A visit to Allen Fieldhouse for the North Carolina-Kansas game confirms what we suspected: There’s no place in college ...

Phog Allen, James Naismith and the rules of ‘basket ball’ History hits you before you even walk into Allen Fieldhouse. The ...

When James Naismith invented basketball, it was essentially to be a safer alternative than football. Fast forward a ...

In the early 2000s, Roy Williams found himself wanting to be in two places at once. The allure of home, and a plea from Dean ...

From documentaries about real-life people to more fictionalized versions of events, these 12 best basketball movies capture ...

There are 5 big games fans must see as Arizona and Arizona State begin play in their inaugural Big 12 Conference season.

There are no moral victories for North Carolina basketball. No. 9 UNC showed up at Allen Fieldhouse on Friday evening ...

What looked for a while to be a dud of a game amid much-deserved fanfare turned into a classic meeting between UNC and Kansas ...

Quibble all you want with his record or lack of championships, but you wouldn’t be reading this without Dr. James Naismith.

He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982. In 1925, one of the spectators at the fairgrounds for the state finals was none other than James Naismith, the inventor of ...

Also on this date: In 1861, James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. In 1888, Republican presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote over ...