New research has discovered that James Naismith, the creator of basketball, was actually Scottish despite being bored in ...

McLendon is also a member of the Athletics Hall of Fame at KU, where his documented barrier-breaking began as a student of none other than James Naismith himself. Katz, a professor of humanities ...

One might expect a steady stream of basketball fans to pass the grave of the game’s inventor: Dr. James Naismith. Not so. “Since I have been working here, there has been nobody to come here ...

First among these pioneers, it suggests, should be Smith gymnastics instructor Senda Berenson, "the matriarch of women's basketball," who in 1892, "less than a year after Dr. James A. Naismith ...

Named in honor of James Naismith, the guy who invented basketball, the most recent winner of the men's award was Zach Edey of Purdue (winning it in 2023 and 2024) and Iowa legend Caitlin Clark for ...