96-585: Leonard Kevin Bias (November 18, 1963 – June 19, 1986) was an American college basketball player for the Maryland Terrapins . In the last of his four years playing for Maryland, he was named a consensus first-team All-American . Two days after being selected by the Boston Celtics with the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft , Bias died from cardiac arrhythmia induced by
192-715: A cocaine overdose . In 2021, Bias was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame . Bias was born and raised in the Prince George's County area in Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. . He was one of four children born to James Bias Jr. and Dr. Lonise Bias. He had a sister, Michelle, and two brothers, Eric and James III (James III was known as Jay). Bias graduated from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland . Bias attended
288-409: A full-length , 100-yard-long FieldTurf football field with a goal post at each end surrounded by an elevated concourse. With a nearly 90-foot (27 m) height clearance from the field to the center of the roof, the facility ranks among the highest headrooms in any NCAA practice facility. When completed, the facility will include two full-length outdoor football practice fields, locker rooms,
384-541: A 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m ) strength and conditioning center, hydrotherapy and other training facilities, a 180-seat theater-style team meeting room, position meeting rooms, a 230-seat cafeteria, recruiting lounge, and staff offices for the university's football program. A tunnel will connect the Cole Field House Performance Center to Capital One Field at SECU Stadium . The Center for Sports Medicine Health and Human Performance
480-583: A 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m ) space within the Cole Field House complex, with plans to expand to a total of 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) of space. Cole Field House in 1955 opened as the Student Activities Building , a 12,000-seat basketball arena. The $ 3.3 million facility was constructed to be the home court of the university's men's basketball team. When it opened, the facility was second-largest basketball arena on
576-586: A basketball team against an outside opponent was Vanderbilt University , which played against the local YMCA in Nashville, Tennessee , on February 7, 1893, where Vanderbilt won 9–6. The second recorded instance of an organized college basketball game was Geneva College 's game against New Brighton YMCA on April 8, 1893, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania , which Geneva won 3–0. The first recorded game between two college teams occurred on November 22, 1894, when
672-598: A double win by the 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team (when the NIT comprised 12 and the NCAA 8 teams), the NCAA ruled that no team could compete in both tournaments, and effectively indicated that a team eligible for the NCAA tournament should play in it. Not long afterward, assisted by the 1951 scandals based in New York City , the NCAA tournament had become more prestigious than before, with conference champions and
768-448: A dozen or so college graduates were among the 60 players selected in the annual NBA draft . Fewer high schoolers were progressing directly to the NBA without at least one year of college basketball beginning in 2006; citing maturity concerns after several incidents involving young players, the labor agreement between players and owners now specifies that players must turn 19 years of age during
864-477: A living in the NBA or else his family would face destitution. The ensuing legal battle went to the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled in 1971 that the NBA does not have the same antitrust exemption enjoyed by Major League Baseball . Thereafter, collegiate players demonstrating economic hardship were allowed early entry into the NBA draft . The hardship requirement was eliminated in 1976. In 1974, Moses Malone joined
960-607: A mandatory sport for full conference members. Since its introduction in 1973, Division III has always had the lowest share of Black coaches. As of 2015, less than 10% of the coaches in Division III were black (compared to around 20% in Division II and 25% in Division I). The most recent changes to the roster of D-III conferences came in 2023. The New England Collegiate Conference , which had been decimated earlier in
1056-746: A mass exodus to the Lone Star Conference (LSC) effective in 2019. The remaining member would soon announce that it would become a de facto member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA), and one of the original eight schools to announce a move to the LSC later changed course and chose to become a de facto MIAA member as well. The two schools that moved to the MIAA are technically associate members because they do not sponsor football,
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#17327909757911152-476: A maximum life sentence, along with a fine of up to $ 2 million, for cases of drug distribution that lead to the death or serious injury of a person. It is also known as the "Len Bias Law." The circumstances surrounding Bias's death threw the University of Maryland and its athletics program into turmoil. An investigation revealed that Bias was 21 credits short of the graduation requirement despite having attended
