1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team The 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team represented the City College of New York. The head coach was Nat Holman, who was one of the game's greatest innovators and playmakers. Unlike today, where colleges recruit players from all over the country, the 1950 CCNY team was composed of "kids from the sidewalks of New York City," who had been recruited by Holman's assistant coach Harold "Bobby" Sand from PSAL schools such as Taft, Clinton, Boys, Erasmus, and Franklin High Schools. The "Starting 5" consisted of two black and three Jewish players. The team is
Basketball in Slovenia World Championships' winning teams. Apart from men, women basketball was also popular with Iskra Delta Ježica being regular in Yugoslav women's league and many players becoming members of women's national team. After the Independence of Slovenia in 1991 national League and Cup competitions were formed on the basis of old republic structures. Slovenia became official member of FIBA on 10. January 1992 and Slovenia national basketball team played their first official match against Croatia in May that year. Basketball in Slovenia Basketball in Slovenia is governed by the Basketball Federation of Slovenia ("Košarkarska zveza Slovenije"). Slovenia is participating in the