Phog Allen, the legendary KU coach, and James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, are buried across the road from each ...

Phog Allen memories, but there are not many people with Naismith memory around,” Jansen said. Jansen, who wrote the afterword for the biography “The Basketball Man: James Naismith,” by ...

The Naismith Award is presented annually to the best men's and women's college basketball player in the country.

As he does every year after Selection Sunday in March, he placed copies of his NCAA bracket picks on the graves of James Naismith and Phog Allen. Naismith, the inventor of basketball and KU’s ...