bronx has had the boundaries as Bronx County, a county of New York. The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a section in the west, closer to Manhattan. East and west street addresses are divided by Jerome Avenue—the continuation of Manhattans Fifth Avenue, the West Bronx was annexed to New York City in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx River in 1895. Bronx County was separated from New York County in 1914, about a quarter of the Bronxs area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo in the boroughs north and center. These open spaces are situated primarily on land reserved in the late 19th century as urban development progressed north. The name Bronx originated with Jonas Bronck, who established the first settlement in the area as part of the New Netherland colony in 1639, the native Lenape were displaced after 1643 by settlers. This cultural mix has made the Bronx a wellspring of both Latin music and hip hop. The Bronx, particularly the South Bronx, saw a decline in population, livable housing, and the quality of life in the late 1960s. Since then the communities have shown significant redevelopment starting in the late 1980s before picking up pace from the 1990s until today, the Bronx was called Rananchqua by the native Siwanoy band of Lenape, while other Native Americans knew the Bronx as Keskeskeck. It was divided by the Aquahung River, the origin of Jonas Bronck is contested. Some sources claim he was a Swedish born emigrant from Komstad, Norra Ljunga parish in Småland, Sweden, who arrived in New Netherland during the spring of 1639. Bronck became the first recorded European settler in the now known as the Bronx and built a farm named Emmanus close to what today is the corner of Willis Avenue. He leased land from the Dutch West India Company on the neck of the mainland north of the Dutch settlement in Harlem. He eventually accumulated 500 acres between the Harlem River and the Aquahung, which known as Broncks River or the Bronx. Dutch and English settlers referred to the area as Broncks Land, the American poet William Bronk was a descendant of Pieter Bronck, either Jonas Broncks son or his younger brother. More recent research indicates that Pieter was probably Jonas nephew or cousin, the Bronx is referred to with the definite article as The Bronx, both legally and colloquially. The region was named after the Bronx River and first appeared in the Annexed District of The Bronx created in 1874 out of part of Westchester County
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St. Raymond High School for Boys
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St. Raymond High School for Boys is a parochial high school affiliated with the New York, U. S. A. It is accredited by the Board of Regents of the State of New York, the Middle States Association and it is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in the Parkchester section of The Bronx. The schools mascot is The Raven, students who attend St. Raymonds have many extracurricular activities to select from in addition to athletics. Professional basketball player Allan Ray, who played with the Boston Celtics, Professional basketball player Julius Hodge, played for the brooklyn Nets Professional basketball player Brian Lang, playing in France Professional basketball player Kareem Reid. Former college & professional basketball player Terrence Rencher St. Raymond High School Official Site
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Texas Longhorns men's basketball
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The Texas Longhorns mens basketball team represents The University of Texas at Austin in NCAA Division I intercollegiate mens basketball competition. The Longhorns currently compete in the Big 12 Conference, the University of Texas began varsity intercollegiate competition in mens basketball in 1906. Among Big 12 Conference mens basketball programs, Texas is second only to Kansas in both wins and all-time win percentage. The Texas basketball program experienced substantial success during the decades of its existence. Since 1977, the team has played its games in the Frank Erwin Special Events Center. The team is led by second-year head coach Shaka Smart. Mainland had been a nationally known basketball player as a student at Wheaton College prior to coming to UT. His Wheaton team placed out of the three competing college basketball teams in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, the first Olympic Games featuring the young sport. The Longhorns took the court for the first time on March 10,1906, Texas traveled to Waco two weeks later for a three-game series with the Bears and won all three games behind the play of Mainland. The Longhorns ultimately won seven of the eight games scheduled in the programs inaugural season. Due to inadequate funding, the UT Athletic Council canceled the program after two seasons, leaving Texas without a basketball team for the 1908 season. The Athletics Council revived the program in 1909, owing in part to the efforts of Longhorn player Morgan Vining. Metzenthin finished with an record of 13–14, not until 1959 would another UT basketball coach leave with a losing overall record. Taylor, also the Texas track coach, assumed head coaching responsibilities for the 1913 season. Taylor came to UT with a reputation for basketball expertise. At the conclusion of the 1912–13 academic year, the UTs Cactus yearbook declared and it always has been so considered until this year Prof. Carl Taylor took charge of the work and infused new life into it, L. Bellmonts teams contributed 25 victories to a winning streak that would ultimately grow to 44 games. Hendersons team recorded Texas third consecutive undefeated season in 1916 to extend the total to 40 consecutive victories. S, Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson in 1914
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1995 NBA draft
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The 1995 NBA draft took place on June 28,1995, at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It marked the first NBA draft to be held outside the United States and was the first draft for the two Canadian expansion teams, Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies. Kevin Garnett, who was fifth in this draft, is notable for being the first player in two decades to be selected straight out of high school. Garnett would go on to gather fifteen All Star selections, eight All-NBA selections, one NBA MVP award, rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse also had successful careers, being four-time and two-time All-Stars respectively. Wallace won an NBA championship in 2004 with the Detroit Pistons, while Stackhouse scored the most total points in the league in 2000, the other remaining top selections had relatively productive careers, but were considered to have never reached their full potential. Joe Smith put up solid, but unspectacular numbers throughout his career and is considered a disappointment for a first overall selection. He was also involved in a salary cap scandal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Antonio McDyess was a one-time All-Star, but serious and continuing knee injuries decreased much of his effectiveness in the prime of his career. Damon Stoudamire was the 1995–96 NBA Rookie of the Year and had a solid career although he was arrested, suspended and fined several times for marijuana possession and this draft was also notable for two of the biggest busts in NBA history, Ed OBannon and Shawn Respert. OBannon had received accolades for leading the UCLA Bruins to the NCAA Championship. Respert played only four seasons in the NBA, while secretly hiding that he was suffering from stomach cancer, the following players went undrafted in the 1995 NBA Draft but later played in the NBA. The following trades involving drafted players were made on the day of the draft, a The Los Angeles Clippers traded Randy Woods and the draft rights of Antonio McDyess to the Denver Nuggets for Rodney Rogers and the draft rights to Brent Barry
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Washington Wizards
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The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D. C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association, as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its games at the Verizon Center, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington. The team now known as the Wizards began playing as the Chicago Packers in 1961, as the first modern expansion team in NBA history, an expansion prompted by Abe Sapersteins American Basketball League. Rookie Walt Bellamy was the star, averaging 31.6 points per game,19.0 rebounds per game. During the All-Star game, Bellamy represented the team while scoring 23 points, Bellamy was named the league Rookie of the Year, but was the team finished with the NBAs worst record at 18-62. The teams original nickname was a nod to Chicagos meatpacking industry, their home arena, however, it was extremely unpopular since it was the same nickname used by the NFLs Green Bay Packers, bitter rivals of the Chicago Bears. After only one year, the changed its name to the Chicago Zephyrs. Their only season as the Zephyrs boasted former Purdue star Terry Dischinger, in their first year in Baltimore, the Bullets finished fourth in a five–team Western Division. Prior to the 1964–65 NBA season the Bullets pulled off a trade, sending Dischinger, Rod Thorn and Don Kojis to the Detroit Pistons for Bailey Howell, Don Ohl, Bob Ferry. The trade worked out well, Howell proved to be a hustling, in the 1965 NBA Playoffs, the Bullets stunned the St. Louis Hawks 3–1, and advanced to the Western Conference finals. In the finals, Baltimore managed to split the first four games with the Los Angeles Lakers before losing the series 4–2. In the late 1960s, the Bullets drafted two future Hall of Fame members, Earl Monroe, in the 1967 draft, number two overall, and Wes Unseld, in the 1968 draft, also number two overall. The team improved dramatically, from 36 wins the season to 57 in the 1968–69 season. The Bullets reached the playoffs with high expectations to go far, the next season the two teams met again in the first round, and although this one went to seven games, the Knicks emerged victorious again. In the 1970–71 season, the 42–40 Bullets again met the 1970–71 Knicks and they were swept in four games by the powerful Milwaukee Bucks led by future Hall of Fame members Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson. Even after the trades of Earl Monroe and Gus Johnson, the Bullets remained a playoff contender throughout the 1970s. Following a less than spectacular 1971–72 season, Baltimore acquired Elvin Hayes from the Houston Rockets and drafted Kevin Porter in the third round, out of St. Francis in Pennsylvania
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Point guard
