History of Basketball
African Americans and Basketball
March Madness
Formulas
Calculations and Graphs
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This Physical education coach invented Basketball in 1891.
Who is James Naismith?
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In this year, basketball was popularized within the African American community.
What is 1904?
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The number of teams who compete in the March Madness.
What are 68 teams?
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This formula is used to find Probability.
Number of possible outcomes/Number of total outcomes
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A linear representation of information that changes over a period of time.
What is a line graph?
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The number of rules when basketball was first invented.
What is 13 original rules?
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Basketball often appeared in advertisements paired with this leisure activity.
What is dance?
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A nickname for the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments, which are held annually from mid- March to early April.
What is March Madness?
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This formula is used to calculate win percentage.
What is Number of Wins/Number of Games * 100?
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A chart that uses bars to show comparisons among categories.
What is a bar graph?
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This item was used as a goal in basketball in its early days.
What are old peach baskets?
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The first all black black owned professional basketball team.
Who are the New York Renaissance?
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The number of rounds played in the March Madness tournaments.
What is 8 rounds?
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This formula is used calculate Shooting Percentage.
What is number of shots made/number of shots attempted * 100?
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Calculate the shooting percentage of the following students. All students made 20 attempts.
Player A: Made 15 shots
Player B: Made 18 shots
Player C: Made 10 shots
Player A: 75%
Player B: 90%
Player C: 50%
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This group of people played the first college basketball game.
Who are women?
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The team the New York Renaissance went on to defeat in the first pro basketball championship game.
Who are the Oshkosh All Stars?
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The 4 regions that March Madness separate's it's contestants.
What is East, West, South, and Midwest?
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The formula for Point Differential.
What is (your team's points) - (your opponent's points)?
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Your team scored 41 points in the fist half and 36 points in the second half. The opposing team scored 50 points in the first half and 21 points in the second half.
What is the opposing team's point differential?
What is -6?
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In 1893, this person launched the first women’s college basketball game.
Who is Senda Berenson?
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Basketball was used as an activity used to keep young men from going...
on a wayward path
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This team won March Madness in 2024.
What is UConn?
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A team wins 15 of 20 games.
What is their win percentage?
What is 75%?
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Find the Mean, Median, and Mode of the data below.
1 5 10 7 2
Mean: 5
Median: 5
Mode: N/A