1248-424: A part of college basketball since 2006, the first NBA draft it affected. The rule was created by NBA Commissioner, David Stern, which changed the draft age from 18 years old to 19 years old. This change meant players could not be drafted into the NBA straight out of high school. Instead, however, they usually went to a college to play only one season before entering the following NBA draft when they were eligible, hence
1344-434: A school has been a significant factor in determining conference affiliation. The bulk of the games on a team's schedule during the season are against fellow conference members. Therefore, geographic proximity of conference members allows local rivalries to develop and minimizes travel costs. Further, televised road games played in the same time zone as that of the visiting team's fans tend to draw larger audiences, which enhances
1440-648: A time when there weren't any black varsity basketball players in either the Southeastern Conference or the Southwest Conference . Finally ACC schools—typically under pressure from boosters and civil rights groups—integrated their teams. With an alumni base that dominated local and state politics, society and business, the ACC flagship schools were successful in their endeavor—as Pamela Grundy argues, they had learned how to win: In 1969, for
1536-520: A trend occurring at other schools in the ACC to seek a new facility that provided more seating and amenities than were present at Cole Field House. However, this decision brought some debate. Coach Gary Williams privately wished the team remain at Cole due to the home court advantage he received. The small, cramped arena made Cole Field House a loud and difficult place for opponents to play in. The last Maryland men's basketball game played at Cole Field House
1632-925: A two-game "championship series" was organized between the University of Chicago and Penn, with games played in Philadelphia and Bartlett, Illinois . Chicago swept both games to win the series. In March 1922, the 1922 National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament was held in Indianapolis – the first stand-alone post-season tournament exclusively for college teams. The champions of six major conferences participated: Pacific Coast Conference , Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association , Western Pennsylvania League, Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference , Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association and Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association . The Western Conference and Eastern Intercollegiate League declined invitations to participate. Wabash College won
1728-911: Is Chicago State , which left the Western Athletic Conference, in which it was a geographic outlier, after the 2021–22 season. The 2022–23 season also featured a second independent in Hartford , which left the America East Conference as part of its transition to Division III , and joined its long-term D-III home of the Commonwealth Coast Conference in July 2023. As of the 2023–24 college basketball season, there are 23 Division II basketball conferences: There are currently five independent Division II schools without conference affiliations for
1824-889: Is basketball that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges . In the United States , colleges and universities are governed by collegiate athletic bodies, including the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and
1920-656: Is an academic research center operated in partnership with the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore as part of the MPowering the State initiative. The Center studies the treatment of sports-related conditions, including neuroscience with a specific focus on concussions and traumatic brain injury. The facility will also be a treatment center for an array of sports injuries. The Center will initially occupy
2016-481: Is called the second round, the second round is called the third round, and the Sweet Sixteen is the same, but it is technically the fourth round in the current format, etc. In 2016, the field did not expand, but the round numbers changed again. The first four games containing the last 8 teams is now referred to as the first four. Consequently, the first round does not start until the first four games are out of
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#17327909757912112-412: Is complete, the conference stages a tournament that includes some or all of its teams. The regular-season conference standings are generally used to determine qualification for and seeding in the conference tournament. The Western Athletic Conference is an exception. It uses the regular-season conference standings to determine qualification for its tournament, but seeding is based on a formulaic ranking of
2208-500: Is presently the only independent basketball team in Division I of the NCAA . Finding opponents can be problematic for an independent team, particularly during the latter part of the season, when most other teams are regularly playing conference opponents. In addition, each conference gets an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Independent teams do not have access to such a pathway and must be selected at-large in order to participate in
2304-467: The Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now known as Drexel University ) faced Temple College (now known as Temple University ). Drexel won the game, which was played under rules allowing nine players per side, among many other variations from modern basketball, 26–1. The first intercollegiate match using the modern rule of five players per side is often credited as a game between
