Most Kansas basketball fans can recall from memory the classic photo of the game’s creator James Naismith standing proudly on the left with the coach Phog Allen to the right. The two figures of ...

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 ...

According to Johnson, Phog Allen played under James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, who also coached at Kansas. While Naismith envisioned basketball as a way for people to have fun and stay ...

That effect was meant to honor the inventor of basketball, James Naismith. And at 4 p.m. Thursday, the Phog Allen window will come out of storage and into the light as part of Zogry’s lecture ...

"Phog" Allen, the second-most important figure in the history of basketball behind James Naismith, who founded the game and was Allen's coach at KU back in the early 1900s. An old-fashioned indoor ...

Phog Allen, James Naismith and the rules of ‘basket ball’ History hits you before you even walk into Allen Fieldhouse. The statue of Phog Allen, dubbed the “father of basketball coaching ...

KU is scheduled to host its annual Late Night in the Phog season ... graphics featuring James Naismith adorned the wall in The Naismith Room, a hospitality area, at Allen Fieldhouse.