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.
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.
In 1939, the NABC held the first national basketball tournament in Evanston, Illinois at the Northwestern Fieldhouse. 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. In exchange, the NCAA provided complimentary tickets for NABC members to the Finals and placed an NABC member on its Tournament Committee.
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 NABC Player of the Year NABC Defensive Player of the Year NABC Freshman of the Year Pete Newell Big Man Award NABC Coach of the Year
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 DistrictsDistrictConferences 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
See also Women's Basketball Coaches Association
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