2400-597: The International Olympic Committee . The NCAA failed to permit such participation by American college basketball players despite the fact that it had permitted such participation in the past and continued to permit participation by American college athletes in other Maccabiah Games sports, such as swimming, track, fencing, and soccer. Basketball was different, however. In that the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) – with which
2496-637: The NBA and WNBA rules apply in NCAA play, there are differences that make NCAA play unique. Cole Field House The Jones-Hill House is an indoor collegiate sports training complex located on 14.5 acres (5.9 ha) of land on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park , a suburb north of Washington, D.C. Jones-Hill House is situated in the center of the campus, adjacent to Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium , near Stamp Student Union and McKeldin Library . The building
2592-508: The National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA). Each of these various organizations is subdivided into one to three divisions, based on the number and level of scholarships that may be provided to the athletes. Teams with more talent tend to win over teams with less talent. Each organization has different conferences to divide the teams into groups. Traditionally, the location of
2688-585: The Seattle SuperSonics for the pick in 1984. After the draft, Bias and his family returned to their suburban Maryland home. On June 18, Bias and his father flew to Boston for an NBA club draft acceptance and product endorsement signing ceremony with the Celtics' coaches and management. Bias had discussions with Reebok 's sports marketing division regarding a five-year endorsement package worth $ 1.6 million. After returning home, Bias returned to
2784-544: The University of Chicago and the University of Iowa , in Iowa City, Iowa , on January 18, 1896. The Chicago team won the game 15-12 , under the coaching of Amos Alonzo Stagg , who had learned the game from James Naismith at Springfield YMCA. However, some sources state the first "true" five-on-five intercollegiate match was a game in 1897 between Yale and Penn , because although the Iowa team that played Chicago in 1896
2880-685: The University of Maryland . As a freshman for the Terrapins , he was viewed as "raw and undisciplined." Bias ultimately developed into an All-American player. He led the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in scoring in his junior year and was named the ACC Player of the Year . His senior season was highlighted by his performance in an overtime victory against top-ranked North Carolina, in which he scored 35 points, including seven in
2976-884: The Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association (which became part of the NBA after the ABA–NBA merger in 1976) straight out of high school and went on to a Hall of Fame career. The past 30 years had displayed a remarkable change in the college game. The best international players routinely skipped college entirely, many American stars passed up on college ( Kevin Garnett , Kobe Bryant , Tracy McGrady , Dwight Howard , Amar'e Stoudemire , and LeBron James ) or only played one year ( Carmelo Anthony , Chris Bosh , Kevin Durant , and John Wall ), and only
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3072-411: The indoor practice facility and operations center for the Maryland Terrapins football team ( Big Ten Conference ), opened in 2017. Though the facility is primarily used for football, it was also used for training by the school's men's and women's lacrosse teams The second phase of renovation, which began in late-2017, includes the construction of a 196,000-square-foot (18,200 m ) addition to
3168-572: The 1922 tournament. The first organization to tout a regularly occurring national collegiate championship was the NAIA in 1937, although it was quickly surpassed in prestige by the National Invitation Tournament , or NIT, which brought six teams to New York's Madison Square Garden in the spring of 1938. Temple defeated Colorado in the first NIT tournament championship game, 60–36. In 1939, another national tournament
3264-411: The 1966 Final Four where No. 3 Texas Western defeated No. 1 Kentucky. The seventh such occurrence was on February 27, 2002, when Maryland defeated No. 1 Duke . The venues which hosted the second- and third-most No. 1 upsets are Notre Dame 's Joyce Athletics & Convention Center (six) and Oklahoma 's Lloyd Noble Center (five), respectively. In the 1990s, the administration at Maryland followed
3360-423: The 1990s and remain overwhelmingly male today. The conferences for 2023–24 are In the early decades of college basketball, and well into the 1970s, many schools played as independents , with no conference membership. However, the rise of televised college sports in the 1980s led to the formation of many new conferences and the expansion of previously existing conferences. Currently, the only Division I independent
3456-577: The 2019–20 season, and single men's and women's championships have been held since then. In past decades, the NBA held to tradition and drafted players who had graduated from college. This was a mutually beneficial relationship for the NBA and colleges—the colleges held onto players who would otherwise go professional, and the NBA did not have to fund a minor league. As the college game became commercialized, though, it became increasingly difficult for "student athletes" to be students. A growing number of poor, but highly talented, teenage basketball players found