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The point guard, also called the one or point, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position, point guards are expected to run the teams offense by controlling the ball and making sure that it gets to the right players at the right time. A point guard, like other player positions in basketball, specializes in certain skills, a point guards primary job is to facilitate scoring opportunities for his/her team, or sometimes for themselves. Lee Rose has described a point guard as a coach on the floor and this involves setting up plays on the court, getting the ball to the teammate in the best position to score, and controlling the tempo of the game. A point guard should know when and how to instigate a fast break, point guards are expected to be vocal floor leaders. A point guard needs always to have in mind the times on the clock and the game clock, the score. Among the taller players who have enjoyed success at the position is Magic Johnson, other point guards who have been named NBA MVP include Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson, Derrick Rose and two-time winners Stephen Curry and Steve Nash. In the NBA, point guards are usually about 65 or shorter, having above-average size is considered advantageous, although size is secondary to situational awareness, speed, quickness, and ball handling skills. Shorter players tend to be better dribblers since they are closer to the floor, after an opponent scores, it is typically the point guard who brings the ball down court to begin an offensive play. Passing skills, ball handling, and court vision are crucial, speed is important, a speedy point guard is better able to create separation and space off the dribble, giving him/herself room to work. Point guards are often valued more for their assist totals than for their scoring, another major evaluation factor is Assist-to-Turnover ratio, which reflects the decision-making skills of the player. Still, a point guard should also have a reasonably effective jump shot. The point guard is positioned on the perimeter of the play and this is a necessity because of the point guards many leadership obligations. Many times, the point guard is referred to by announcers as a coach on the floor or a floor general, in the past, this was particularly true, as several point guards such as Lenny Wilkens served their teams as player-coaches. This is not so common anymore, as most coaches are now solely specialized in coaching and are non-players, former Suns head coach Mike DAntoni had often allowed Steve Nash to freelance when leading the Suns offense, even letting him call his own plays at times. Even point guards who are not given this much freedom, however, are extensions of their coach on the floor. John Stockton is widely considered to be the point guard. He also used the pick and roll maneuvre with Karl Malone, along with leadership and a general basketball acumen, ball-handling is a skill of great importance to a point guard
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Miami Heat
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The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team based in Miami. The Heat compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division and they play their home games at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami. The team owner is Carnival Corporation owner Micky Arison, the president and general manager is Pat Riley. The mascot is Burnie, an anthropomorphic fireball, formed in 1988 as an expansion team, the Heat have won three league championships, five conference titles and eleven division titles. In 2013, the Heat won twenty-seven regular season games in a row, in 2016, Forbes valued the Heat at $1.3 billion as the tenth most valuable among NBA franchises. In 1987 the NBA granted one of its four new teams to Miami. The Miami Heat began their early years with much mediocrity, only making the two times in their first eight years and falling in the first round both times. Upon the purchasing of the franchise by Micky Arison in 1995, Pat Riley was brought in as the team president, Riley acquired center Alonzo Mourning and point guard Tim Hardaway to serve as the centerpieces for the team, transforming Miami into a championship contender throughout the late 1990s. With them they brought in a new team trainer, Cody Posselt. The Heat underwent a dramatic turnaround in the 1996–97 season, improving to a 61–21 record – a franchise record at the time and that same year, Miami earned the moniker of Road Warriors for its remarkable 32–9 record on the road. Their biggest rivals of the time were the New York Knicks, Rileys former team, a period of mediocrity followed after, highlighted by missing the playoffs in 2002 and 2003. In the 2003 NBA draft, with the fifth overall pick, free-agent swing-man Lamar Odom was signed from the Los Angeles Clippers. Just prior to the start of the 03–04 season, Riley stepped down as coach to focus on rebuilding the Heat. In the offseason, Riley engineered a summer blockbuster trade for Shaquille ONeal from the Los Angeles Lakers, Alonzo Mourning returned to the Heat in the same season, serving as a backup to ONeal. Returning as championship contenders, Miami finished with a 59–23 record, sweeping through the first round and the semifinals, Miami went back to the Conference Finals for the first time in eight years, where it met the defending champion Detroit Pistons. Despite taking a 3–2 lead, Miami lost Wade to injury for Game 6, the Heat would go on to lose Game 7 at home despite Wades return. In the summer of 2005, Riley brought in free agent Gary Payton from the Boston Celtics. After a disappointing 11–10 start to the 05–06 season, Riley relieved Van Gundy of his duties, the Heat made it to the Conference Finals in 2006 and in a re-match, defeated the Pistons, winning the series 4–2
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Phoenix Suns
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The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Suns compete in the National Basketball Association as a team of the leagues Western Conference Pacific Division. Since 1992, the Suns have played their games at Talking Stick Resort Arena in downtown Phoenix. The Suns began play as a team in 1968. The franchise owns the NBAs fourth-best all-time winning percentage, winning 55 percent of its games, as a result, based on their all-time win-loss percentage, the Suns are the team with the highest winning percentage to have never won an NBA championship. The Suns were one of two franchises to join the NBA at the start of the 1968–69 season, alongside the Milwaukee Bucks, the team played its first 24 seasons at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, located northwest of downtown Phoenix. Besides, part of the group were entertainers, such as Andy Williams, Bobbie Gentry and Ed Ames. There were many critics, including then-NBA commissioner J. Walter Kennedy, who said that Phoenix was too hot, too small and they paid an entry fee of $2 million. Suns was preferred over Scorpions, Rattlers, Thunderbirds, Wranglers, Mavericks, Tumbleweeds, Mustangs and Cougars. Stan Fabe, who owned a printing plant in Tucson, designed the teams first iconic logo for a mere $200. However, they were disappointed with the results, in the 1968 NBA Expansion Draft, notable Suns pick-ups were future Hall of Famer Gail Goodrich and Dick Van Arsdale. Jerry Colangelo, a scout, came over from the Chicago Bulls as the Suns first general manager at the age of 28. Both Goodrich and Van Arsdale were selected to the All-Star Game in their first season with the freshly minted Suns. Goodrich returned to his team, the Lakers, after two seasons with the Suns, but Van Arsdale spent the rest of his playing days as a Sun. The Suns last-place finish that led to a coin flip for the number-one overall pick for the 1969 NBA draft with the expansion-mate Bucks. Milwaukee won the flip, and the rights to draft UCLA center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, while the Bucks went on to win the NBA Finals in 1971 and reach the Finals again in 1974, the Suns would not go to the Finals until 1976. The 1969–70 season posted better results for the Suns, finishing 39–43, the next two seasons, the Suns finished with 48- and 49-win seasons, however they did not qualify for the playoffs in either year, and would not reach the playoffs again until 1976. They also drafted center and eventual fan favorite Alvan Adams from the University of Oklahoma, the Suns and Buffalo Braves made a midseason trade, with Phoenix sending forward/center John Shumate to Buffalo in exchange for forward Gar Heard
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Grand Rapids Hoops
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The Grand Rapids Hoops was a basketball team that played in the Continental Basketball Association, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their first season was in 1989, and their season was in 2003. Now defunct, professional basketball had been replaced in Grand Rapids by the no longer active Grand Rapids Flight, the Detroit Pistons minor league affiliate, the Grand Rapids Drive, currently serves as the citys professional basketball team, playing their games at the DeltaPlex Arena. The team started and played in the Continental Basketball Association until the league folded in 2001 and they joined the International Basketball League for one season before returning to a resurrected CBA the following year where they stayed until their demise. The team first played in 1989 as the Grand Rapids Hoops, when the team was sold in 1995 to the people who ran the Gus Macker 3-on-3 Scott McNeal, the nickname changed to the Grand Rapids Mackers. The team was again a year later to an investment group with Bob Przybysz as the managing partner. The Grand Rapids Hoops began their play in Welsh Auditorium in 1989, when the Van Andel Arena opened in the mid 1996, the Hoops moved there joining the Grand Rapids Griffins as tenants. As attendance fell, the moved to the DeltaPlex, a smaller arena located out of the downtown area. The franchise was purchased and moved to nearby Muskegons LC Walker Arena and renamed the Michigan Mayhem in 2004, which has now been disbanded as well
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Rapid City Thrillers
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The Rapid City Thrillers were a semi-professional basketball team in Rapid City, South Dakota, that competed in the Continental Basketball Association beginning in the 1987 season. They were reincarnated in 1998 as an International Basketball Association franchise, one of the many notable players of the team was Keith Smart, who played for the Indiana Hoosiers when the won the NCAA tournament in 1987. The Thrillers had some very notable head coaches in its time, first, Bill Musselman coached the team to three consecutive CBA titles during the 1980s. Musselman then moved to the NBA as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, later, Flip Saunders coached the Thrillers for a season and later became head coach of the NBAs Washington Wizards. Keith Fowler coached the team during one of their losing seasons. This team traced its history back to the Tampa Bay Thrillers of the Continental Basketball Association, which moved to Rapid City in 1987 because of lack of attendance. After ten seasons in Rapid City and by a move that some say ruined professional basketball in the Black Hills, the Beach Dogs lasted only two seasons folding after losing the championship series to the Oklahoma City Cavalry. After the Thrillers left Rapid City, professional basketball continued in the form of the Black Hills Posse of the International Basketball Association, in 1998 the Black Hills Posse were sold to John Tuschman. Tuschman tried to spark the old spirit the Thrillers had from the late 80s and early 90s, by renaming the Posse to the Thrillers, unfortunately, Tuschman was unsuccessful and the new Thrillers folded after the end of the 1998–99 season. The IBA continued for one season in Rapid City, as the Black Hills Gold played in the 1999-2000 season for one year, before moving to Michell, South Dakota. Rapid City has been without professional basketball since
