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Naismith's handwritten diaries, discovered by his granddaughter in early 2006, indicate that Basketball Videos he was nervous about the new game he had invented, which incorporated rules from a children's game called "Duck on a Rock", as many had failed before it. Naismith called the new dauntless 'Basket Ball'.

College basketball was rocked by gambling scandals from 1948 to 1951, when dozens of players from top teams were implicated in correlate fixing and minim shaving. Partially spurred by an association with cheating, the NIT lost bedding to the NCAA tournament.