3552-606: The 2022–23 season: Bluefield State , Salem , UPR-Rio Piedras , UPR-Mayaguez , and UPR-Bayamon ; the latter three also maintain dual membership in both the Liga Atlética Interuniversitaria de Puerto Rico as well as NCAA Division II. The most recent change in the list of Division II conferences is the demise of the Heartland Conference , which disbanded at the end of the 2018–19 school year. In 2017, eight of its nine members announced
3648-483: The AAU tournament championship: Utah (1916), NYU (1920), Butler (1924) and Washburn (1925). College teams were also runners-up in 1915, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1932 and 1934. The first known tournament featuring exclusively college teams was the 1904 Summer Olympics , where basketball was a demonstration sport , and a collegiate championship tournament was held. The Olympic title was won by Hiram College . In March 1908,
3744-491: The Amateur Athletic Union. It shows that the NCAA does not care if it hurts member institutions or individual athletes in the process. It shows once again that the NCAA is ... under the control of a stubborn, dictatorial hierarchy that does not hesitate to use athletes and schools alike as mere pawns in a game of power politics. The original rules for basketball were very different from today's modern rules of
3840-504: The Bias case issued a final report on February 26, 1987, criticizing the University of Maryland's athletic department, admissions office and campus police. Source: A documentary film about Bias's life titled Without Bias , directed by Kirk Fraser , was promoted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and released June 19, 2009. The film premiered on ESPN on November 3, 2009, as part of the network's 30 for 30 documentary series. In Season 6 of TV series NCIS , Bias's manner of death
3936-1072: The Big Ten will admit four new members, all of which are located in the Pacific Time Zone. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) had a footprint that extended from Maryland to Florida, with all members located in states on the Atlantic Coast in the 1990s. It has since expanded to include members in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana. On July 1, 2024, the ACC will admit two new members located in California and one new member located in Texas. The shifts in conference membership are primarily driven by schools seeking lucrative media rights deals and appropriately competitive playing partners for their football programs. In most cases, schools house as many of their sports in
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4032-541: The Capital Athletic Conference, with the merged entity soon renaming itself the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference . From 1992 to 2020, the NAIA operated separate Division I and Division II men's and women's basketball championships; the distinction between the two divisions was that D-I schools awarded basketball scholarships while D-II schools chose not to. Basketball divisions were abolished after
4128-569: The Celtics honored Bias with a memorial service in which his unused #30 Celtics jersey was given to his mother Lonise. Bias was interred at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland, Maryland . On July 25, 1986, a grand jury returned indictments against Brian Tribble for possession of cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Bias's Maryland teammates Terry Long and David Gregg were charged with possession of cocaine and obstruction of justice. Long and Gregg were suspended from
4224-740: The East Coast. Only Madison Square Garden in NYC had a larger seating capacity. The first basketball event hosted in building was played on December 2, 1955, when the Maryland Terrapins beat the Virginia Cavaliers by the score of 67–55 in an Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season matchup. The structure was renamed the William P. Cole Jr. Student Activities Building in 1956 in honor of Judge William P. Cole Jr. , chairman of
4320-592: The NBA in some regions of the United States, such as in North Carolina and the Midwest (where traditionally strong programs at Louisville , Kansas ,and Indiana are found). The NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, consisting of coaches from all three divisions of the NCAA, sets the rules for college men's basketball play. A parallel committee sets rules for college women's play. Although many of
4416-438: The NCAA tournament increased again and again, as it comprised more and more teams, soon including all of the strongest ones. (Expansion also improved the distribution of playing locations, which number roughly one-third the number of teams in the field.) In 2011, the NCAA field expanded to 68 teams and the last 8 teams playing for four spots making the field into 64, which is called the first round and so on. The former first round
4512-627: The NCAA was locked in a bitter power struggle – was for the first time organizing the Team USA basketball team for the Maccabiah Games, a role that had formerly been held by the NCAA. NCAA executive director Walter Byers , whom the Harvard Crimson described as "power-mad" and others described as a "petty tyrant", headed the NCAA and was involved in the decision. The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), an affiliate of
4608-462: The NCAA, followed the NCAA's orders on sanctions. The New York Times reported that the failure of the NCAA to permit such participation in Maccabiah basketball was believed "to stem from the N.C.A.A.'s feud with the Amateur Athletic Union over control of [amateur] athletes." Author Leonard Shecter called the NCAA decision a "classic example of NCAA stupidity". In 1969—against the wishes of
