GASTONIA - When Duke University begins its 111th season of basketball on Friday night in the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic, the Blue Devils will be the No. 1 team in the country and a ...

One of the nation's most successful sporting events began as a financial flop. Hastily planned and poorly promoted, the inaugural NCAA tournament in 1939 was such an afterthought that many teams that ...

Willie "Woo Woo" Wong, a man of small stature but large athletic talent who went on to become one of San Francisco's biggest basketball names in the 1940s and among the finest Chinese American players ...

During the 1940s, downtown Hammond was the place to go — whether it was to shop, see a show, or grab a bite to eat. On March 31, 1940, the usual weekend crowd increased from a few hundred to tens of ...

During his time as head coach, Forrest “Frosty” Cox led the team to two National Invitational Tournaments and three NCAA tournaments. The 1937-38 team appeared in the NIT, reaching the finals. The ...

If you are not that familiar with the Spartans' basketball history, let me tell you. If you are a historian of Michigan State University basketball, you probably know who wore No. 7 during the 1941-42 ...

It was a chaotic scene easily mistaken for the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of hysterical, screaming men in suits and fedoras filled narrow streets, packed like sardines and swept along in a ...

The College of William and Mary announced Monday night that Chet Giermak, who until a few weeks ago was the Tribe’s all-time leading scorer in men’s basketball, has died. He was 87. Giermak died from ...

HAMMOND — In the 1940 Indiana Boys Basketball State Tournament, the Hammond Tech Tigers beat Dyer, E.C. Washington, Clark, Whiting, Brook, Froebel, South Bend Riley, Logansport and Lapel before ...

Even though the basketball season is over, memories of high school basketball teams from the past still linger. After seeing stories about them here, Ramona Fraase, Buffalo, N.D., sent in some of her ...