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Creation of the NCAA
The IAAUS (renamed to NCAA in 1910) is founded with the original 13 schools. it was developed in response to 159 injuries in 1905’s college football season, and it was meant to keep college football safer, but eventually other sports were added to NCAA, such as basketball. -
Oregon wins the first ever NCAA basketball championship, with a record of 29-5
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Black basketball players are allowed to play with white NCAA basketball players
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Walter Byers becomes NCAA president
Walter Byers becomes the first president of the NCAA, he helps expand the basketball tournament from 8 to 16 teams.
President from 1951- 1988 -
first highschool draftee
Reggie Harding, was the first ever highschool player to be drafted directly to the NBA -
New Divisons and College Scholarships
The NCAA creates Division I, II, and III. Major schools are put in division I and lesser schools are distributed among the others. Division I and II schools are now allowed to give athletic scholarships. -
Charles Barkley was drafted
Charles was drafted to the 76ers in 1984 -
Michael Jordan is drafted
Michael Jordan, the best baskteball player of all time was drafted 3rd overall in the 1984 draft to the Chicago Bulls. -
The NCAA adapts the three point line
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Dick Schultz becomes NCAA president
Dick Schultz becomes the second president of the NCAA after Walter Byers, he helps by opening lines of communication between members of the organization
President from 1988- 1993 -
Cedrick Dempsey becomes NCAA President
Cedrick Dempsey becomes the third president of the NCAA, he shuts down any college gambling organization and emphasized on financial responsability. Dempsey also signed major television contracts with ESPN and CBS.
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UCLA records 11th championship win
UCLA now holds the record for most basketball NCAA championships won. -
Kwame Brown is drafted
He is round 1 pick 1, he was supposed to be a great player, but ended up doing terribly. -
2006 NBA draft rules changed
Now all players must be at least 19 years old to enter the NBA draft. -
Over $4.4 billion in revenue
In 2008 the NCAA had a substantial income of over 4.4 billion US dollars. Of these none went to any of the players. -
UCLA officially has had over 100 of their college players go on to be NBA basketball players
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CBS and NCAA men's basketball sign a 14 year contract
NCAA and CBS agree on 11 billion dollars for the next 14 years of tv rights, no athletes make a cent, wventhough they are the reason the money is being spent in the first place. -
Reggie Bush's Heinsman trophy removed
After winning the extreme honor of teh heinsman trophy reggie bush had it removed because he had been paid to advertise a product. Not only are NCAA athelets not paid they are not allowed to be paid by companies like Nike or Adidas for clothes or shoe advertisment while they are in the NCAA. -
The fact that college basketball athletes are exploited is aknoledged on UnsportsmanlikeConduct
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Lock out
NBA lock out -
Myles Brand becomes NCAA president
Myles Brand becomes the president of the NCAA, during his time as president Brand worked in helping student athletes with their school and academics, he also set various diffrent rules to give student athletes a better education.
President from 2003- 2009 (RIP) -
Things are worse than ever
The situation is looking worse then ever before, because of the increasing competition, which makes the staff work the players even harder, which means more training days, longer training days, more exercising, college players basically have to devote four years to the college. College players are better than ever before, which means they attract more attention, which means they generate way more money than before, so now one can see how unfair it is that college athletes basically work full tim -
Kentucky wins NCAA basketball championship
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Kentucky has 2nd most wins in the college NCAA basketball
