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The Amateur Athletic Union Tournament is the annual American amateur basketball championship series for Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) teams. [1] It started in 1897 and has continued until present. Most finals have been played in a single final format, apart from some occasions that the winner's tournament had been decided by a round robin format.
In 1897, the AAU held its first national men's basketball championship. The winner was the 23rd Street YMCA from New York City. The first AAU women's basketball tournament was held in April 1926 at the Los Angeles Athletics Club. The Pasadena Athletic & Country Club Flying Rings were crowned the champions.
The tournaments organized by the AAU started in 1897 and until the late 1940s included college teams, athletic clubs and company teams. Gale Bishop holds the record for most points scored having netted 62 in the second round of the 1945 tournament in Denver.
See DGWS/AIAW Basketball Champions (1969–82) NCAA from 1982. The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) has since 1926 conducted United States championship tournaments for women's amateur teams. On 28 occasions, small college teams (all from the central U.S.) have won the AAU women's basketball championship: [275] 1932–33 (2) Oklahoma Presbyterian ...
The sixth-grade team beat the Schenectady Envy, 62-50 in the championship game. Rye's Colin Swartz was named tournament MVP and was placed on the all-tournament first team.
The team won 11 national championships at the AAU national tournament between 1940 and 1963, including six consecutive AAU titles, from 1943 to 1948. [1] In 1948, the 66ers combined with Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky team to form the U.S. team that won the Olympic basketball tournament. [2]
They joined the NABL in the 1960s, and continued to play there until the late 1970s. They also represented USA basketball at the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, which is organized by FIBA World. In 1964, they won their first AAU tournament, after beating their bitter rivals, the Phillips 66ers, in the final. They won the AAU championship again, in 1967.
The Buchan Bakers was an amateur basketball team located in Seattle, Washington and competed in the National Industrial Basketball League.The Bakers were one of the most popular teams of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), rising to fame in 1957 when the beat the Phillips 66ers in the AAU tournament final.