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
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.
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
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A ...
. Allen, a student of basketball founder
James Naismith
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, 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
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at the Northwestern Fieldhouse.
[ ]Oregon
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defeated Ohio State
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for the first tournament championship. The next year, the NABC asked the NCAA
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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
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as basketball's most complete library, in addition to promoting and pre ...
in Springfield, Massachusetts
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, the format of today's NCAA basketball tournament, and the College Basketball Experience
The College Basketball Experience is a fan-interactive facility located downtown in Kansas City, Missouri, which includes the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. It cost $24 million to build, was opened in October 2007, and is owned and ...
and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame 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
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* NABC Defensive Player of the Year
* NABC Freshman of the Year
* Pete Newell Big Man Award
* NABC Coach of the Year The NABC Coach of the Year Award has been presented by the National Association of Basketball Coaches since . A longtime sponsor of the award was Kodak; it is currently sponsored by the UPS Store
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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
The Women's Basketball Coaches Association is an association of coaches of women's basketball teams at all levels.
The organization was formed in 1981, with the goal of addressing the needs of women's basketball coaches.
The mission of the WBCA ...
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