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• Many NCAA Division I programs were recognized by the NCAA for their high academic standards. Six men's programs, however, are in danger of being banned from post-season tournaments because they have not met academic standards the past two years. To see the list of winners and losers, go to the NCAA Academic Progress Report: 2008 article.

• St. John's star Alan Seiden passed away recently at age 71. Read about this New York City legend here.

• Cathy Rush is having a good year. The coach of the three-time national champion Immaculata Mighty Macs finally was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Our Lady of Victory, a movie about her and the Mighty Macs, is due out soon.

Miller with the Fort Wayne Fury, 1998

• (Right) There's two things you have to admit about Percy Miller Sr. (a.k.a. Master P): 1. He's hugely successful in the Hip Hop entertainment industry. 2. He loves playing basketball like few others. Read about his basketball endeavors here.

• Forbes magazine has its own Top 20 list. It ranks the twenty NCAA Division I programs that bring in the most cash for their schools. Check it out here: College Team Values (2007)

The Nankai Five Tigers: China's first dominating team, ca. 1896.

• Basketball is a world game. It is huge in China, and has been since the early 20th Century (left). Read about the beginnings of basketball in China. You might be surprised to learn that Professional Basketball in China started only in 1995.

• Missionaries introduced basketball to the Philippines at the same time as China. The Philippine Basketball Association is the first and the oldest professional basketball league in Asia. Hoopedia has an extensive collection of articles on the league's teams and players. Read more here.

• Who was the first men's college national champ? Temple, winner of the 1938 National Invitation Tournament (NIT)? The Oregon Ducks, winners of the 1939 NCAA championship? The Helms Foundation picked mythical national champions for every season between 1901 and 1983. That expert panel picked Yale, 1901, as the first national champ. See if you agree with the Helms Foundation picks.

• If you wanted to see top-flight high school basketball in the 1920s, you would have gone to Chicago in March. That's when the city hosted not one, but two national hoops championships. Read about the public school and Catholic school national tournaments. In that segregated era you would travel to the American South to see the finest African American teams meet at the National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament for Black Schools.

• In 1897 the Amateur Athletic Union organized a tournament to determine a national men's basketball champion. They've been holding such tournaments ever since. For most of the first half of the 20th Century the AAU was the most prestigious championship there was. For a listing of all the championship games, go to AAU Men's Champions.

This 12th Street YMCA team from Washington, DC was declared Colored Basketball World's Champions in 1910.

• The NBA traces its roots back to 1946 and the Basketball Association of America. But the first documented professional basketball game in the US took place in 1896, just five years after James Naismith wrote the rules. The first pro league -- the National Basket Ball League -- began operations in 1898.

It was a wild time, with barnstorming teams, leagues that came and went, and men who could play for three teams in three leagues at the same time. Read about the beginnings of pro ball in NBA Roots.

Nat Holman in his Original Celtics uniform, 1922.

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• "Why are they so good at basketball? They dominate the sport. They must have some innate physical advantage that the rest of us don't have." Sound familiar? But in the first half of the 20th Century "they" were Jews. Many of the top players were kids who grew up playing ball on the tough streets of New York and Philadelphia. Kids like Nat Holman (right), Bennie Borgmann, Max Friedman and Eddie Gottlieb, who all grew up to be Hall of Famers. To learn more about race and hoops, read Questions of Race.

Olympic champs?

• The Buffalo Germans were the first dominating basketball power in America. At one point their undefeated string ran to 111 games. But were they the first Olympic basketball champions? Read the story and decide for yourself: the Buffalo Germans.

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• 1948 - Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy, who scored 17,949 career points in 13 years with the Houston Rockets, is born in Norwalk, Connecticut.

• 1983 - George and Gordon Gund, co-owners of The Coliseum, assume ownership of the Cleveland Cavaliers. They purchased the Cavaliers for $20 million from Ted Stepien in 1983 to keep them in Cleveland.

• LeBron James is the first basketball player (and only the third man) to be featured on the cover of Vogue magazine. In it he shares his "best body" secrets.

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• What do Barack Obama, Amos Alonzo Stagg and John Edgar Wideman have in common? They are all basketball players better known for other things.

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Hack-a-Shaq demonstrated.

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