4704-524: The NCAA— Yale University Jewish center Jack Langer played for Team United States at the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel. He did so with the approval of Yale President Kingman Brewster , the university said it would not stop Langer from "what we feel is a matter of religious freedom," and all Ivy League presidents fully endorsed Yale's stand. Thereafter, Yale played Langer in basketball games
4800-413: The absurdity of the NCAA rule, protested at the 1970 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships by standing on the awards stand wearing blue Yale jerseys. In February 1970, Representative Robert N. Giaimo (D-Connecticut) said in the U.S. Congress : The Yale case, involving basketball player Jack Langer, is tragic. It shows that the NCAA is willing to use any weapon in its continuing power struggle with
4896-411: The basketball court was used as a practice facility by some athletes. The concourse also served as a makeshift track for students, faculty, and other members of the University community. When not used for athletics, the building was used for Homecoming events, classes, and held offices. The structure had been the subject of speculation for renewal and multiple non-University-related reuses. One such plan
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#17327909757914992-467: The big stage. In 2021, the tournament was able to take place, and the teams were so ready to be back. Baylor was the Men's 2021 NCAA Champions. In 2022, Kansas won the tournament, defeating North Carolina in the championship. For the women's competition, the 2021 champions were Stanford , who defeated Arizona in a very close game. In 2022, the women's NCAA champions was South Carolina, defeating UConn in
5088-462: The calendar year of the draft to be eligible. Additionally, U.S. players must be at least one year removed from their high school graduation. The pervasiveness of college basketball throughout the nation, the large population of graduates from "major conference" universities, and the NCAA's marketing of "March Madness" (officially the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship ), have kept
5184-489: The campus of the University of Maryland. He left campus at approximately 2 a.m. on Thursday, June 19, drove to an off-campus gathering and returned to his dormitory between 2:30 and 3 a.m. For the next three to four hours, Bias, with longtime friend Brian Tribble and several teammates, snorted cocaine in the dormitory suite shared by Bias and his teammates. Bias suffered a seizure and collapsed while talking with teammate Terry Long. At 6:32 a.m., when Tribble called 911, Bias
5280-432: The championship. LSU's women and UConn's men were the 2023 national champions, defeating Iowa and San Diego State, respectively, in the championship games. Racial integration of all-white collegiate sports teams was high on the regional agenda in the 1950s and 1960s. These issues included inequality, racism, and the alumni demand for the top players needed to win high-profile games. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) took
5376-497: The college game alive and well. Some commentators have argued that the higher turnover of players has increased the importance of good coaches. Many teams have been highly successful, for instance, by emphasizing personality in their recruiting efforts, with the goal of creating a cohesive group that, while lacking stars, plays together for all four years and thus develops a higher level of sophistication than less stable teams could achieve. College basketball remains more popular than
5472-552: The complex. This new structure will also include a space for the school’s Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Center for Sports Medicine, Health and Human Performance, a sports medicine education, investigation and clinical care center operated in partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore . Jones-Hill House, the 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m ) indoor practice facility, opened in August 2017 and features
5568-608: The decade by the closure of several of its member schools and conference realignment in Division III, disbanded as an all-sports conference. (It remains in operation for men's volleyball and the non-NCAA esports.) The Colonial States Athletic Conference and United East Conference merged after the 2022–23 season under the United East banner. The last previous change came in 2020, when the American Collegiate Athletic Association merged into
5664-399: The disruption caused to the studies of the student-athletes. Since the 1990s, geographic proximity has gradually become a less important factor in determining membership in NCAA Division I conferences. For instance, the Big Ten Conference was originally composed of institutions in the Midwest. It has since expanded to include members in New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. On July 1, 2024,
5760-415: The first time, the NCAA Council did not permit participation by American college basketball players in the Maccabiah Games . The Maccabiah Games are an international multi-sport event held in Israel, open to all Jewish athletes from around the world, and to all Israeli citizens regardless of their religion. In 1961 the Games were declared a "Regional Sports Event" by, and under the auspices and supervision of,
