About Basketball Tickets

Although basketball as a game originated in 1892, it was only in 1895 that the first intercollegiate game was played, wherein the Hamline College and the Minnesota School of Agriculture played and ended with a 9-3 victory in favor of Minnesota. A year later, University of Iowa and University of Chicago followed the five-man format and Chicago winning 15-12. Since then, more colleges created their basketball teams, which lead to the formation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States in 1906, but soon changed its name to National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910.

The "National Invitation Tournament" organized by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association in 1938 was the first tournament for college basketball. The NCAA followed and created its own tournament a year later. Since then, these two tournaments became a must-see for all college students to cheer on their respective teams. The winning teams for each tournament compete for the 'National Champion' title. Although these two tournaments started equally popular, the NCAA tournament had become the main college basketball tournament throughout the 1970s.

By the start of the 1980s, college basketball became part of American culture and plenty of outstanding college basketball players are being drafted for the National Basketball Association. College basketball stars like Lew Alcindor, Oscar Robertson, Bill Walton, Bill Russel, Pete Maravich, Jerry West are among the greatest players who made college basketball games an exciting 40-minute game.

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