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KK Split
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KK Split is a Croatian professional basketball club from Split that plays in the Croatian A-1 Liga. The clubs roots are found in Hajduk sports societys basketball section, after three years of mostly sporadic activity, in 1948, the club established its own organizational structure known as KK Hajduk, which was independent of sports society. In the next year,1949, the changed its name to KK Split. In 1967, the club adopted - for sponsorship reasons - the name KK Jugoplastika, in the next season, the club participated in the worldwide, national domestic, and European competitions, under the sponsorship of Pop 84. KK Split has been a successful club in European basketball history. They are, together with the first champions of the competition, ASK Riga, apart from these successes, the club also reached the European Champions Cup final in 1972 and the Cup Winners Cup Final in 1973. It lost both finals against the 1970s Italian League superpower Ignis Varese, and the Soviet Union League club Spartak Leningrad, KK Split also won back-to-back FIBA Korać Cups in 1976, against Chinamartini Torino, and in 1977, against Alco Bologna. In 1989, Jugoplastika reached the Final Four, along with heavy favorites FC Barcelona, kukoč had 24 points and Ivanovič had 21, to lead Split past FC Barcelona, by a score of 89–77, in the semifinals. Jugoplastika met FC Barcelona again, in the 1990 EuroLeague Final, in Zaragoza, Kukoć finished the game with 20 points, and the EuroLeague Final Four MVP award, in his magic hands. In most places, one can find that the European champs in 1991, were called Pop 84, despite being without Dino Rađa and Dusko Ivanović, the team from Split was led by a great Toni Kukoć, and a genius-like Zoran Savić, to their third consecutive title. Since the time when ASK Riga of the USSR League, won three straight European titles, in 1958,1959, and 1960, no team had won three in a row. And in the Final Four era, only two other teams besides Jugoplastika have been able to win even two consecutively, in 1991, the competition provided some big surprises, leading up to the Final Four at Paris. English club Kingston of the British Basketball League, eliminated CSKA Moscow, once again, the first team of the previous round didnt get the title. In a rematch of the years final – an occurrence that has not been repeated since – the team from Split won 70-65. Thanks to a performance by Savić, who scored 27 points. Split participated in the Yugoslav First Basketball League from the 1964 season, until the breakup of Yugoslavia, there are nostalgic moments when you look closely in the past and liked it that you look left in times of success as long as possible. Such moments usually occur when the present knows no success, when the bleak, again, anniversaries are there for those moments. It is impossible to talk about any sport in Split, Odyssey in yellow mentions that in infected football, basketball began
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Telekom Baskets Bonn
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Telekom Baskets Bonn, also known as Baskets Bonn is a German basketball club based in Bonn, Germany. The club plays in the Basketball Bundesliga, which is the highest level pro basketball league in Germany, the clubs sponsor is the German company Deutsche Telekom, a major telephone and internet company, which also sells mobile phones in the United States. The clubs home arena is the Telekom Dome, the Baskets reached the German League Final Four nine times in 17 years league affiliation and belong to Germanys most successful teams. Bonn reached the finals five times in 1997,1999,2001,2008. The Telekom Baskets Bonn was founded in 1992 when the German clubs Godesberger Turnverein 1888 eV, the basketball team of the Godesberger TV had been founded in 1970, whereas the SC Fortuna Bonn had been founded in 1973. The Godesberger TV was promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga in 1990, a year later, the club was relegated, and the associated economic problems eventually lead to the 1992 merger of the departments of the two basketball teams to BG Bonn 92. The following year, the club switched names to Post SV Bonn, in 1995, the club switched names again to Telekom Baskets Bonn, sponsored by the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom. In April 1995, the Telekom Baskets Bonn declared their goal to be promotion to the Bundesliga in 1997, but already in the 1995/1996 season the team finished the second division unbeaten and moved up to Germanys prime basketball league. There, the Baskets managed to establish themselves immediately, supported by a home crowd at the newly built Hardtberghalle of the Hardtberg School Center. In their first season the Baskets succeeded to the finals of the German Championship, there, they lost 1,3 against Alba Berlin. In the following years they reached the playoffs until the 2004/05 season. In 2005, the Baskets finished the season at the No.9 position. Then coach Predrag Krunic was relieved of his duties, in December 2005, Michael Koch the former national team captain became the teams new head coach. Previously, for a few months Bonn was coached by the Croat Danijel Jusup, from 1998 to 2002, the Baskets had a cooperation agreement with the SG Sechtem. This cooperation ended in 2002 due to a new orientation of both clubs. In 2008, the Baskets moved from its previous venue, the Hardtberghalle, thus, the Telekom Baskets became Germanys first basketball club to build its own arena with adjoining training center. The Baskets then intensified the training of their own youth players, under the name SG Bonn / Rhöndorf the club sent various youth teams to Germanys prime youth divisions. The clubs aim was to increase the number of their own players to jump into the squad of the 1st team, the clubs first success stories are both Fabian Thülig and Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann
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Viola Reggio Calabria
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Viola Reggio Calabria, known for sponsorship reasons as Bermè Viola Reggio Calabria, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Reggio Calabria, Calabria. At its heyday the club was renowned for discovering talented players who would go on to play at the highest level, however, Viola was also plagued by financial problems, with the club twice declaring bankruptcy, that later sent it out the Italian elite. It plays in the second division Serie A2 as of the 2015-16 season, the club was founded in 1966 as Cestistica Piero Viola by judge Peppino Viola in honour of his late brother Piero. It started playing in the Serie C that season, replacing AICS Reggio Calabria where Piero Viola had played at that level, the club would establish itself in the Serie C during the succeeding years. It would reach the second division Serie A2 in 1983. After a mid-table finish in its first season, Viola won the league in 1984-85 and it was relegated after one season, returning in 1989 following a three-year stay in the Serie A2. Carlo Recalcati took over the reins the following season which ended in relegation. The club would bounce back by winning the Serie A2 in 1991-92, the club made three other playoff appearances the next four seasons with another of its players, Brian Oliver, leading the league in scoring during the 1995-96 season. After a parenthesis in the Serie A2 in 1998-99, the club, counting a young Manu Ginóbili in its ranks, again reached the playoff quarterfinals though they were eliminated by Virtus Bologna. The next season saw Ginóbili leave but players such as Carlos Delfino and Leandro Palladino arrive to help Viola stave off relegation and reach the 2000–01 FIBA Korać Cup Round of 16. After battling relegation again in 2002, Viola returned to the playoffs the following year, nuovo Basket Viola struggled to raise funds prior to the 2004-05 season, with only a last ditch cash injection by the municipality keeping the club, sponsor-less until March 2005, financially afloat. The club would finish in the places in 2005 but kept its top flight status after Scavolini Pesaro folded. It was relegated in 2006, where three successive coaches could not stop the club from moving down to the LegaDue, Viola continued operating only through its youth sector, with the team playing in the Serie D. On 7 July 2009, a new organisation acquired the rights of Basket Gragnano and was admitted into the Serie B Dilettanti. A change in ownership over the 2010 summer saw Giancesare Muscolino become president, the club would finish second during the regular season before losing in the promotion playoffs final to Orlandina Basket. The 2011-12 again saw the team stall in the promotion playoffs, the club then successfully fought relegation the following two seasons and with the second and third tier merging in 2015-16, play in the second division as of the 2015-16 season. At the beginning of the 1970s, the transferred to the Scatolone arena. With the club promoted to the Serie A2 in 1983, the Scatolone did not answer the leagues requirements, in 1991 the PalaCalafiore was built, it is biggest arena in Calabria and the seventh biggest in Italy with more than 8,500 seats
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Basket Rimini Crabs
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Basket Rimini Crabs is an Italian professional basketball team based in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna. The club was established in 1947 as Polisportiva Libertas, playing in the second division from the first time in 1978-79. The side would make its first division Serie A debut in 1984, returning to the LegaDue from 2001, the side was unable to participate in the league in 2011 due to debts, moving to the fourth-division DNB instead. Throughout the years, due to sponsorship, the club has known as
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Bnei Herzliya
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Bnei Herzliya is a professional basketball club based in Herzliya, in central Israel. The club plays in Ligat HaAl, the top division of Israeli basketball, the club was created by the merge of Maccabi Raanana and Bnei Hasharon in 2002. The merge has been made because of Maccabi Raananas financial problems, at the end of 2010–11 season, the merge ended and the team started playing only for the city of Herzliya
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Apollon Patras B.C.
