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The Amateur Athletic Union Men's Basketball All-Americans were players who competed in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) between 1920–21 and 1967–68 and were chosen as the best players in the league during their respective seasons. [1] Founded in 1888, the AAU is one of the largest non-profit, volunteer, sports organizations in the United ...
The AAU James E. Sullivan Award has been presented annually since 1930 to the best collegiate or Olympic-level athlete in the United States – making this award older than the Heisman Trophy (1935). [39] The AAU Sullivan Award is a salute to founder and past president of the Amateur Athletic Union, and a pioneer in amateur sports, James E ...
At All Costs is a 2016 documentary film that explores how the AAU basketball circuit has professionalized youth basketball in America.As the business of youth basketball balloons into a multi-billion dollar industry, the stakes for finding "the next big thing" have never been higher.
The Independent boys basketball team won its first Central Plains League title in more than a decade on Tuesday with a win over Medicine Lodge to finish with a 18-2 record, while the girls ...
The New Hampshire Spartans basketball program entered multiple teams at last weekend's Zero Gravity Boys National Finals in Massachusetts, and the Hampton-based organization brought home two ...
As a predominantly back-to-the-basket post, Zach Edey averaged better than 25 points per game as a senior. Edey was a career 62.1% shooter at Purdue and 70.6% from the free throw line.
AAU basketball was particularly strong in the Midwest, Southwest and West Coast, where the NBA had not yet established a presence. [3] [4] The top teams also played in the National Industrial Basketball League, which began play in the 1947–48 season, [5] two years before the establishment of the NBA. The NIBL had as many as eleven teams for ...
By the time Haldorson retired, AAU basketball was dying a slow death. TV had discovered the NBA , and the pros were starting to stabilize and pay more money than teams like Phillips could. The National Industrial Basketball League , the top amateur loop, disbanded in 1961.