What are the earliest basketball programs?

[Jewish-collector]

Scott,

These schools had basketball games. Plenty of games pre 1900. I do not know what programs were or were not made for their games.


Geneva College - 1893-94 (Played until 1943)
Iowa 1893-94
Hiram - 1894-95 (Played until 1904)
Drexel - 1894-5 (Did not play Div 1 equiv. between 1901 and 1972)
Temple - 1895-1896
Bucknell - 1895-1896
Yale - 1895-1896
Minnesota - 1895-1896
Washington - 1895-1896 (not again until 1888-89)
Notre Dame 1896-1897
Nebraska 1896-1897
Purdue 1896-1897
Penn State 1896-1897
Butler 1896-1897
Pennsylvania - 1896-1897
North Dakota State - 1897-98 (Did not play Div 1 equiv. between 1927 and 2007)
Kansas - 1898-99
Ohio State - 1898-99
Illinois State - 1898-99
Wisconsin - 1898-99
Michigan State - 1898-99
Syracuse - 1898-99
Cornell - 1898-99
Indiana State - 1899-00
Dartmouth - 1899-00
New Mexico - 1899-00
Princeton - 1900-01
Brown - 1900-01
Harvard - 1900-01
Columbia - 1900-01
Lafayette - 1900-01
Vanderbilt - 1900-01
Indiana - 1900-01
Holy Cross - 1900-01
Washington State - 1901-02
Oregon State - 1901-02
Connecticut - 1901-02
Cincinnati - 1901-02
Colgate - 1902-03
Oregon - 1902-03
Colorado - 1902-03
Kentucky - 1903-04
Seton Hall - 1903-04 (but not again until 1908-09)
Northwestern - 1904-05
Arizona - 1904-05
West Virginia - 1904-05
Kansas State - 1905-06
Pittsburgh - 1905-06
Illinois - 1905-06
Auburn - 1905-06
Duke - 1905-06
Georgia - 1905-06
Wake Forest - 1905-06
Virginia - 1905-06
Texas - 1906-07
USC - 1906-07
Missouri - 1906-07
Rutgers - 1906-07
Wichita St. - 1906-07
California - 1907-08
St. John's - 1907-08
Georgetown - 1907-08
Oklahoma - 1908-09
Oklahoma State - 1908-09
Iowa State - 1908-09
North Carolina - 1910-1911
Louisville - 1911-12
North Carolina State - 1912-13
Stanford - 1913-14
Michigan - 1917-1918
UCLA - 1919-20
Florida - 1920-21
Arkansas - 1923-24