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Apollon Patras B. C. named after the Greek God Apollo, is a Greek professional basketball club that is located in Patras, Greece. Apollon Patras B. C. is the basketball club of the Greek multi sports athletic union A. S. The clubs name sponsorship is Apollon Patras B. C, currently, Apollon competes in the Greek Basket League, which is the top basketball division in Greece. The clubs parent athletic club, A. S, Apollon Patras, was founded in 1926. The clubs mens basketball section, Apollon Patras B. C. was founded in the year 1947. Apollon Patras B. C. has competed in the top division Greek Basket League, in a total of 32 different seasons so far, the club competed in the top division for the first time in the 1971–72 season. Apollon won the local Achaea regional tournament 4 times, in the years 1956,1958,1971, and 1973. In the 1996–97 season, Apollon B. C. had one of its most successful seasons, finishing in the 7th place of the Greek League, and reaching the Round of 16 at the Saporta Cup. The club also made it to the final of the Greek Cup, for the first time in its history, in that particular season, Olympiacos had what is considered to be one of the greatest teams in European basketball history, as they had won the 1997 Triple Crown. One more successful season followed in the 1997–98 season, in which Apollon finished in the 6th place of the Greek League, the following year, the team was relegated down to the Greek A2 Basket League. In 2003, Apollon B. C. won the Greek Second Division championship, the team was relegated to the second division again after the 2006–07 season, and returned to the top division Greek Basket League in the 2012–13 season. In that season, Apollon made the playoffs, and finished in 8th place in the leagues final standings. Apollon played in the 2015 Greek Cup Final, where they lost to Panathinaikos, Apollon Patras plays its home games at the 3,500 seat Apollon Patras Indoor Hall. They have also played games at the Dimitris Tofalos Arena. Italics indicates seasons in which the club competed in levels below the Greek top-tier level, Great Shirt Sponsor, CARNA Official Sport Clothing Manufacturer, ASICS Great Sponsor, Loux Official Sponsor, Peloponnisos Newspaper Official Website Eurobasket. com Team Profile
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Regents School of Austin
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Regents School of Austin is a private classical, non-denominational Christian school located in Austin, Texas. The Regents curriculum is based on a classical education model called the Trivium. The Trivium is composed of three stages, Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, each corresponds to a stage in child development. Grammar school comprises kindergarten through 6th grade, School of Logic is grades 7 and 8. School of Rhetoric is grades 9 to 12, in the Grammar stage Regents students are taught the building blocks for future subjects, includinginclude phonics, Latin, grammar, and math facts. In the Logic stage, when a child would become more argumentative. In the final stage, Rhetoric, students learn Classical Rhetoric, the school uses a mentoring program called THRIVE to emphasize a thriving rather than a surviving relationship between teachers and students. Regents was founded in 1992 by parents and it originally met at Park Hills Baptist Church before moving to Tarrytown Baptist Church. Regents spent many years meeting in portable buildings in the lot at Tarrytown Baptist before moving to a permanent campus in 1998. Regents had its first graduating class in the year 2000, consisting of two students, Regents offers the following athletic programs at the high-school level, The school is part of TAPPS Division II. The 6-man football team has won five state championships within a period, the first TAPPS team to do so, in 2001,2002,2003 in divisions 1A and 2A, in 2006 in 4A. The Knights again made the championship game in 2011, losing to Bullard Brook Hill 26-3. In 2012 Regents moved up to TAPPS Division II and in 2016 again made the championship game. Terrence Rencher, basketball coach, former head coach Joey Wright, basketball player and coach, former basketball coach Official website
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Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball
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The Saint Louis Billikens mens basketball team is the intercollegiate mens basketball program representing Saint Louis University. They compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference, the head coaching position is currently held by Travis Ford. Chaifetz Arena is home to the Billikens, the Billikens have reached the championship game of the NIT tournament four times and have won it once. They have appeared in the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament nine times, each year, the Billikens play Atlantic 10 rival University of Dayton for the rights to the Arch Baron Cup. Saint Louis holds a record of 25–29 in the Arch Baron rivalry. Source The Billikens have appeared in nine NCAA Tournaments, the Billikens have appeared in 18 National Invitation Tournaments. They were NIT champions in 1948 and runner-up in 1961,1989, the Arch Baron Cup has been played three times in the NIT against Dayton, in 1952,1955, and 1961, with a 1–2 record. The 1961 NIT semifinal matchup is most notable as Saint Louis beat Dayton to move to the final game, the Billikens have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational. Their record is 3–2 and they were the CBI runnerup in their only appearance
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Texas State Bobcats men's basketball
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The Texas State Bobcats mens basketball team is the basketball team that represents Texas State University. The schools team competes in the Sun Belt Conference. Southwest Texas State became Texas State in 2003 and participate in the Sun Belt Conference, the Bobcats first season of college basketball was in 1920. The Bobcats were one of the members of the Lone Star Conference. They soon joined the Southland Conference from 1987 until 2012, when left for the Western Athletic Conference. A year later, they left the WAC and joined the Sun Belt Conference
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Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball
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The Tulsa Golden Hurricane mens basketball team represents the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, in the U. S. state of Oklahoma. The team participates in the American Athletic Conference, the Golden Hurricane hired Frank Haith from Missouri on April 17,2014 to replace Danny Manning, who had resigned to take the Wake Forest job after the 2013–14 season. The team has long been successful, especially since the hiring of Nolan Richardson in 1980, many big-name coaches previously worked at Tulsa, like University of Kansas coach Bill Self and Minnesota coach Tubby Smith. The Hurricane have been to the NCAA Tournament 14 times in their history, in addition, they have won two National Invitation Tournaments, in 1981 and 2001, and one CBI tournament. In 2005, Street & Smiths named the University of Tulsa as the 59th best college basketball program of all time, Clarence Iba, brother of Henry Iba, helped to springboard Tulsa to success when named the head coach in 1949. He coached at the school for 11 years, the longest tenure of any Tulsa coach and he became the first coach in NCAA history to win 50 games in his first two seasons. In the 1990s and 2000s, a succession of Tulsa coaches went on to big name programs across the country, including Tubby Smith, Buzz Peterson, the team remained successful throughout the string of coaches. Doug Wojcik, coach from 2005 to 2012, is the all-time winningest coach at the school with 140 wins, notable assistants in the programs history have included Billy Gillispie, Flip Saunders, Kevin O’Neill, Tom Izzo, Mike Anderson and Ron Jirsa. Tulsa has had a series of players at the program. Among those who did make it to the NBA, James King, who came back to coach the program after his NBA career, and Bingo Smith had the greatest success. King was selected to the 1968 NBA All-Star Game, and Smith scored more than 10,000 points in his career, bergen in 1907, when the school still went by the name Kendall College. It went 1–1 in its first season, following the 1908–09 season, the team went on hiatus for several years before restarting for the 1913–14 season under Harvey Allen. The team hit hard times and achieved occasional modest success until the arrival of Clarence Iba in 1949, of special note is the 1942–1943 winless squad under Mike Milligan, whose team went 0–10. Under Iba, Tulsa reached the post-season for the first time in the 1953 NIT, in 1955, Iba led the Golden Hurricane to their first Missouri Valley Conference title and NCAA tournament appearance. Joe Swank succeeded Iba in 1960 and it was under Swank that the color barrier was broken in the Tulsa basketball program. Swank had some winning seasons, but the program would be without real success until the arrival of Nolan Richardson, Nolan Richardson’s hiring helped to usher in a new era of success at Tulsa that has remained fairly consistent since then. He led the team the NIT Championship in the 1980–1981 season, Richardson also won two MVC regular season and two MVC tournament championships in his five season tenure. His flamboyant personality made him popular, his teams adopted McFadden & Whiteheads Aint No Stopping Us Now as their theme song during the Richardson years
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Sam Houston State Bearkats men's basketball
