* Tim Cone, the American head coach of the Alaska Aces in the Philippine Basketball Association

* Legendary Aces coach Arad McCutchan was the first NCAA College Division coach selected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

* May 26 – Laurence Wild, 1913 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American, former head coach for the Navy Midshipmen men's basketball, and 30th Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1890 )

* Kevin Ollie ( born 1972 ), American former National Basketball Association player and current men's collegiate basketball assistant coach

* Basketball player and coach Byron Scott

The franchise was formed in 1946 as the National Basketball League's Buffalo Bisons, playing at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York, and featuring guard / forward and coach Deanglo King.

* Phog Allen-University of Kansas coach, called the " Father of Basketball Coaching.

His college baseball coach was former MLB player Dick Siebert, and his basketball coach was Bill Musselman ( who went on to serve as a head coach in the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association ) who would later refer to Winfield as the best rebounder he ever coached.

Teague, Bertha Frank-Noted high school basketball coach and member of the Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame ; Oklahoma State University Alumni Association Hall of Fame ; Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ; and Missouri Basketball Hall of Fame.

* Jim Calhoun ( 1942-), head coach of the University of Connecticut's men's basketball team, which won two national championships, and who was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005 ; began his career as a coach in town at Lyme-Old Lyme High School

In the 1940s and 1950s, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame coach Larry Hobbs led Sheridan teams to success.

* Sharon Versyp, Indiana's 1984 Miss Basketball ( Mishawaka High School ) and current Purdue women's basketball coach

* Billie Moore, basketball coach, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame

* Alva Duer, basketball coach, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame

Former College Basketball player and assistant coach for the Kentucky Wildcats, and former Minnesota Timberwolves head coach

* Frank Douglas Garrett-Born July 19, 1944-University Dean, Speaker, Author-All Marine Basketball 1964-66, JUCO All American Basketball, 1967-69-Honored by town of Odon at Old Settler's of 2006.

When Jordan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, he said, " There's no way you guys would have got a chance to see Michael Jordan play without Dean Smith.

* Dean Smith: Basketball: Multiple Offense and Defense, ISBN 0-205-29119-8

* David Scott: Quotable Dean Smith: Words of Insight, Inspiration, and Intense Preparation by and about Dean Smith, the Dean of College Basketball Coaches., ISBN 1-931249-27-X

* Art Chansky: Dean's Domain: The Inside Story of Dean Smith and His College Basketball Empire, ISBN 1-56352-540-2

* Art Chansky: The Dean's List: A Celebration of Tar Heel Basketball and Dean Smith, ISBN 0-446-52007-1

Dean is the only coach named to both the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the College Baseball Hall of Fame.

Touting the site as " The Basketball Page for Thinking Fans ," Hollinger followed in the footsteps of noted analysts Dean Oliver and Bob Bellotti in a quest for the ultimate basketball statistic.

* Blake Nicholson, Melton Basketball Player

* 2008-The Men's Basketball team set a new school record for victories ( 23 ) and won a share of the Big South Regular Season Championship.

* The number of victories the Chicago Bulls achieved during the 1995-96 NBA season, which is the National Basketball Association record.

* Basketball Coach Lonnie Porter holds the record for most victories as a college basketball coach ( at any level ) in Colorado history with 505 wins.

The first round win gave the team 20 victories and no Big East team had achieved that number of victories without getting invited to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament in the 21-year history of the conference.

Hedric, currently a scout for the Toronto Raptors, is an Ohio and Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Famer and holds the record for Miami victories.

John Richard " Dick " Motta ( born September 3, 1931 ) is a former basketball coach whose career in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) spanned 25 years, and he continues to rank among the NBA's all-time top 10 in coaching victories.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

On February 15, 2005, NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that Donna Orender, who had been serving as the Senior Vice President of the PGA Tour and who had played for several teams in the now-defunct Women's Pro Basketball League, would be Ackerman's successor as of April 2005.

* Ron Mercer, American former basketball player at the University of Kentucky who also had a career in the National Basketball Association

John Amaechi, who played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers ( as well as internationally with Panathinaikos BC of the Greek Basketball League and Kinder Bologna of the Italian Basketball League ), came out in February 2007 on ESPN's Outside the Lines program.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

Among these are Basketball Hall of Fame members Tex Winter, who coached the Ponce Lions in the early 1950s, Red Holzman, who also coached Ponce in the 1960s, and Phil Jackson, who coached Quebradillas and Isabela in the late 1980s.

Canadian National Basketball Association star Steve Nash, who himself was inspired by Fox when he was a child, directed a 2010 documentary Into the Wind, which aired on ESPN as part of its 30 for 30 series.

It is the home to David Emanuel Academy ( DEA ) and the David Emanuel Academy Eagles who won the State GISA Basketball Championship in 2007.

One of Claypool's claims to fame is the fact that it is the hometown of two of Indiana's basketball greats, Judi Warren, who became the first Miss Basketball of Indiana in 1976, and Kevin Ault, Mr. Basketball of Indiana of 1996.

Other Division III varsity teams compete in the Liberty League conference and include Men's Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Lacrosse, and Soccer, Women's Basketball, Lacrosse, Soccer, and Volleyball, as well as combined Men's and Women's Alpine Skiing, Cross Country, Nordic Skiing and Swimming.

Auriemma is also known for cultivating individual players, and the Ten multiple-All-America players — Rebecca Lobo, Jennifer Rizzotti, Kara Wolters, Nykesha Sales, Svetlana Abrosimova, Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Diana Taurasi, Tina Charles and Maya Moore — whom Auriemma has coached have combined to win six Naismith College Player of the Year awards, six Wade Trophies, and seven NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player awards.

The Fab Five reached the finals of the 1992 and 1993 National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Men's Division I Basketball Championship while starting a combined 304 of a possible 350 games during their collective freshman and sophomore years.

They also enter a team in the Big V conference of the Australian Basketball Association, combined with a strong junior basketball program, fielding teams in all age groups of Australian representative basketball.