Playboy's College Basketball Preview

January, 1990

our comprehensive pre-season guide to the nation's top teams and playersA Couple of years ago, Playboy published a photograph of a basket hanging on the side of a barn to symbolize the traditional American roots of the sport, invented in Springfield, Massachusetts, almost 100 years ago by Dr. James A. Naismith as a way to pass time on rainy days. As American as the light bulb, blue jeans or the Ford Mustang, basketball is America's cross-cultural stew, the rich-kid/poor-boy recipe that gets cook...

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