Both of these tournaments created venues where the best college teams in the nation could compete against each other for title of "National Champion." Until the late 1970s, the 2 tournaments were both accepted as being the best. In 1950, the City College of New York (CCNY) participated in and won both NCAA and NIT tournaments.

These tournaments were important to the sport of basketball because they allowed for emergence of dominant basketball colleges, whose success in the NIT or NCAA helped to lure top high school players to their schools. Some of the early power-house schools were the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Indiana, North Carolina, Duke and Kansas (whose basketball program was founded by Dr. James Naismith) still dominate college basketball today day. During the 1st forty years of their existence, the NCAA and NIT tournaments vied for dominance over the sport. By the late 1970s, the NCAA tournament had become the number one college basketball tournament. By the 1980s, intercollegiate basketball was one of the favorite sports in the nation. The rapid growth of the National Basketball Association (NBA) led to an increased interest in intercollegiate basketball game and many NBA stars were recruited from college.  The NBA recently set an age limit that stopped players from joining a professional basketball team as soon as they left high school.

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Kobe Bryant is one of the NBA's most electrifying talents and the closest thing the NBA has today to Michael Jordan. Bryant has matured as a basketball player which has coincided with the Lakers three consecutive  championships.

Atlantic Sun Conference  The Atlantic Sun Conference of the NCAA is a college athletic conference which is situated mainly on the east coast of the USA. Atlantic Sun is a Division I conference and one of the few that does not sponsor football.

The Big Sky Conference was founded in 1963. It's member universities are located in the western United states covering Arizona, California, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Washington.

The Big West Conference was formed in the mid 1960's and is one of the major National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I conferences. It is the only conference with all it's member institutions in one state.

Wallyball, also known as rebound volleyball, is a fast-paced game that was was invented in Calabasas, CA, in the summer of 1979 by Joe Garcia. The word "Wallyball" is a combination of "ball" and "wall".

Netball is a highly skilled and fast sport. The game was developed by an American basketball coach attempting to improve the skills of Basketball. He worked at Luton Teachers College in England where he introduced the sport of netball to many of the graduating teachers.

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