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The Sam Houston State Bearkats mens basketball team represents Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, United States. The schools team competes in the Southland Conference. The Bearkats have played games at Johnson Coliseum, a 5,529 seat indoor arena, since 1976. They are currently led by head coach Jason Hooten, Sam Houston State University has a prestigious history in regards to basketball. The Bearkats have fielded a team since 1917, excluding the 1942-43. Basketball was not played these years because World War II had decimated male enrollment at Sam Houston State, success began early as Sam Houston went 43-11 during its first five years, including an unblemished 24-0 record during its first three. During the 21st Century, Sam Houstons mens basketball program boasts the second winning-est program in Texas Division I, the Bearkats are also the winning-est program in the Southland Conference during the last decade. The Bearkats have seen post-season play in 28 of the last 40 seasons, including a run of 11 straight conference tournament appearances, Sam Houston claims one NAIA national title in 1973, where they finished #1 in the AP Small College Poll. The Bearkats have appeared in two NCAA Division I Tournaments, the Bearkats have appeared in one NCAA Division II Tournament. The Bearkats have appeared in one NAIA Tournament, the Bearkats have appeared in the CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament three times
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New Mexico Lobos men's basketball
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The New Mexico Lobos mens basketball team represents the University of New Mexico, competing in the Mountain West Conference in NCAA Division I. UNM established basketball as a varsity sport in 1899 and began competing with regional colleges after establishing a department in 1920. Lobo basketball first achieved prominence after Bob King was hired as head coach in 1962. King transformed a moribund program into a consistent winner and produced future ABA MVP Mel Daniels, the Lobos won the Western Athletic Conference championship in 1964 and 1968, making frequent appearances in national rankings. The team reached the NIT tournament final in 1964 and received its first bid to the NCAA tournament in 1968, the Lobos became frequent participants in the NCAA tournament during the 1990s and have made fifteen appearances overall, as well as nineteen NIT appearances. They have won the MWC regular season championship and the tournament four times each. The most renowned enduring feature of the Lobo basketball program is its home venue, known as The Pit, the Pit opened in 1966 and the Lobos have been dominant playing there, winning over eighty percent of their games, while regularly placing among national leaders in attendance. The arena has frequently hosted NCAA tournament games, including the 1983 NCAA Final Four that featured one of the most memorable finishes in tournament history, roy Johnson, nicknamed Old Iron Head, was fundamental to the early development of Lobo athletics. Johnson arrived in 1920 after an athletic career at the University of Michigan. The UNM gymnasium at the time was a wooden building where the walls were out-of-bounds markers for basketball games. Basketball was primarily a sport, with occasional games against other schools, including Albuquerque High School. Johnson set about building collegiate-level athletics facilities, performing some of the labor with his own hands. He oversaw construction of Carlisle Gymnasium in 1928 and Zimmerman Field in 1938, during his nearly forty years at UNM, Johnson coached every mens sport the school offered, while teaching physical education. A decorated veteran who served in World Wars I and II and he established regularly scheduled games against regional colleges, and in 1931 UNM joined the Border Conference as a founding member. Johnson coached the UNM basketball team for all but two seasons from 1920-40, from 1924-34, his teams posted a 104–38 record. The Lobos won 165 games with Johnson as head basketball coach, Johnson stepped down as head basketball coach after the 1939-40 season. The position passed to a few different coaches before Woody Clements took over from 1944–51 and 1953–55, the Lobos won the Border Conference in 1944 and 1945, and they appeared in the NAIA post-season tournament in 1947, losing to Hamline University in the first round. From 1951-62, the Lobos competed in the Mountain States Conference, in 1957, while still on faculty, Johnson oversaw construction of the 7, 800-seat arena that bears his name, Johnson Gymnasium
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San Diego Toreros men's basketball
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The San Diego Toreros mens basketball team is a college basketball team that represents the University of San Diego in San Diego, California. The schools team competes in the West Coast Conference. The team played in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament in 2008, the Toreros play their home games in the Jenny Craig Pavilion. They are currently coached by Lamont Smith, University of San Diegos biggest rival is San Diego State University. Since the 2001-2002 season the Toreros have been 3-12 against the Aztecs during the past 15 seasons, the past Torero win coming in the 2015-2016 in one of four games since 2011 to be played outside. The game took place at Petco Park and is the first time the park has hosted a basketball game, the Toreros have appeared in four NCAA Tournaments. The Toreros have appeared in one CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament
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Southwest Conference
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The Southwest Conference was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at times the conference included schools from Oklahoma. After a long period of stability, Arkansas left in 1991 to join the Southeastern Conference, by March 1,1914 a number of schools had responded favorably to the idea. The first organizational meeting of the conference was set to be held on April 30,1914, the date was changed because representatives from every school could not make it then. It was ultimately held on May 5 and 7,1914 at the Oriental Hotel in Dallas, Texas and it was chaired by L. Theo Bellmont. Originally, Bellmont wanted Louisiana State University and the University of Mississippi to join the conference as well, the Southwest Intercollegiate Athletic Conference became an official body on December 8,1914, at a formal meeting at the Rice Hotel in Houston. Rice University left the conference in 1916, only to re-join in 1918, phillips University was a conference member for one year. Oklahoma left in 1919 to join the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, however, the series between Texas and Oklahoma would continue as a non-conference matchup in the annual Red River Rivalry game held in Dallas. From 1925 until 1991, the University of Arkansas would be the only member not located within the state of Texas. By 1925, the name was shortened to simply Southwest Conference. After its organizational years, the conference settled into regularly scheduled meetings among its members, the SWC would be guided by seven commissioners, the first of whom, P. W. St. Clair, was appointed in 1938. In 1940, the conference took control of the then five-year-old Cotton Bowl Classic, Texas Technological College joined the SWC in 1958, followed by the University of Houston for the 1976 season. The conference celebrated its glory years in the 1960s, dominated by two teams, Texas and Arkansas. Texas won the 1963 National Championship, and Arkansas won a National Championship in 1964 in the Football Writers Association of America, in 1969, Texas won another National Championship by beating #2-ranked Arkansas 15-14 in the regular seasons final game. The 1969 Arkansas-Texas game in Fayetteville, Arkansas, attended by President Richard Nixon, is counted among the greatest college football games ever played. Texas also won the 1970 United Press International National Championship, which until 1974 was awarded prior to the bowl games, opponents usually were the runners-up from the Big 8 Conference or the Southeastern Conference, although independents Penn State and Notre Dame were also often featured. From the 1940s onward, the Cotton Bowl Classic was counted among the four bowl games. However, in the 1990s, the game declined in importance, in 1977, Notre Dame became the last team to win a national championship in the Cotton Bowl Classic by beating Texas in the January 1978 game
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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Bronx
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The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, within the U. S. state of New York. Since 1914, the Bronx has had the boundaries as Bronx County, a county of New York. The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a section in the west, closer to Manhattan. East and west street addresses are divided by Jerome Avenue—the continuation of Manhattans Fifth Avenue, the West Bronx was annexed to New York City in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx River in 1895. Bronx County was separated from New York County in 1914, about a quarter of the Bronxs area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo in the boroughs north and center. These open spaces are situated primarily on land reserved in the late 19th century as urban development progressed north. The name Bronx originated with Jonas Bronck, who established the first settlement in the area as part of the New Netherland colony in 1639, the native Lenape were displaced after 1643 by settlers. This cultural mix has made the Bronx a wellspring of both Latin music and hip hop. The Bronx, particularly the South Bronx, saw a decline in population, livable housing, and the quality of life in the late 1960s. Since then the communities have shown significant redevelopment starting in the late 1980s before picking up pace from the 1990s until today, the Bronx was called Rananchqua by the native Siwanoy band of Lenape, while other Native Americans knew the Bronx as Keskeskeck. It was divided by the Aquahung River, the origin of Jonas Bronck is contested. Some sources claim he was a Swedish born emigrant from Komstad, Norra Ljunga parish in Småland, Sweden, who arrived in New Netherland during the spring of 1639. Bronck became the first recorded European settler in the now known as the Bronx and built a farm named Emmanus close to what today is the corner of Willis Avenue. He leased land from the Dutch West India Company on the neck of the mainland north of the Dutch settlement in Harlem. He eventually accumulated 500 acres between the Harlem River and the Aquahung, which known as Broncks River or the Bronx. Dutch and English settlers referred to the area as Broncks Land, the American poet William Bronk was a descendant of Pieter Bronck, either Jonas Broncks son or his younger brother. More recent research indicates that Pieter was probably Jonas nephew or cousin, the Bronx is referred to with the definite article as The Bronx, both legally and colloquially. The region was named after the Bronx River and first appeared in the Annexed District of The Bronx created in 1874 out of part of Westchester County