5856-688: The following season. A special assistant to the President of Yale, Henry Chauncey Jr., said: "There is no question that Jack Langer will continue to play basketball. We don't care what they do - Jack Langer will play when the coach wants to use him." On January 15, 1970, the NCAA Council placed Yale University on two‐year "full athletic probation " in all sports. It thereby restricted Yale teams and athletes (not just basketball players) for two years from competing in NCAA tournaments, championships and other postseason competitions, and from receiving any monies for televised events. The decision impacted 300 Yale students, every Yale student on its sports teams, over
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#17327909757915952-420: The game. Cole Field House also hosted the 1970 NCAA Final Four . In 1991 , Cole was the site of the first-ever upset of an NCAA Tournament No. 2-seed at the hands of a No. 15-seed, as Richmond defeated heavily favored Syracuse , 73–69. Cole Field House is the site of the most upsets of No. 1-ranked men's basketball teams. The Terrapins accounted for six of the upsets at Cole, while the other one occurred in
6048-453: The last three minutes of regulation and four in overtime. Bias collected his second ACC Player of the Year award at the end of the year and was named to two All-America teams. Bias impressed basketball fans with his amazing leaping ability, physical stature and ability to create plays, and he was considered one of the most dynamic players in the nation. By his senior year, scouts from various National Basketball Association teams viewed Bias as
6144-451: The lead. "College basketball data allow for direct comparisons of the racial differences in the marginal revenues generated by players" (Brown and Jewell 1995). First they started to schedule integrated teams from the North. The wake-up call came in 1966 when Don Haskins 's Texas Western College team with five black starters defeated the all-white University of Kentucky team to win the NCAA national basketball championship. This happened at
6240-465: The majority of top-ranked teams competing there. The NCAA tournament eventually overtook the NIT by 1960. Through the 1960s and 1970s, with UCLA leading the way as winner of ten NCAA Tournament championships, a shift in power to teams from the west amplified the shift of attention away from the New York City-based NIT. When the NCAA tournament expanded its field of teams from 25 to 32 in 1975, to 48 in 1980, to 64 in 1985, and to 68 teams in 2011, interest in
6336-410: The memory of her children, opened the Len and Jay Bias Foundation, which serves to encourage better examples for youth. A few weeks after Bias's death, committees in the United States House of Representatives began writing anti-drug legislation. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was signed by President Ronald Reagan on October 27, 1986. The law provides a mandatory minimum prison term of 20 years and
6432-447: The most complete forward in the class of 1986. Celtics scout Ed Badger called Bias an "explosive and exciting kind of player" and compared him to Michael Jordan . On June 17, 1986, Bias was selected by the Boston Celtics as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft , which was held in New York City at Madison Square Garden . Red Auerbach , the Celtics' president and general manager, had dealt guard Gerald Henderson and cash to
6528-495: The name one-and-done. The first player to be drafted during this "one-and-done era" was Tyrus Thomas , a forward out of Louisiana State , who was drafted fourth overall in 2006. In 2023–24, a total of 362 schools (including those transitioning from a lower NCAA division to Division I) will play men's basketball in 32 Division I basketball conferences. All of these schools also sponsor women's basketball except The Citadel and VMI , two military colleges that were all-male until
6624-413: The next two years. The Presidents of the other seven Ivy League schools issued a statement condemning the NCAA's actions in regard to the "Langer Case". The Harvard Crimson called the probation "not only unjust, but intolerable", and urged the Ivy League to withdraw from the NCAA. Harvard track and field captain Ed Nosal and two other Harvard athletes, sympathetic to Langer and Yale and disdainful of
6720-406: The past. The smallest Division I conferences sometimes recruit Division II teams and help those institutions transition to Division I, in order to replace teams they have lost. Sometimes, this is done pre-emptively to make the conference larger and protect it against the possible loss of some of its teams. Teams are not required to join conferences and may play as independents instead. Chicago State
6816-418: The regional final, 94–85. The NCAA Tournament Final Four was first hosted at the facility in 1966 and featured the Duke Blue Devils , Kentucky Wildcats , Texas Western (now UTEP Miners ), and Utah Utes . Texas Western (which started all black players) upset Kentucky's all-white team 72–65 before 14,253 spectators. Future Hall of Fame head men's basketball coach Gary Williams , then a student, attended
6912-417: The same primary conference as possible. So, the football-driven changes in affiliation lead to changes in the composition of basketball conferences. When a conference loses a member to another conference, it will often try to recruit a replacement from a third conference. This triggers a domino effect, and smaller, less stable conferences struggle to remain large enough to compete at the same level as they had in
