[freightchaser]

We're down to the "Final Four" and not a single post about the NCAA tournament? What's up with that?

[Tennesseahawk]

Yes there is... yours and mine.

All four are #1 seeds. Has that ever happened before?

[AnneM]

Memphis is my pick to win it all!!

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Tennesseahawk

Yes there is... yours and mine.

All four are #1 seeds. Has that ever happened before?

Nope. Seeding began in 1979.
NCAA Basketball Tourney History - CBSSports.com

[Jack_Berry]

did i see pics that all 4 had worn the white uni and all had blue trim/letters/numbers?

[davekc]

Yep....going with the Tigers.

[Dog_House2691]

UCLA and UNC for the Championship....and UCLA WINS

[davekc]

Yep..........Tigers win. One more with KC.

[Doggie Daddy]

Dog House,don't quit your day job.DD.

[OntarioVanMan]

In December 1891, Canadian-born James Naismith, a physical education teacher at the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) training school, took a soccer ball and a peach basket into the gym and invented basketball. In Springfield MA

Bears Don't Run Downhill", is a book of 201 interesting facts. One of which is titled "Basketball Was Invented By the Aztecs". (Nothing to do with SDSU!) It explains...

"The suggestion is that the sport of basketball originated in pre-Colombian civilisations in South America."

It continues:
"European visitors in the 16th century were bemused to see tlachtli or ullamiliztli (meaning ball game). It still exists in areas of Mexico today (As Hip Ulama).
Hip Ulama - The predecessor of basketball
Hip Ulama - The predecessor of basketball
The game was 3,000 years old before the Spanish got there."

The game was slightly different to basketball, but the basics were in place:

"Extensive archaelogical evidence suggests the existence of I shaped courts, balls and player figurines. The game was played on an oblong court, with two smaller courts at either end. Players had to get a rubber ball into a stone hoop - but could only use their hips and knees."

This conforms with my theory that all US games are foreign games with new bits added to get interest, i.e. in basketball's case, use of the hands.

"The modern game comes from PE teacher James Naismith, who, whilst working for what is now Springfield College in Massachusetts. He wanted to give his students something to do in winter. "

So he had probably seen the Mexican game and adapted it, which is something all coaches do to try and improve their team.

" He created a game where a football (soccer ball) had to be dunked into peach baskets."

Hence the basketball is similar to a football, and hence the "Slam Dunk" we have today.
Which is fair enough, but "peach baskets"!!

[AnneM]

I'm with ya Dave - Still Memphis to win it all!