This lead to many YMCAs to outlaw basketball within five years of its invention. This angered many YMCA patrons, especially the ones who joined specifically to play basketball so many canceled their memberships. This induced the displaced YMCA members to start playing at other places such as halls. This eventually lead to the professionalization of the sport. Basketball soon caught on as a collegiate sport and this played a major part in the great expansion of basketball. The first game ever played in college was in 1895 when the Minnesota School of Agriculture and Mining beat Hamline College 9-3. The YMCA and the AAU (Ameteur Athletic Union) jointly ran the rules committee. However several colleges did not like the fact that they had no say in the rules. So Ralph Morgan, the Penn athletic director organized a series of meetings that lead to the formation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association which was a precursor to the NCAA. This association established a separate set of rules exclusively for the college game. However the Intercollegiate Athletic Association officials soon reconciled with the members of the AAU and YMCA rules committee and the three merged together in1915 to become the National Basketball Committee or NBC. This committee served as the sole ameteur rule making committee in both America and Canada from 1936-1979. In 1979 both the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations broke away so they could each form their own rules committee. In 1905 there were eighty eight colleges engaged in intercollegiate basketball, but by 1915 there were three hundred sixty six. Interest in college basketball was really taking off. To capitalize on this popularity, officials in New York City created the National Invitation Tournament or the NIT. This tournament was used to crown the national champion until the NCAA made a tournament of its own. These college made basketball a major national spo...
