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2009 - 2010 OCAA Schedule
| Mohawk | Oct. 31 | 8 pm | L - 70-97 |
| Fanshawe | Nov. 1 | 2 pm | L - 38-93 |
| Algoma | Nov. 6 | 7 pm | L - 34-69 |
| Lambton | Nov. 13 | 6 pm | L - 70-84 |
| St. Clair | Nov. 14 | 2 pm | L - 58-95 |
| Redeemer | Nov. 21 | 8 pm | L: 58-65 |
| Niagara | Nov. 22 | 2:30pm | L: 61-77 |
| Sheridan | Nov. 28 | 2 pm | L: 61-95 |
| Humber | Nov. 29 | 2 pm | L: 32- 83 |
| Sheridan | Jan. 16 | 8 pm | L: 34-109 |
| Humber | Jan. 17 | 2 pm | L: 47-85 |
| Niagara | Jan. 22 | 6 pm | L 28-60 |
| Redeemer | Jan. 23 | 2 pm | L: 59-63 |
| Mohawk | Jan. 29 | 6 pm | L: 64-73 |
| Algoma | Feb. 3 | 7 pm | L: 47-103 |
| Fanshawe | Feb. 5 | 6 pm | L: 36-91 |
| Lambton | Feb. 12 | 8 pm | L: 55-83 |
| St. Clair | Feb. 13 | 2 pm | L: 59-94 |
Coaches
Head Coach -
Greg Mapp
Assistant -
Nick
Caron
2009- 2010 Roster
| # 3 Jonathan Price | Forward |
| # 5 Anthony Martella | Forward |
| #10 Akeem Prince Barnes | Forward |
| #11 Colton King | Guard |
| #14 Josh Carlson | Forward |
| #20 Shane Watson | Guard |
| #21 Wadah Gadain | Forward |
| #22 Matt Campbell | Guard |
| #23 Daniel Hughes | Guard |
| #24 Odane Ferguson | G / F |
| #25 Brett Davey | Forward |
| #31 Chad Turner | Forward |
| #32 Parfait Lokole | Guard |
| #33 Michael Esson | Forward |
"Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships."
Michael Jordan
The History of Basketball
It all started with two peach baskets affixed to a 10-foot-high railing and with a soccer ball in a YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) in Massachusetts.
James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian College in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895). At Springfield College (which was then the Y.M.C.A. training school), James Naismith, under the direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball.
The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a soccer ball up and down a court of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. Another decade passed, however, before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored.
Under orders from Dr. Luther Gulick, head of Physical Education at the School for Christian Workers. James Naismith had 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction" for a rowdy class through the brutal New England winter.
In 1959, James Naismith was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame (called the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.)
Patent Drawing: Basketball Patent
The Basketball
U.S. patent #1,718,305 was granted to G.L. Pierce on June 25, 1929 for the "basketball" used in the game.
First Basketball Court
Springfield College