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The Amateur Athletic Union Tournament is the annual American amateur basketball championship series for Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) teams. [1] It started in 1897 and has continued until present. Most finals have been played in a single final format, apart from some occasions that the winner's tournament had been decided by a round robin format.
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
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 ...
AAU basketball: N.H. Spartans win two Zero Gravity National Final tourneys. Gannett. Jay Pinsonnault, Portsmouth Herald. June 14, 2024 at 2:25 PM.
Standing 7-foot (2.1 m) tall, he has been credited as the first person to dunk in a college basketball game. [1] He led the U.S. basketball team to gold medals in two Summer Olympics, and led his AAU team to three national titles. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The overnight success by the basketball teams at Wichita Independent is dispelling the notion that summer AAU club coaches would struggle to translate their success to the Kansas high school ...
The AAU's annual tournament drew the best players in the world, as well as thousands of fans and dozens of sports writers and broadcasters. During the 1930s, the only professional basketball teams were barnstormers like the House of David and the Harlem Globetrotters. In all those years the 66ers played against teams fielded by various ...
Ja Morant may be injured, but he's still finding new ways to impact the game of basketball. The latest example is the Memphis Grizzlies star point guard getting involved on the AAU basketball ...