7008-452: The seniors on the teams, considering their last season just got abruptly taken from them. The NCAA did consider granting waivers to the student athletes who participated in winter sports (including basketball) so that they could regain eligibility for the 2021 season. However, many of the seniors were projected to be picked in the NBA draft, so this led to the difficult decision of playing one more year with their college teammates or moving on to
7104-424: The sport, including the use of eight players per side. James Naismith established 13 original rules: The following is a list of some of the major NCAA Basketball rule changes with the year they went into effect. Men only: Women only: The shot clock will change to only 20 seconds on any offensive rebound. Players are assessed a Class B technical foul for a flop (men only). The one-and-done rule has been
7200-406: The strength of the qualifiers, including their performances against non-conference opponents. In most cases, the winner of the conference tournament receives an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. However, teams that are in transition from Division II are not eligible for the NCAA tournament. Therefore, if such a team wins a conference tournament, the conference will use an alternate method to select
7296-624: The system exploitative—they brought in funds to schools where they played without income. The American Basketball Association began to employ players who had not yet graduated from college. After a season of junior college , a season at the University of Detroit , and an Olympic gold medal , Spencer Haywood played the 1969–70 season with the ABA's Denver Rockets . He signed with the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics in 1970, before his college class graduation, defying NBA rules. Haywood pleaded that, as his family's sole wage earner, he should be allowed to earn
7392-429: The team on July 31. All three defendants entered not guilty pleas in August. On October 20, 1986, prosecutors dropped all charges against Long and Gregg in exchange for their testimony against Tribble. On October 30, the grand jury added three more indictments against Tribble—one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice and two counts of obstruction of justice . Also on October 30, Kenneth Mark Fobbs, Tribble's roommate,
7488-471: The team to receive its automatic bid. Some conferences allow transitioning teams to participate in their conference tournaments; others do not allow this. The history of basketball can be traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College , located in Springfield, Massachusetts . The sport was created by a physical education teacher named James Naismith , who in
7584-549: The tournament. Chicago State will join the Northeast Conference on July 1, 2024, leaving no independent teams in NCAA Division I. Most games between conference opponents take place in the latter part of the season. While there are various rankings of teams throughout the entire NCAA, there are also conference standings based on the results of games against conference opponents. Once the conference schedule
7680-651: The university for four full years; in his final semester, he earned no academic credits, failing three courses and withdrawing from two others. On August 26, 1986, state attorney Arthur A. Marshall Jr. stated that in the hours after Bias's death, Maryland head basketball coach Lefty Driesell told players to remove drugs from Bias's dorm room. Two days later, Bias's father James accused the university and Driesell of neglecting their athletes' academic status. The controversy prompted athletic director Dick Dull to resign on October 7, 1986, with Driesell following suit on October 29 after 17 years as coach. The grand jury presiding over
7776-474: The university's Board of Regents from 1944 to 1956. The first head men's basketball coach to call the facility home was Bud Millikan . In the late 1960s, then-head coach Lefty Driesell added nearly 3,000 seats around the court raising the hometown decibel level. Cole Field House was the host site of the NCAA basketball tournament East Region finals in 1962 , when New York University defeated St. John's in
7872-499: The university's football program, a sports science and sports medical research center, and an incubator for entrepreneurs. The facility was formerly named the William P. Cole Jr. Student Activities Building , commonly known as Cole Field House . In April 2021, the facility was renamed in honor of Billy Jones and Darryl Hill, the first Black men to integrate basketball and football at Maryland, respectively. The Jones-Hill House,
7968-587: The value of the media rights. Institutional compatibility is another factor that may lead schools to band together in the same conference. For instance, as of 2024 , all full members of the West Coast Conference are Christian colleges and universities located in the Pacific Time Zone. The Ivy League comprises institutions with similar, high academic standards that prefer to schedule nearly all their conference basketball games on Fridays and Saturdays, except during breaks between semesters, to minimize
8064-547: The virus spreading to players and watchers, with prior attempts to limit the spread without canceling by first choosing to limit attendees, and then canceling the tournament in its entirety. The cancellation of the tournament, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, led to a lot of uncertainty for the coaches, players, and NCAA as a whole. Many people were very disappointed and had wished it was just delayed, rather than completely being cancelled. Unfortunately, this pandemic really effected