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University of Texas at Austin
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Founded in 1881 as The University of Texas, its campus is in Austin, Texas—approximately 1 mile from the Texas State Capitol. The institution has the nations seventh-largest single-campus enrollment, with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and over 24,000 faculty, UT Austin was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929, becoming only the third university in the American South to be elected. It is a center for academic research, with research expenditures exceeding $550 million for the 2014–2015 school year. J. Pickle Research Campus and the McDonald Observatory, among university faculty are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, the Emmy Award, the Turing Award, and the National Medal of Science, as well as many other awards. UT Austin student athletes compete as the Texas Longhorns and are members of the Big 12 Conference and its Longhorn Network is the only sports network featuring the college sports of a single university. The first mention of a university in Texas can be traced to the 1827 constitution for the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Although Title 6, Article 217 of the Constitution promised to establish education in the arts and sciences. On April 18,1838, An Act to Establish the University of Texas was referred to a committee of the Texas Congress. On January 26,1839, the Texas Congress agreed to set aside fifty leagues of land towards the establishment of a publicly funded university, in addition,40 acres in the new capital of Austin were reserved and designated College Hill. In 1845, Texas was annexed into the United States, interestingly, the states Constitution of 1845 failed to mention higher education. On February 11,1858, the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O. B,102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the states first publicly funded university. The legislature also designated land reserved for the encouragement of railroad construction toward the universitys endowment, Texas secession from the Union and the American Civil War delayed repayment of the borrowed monies. At the end of the Civil War in 1865, The University of Texas endowment was just over $16,000 in warrants, the more valuable lands reverted to the fund to support general education in the state. The legislature additionally appropriated $256,272.57 to repay the funds taken from the university in 1860 to pay for frontier defense, the 1883 grant of land increased the land in the Permanent University Fund to almost 2.2 million acres. Under the Act of 1858, the university was entitled to just over 1,000 acres of land for every mile of railroad built in the state. On March 30,1881, the legislature set forth the structure and organization. By popular election on September 6,1881, Austin was chosen as the site, galveston, having come in second in the election was designated the location of the medical department. On November 17,1882, on the original College Hill, smite the earth, smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth
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Tom Penders
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Thomas Vincent Tom Penders is a retired college basketball head coach, who last coached from 2004 through 2010 at the University of Houston. He is from Stratford, Connecticut and has a 649-437 career record, prior to his last job as Houstons head coach, Penders was a sports analyst for ESPN and Westwood One Radio. He also has been the coach for Tufts, Columbia, Fordham, Rhode Island, Texas. Penders posted a 59-10 record as a school coach at Bullard-Havens Tech. He led Bullard-Havens to a 14-6 record in his first season as a head coach, the next year he guided Bridgeport Central to a 23-2 record and a number two ranking in the state. The following year, he was named the New York Daily News Coach of the Year after leading Bridgeport to a 20-1 mark, Penders began his collegiate coaching career at Tufts University in 1971, and compiled a 54-18 record in three seasons. On October 6,2006, Penders and his 1972-73 Tufts team were inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, next Penders coached for four seasons at Columbia University. In his final two years there, Penders led the school to back-to-back winning seasons, after Columbia, Penders moved to Fordham University where he remained for eight years and compiled a 125-114 record. In 1980-81, Penders was named the New York Metropolitan Area Coach of the Year after leading Fordham to a 19-9 record, on January 26,2013, Penders was inducted into the Fordham Athletic Hall of Fame. Penders took over Rhode Island’s program on October 4,1986 and he was named the Atlantic 10 Conference Co-Coach of the Year after guiding the Rams to a 20-10 record and a berth into the NIT his first year. In 1988, Penders led the Rams to the 1988 NCAA Sweet 16 with wins over Missouri, in his 10 seasons at the University of Texas, Penders compiled a 208-110 record. During his time there, he became the winningest basketball coach in school history and he led the Longhorns to three Southwest Conference championships and eight NCAA Tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight in 1990, and the Sweet 16 in 1997. His teams at Texas averaged 20.8 wins per season,87.2 points per game, when Penders was hired in 1988, he inherited a team that won 16 games the year before, the Erwin Center averaged 4,028 fans per game. Immediately after his arrival, Penders switched to an uptempo offense. His first team finished second in the Southwest Conference and earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament, the Longhorns also set 22 school and SWC records while more than doubling their attendance average to 10,011 per game, the largest increase in NCAA Division I. In his final year at Texas, Penders underwent heart surgery and was unable to coach the first few games of what would end up being a tumultuous season. The beginning of the end for his tenure began on March 9, on March 18, the academic records of one of the players who attended the meeting, Luke Axtell, were leaked to KVET, the radio flagship of the Longhorns, in violation of student privacy laws. School officials held Penders responsible for the incident and forced him to resign on April 2, One of Penders assistants, Eddie Oran, initially took responsibility for releasing the grades, but later claimed Penders ordered their release
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Saint Louis University
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Saint Louis University is a private Roman Catholic four-year research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg, It is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River and it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges, SLUs athletic teams compete in NCAAs Division I and are a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference. It has an enrollment of 13,505 students, including 8,687 undergraduate students and 4,818 graduate students, representing all 50 states and its average class size is 23.8 and the student-faculty ratio is 12,1. For nearly 50 years the university has maintained a campus in Madrid, the campus has 675 students, a faculty of 110, an average class size of 15 and a student-faculty ratio of 7,1. Fred Pestello is the President, serving as the 33rd President of SLU since July 1,2014 and its first location was in a private residence located near the Mississippi River in an area now occupied by the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial within the Archdiocese of St. Louis. In 1827 Bishop Dubourg placed Saint Louis College in the care of the Society of Jesus, in 1829 it moved to Washington Avenue and Ninth at the site of todays Americas Center by the Edward Jones Dome. In 1867 after the American Civil War the University purchased Lindells Grove to be the site of its current campus, Lindells Grove was the site of the Civil War Camp Jackson Affair. While the Militia was arrested without violence, angry local citizens rushed to the site, Jackson later led a Missouri Confederate government-in-exile, dying of cancer in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1862. The first building on campus, DuBourg Hall, began construction in 1888, St. Francis Xavier College Church moved to its current location with the completion of the lower church in 1884. During the early 1940s, many priests, especially the Jesuits, began to challenge the segregationist policies at the citys Catholic colleges. After the Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper, ran a 1944 expose on St. Louis Archbishop John J, by summer of 1944, Saint Louis University had opened its doors to African Americans, after its president, Father Patrick Holloran, secured Glennons reluctant approval. At the time, then board chairman Fr. Paul Reinert, SJ, the board also shifted to an 18 to 10 majority of laypeople. From 1985 to 1992 the Chairman of the Board of Trustees was William H. T. Bush, the younger Bush also taught classes at the school. Since the move to lay oversight, debate has erupted many times over how much influence the Roman Catholic Church should have on the affairs of the university. The decision by the University to sell its hospital to Tenet Healthcare Corp. in 1997 met much resistance by local and national Church leaders, but went ahead as planned. In 2016 St. Louis University hospital found its present owner, SLUs campus consists of over 235 acres of land and 7.2 million GSF, with 131 buildings on campus. Saint Louis University has four libraries, pius XII Memorial Library is the general academic library
