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The Phillips 66ers (also known as the Oilers) were an amateur basketball team located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, sponsored and run by the Phillips Petroleum Company.The 66ers were a national phenomenon that grew from a small-town team to an organization of accomplished amateur athletes receiving national and worldwide attention.
The following players played for the Phillips 66 basketball team (named the Phillips 66ers; informally known as the Oilers), the perennial power in AAU basketball in the United States in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
The Big 12 men's basketball tournament (known since its inception in 1997 under sponsorship agreements as the Phillips 66 Big 12 men's basketball tournament) is the championship men's basketball tournament in the Big 12 Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament of four rounds, with the top six seeds getting byes in the first round. [2]
For nearly a half-century, the Phillips 66ers basketball men's basketball team sparkled as one of the bright lights in men's amateur basketball
Between 1920 and 1950, some of the strongest basketball teams in the United States were sponsored by corporations, including Phillips 66, 20th Century Fox, Safeway Inc., Caterpillar Inc., and others. History
James Carlos McNatt (December 19, 1918 – December 23, 2000) [1] was an All-American basketball player for the Oklahoma Sooners and the AAU's Phillips 66ers.At Oklahoma, McNatt led his team to the first-ever NCAA final Four in 1939, [2] and at Phillips 66, McNatt guided the 66ers (also called the "Oilers") to four consecutive AAU national championships (1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946). [3]
The team was not a factor in the AAU tournament. Browning returned to coaching the Phillips 66ers in 1959. Browning also coached the Phillips 66ers in the National Alliance of Basketball Leagues, and led them to two more AAU championships, in 1962 and 1963. In 1957 Browning was named to the Helms Amateur Basketball Hall of Fame.
After he played in the Olympics, Fortenberry played five seasons with the Phillips 66ers, the perennial power in the AAU basketball league, the premier basketball league in the United States before the NBA. He played from the 1936–1937 season through the 1940–1941 season, winning an AAU national championship in 1940.