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1948–49 Minneapolis Lakers Season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Lakers' first season in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) (which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the conclusion of this season). This season saw the Lakers win their first BAA championship, defeating the Washington Capitols in six games in the BAA Finals. Draft Roster Regular season Season standings :x – clinched playoff spot Record vs. opponents Game log Playoffs , - align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" , 1 , March 23 , Chicago W 84–77, George Mikan (37) , Minneapolis Auditorium , 1–0 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" , 2 , March 24 , @ Chicago W 101–85, George Mikan (38) , Chicago Stadium , 2–0 , - , - align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" , 1 , March 27 , @ Rochester W 80–79, George Mikan (32) , Edgerton Park Arena , 1–0 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" , 2 , March 29 , Rochester W 67–55, George Mikan (31) , St. Paul Auditorium , ...
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John Kundla
John Albert Kundla (July 3, 1916 – July 23, 2017) was an American college and professional basketball coach. He was the first head coach for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its predecessors, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (United States), National Basketball League (NBL), serving 12 seasons, from 1947 to 1959. His teams won six league championships, one in the NBL, one in the BAA, and four in the NBA. Kundla was the head basketball coach at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul for one season in 1946–47, and at the University of Minnesota for ten seasons, from 1959 to 1968. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. Early life Kundla was born in the mining town of Star Junction, Pennsylvania to parents from Jakubany, at that time Austria-Hungary ...
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Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Basketball
The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents Western Kentucky University (WKU) in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Hilltoppers currently compete in Conference USA. The team's most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was in 2013. Rick Stansbury was announced as the team's current head coach on March 28, 2016. The men's basketball program has the 16th most victories in the history of the NCAA and has attained the eighth best winning percentage in NCAA history. The school made an NCAA Final Four appearance in 1971, which was later vacated, and has made four NIT Final Four appearances, including three in the early days of the NIT when it was on par with the NCAA tournament. The program has won numerous Ohio Valley Conference championships and was very competitive in its previous conference, the Sun Belt Conference, regularly finishing near the top of the conference and competing for the conference ch ...
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1948–49 Philadelphia Warriors Season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Warriors' 3rd season in the NBA. Draft Roster Regular season Season standings :x – clinched playoff spot Record vs. opponents Game log Playoffs , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" , 1 , March 23 , Washington L 70–92, Jake Bornheimer (13) , Howie Dallmar (3) , Philadelphia Arena , 0–1 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" , 2 , March 24 , @ Washington L 78–80, Chink Crossin (22) , Jerry Fleishman (3) , Uline Arena , 0–2 , - Awards and records *Joe Fulks, All-NBA First Team References {{DEFAULTSORT:1948-49 Philadelphia Warriors Season Golden State Warriors seasons Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
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1948–49 New York Knicks Season
The 1948–49 New York Knicks season was the third season for the team in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Knicks had a 32–28 record in 1948–49 and finished second in the Eastern Division, six games behind the Washington Capitols. New York qualified for the playoffs, and defeated the Baltimore Bullets 2–1 in a best-of-three series to earn a place in the Eastern Division Finals. In the division championship series, the Knicks lost to the Capitols, two games to one. Before the 1949–50 season, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the NBA. Draft Source: Roster Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Game log Playoffs , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" , 1 , March 23 , @ Baltimore L 81–82, Carl Braun (21) , Baltimore Coliseum , 0–1 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" , 2 , March 24 , Baltimore W 84–74, Carl Bra ...
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1948–49 Indianapolis Jets Season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Jets' 1st and only season in the NBA/BAA and 8th and final season as a franchise. After the season, the NBL would merge with the BAA to form the NBA. As a result, the Jets ceased operations and were subsequently replaced by the Indianapolis Olympians The Indianapolis Olympians were a founding National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Indianapolis. They were founded in 1949 and folded in 1953. Their home arena was Butler Fieldhouse on the campus of Butler University--now known as H .... Draft Roster Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Game log References {{DEFAULTSORT:1948-49 Indianapolis Jets Season Indianapolis Jets seasons Indianapolis ...
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1948–49 Fort Wayne Pistons Season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the first season for the Fort Wayne Pistons in the NBA/BAA and eighth season as a franchise. Despite their NBL success which included four championship series births and two titles the team wasn't able to translate that success to the new league and missed the playoffs for the first time in team history. The team was led by center John Mahnken (9.5 ppg) and forward Blackie Towery (7.5 ppg). Draft picks Roster Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Game log References {{DEFAULTSORT:1948-49 Fort Wayne Pistons Season Detroit Pistons seasons Fort Wayne Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Censu ...
