In 1906, the NCAA was founded in Chicago, and the previous fall,(1905) the Big Ten's inaugural season of Basketball got underway. Minnesota won the first Conference championship with a 6-1 record in 1906. Source =http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/big10-hoops-history.html
The 2011 National Basketball Association Champions were the western conference Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks played against the eastern conference Miami Heat. The championship that the Dallas Mavericks won was the first ever NBA Championship for the team.
The first NCAA basketball championship was won by Oregon. They beat Ohio State 46-33 in Evanston, Ill 1939.
: Coach Debbie Bradley was the first woman to coach an NCAA men's basketball team at Miami of Ohio in the MAC Conference, I believe. Later, she coached World Harvest Bible College to the NCBAA National Championship in 2002. She is currently their coach. : ESPN, one year, I believe, had an NCAA men's basketball game and discussed this and the one commentator had to correct the other, stating that Debbie Bradley was the first.
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The finals of the 1939 NCAA Division I basketball championship, the first ever, was played at Patten Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois which was home to the Northwestern University basketball team.
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Oregon ducks won the first National Championship in 1939.
The Colts first championship came in the 1958 season when they defeated the New York Giants in overtime, 23-17, in the NFL championship game. The Colts first conference championship was also in 1958.
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The first game ever in college basketball was played 1/18/1896
Basketball was first played in a college. The first game, 1891, was in the Y.M.C.A college of physical education, Springfield, U.S.A and they used peach basket suspended as the nets, hence the name BASKETball
What was the name of the college when Duke played their first basketball game? Trinity University