The Kingdom of the Franks was the most enduring of all the Germanic states and it became the center of a new Europe. In the 4th century the Franks began a slow movement along the east bank of the Rhine, across the river and into Gaul.
College basketball, along with football and men's hockey, are the three sports which you cannot attend one undergraduate university, and then transfer to another university for graduate school and still compete in collegiate athletics (at least in the NCAA level).
With more than 40 million children playing organized sports  often on first-rate travel teams  more students are graduating from high school with extensive athletic interest and skills than ever before. A small number of those graduates, fewer than 5 percent, are good enough to play a varsity college sport.