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1948–49 Chicago Stags Season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Stags' 3rd season in the NBA/BAA. Draft Roster Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Game log Playoffs West Division Semifinals (2) Minneapolis Lakers vs. (3) Chicago Stags: ''Lakers win series 2-0'' *Game 1 @ Minneapolis: Minneapolis 84, Chicago 77 *Game 2 @ Chicago: Minneapolis 101, Chicago 85 Last Playoff Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Lakers and Stags. Awards and records *Max Zaslofsky, All-NBA First Team References {{DEFAULTSORT:1948-49 Chicago Stags Season Chicago Stags seasons Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...
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1948–49 Boston Celtics Season
The 1948–49 Boston Celtics season was the third season of the Boston Celtics in the Basketball Association of America (BAA/NBA). Draft picks Roster Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Game log References {{DEFAULTSORT:1948-49 Boston Celtics Season Boston Celtics seasons Boston Celtics Boston Celtics Boston Celtics 1940s in Boston ...
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1948–49 Baltimore Bullets Season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Bullets' 2nd season in the NBA/BAA and their fifth overall season including the time they spent in the American Basketball League. Draft picks Roster Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Game log Playoffs East Division Semifinals (2) New York Knicks vs. (3) Baltimore Bullets: ''Knicks win series 2-1'' *Game 1 @ New York: Baltimore 82, New York 81 *Game 2 @ Baltimore: New York 84, Baltimore 74 *Game 3 @ New York: New York 103, Baltimore 99 (OT) Last Playoff Meeting: 1948 BAA Quarterfinals (Baltimore won 2-1) Player statistics References {{DEFAULTSORT:1948-49 Baltimore Bullets season Baltimore Bullets (1944–1954) seasons Baltimore Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by popula ...
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Southern Illinois Salukis Men's Basketball
The Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball team represents Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale, Illinois. The Salukis compete in the NCAA Division 1, and they play their home games at Banterra Center. As of March 2019, Saluki Hall of Fame basketball player, Bryan Mullins, has become the newest head coach of the Southern Illinois basketball program. History Prior to joining the NCAA, the Salukis competed in the NAIA men's basketball. Appearing five times, with a combined tournament record of 9 wins and 4 losses. Most notable tournament appearances came in 1945, in which the Salukis finished third, and then the following year in the 1946 tournament where the Salukis were NAIA national champions. The Salukis would not place again in the following three tournament appearances in 1947, 1948, 1960. In 1967, SIU, led by guard Walt Frazier, who went on to be named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, won the National Invitation Tournament under ...
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Gustavus Adolphus College
Gustavus Adolphus College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in St. Peter, Minnesota. It was founded in 1862 by Swedish Americans led by Eric Norelius and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Gustavus gets its name from Gustavus Adolphus, the King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632. Its residential campus includes a 125-acre arboretum, a tall-grass prairie, wetlands, coniferous forests, and deciduous woods. History Founding The predecessor to the college was founded in 1862 as a Lutheran parochial school in Red Wing by Eric Norelius. The school offered classes for grade-school children; collegiate courses were not offered until nearly a decade later, but the college uses the earlier date as the year it was founded. Originally named Minnesota Elementarskola (''elementary school'' in Swedish), it moved the following year to East Union, an unincorporated town in Dahlgren Township. In 1865, on the 1,000th anniversary of the death of St. Ansgar, known as ...
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Beloit College
Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin. Founded in 1846, when Wisconsin was still a territory, it is the state's oldest continuously operated college. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and has an enrollment of roughly 1,400 undergraduate students. History Beloit College was founded by the group Friends for Education, which was started by seven pioneers from New England who, soon after their arrival in the Wisconsin Territory, agreed that a college needed to be established. The group raised funds for a college in their town and convinced the territorial legislature to enact the charter for Beloit College on February 2, 1846. The first building (then called Middle College) was built in 1847, and remains in operation. Classes began in the fall of 1847, with the first degrees awarded in 1851. Beloit's first president was a Yale University graduate, Aaron Lucius Chapin, who served from 1849 to 1886. The college became coeducationa ...
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