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Rick Majerus
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Richard Raymond Majerus was an American college basketball coach. He coached at Marquette University, Ball State University, the University of Utah, Majerus most successful season came at Utah in the 1997–98 season, when the Utes finished as NCAA national runners-up. Majerus graduated from Marquette University High School in 1966 and then attended Marquette University and he did not play for Marquette, but stayed on as a student assistant. He graduated in 1970 with a degree in history and he began coaching eighth-graders at St. Sebastian Grade School in Milwaukee, then coached freshmen boys at Marquette University High School. He was an assistant coach with the Marquette Warriors for 12 years under mentor Al McGuire, until 1977, after three years as head coach at Marquette, and a 56-35 record, he became an assistant coach with the National Basketball Associations Milwaukee Bucks for the 1986–87 season. He coached at Ball State University for two seasons where he had a record of 43-17 during that span and he also lead the team to the NCAA tournament in the 1988-89 season. That 1988-89 team holds the record for best mens basketball won-lost mark in Ball State University history and he definitely had Ball States program on the upswing before his departure to Utah in 1989. He was an assistant coach under Don Nelson for the US national team in the 1994 FIBA World Championship, Majerus led Utah to the Final Four in 1998, eventually losing to Kentucky in the National Championship Game. He was greatly affected by the loss, and claimed to be able to recite the last six minutes of play of the game second by second. In January 2001, Majerus announced that he would sit out the season to recover from his own health problems and he handed over the team to assistant Dick Hunsaker, who guided the team to a 19-10 record and an NIT appearance. Majerus then returned to Utah in the fall of 2001 and he left Utah in January 2004 after 15 seasons and 323 victories in part to get control of his health, he underwent seven vessel bypass surgery to his heart in 1989. Majerus was known to berate and verbally abuse his players, allred transferred after the 2001-02 season, but Majerus was later cleared of any wrongdoing. His contract was scheduled to pay him $5 million over five years, Majerus gave an energetic and humorous press conference on the day of his hire, but also noted I hope I die here. I hope I coach here the rest of my life, in order to take the position, he needed to buy himself out of his contract as an analyst for ESPN. However, Majerus unexpectedly resigned five days later in a somber. I came to that conclusion myself, i’m not fit for this job by my standards. Majerus worked as a game and studio analyst for ESPN from 2004 to 2007, Majerus was a fan favorite and cult figure around college basketball, known for his portly, rotund figure and his quirky, jovial personality. He enjoyed bratwursts, a popular in his native Wisconsin
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Texas State University
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Texas State University is a public research university located in San Marcos, Texas, United States. Established in 1899 as the Southwest Texas State Normal School, it opened in 1903 to 303 students and it has 10 colleges and about 50 schools and departments, including nationally recognized programs in Geography, Criminal Justice and Music. Texas State is classified as a university with higher research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, faculty from the various college have consistently been given Fulbright Scholar grants resulting in Texas State being recognized as one of the top producing universities of Fulbright Scholars. The 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B, Johnson, graduated from the institution in 1930. Texas States main campus consists of 245 buildings on 492 acres of land along the San Marcos River. The university operates the Science, Technology and Advanced Research Park, the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State is the largest forensics research facility in the world. Texas State Universitys intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known as the Bobcats, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, the Southwest Texas State Normal School was proposed in a March 3,1899, bill by State Representative Fred Cocke. Cocke represented the citizens of Hays and surrounding counties where the school was to be located. While there was opposition to the bill, with the support of State Senator J. B. Dibrell, it was passed and signed into law on May 10,1899. The schools purpose was to provide training and teach domestic sciences. Any students earning a diploma and teaching certificate from the school would be authorized to teach in the public schools. In October 1899, the San Marcos City Council voted to donate 11 acres of land at what was known as Chautauqua Hill for the school to be built on. It was not until 1901 that the Texas legislature accepted this donation, the building now known as Old Main was completed and the school opened its doors to its first enrollment of 303 students in September 1903. The San Marcos East End Ward School, comprising the first eight grades of the district, was moved onto the Southwest Texas State campus in 1917. On November 8,1965, the schools most famous alumnus, Johnson, returned to his alma mater to sign the Higher Education Act of 1965, which was part of his Great Society. The campus has grown substantially from its original 11 acres in 1899, during the first 40 years of the schools history, the campus was expanded to accommodate 18 buildings around the original Main Building. These buildings included academic buildings, a library, buildings to house the San Marcos school students, dormitories, a dining hall, the university bought the property in 1994 intending to use the land as a research and education center
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University of Tulsa
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The University of Tulsa is a private university located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The university is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. The university is renowned for its programs in law, English, computer science, natural sciences, psychology and its faculty includes prominent scholars, scientists, and writers, including Russian dissident poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, political scientist Robert Donaldson and others. The campuss design is predominantly Collegiate Gothic, the university manages the Gilcrease Museum, which includes one of the largest collections of American Western art in the world, and in 2016, The Bob Dylan Archive was placed at the university. TUs athletic teams are known as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. The Presbyterian School for Girls was founded in Muskogee, Indian Territory, in 1894, the young school expanded to become Henry Kendall College, named in honor of Reverend Henry Kendall, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. The first president was William A. Caldwell, who served a brief, Kendall College, while still in Muskogee, granted the first post-secondary degree in Oklahoma in June 1898. Under King, the college was moved from its location in downtown Muskogee to a larger campus on lands donated by Creek Nation Chief Pleasant Porter. The opening of the new campus coincided with the start of the tenure of the third president, over the next ten years, Evans oversaw the struggling schools growth. At the request of the administration, the Synod of Indian Territory assumed control as trustees, when the administration was approached by the comparatively smaller town of Tulsa and offered a chance to move, the decision was made to relocate. The Tulsa Commercial Club decided to bid for the college, Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included, B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Hall, stebbins, Rev. Charles W. Kerr, C. H. Nicholson. The offer included $100,000,20 acres of real estate, the school opened to thirty-five students in September 1907, two months before Oklahoma became a state. These first students attended classes at the First Presbyterian Church until permanent buildings could be erected on the new campus and this became the start of higher education in Tulsa. Kendall Hall, the first building of the new school, was completed in 1908 and was followed by two other buildings. All three buildings have since demolished, with Kendall the last to be razed in 1972. The bell that hung in the Kendall Building tower was saved and displayed in Bayless Plaza. In 1918, the Methodist Church proposed building a college in Tulsa, the proposed college was to be named McFarlin College
