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The City Game is an annual college basketball game between the University of Pittsburgh Panthers and the Duquesne University Dukes.The term "City Game" is also used refer to women's basketball games played annually between the two universities and may also be used to refer to other athletic competitions between the two schools.
The City College stampede was a crowd crush event on December 28, 1991, in the City College of New York gymnasium during a charity basketball game organized and promoted by hip hop celebrities P. Diddy and Heavy D. Nearly 5,000 people tried to pack into the gymnasium, which could fit 2,730 people. [1]
The men's basketball Dukes semi-regularly play their cross-town rival, the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, in Pittsburgh's much anticipated and highly attended City Game. The Dukes women's basketball team annually plays the University of Pittsburgh every year in the women's version of the City Game.
The first inter-city basketball game between two black teams was played in 1907 when the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn traveled to Washington, DC to play the Crescent Athletic Club. [48] In 1908 Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn, a member of the Olympian Athletic League, was named the first Colored Basketball World's Champion. [49]
The facility is used for most major sports at Duquesne, and has played host to NIT games, WNIT games, high school post season championships, national wrestling championships, and Atlantic 10 tournament competitions. During the 1994-95 basketball season, the Palumbo Center was the home of the Continental Basketball Association's Pittsburgh Piranhas.
The City Championship is an American men's college basketball rivalry game between the Aztecs of San Diego State University (SDSU) and the Toreros of the University of San Diego (USD). The winner of the game becomes City Champions.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL. WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS. BOYS. CITY SECTION. AMIT 34, Lake Balboa College 30. Animo Robinson 78, Esperanza College 8. Arleta 73, Grant 72
Earl Manigault was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised in Harlem, New York.He grew up playing basketball and practiced constantly. With per game averages of 24 points and 11 rebounds, Manigault starred at Benjamin Franklin High School, a basketball powerhouse in the Public Schools Athletic League. [4]