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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 4264089, member: 1609"] Although Springfield is the Birthplace Place of Basketball Real intercollegiate Basketball was popularized by Kansas the mothership of the sport.Yes they are the original blue blood. Naismith it’s inventor was their first coach Adolph Rupp who popularized basketball to the Southeast ,making KY into a power played there. UNC was actually late to the party and a beneficiary of the gambling scandals that almost killed NE basketball. . In 1956 a NYC coach named McGuire ( not AL) and a team loaded with NYC kids who a few years earlier would have gone to CCNY won UNC’s first NC. Ironically they beat powerhouse Kansas and Wilt in a huge upset. Making the sport popular in that state. I listened to that game. Wilt was thought unstoppable by mere mortals. UNC on the road to that win was not impressive trailing in almost every game including against Yale. The ACC had minimal basketball credentials prior to that. . [/QUOTE]