Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.” The format for the high school tournament ...

Canada provided the environment in which Naismith could flourish and grow. And America was the ideal place for basketball to be invented, transformed and then ripple out around the world. It was a ...

Around the same time, on the other side of the state, the new sport of basketball - invented 1981 by gym teacher Dr. James Naismith in Springfield, Mass. - was quickly being adopted in schools and ...

Basketball wasn't invented here. But 100 years ago in Indiana, it was a revelation to James Naismith A year later, after Bledsoe graduated from high school, DeJernett led Washington to its first ...

It may be surprising to discover that women began playing basketball less than a year after the game was invented. The fact is that women’s basketball is steeped in tradition, some of it ...

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.” The format for the high school tournament in 1925 was different than what it would become in 1936, when the ...

And America was the ideal place for basketball to be invented, transformed and then ripple out around the world. It was a collaborative effort between these three countries, and not solely down to ...