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James Naismith was a Canadian physical education instructor who invented the game of basketball in 1891 while working at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts..
1 The final score was: Chicago 15, Iowa 12. 2  U.S. patent #1,718,305 was granted to G.L. Pierce on June 25, 1929, for the first version of what we now recognize as the basketball.. â 3 March Madnessâ began in 1939, when the first NCAA tournament took place at the University of Illinois.