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This section provides a brief summary of the seasons from 1938 to 1994, complete NIT and NCAA tournament results, major conference champions, Player and Coach of the Year winners, and the consensus All-America teams. From 1938-48, the head coaches, regular season records and final records of the tournament teams are given. Starting in 1949, the first year of the AP basketball poll, coaches and records are given for the teams listed on the final regular season Top 20.

James Naismith, a 30-year-old Canadian physical education instructor attending the YMCA training school in Springfield, Mass., invented basketball in December, 1891. But it was Ned Irish, a 29-year-old sportswriter-turned-promoter who invented big time college basketball when he staged the sport’s first intersectional doubleheader at Madison Square Garden in New York on Dec. 19, 1934.

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1943 College Basketball Recap

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Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales