National Association of Basketball Coaches

This article is about collegiate basketball. For professional basketball, see National Basketball Coaches Association.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American organization of men's college basketball coaches. It was founded in 1927 by Phog Allen, the men's basketball head coach for the University of Kansas.[1]

Formation of the NABC began when Joint Basketball Rules Committee, then the central governing authority of the game, announced without notice that it had adopted a change in the rules which virtually eliminated dribbling. Allen, a student of basketball founder James Naismith, organized a nationwide protest which ultimately resulted in the dribble remaining part of the game.[2]

In 1939, the NABC held the first national basketball tournament in Evanston, Illinois at the Northwestern Fieldhouse.[1] Oregon defeated Ohio State for the first tournament championship. The next year, the NABC asked the NCAA to take over the administration of the tournament.[1] In exchange, the NCAA provided complimentary tickets for NABC members to the Finals and placed an NABC member on its Tournament Committee.[1]

NABC initiatives include establishing the original Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, the format of today's NCAA basketball tournament, and the College Basketball Experience and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame at the T-Mobile Center in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. This facility was completed on October 10, 2007.

Awards

All-District

NABC annually names its All-District Teams, which honors the top Division I players in each district. Regions are divided by college athletic conferences.

NABC Districts[3][4]
District Conferences
1 America East Conference
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
2 Atlantic Coast Conference
3 ASUN Conference
Big South Conference
4 Atlantic 10 Conference
5 Big East Conference
6 Big Sky Conference
Western Athletic Conference
7 Big Ten Conference
8 Big 12 Conference
9 Big West Conference
West Coast Conference
10 Colonial Athletic Association
11 Conference USA
12 Horizon League
The Summit League
13 Ivy League
Patriot League
Independents (none since 2014–15)
14 Mid-American Conference
15 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
16 Missouri Valley Conference
17 Mountain West Conference
18 Northeast Conference
19 Ohio Valley Conference
20 Pac-12 Conference
21 Southeastern Conference
22 Southern Conference
23 Southland Conference
Southwestern Athletic Conference
24 Sun Belt Conference
25 American Athletic Conference

Presidents

Main article: List of presidents of the National Association of Basketball Coaches

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Key Dates in NABC History". Retrieved 2008-10-22.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ "What is the NABC and what does it do?". Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  3. ^ "2009-10 NABC Division I District Alignment" (PDF). cstv.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "National Association of Basketball Coaches Announces 2014-15 Division I All-District Teams and UPS All-District Coaches" (PDF) (Press release). National Association of Basketball Coaches. March 27, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 5, 2016.