Butler lost by just two points to Duke, which for years has had one of the country's most successful basketball programs.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

They were celebrating the Los Angeles Lakers' victory over the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association championship game.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

In women's basketball, on Tuesday night the University of Connecticut beat Stanford by six points for the national championship.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

The famous former basketball player Michael Jordan is considered to be one of the best "slam dunkers" of all time.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

Today we tell about two women who helped change the world of sports, golfer Betty Jameson and basketball coach Kay Yow.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Pat Summitt became head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in nineteen seventy-four.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

She is the first National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One coach in men's or women's basketball to win one thousand games.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Many people believe Pat Summitt's winning record will not be reached by another college basketball coach for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

In college basketball, a small school with a young coach nearly defeated a longtime powerhouse team for the national championship.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

Everything else is across the ground. In basketball you go up a little bit, but not anywhere near as cool.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

But first we go to a sports bar in Washington for the final game of this year's National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

Famous people and star athletes came to see him play and many of his high school basketball games were televised.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

In nineteen sixty-four Abe Pollin bought a failing basketball team from Baltimore,Maryland and brought it to his hometown.

VOA: special.2009.12.27