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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]
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]
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]
City Location Notes January 22 21 Pittsburgh Panthers: 76: 14 UConn Huskies 66 Storrs, Connecticut: Harry A. Gampel Pavilion [1] January 29 16 Texas Longhorns 65 6 Kansas Jayhawks: 90: Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Fieldhouse [2] February 5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 57 8 Syracuse Orange: 60: Syracuse, New York: Carrier Dome [3] February 12 7 Duke ...
Midnight basketball, an initiative to curb inner-city crime in the United States and elsewhere by engaging youth in urban areas with sports as an alternative to drugs and crime. Rezball, short for reservation ball, is the avid Native American following of basketball, particularly a style of play particular to Native American teams of some areas.
Prior to the CCNY scandal, the most infamous case of match fixing in college basketball occurred on January 29, 1945, when five Brooklyn College players (Bernard Barnett, Jerome Green, Robert Leder, Larry Pearlstein, and Stanley Simon) were arrested and confessed to accepting $1,000 each from multiple gamblers with promises of an extra $2,000 (equivalent to over $34,900 in 2024) included to ...
City College then defeated Duquesne 62–52 in the semi-final round. In the title game, the Beavers squared off against top ranked Bradley, who had All-American Paul Unruh and the 5'8" speedster, Gene "Squeaky" Melchiorre. CCNY came out on top 69–61 to win the tournament. Ed Warner of CCNY was awarded Most Valuable Player honors.