8160-462: The way and the field is narrowed to 64 teams. So after the first four games the first round starts instead of that being the second round. The Second is now when there are 32 teams left, the sweet sixteen is the third round, and so on. In 2020, for the first time in the NCAA's history, the tournament had to be canceled due to fears of the COVID-19 pandemic . This move was done largely out of fear of
8256-490: The winter of 1891 was given the task of creating a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that would prevent them from getting hurt. The date of the first formal basketball game played at the Springfield YMCA Training School under Naismith's rules is generally given as December 21, 1891. Basketball began to be played at some college campuses by 1893. The first known college to field
8352-505: Was unconscious and not breathing. All attempts by the emergency medical team to restart his heart and breathing were unsuccessful. After additional attempts to revive him at Leland Memorial Hospital in Riverdale, Maryland , Bias was pronounced dead at 8:55 a.m. of a cardiac arrhythmia related to usage of cocaine . It was reported that there were no other drugs or alcohol found in his system. Bias's death occurred when crack cocaine
8448-623: Was being published across media and his death led to greater coverage, when in reality he died using powdered cocaine. This also helped fuel the war on drugs as politicians began focusing on his death. More than 11,000 people attended a June 23 memorial service at the Cole Field House , the university recreation and student center where Bias played for the Terrapins. Those speaking at the service included Auerbach, who said that he had planned to draft Bias for three years. On June 30, 1986,
8544-411: Was charged with perjury for allegedly lying to the grand jury about the last time that he had seen Tribble. The state dropped the perjury charges against Fobbs on March 24, 1987, and a jury acquitted Tribble of all charges related to the Bias case on June 3, 1987. In October 1990, Tribble pleaded guilty to a drug charge following a two-year undercover sting operation. He cooperated with the government and
8640-405: Was composed of University of Iowa students, it reportedly did not officially represent the university, rather it was organized through a YMCA. By 1900, the game of basketball had spread to colleges across the country. The Amateur Athletic Union 's annual U.S. national championship tournament (first played in 1898) often featured collegiate teams playing against non-college teams. Four colleges won
8736-466: Was constructed between 1952 and 1955 at a cost of $ 3.3 million ($ 37.5 million in 2024 ) and served for nearly 50 years as the home court of the Maryland Terrapins men's and women's basketball teams. A multi-phase, $ 196 million renovation commenced in 2015 to transform the capacity 14,956-seat basketball arena into a 356,000-square-foot (33,100 m ) sports and academic complex that includes an indoor practice facility and operations center for
8832-528: Was discussed. Bias's death was depicted in the Season 5 episode titled “Comets” of the television series Snowfall . A segment in the documentary Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy discusses the impact of Bias's death on the public's perception of the crack epidemic. Bias was also mentioned during a Saved by the Bell episode on drug abuse. College basketball Women's College basketball
8928-485: Was implemented by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The location of the NCAA tournament varied from year to year, and it soon used multiple locations each year, so more fans could see games without traveling to New York. Although the NIT was created earlier and was more prestigious than the NCAA for many years, it ultimately lost popularity and status to the NCAA Tournament. In 1950, following
9024-630: Was on March 3, 2002, when Maryland defeated Virginia 112–92. The team now plays at the Xfinity Center . Overall, 13 men's All-Americans and four women's All-Americans have played at Cole. Maryland men's basketball remained undefeated at Cole during its last season and went on to win the National Championship. After its basketball teams vacated Cole Field House, the facility was used by the university for intramural athletics and administrative offices. A soccer field constructed atop
9120-637: Was sentenced to ten years and one month in prison. On December 5, 1990, Bias's younger brother Jay was murdered in a drive-by shooting at age 20. The killing followed a dispute in the parking lot of Prince George's Plaza , a Hyattsville shopping mall just a few miles from the University of Maryland. He was pronounced dead at the same hospital where his brother Len had died and was buried next to him at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. Following their sons' deaths, James and Lonise Bias assumed vocal advocacy roles. Lonise Bias became an anti-drug lecturer, while James Bias became an advocate for gun control . Lonise Bias, in
9216-652: Was to build a station for the future Purple Line , a light rail line in development by the Maryland Transit Administration . The Maryland Maniacs indoor football team used Cole Field House as its home venue in 2010. On September 24, 2013, the Maryland Athletic Department announced that the Terrapin men's and women's basketball teams would hold their Maryland Madness event on October 18 at Cole Field House. It marked
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