The game began there.

[EMAWzified]

Kind of makes you wonder how they've been surpassed by Kentucky, Duke, Indiana, UCLA, North Carolina, Florida, Syracuse, Arizona, don't it.

[BostonPancake]

nike told us pinstripes are tacky.

Fact.  Only the New York Yankees can pull off the pinstripe look.  Every other team that has tried has failed.  Badly. 

Name another team that looks good in pinstripes.  That's right......you can't do it.

[Dugout DickStone]

Football started in Manhattan ks

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

Football started in Manhattan ks

So did the civil rights movement cuz king sr

[joda]

Earl "father of Tiger" Woods

[scottwildcat]

Abe Lincoln.

[Lefty]

Star Wars was first penned at Kite's

[OregonSmock]

Denying that basketball began at KU is like denying that the Earth revolves around the Sun.  It simply defies reason.

[scottwildcat]

Denying that basketball began at KU is like denying that the Earth revolves around the Sun.  It simply defies reason.

BITB

[pissclams]

Football started in Manhattan ks

it certainly has origins in MHK

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

Earl "father of Tiger" Woods

yeah we invented golf pretty sure.

[The1BigWillie]

I LITERALLY just heard a guy on the phone say... "If it wasn't for University of Kansas, there wouldn't be college basketball."

He's still on the phone getting into it with someone.  I'm trying to eavesdrop...  Something about a Jock Voghn... lots of head shaking...  Now he's off the phone... dangit... 

Oh... then he drops this gem... "It's so frustrating to talk to people who think they know everything but don't know anything."


This confirms what we all already knew... KU bball fan (redundant)  actually believes everything we have been discussing in this thread. It's not a troll. 

[Trogdor]

I LITERALLY just heard a guy on the phone say... "If it wasn't for University of Kansas, there wouldn't be college basketball."

He's still on the phone getting into it with someone.  I'm trying to eavesdrop...  Something about a Jock Voghn... lots of head shaking...  Now he's off the phone... dangit... 

Oh... then he drops this gem... "It's so frustrating to talk to people who think they know everything but don't know anything."


This confirms what we all already knew... KU bball fan (redundant)  actually believes everything we have been discussing in this thread. It's not a troll.

Hold on, new thread

[sonofdaxjones]

K-State was the tide that lifted ku's basketball boat.   Phog Allen was enraged by Ahearn Fieldhouse, the ku contingent lead an onslaught in Topeka, finally forcing the state to build a new "National Guard Armory" on the ku campus. 

[OregonSmock]

It takes some serious butthurt to pretend like basketball didn't begin at KU. 

[pissclams]

K-State was the tide that lifted ku's basketball boat.   Phog Allen was enraged by Ahearn Fieldhouse, the ku contingent lead an onslaught in Topeka, finally forcing the state to build a new "National Guard Armory" on the ku campus. 

yup.  illegally financed that project too.  nothing to see here folks, move along. 

[sonofdaxjones]

So strange, if basketball supposedly began at ku . . . yet miraculously if the story is correct, ku was immediately able to find opponents at YMCA's, just down the dirt road at Haskell, at KSAC and elsewhere.   So strange that in 1898 that a PE teacher was able "evangelize" a game that immediately sprang up teams all over the place from a place like Lawrence that barely had electricity of any sort.    I guess the fact that Naismith spawned YMCA's playing basketball 7 years earlier is immaterial to ku historians.



 

[sonofdaxjones]

Oh, one last thing, Naismith considered Basketball a "hobby sport"   

[OregonSmock]

Oh, one last thing, Naismith considered Basketball a "hobby sport"   

KU is so dominant that you have been relegated to pretending like you don't care about an entire sport.  I love it.


    

[sonofdaxjones]

Oh, one last thing, Naismith considered Basketball a "hobby sport"   

KU is so dominant that you have been relegated to pretending like you don't care about an entire sport.  I love it.


    

I didn't say I didn't care Captain Meltdown, I am just passing along the fact that Naismith considered other sports to be superior to basketball.

[OregonSmock]

K-State was the tide that lifted ku's basketball boat.   Phog Allen was enraged by Ahearn Fieldhouse, the ku contingent lead an onslaught in Topeka, finally forcing the state to build a new "National Guard Armory" on the ku campus. 

yup.  illegally financed that project too.  nothing to see here folks, move along.

And the United States economy was built on slave labor.... haters gonna hate.

[sonofdaxjones]

K-State was the tide that lifted ku's basketball boat.   Phog Allen was enraged by Ahearn Fieldhouse, the ku contingent lead an onslaught in Topeka, finally forcing the state to build a new "National Guard Armory" on the ku campus. 

yup.  illegally financed that project too.  nothing to see here folks, move along.

And the United States economy was built on slave labor.... haters gonna hate.

It's just good to know that for the last 60 years Big Bro K-State has been the ocean tides to lil bro ku's boat.  Forcing ku to react again and again and again.  That's what Big Bro's do, mentor and raise the bar for the little one's.

[OregonSmock]

K-State was the tide that lifted ku's basketball boat.   Phog Allen was enraged by Ahearn Fieldhouse, the ku contingent lead an onslaught in Topeka, finally forcing the state to build a new "National Guard Armory" on the ku campus. 

yup.  illegally financed that project too.  nothing to see here folks, move along.

And the United States economy was built on slave labor.... haters gonna hate.

It's just good to know that for the last 60 years Big Bro K-State has been the ocean tides to lil bro ku's boat.  Forcing ku to react again and again and again.  That's what Big Bro's do, mentor and raise the bar for the little one's.

what on earth

[sonofdaxjones]

K-State was the tide that lifted ku's basketball boat.   Phog Allen was enraged by Ahearn Fieldhouse, the ku contingent lead an onslaught in Topeka, finally forcing the state to build a new "National Guard Armory" on the ku campus. 

yup.  illegally financed that project too.  nothing to see here folks, move along.

And the United States economy was built on slave labor.... haters gonna hate.

It's just good to know that for the last 60 years Big Bro K-State has been the ocean tides to lil bro ku's boat.  Forcing ku to react again and again and again.  That's what Big Bro's do, mentor and raise the bar for the little one's.

what on earth

Yes, earth, don't pollute our waters ku, ride our flowing tides and rolling waves for a better tomorrow.

[stobblebobby]

Naismith developed and expanded the game at Kansas.

Not only did the YMCA have a huge part in spreading basketball around the world, but WWI and the North American soldiers that fought in it are also frequently given credit for spreading the game throughout the world.

Phog also created the NCAA tournament.

The tournament, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), was created during 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was the idea of Ohio State University coach Harold Olsen

The sport of basketball has origins in Lawrence, KS.

The first official college basketball game was played on January 18, 1896 between the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago.  The final score was 15-12, with the visiting Chicago team the victors.

On February 9, 1895, the first intercollegiate 5-on-5 game was played at Hamline University between Hamline and the School of Agriculture, which was affiliated with the University of Minnesota.[9][10] The School of Agriculture won in a 9–3 game.

Lots of interesting stuff out there. All trolling aside, the fact that Naismith/Fogg were there is really cool, but honestly the whole "it was founded here" thing is way overblown. It was both founded and spread by the YMCA more than any other entity. Also Naismith telling Phog you can't coach basketball is pretty great.