Women’s Final Four: March 31 and April 2, 2023
Men’s Final Four: April 1 and 3, 2023
According to Library of CongressThe first college basketball game was played on January 18, 1896.
“In December 1891, Canadian-born James Naismith, a physical education teacher at the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) training school, took a football and a basket of peaches and invented basketball in the gym. In 1893, he replaced the peach basket with iron hoops and a hammock-style basket. Ten years later, today’s open networks appeared. Before that, you had to get your ball in the basket every time you scored.
“In 1963, college games were first broadcast on national television, but it wasn’t until the 1980s that sports fans ranked basketball on par with football and baseball. It is also a popular neighborhood sport. The next time you play hoops with your family or friends, you can tell them how it all started.
