Hello Hoopsters.

Do you want to make your high school or college basketball team as a walk-on? I did it and had a great 4 year college basketball career.

Lets get right to the facts. If you want to walk-on to a college team or make your high school team during try-outs you have to be in better shape than everyone else. You will be going up against some great athletes and if you are not in better shape you don’t stand a chance. I have seen many examples of a good athlete in great shape—make a team–over a great athlete in poor condition.

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The term “college basketball” is typically referring to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The first recorded college ball game was in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between Geneva College and the New Brighton YMCA on April 8, 1893, and the first intercollegiate game was two years later. Here, Minnesota State School of Agriculture (now the University of Minnesota) defeated Hamlin College with a score of 9-3. A year later, the first game with the current 5-player format was played in Iowa City, Iowa. The first televised college game was between Pittsburgh and Fordham in 1940, taking place in Madison Square Garden. Pittsburgh came out on top.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were enough college teams to begin forming basketball leagues, and the NCAA was founded in Chicago in 1906. Over 5,500 fans were witness to the first NCAA Championship tournament, which took place in Evanston, Illinois, in 1939 (Oregon emerged victorious over Ohio State in the final game with a score of 46-33).

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