The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), headquartered in
Kansas City, Missouri
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, is an American organization of men's
college basketball
In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...
coaches. It was founded in 1927 by
Phog Allen, head
men's basketball coach at the
University of Kansas.
Formation of the NABC began when Joint Basketball Rules Committee, then the central governing authority of the game, announced without notice that it had adopted a change in the rules which virtually eliminated
dribbling. Allen, a student of basketball founder
James Naismith
James Naismith (; November 6, 1861November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United States, he wrote ...
, organized a nationwide protest which ultimately resulted in the dribble remaining part of the game.
In 1939, the NABC held the first national basketball tournament in
Evanston, Illinois at the Northwestern Fieldhouse.
[ Oregon defeated Ohio State for the first tournament championship. The next year, the NABC asked the NCAA to take over the administration of the tournament.][ In exchange, the NCAA provided complimentary tickets for NABC members to the Finals and placed an NABC member on its Tournament Committee.][
NABC initiatives include establishing the original Basketball Hall of Fame in ]Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the ...
, the format of today's NCAA basketball tournament, and the College Basketball Experience and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a hall of fame and museum dedicated to men's college basketball. The museum is an integral portion of the College Basketball Experience created by the National ...
at the Sprint Center arena in downtown Kansas City, Missouri
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. This facility was completed on October 10, 2007.
Awards
* NABC Player of the Year
* NABC Defensive Player of the Year
* NABC Freshman of the Year
* Pete Newell Big Man Award
* NABC Coach of the Year
All-District
NABC annually names its All-District Teams, which honors the top Division I players in each district. Regions are divided by college athletic conferences.
Presidents
See also
* Women's Basketball Coaches Association
References
External links
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{{Pete Newell Big Man Award
Basketball organizations
Coaching associations based in the United States
Sports in the Kansas City metropolitan area
Sports organizations established in 1927