African American High School Basketball Tournaments History

The states of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky are particularly well known for their residents' devotion to high school basketball, commonly called Hoosier Hysteria in ______

The critically acclaimed film Hoosiers shows high school basketball's depth of meaning to these ______

There is currently no national tournament to determine a national high school ______

The most serious effort was the National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament at the University of ______ from 1917 to 1930

Faced with opposition from the National Federation of State High School Associations and North Central Association of Colleges and Schools that bore a threat of the schools losing their ______

The National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament ran from 1924 to 1941 at ______ University

The National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament for Black High Schools was held from 1929 to 1942 at Hampton Institute.The National Invitational Interscholastic Basketball Tournament was held from 1941 to 1967 starting out at Tuskegee Institute.Following a pause during World War II it resumed at Tennessee State College in Nashville.The basis for the champion dwindled after 1954 when Brown v.Board of Education began an integration of ______.

The last tournaments were held at Alabama State College from 1964 to 1967.Professional basketball Teams abounded throughout the 1920s.There were hundreds of men's professional basketball teams in towns and cities all over the United States, and little organization of the professional game.Players jumped from team to team and teams played in armories and smoky dance halls.Leagues came and went.Barnstorming squads such as the Original Celtics and two all-African American teams, the New York Renaissance Five ('Rens') and the (still existing) Harlem Globetrotters played up to two hundred games a year on their national tours.In 1946, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) was ______.

The first game was played in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between the Toronto Huskies and New York Knickerbockers on November 1, 1946.Three seasons later, in 1949, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament for Black High Schools was held from 1929 to 1942 at Hampton Institute.The National Invitational Interscholastic Basketball Tournament was held from 1941 to 1967 starting out at Tuskegee Institute.Following a pause during World War II it resumed at Tennessee State College in Nashville.The basis for the champion dwindled after 1954 when Brown v.Board of Education began an integration of ______.

Barnstorming squads such as the Original Celtics and two all-African American teams, the New York Renaissance Five ('Rens') and the (still existing) Harlem Globetrotters played up to two hundred games a year on their national tours.In 1946, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) was ______.

The basis for the champion dwindled after 1954 when Brown v.Board of Education began an integration of ______.

In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School, was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day by creating an indoor game, which led to the invention of ______.

Dr. James Naismith nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track to create the first basketball hoop, which required the balls to be retrieved manually after each 'basket' until the bottom of the basket was ______.

The first balls made specifically for basketball were ______, and it was only in the late 1950s that the orange ball was introduced for better visibility.

Dribbling was not initially part of the original basketball game except for the 'bounce pass' to teammates, with passing being the primary means of ball movement due to the asymmetric shape of early ______.

In the late 1950s, Tony Hinkle introduced the orange ball in basketball for better visibility to players and spectators, which is now in common ______.

Basketball evolved over the years, with dribbling eventually being introduced but limited initially due to the asymmetric shape of early ______.