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Sam Houston State University
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Sam Houston State University was founded in 1879 and is the third oldest public institution of higher learning in the State of Texas. It is located approximately 50 minutes north of downtown Houston, in Huntsville and it is one of the oldest purpose-built institutions for the instruction of teachers west of the Mississippi River and the first such institution of its type in Texas. The school is named for Sam Houston, who made his home in the city and is buried there. SHSU is a member of the Texas State University System and has an enrollment of more than 20,000 students across over 80 undergraduate,59 masters, and 8 doctoral degree programs. The university also offers more than 20 online bachelors and graduate degrees, the Sam Houston State University campus was originally home to Austin College, the Presbyterian institution that relocated to Sherman, Texas in 1876. Austin Hall was constructed in 1851 and is the oldest university building west of the Mississippi still in operation and it was renovated in 2012 and is used today for special meetings and events. Notably, Sam Houston himself attended and participated in the dedication of the building. Created by legislation signed by Governor Oran M. Roberts on San Jacinto Day, April 21,1879 and it was the first teacher-training school in the southwestern United States. On October 10 of the year, the first class of 110 students. The first President of the school, Bernard Mallon, died days after the institute opened. The one-room Peabody Memorial Library was the first free-standing campus library in Texas, according to the Normal Institutes catalogue, the library was a very handsome structure, and especially designed for the purpose for which it is to be used. It is said that no school of this kind in the South has a Building equal to it, fully restored, it is now used as a venue for special university events. When the university first opened, students received a certification to teach in the elementary and secondary schools. After 1919, the university began to award bachelors degrees, in 1936, the school awarded its first postbaccalaureate degree. SHSU celebrated its 125th year of operation in 2004, the university launched its first capital campaign in March 2006 with a $50 million goal and closed the campaigns books on August 31,2010, with $61.2 million in commitments. The university has 110,000 living, addressable alumni and an active Alumni Association with 10,000 members, holding 200 meetings, sHSU-The Woodlands Center opened on May 30,2012, on the Lone Star College-Montgomery campus. It is a 144,164 sq. ft. facility that has a parking garage. The university also operates SHSU-University Park on the property of Lone Star College-University Park in unincorporated Harris County near Tomball, throughout the course of its history, Sam has undergone several name changes
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University of New Mexico
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The University of New Mexico is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is New Mexicos flagship research institution, the largest post-secondary institution in the state in total enrollment across all campuses as of 2012, founded in 1889, UNM offers bachelors, masters, doctoral, and professional degree programs in a wide variety of fields. Its Albuquerque campus encompasses over 600 acres, and there are campuses in Gallup, Los Alamos, Rio Rancho, Taos. UNM is categorized as an R1 doctoral university in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the University of New Mexico was founded on February 28,1889, with the passage of House Bill No. Two years later, Elias S. Stover became the first president of the University, the third president of UNM, William G. Tight, who served from 1901–09, introduced many programs for students and faculty, including the first fraternity and sorority. Tight introduced the Pueblo Revival architecture for which the campus has become known, under David Ross Boyd, the universitys fifth president, the campus was enlarged from 20 to 300 acres and a 200, 000-acre federal land grant was made to the university. In 1922, the university was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges, under Zimmerman, many new buildings were constructed, student enrollment increased, new departments were added, and greater support was generated for scientific research. Among the new buildings constructed were Zimmerman Library, Scholes Hall, the first student union building and this period also saw the foundation of UNMs branch facilities in Los Alamos and Gallup and the acquisition of the D. H. Lawrence Ranch north of Taos. During the early 1970s, a series of protests were held at the university, on May 5,1970, a protest over the Vietnam War and the Kent State massacre occupied the Student Union Building. The National Guard was ordered to sweep the building and arrest those inside, on May 10,1972, a peaceful sit-in protest near Kirtland Air Force Base led to the arrest of thirty-five people and was pushed back to UNM, leading to eight more arrests. The following day, tear gas was used against hundreds of demonstrators on campus, New programs and schools were created in the 1970s and the university gained control over the hospital on North Campus. At the end of the decade, the university was implicated in a recruiting scandal dubbed Lobogate by the press, subsequent investigation turned up a manufactured college seal from Mercer County Community College in New Jersey, along with blank transcripts and records of previous forgery. Further investigation uncovered alleged incentives like cars and apartments doled out to prime players, the scandal forced Ellenberger to resign and defined the term of William E. Davis, UNMs eleventh president. The university has continued to grow, with expanding enrollment and new facilities, in the 1980s, dramatic expansion occurred at the medical center, business school, and engineering school. The Centennial Library was also constructed, during the 1990s, an Honors College was founded, and the university completed construction of a new bookstore and Dane Smith Hall. The Research Park at South Campus was also expanded, by this point, the university had one of the largest student and faculty populations of Hispanics and Native Americans in the country. A study released in 1995 showed that the number of full-time Hispanic faculty at UNM was four times greater than the national average, the schools of law and business had some of the largest Hispanic student populations of any university in the country. In the first decade of the 2000s, major expansion began on medical facilities on North Campus, the current visitor center, a new engineering center, and George Pearl Hall were constructed
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Craig Neal
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Craig Duane Neal is an American basketball coach and former player. He was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the round of the 1988 NBA draft. Born and raised in Washington, Indiana, Neal played high school basketball at Washington High School, among his teammates was his childhood best friend Steve Alford, who would later employ Neal as an assistant coach. As a senior in 1983, Neal earned all-American and all-state honors, in 1982, Neal signed with the Georgia Institute of Technology to play basketball under Bobby Cremins. Neal played for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets from 1983 to 1988, due to a season-ending injury, Neal played only four games in his sophomore season in 1984–85 and took a redshirt that year. As a senior in 1987–88, Neal set the ACC single-season record with 303 assists while averaging a league-best 9.5 assists per game in addition to 7.7 points. During Neals time at Georgia Tech, the Yellow Jackets made the 1984 NIT, in the 1988 NBA draft, the Portland Trail Blazers picked Neal in the third round, 71st overall. Neal began his career playing for the Jacksonville Hooters of the USBL. In his rookie NBA season, Neal played 21 games for the Portland Trail Blazers before being waived on January 11,1989, on February 3, Neal signed as a free agent with the Miami Heat and played 32 games off the bench. After playing in the CBA in the 1989–90 season, Neal returned to the NBA in 1990 as an agent with the Chicago Bulls but was released before the regular season. On February 12,1991, Neal signed with the Denver Nuggets, in 10 games, Neal averaged 12.5 minutes and 4.4 points before being waived on March 3. Neal later played for the Florida Jades of the World Basketball League in 1991 and was the Most Valuable Player in the 1991 WBL All-Star Game, Neal served as a player and coach for the Fort Wayne Fury of the CBA in 1994–95. In 1996, Neal joined the Toronto Raptors of the NBA as a scout before becoming an assistant coach for the team under Lenny Wilkens in 2000, for three years, Neal coached the Raptors summer league team and led pre-draft workouts for prospects. In the 2003–04 season, Neal was a scout and player development assistant for the Raptors, in August 2004, Craig Neal joined long-time friend and head coach Steve Alford at the University of Iowa. Iowa posted a 63-35 record while Neal was the associate-head coach, the Hawkeyes won 25 games in 2005-06, the second highest total in school history. On March 27,2007, Craig Neal followed Steve Alford to New Mexico, in his first year at New Mexico, Craig Neal played an essential role in turning New Mexico into a competitive team. In addition, the Lobos made it into post season play in the NIT for the first time since 2005, in 2010 and 2012, New Mexico reached the NCAA tournament. In 2013, New Mexico reached the NCAA tournament as the number 3 seed, on April 2,2013, New Mexico promoted Neal to head coach, after Alford left to take the head coaching position at UCLA
