Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The tournaments organized by the AAU started in 1897 and until the late 1940s included college teams, athletic clubs and company teams. Gale Bishop holds the record for most points scored having netted 62 in the second round of the 1945 tournament in Denver.
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 ...
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 ...
Many National Basketball Association stars opted to play in the AAU to preserve their amateur status in order to be eligible to play in the Olympic Games. Please note this category is not intended to include AAU alumni from outside of this time period (i.e., present-day notable basketball players do not belong here
Kentucky lost twice over the past week. That led to a tumble in the latest Top 25 poll. The new Associated Press college basketball rankings were released Monday, and the Wildcats fell from No. 4 ...
College basketball (many college leagues also offer high school basketball tournaments): BUCAL – Bicol Universities and Colleges Athletic League; CESAFI – Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. COSAA – Cagayan de Oro Schools Athletics Association; CUSA – Colleges and Universities Sports Association; ISSA – Iloilo Schools Sports ...
Kentucky basketball: No. 15 UK shows it can win with toughness, grit in beating No. 9 North Carolina in Atlanta Reach Kentucky men’s basketball and football reporter Ryan Black at rblack@gannett ...