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The 1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game was the first five-on-five college basketball game played in United States history. [2] Although the sport had been first played in 1892, seven to nine players had been used on a side.
The history of basketball can be traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts.The sport was created by a physical education teacher named James Naismith, who in the winter of 1891 was given the task of creating a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that would prevent them from getting hurt.
The 1939 NCAA basketball tournament involved eight schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.It was the first NCAA basketball national championship tournament, although it was operated by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) at the time.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament for men's college basketball teams in the United States. It determines the champion of Division I, the top level of play in the NCAA, [1] and the media often describes the winner as the national champion of college ...
The first known U.S. college to field a basketball team against an outside opponent was Vanderbilt University, which played against the local YMCA in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 7, 1893. [27] The second recorded instance of an organized college basketball game was Geneva College 's game against the New Brighton YMCA on April 8, 1893, in ...
Ohio State played in one of the most-watched women's college basketball games of all time.. The Buckeyes' 93-83 road loss to Iowa was watched by 3.39 million viewers according to FOX Sports. In ...
In 1975, the tournament expanded to 32 teams and eliminated byes for top seeds, to accommodate the additional games eight sites hosted first round games. Between 1979 and 1985, the tournament gradually expanded to a 64-team field with a full, sixth round, creating the modern First and Second Rounds hosted at eight sites.
December 11, 1909 - Films made in Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, are shown for the first time in the United States by George Albert Smith and Charles Urban. [1] 1934 - The first college basketball game at the Garden is played, between the University of Notre Dame and New York University.