The University of Minnesota Armory was mainly used to house the basketball team that has played in what conference since 1905?
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University of Minnesota Armory The University of Minnesota Armory is a building on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Armory was constructed in 1896 after the previous space for military training on the campus burnt in a fire in 1894. The facility served as the primary home for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team as well as the University of Minnesota Marching Band after its construction. The basketball team moved to the Kenwood Armory in Downtown Minneapolis in 1925 while the band moved to the newly completed Music Education Building in 1922. Fielding H. Yost, Michigan Wolverines football coach, forgot the Little Brown Jug, one of the oldest college football traveling trophies, in the locker rooms of the Armory in 1903. The Armory was also the facility used for the University of Minnesota physical education department until 1935. The school's football team played some of their early games on the open field next to the Armory.
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Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball The Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team represents the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. The Golden Gophers have played in the Big Ten since the conference began sponsoring basketball in 1905 and play their home games in Williams Arena.
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1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team The 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1974–75 season. The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. Under the direction of head coach Johnny Orr, the team finished second in the Big Ten Conference. The team earned the second of four consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament invitations. Joe Johnson and C. J. Kupec served as team captains and shared team MVP honors. John Robinson led the Big Ten in field goal percentage with a 60.3% average in conference games, while Kupec led the conference in free throw percentage with an 88.0%. As a team, they led the conference in free throw percentage as well with a 75.8%. The team began the season ranked seventeenth, peaked at eleventh, and finished the season in nineteenth in the Associated Press Top Twenty Poll. It was ranked for a total of eight of nineteen weeks during the season. The team ended the season unranked in the final UPI Coaches' Poll. Kupec was selected as an All-American. The team's 74.4% free throw percentage was a school record that lasted 11 seasons. On January 2, 1975, Kupec went 14 for 14 in free throw attempts against Illinois which continues to be a school single-game record for most without a miss, surpassing Craig Dill's total of 12. The team set a school single-season free throw percentage record of 74.4% that would last until 1986.
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1905–06 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team The 1905–1906 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Emmett Angell, coaching his second season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.
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1905–06 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team The 1905–06 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team represents the University of Georgia during the 1905–06 college men's basketball season. The team had finished the season with an overall record of 0–2.
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Ohio Bobcats women's basketball The Ohio Bobcats women's basketball team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Ohio University. The team is a member of the Mid-American Conference East Division competing in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Bobcats have played their home games in the Convocation Center since 1973.
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Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball The Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball program of the University of Kansas. It is one of the oldest and is one of the most successful programs in the history of basketball. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I and the team competes in the Big 12 Conference.
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Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball The Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I and are members of the Big Ten Conference.
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Minneapolis Armory The Minneapolis Armory is located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The armory was built for the Minnesota National Guard in 1935–36 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team The 1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1904 Western Conference football season. In their fifth year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 13–0 record (3–0 against Western Conference opponents). The 1904 Minnesota team has been recognized as a college football national champion by the Billingsley Report.
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Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Tournament The Big Eight Conference was an NCAA athletic conference that existed from 1907 to 1996, when it and the Southwest Conference disbanded to create the Big 12 Conference. The post-season conference tournament was instituted in 1977 and from that time the winner won the conference's automatic NCAA Tournament bid. The last Big Eight men's basketball tournament ran through the conference's final season in 1996. Missouri won the most Big Eight tournament titles with six. Colorado was the only conference member not to win at least one tournament title during its existence.
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Al Peterson Albert "Al" Peterson (  1906 – 19??) was an American basketball player known for his collegiate career at the University of Kansas in the 1920s. He was a three-time first-team all-Missouri Valley Conference player in each of his three varsity seasons from 1924–25 through 1926–27. Peterson led the Jayhawks to three straight conference championships and led the league in scoring his final two years at 9.1 points and 10.3 points per game, respectively. In his junior season, the Helms Athletic Foundation named him a consensus NCAA All-American. In addition to basketball, Peterson also lettered in football at Kansas during the 1925 season. His basketball number was eventually retired by the school.
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New Mexico Lobos men's basketball The New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team represents the University of New Mexico, competing in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) in NCAA Division I. UNM established basketball as a varsity sport in 1899 and began competing with regional colleges after establishing an athletics department in 1920.
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Ball State Cardinals women's basketball The Ball State Cardinals women's basketball team represents the Ball State University in women's basketball. The school competes in the Mid-American Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Cardinals play home basketball games at Worthen Arena on the Ball State campus in Muncie, Indiana.
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1900–01 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team The 1900–1901 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Dr. James C. Elsom, coaching his third season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.
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Ohio Bobcats men's basketball The Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Ohio University. The team is a member of the Mid-American Conference East Division competing in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Bobcats have played their home games in the Convocation Center since 1968.
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Gangelhoff Center Gangelhoff Center is a 3,200-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of Concordia University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It opened in 1993. It is the home to Concordia University Golden Bears volleyball and basketball teams and was home to the Minnesota Ripknees during their one season in the American Basketball Association.
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Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball The Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team represents the University of Oklahoma in men's NCAA Division I basketball. The Sooners play in the Big 12 Conference.
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McCasland Field House The McCasland Field House is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the University of Oklahoma main campus in Norman, Oklahoma. Home of the basketball Sooners until 1975, the Field House currently hosts the men's wrestling, women's volleyball, and men's gymnastics teams. The Field House is named for T. Howard McCasland, a two-sport star who was the captain of the 1916 basketball team and an end for the football team.
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1909–10 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team The 1909–10 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team represented the University of Chicago in intercollegiate basketball during the 1909–10 season. The team finished the season with a 10–3 record This was the fourth consecutive season for which Chicago was the Western Conference champion. The team played their home games on campus at Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium.
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1907–08 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team The 1907–1908 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Emmett Angell, coaching his fourth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.
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Black Fives The term Black Fives refers to all-black basketball teams that thrived in the United States between 1904, when basketball was first introduced to African Americans on a large scale organized basis, and 1950, when the National Basketball Association became racially integrated. The period is known as the "Black Fives Era" or "Early Black Basketball" or simply "Black Basketball".