What was the first year a men's basketball team played at Rolfe D. Mandel's employer?
1898
Title: 2015–16 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team
Passage: The 2015 -- 16 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University during the 2015 -- 16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Blue Devils were led by 36th year head coach and Hall of Fame member Mike Krzyzewski. The team played its home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 25 -- 11, 11 -- 7 in ACC play to finish in a tie for fifth place. They defeated NC State in the second round of the ACC Tournament to advance to the quarterfinals where they lost to Notre Dame. They received an at - large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated UNC Wilmington and Yale to advance to the Sweet Sixteen where they lost to Oregon.
Title: High Point Panthers men's basketball
Passage: The High Point Panthers men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents High Point University in High Point, North Carolina, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Big South Conference.
Title: Rolfe D. Mandel
Passage: Rolfe D. Mandel (born August 25, 1952) is a Distinguished Professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas as well as Senior Scientist and Executive Director of the Odyssey Geoarchaeological Research Program at the Kansas Geological Survey. Initially trained as a geographer, he has been a major figure in defining the subdiscipline of geoarchaeology and has spent the last thirty years focusing on the effects of geologic processes on the archaeological record. His primary research interests include geoarchaeology, Quaternary soils, geology, paleoecology, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Great Plains region of the United States as well as the Mediterranean. Over the years, Mandel has participated in numerous research projects and has served as an editor to multiple journals and a book. His work has been key in promoting an interdisciplinary approach in archaeology, geology, and geography.
Title: University of Kansas
Passage: The KU men's basketball team has fielded a team every year since 1898. The Jayhawks are a perennial national contender currently coached by Bill Self. The team has won five national titles, including three NCAA tournament championships in 1952, 1988, and 2008. The basketball program is currently the second winningest program in college basketball history with an overall record of 2,070–806 through the 2011–12 season. The team plays at Allen Fieldhouse. Perhaps its best recognized player was Wilt Chamberlain, who played in the 1950s. Kansas has counted among its coaches Dr. James Naismith (the inventor of basketball and only coach in Kansas history to have a losing record), Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Phog Allen ("the Father of basketball coaching"), Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Roy Williams of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and former NBA Champion Detroit Pistons coach Larry Brown. In addition, legendary University of Kentucky coach and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Adolph Rupp played for KU's 1922 and 1923 Helms National Championship teams, and NCAA Hall of Fame inductee and University of North Carolina Coach Dean Smith played for KU's 1952 NCAA Championship team. Both Rupp and Smith played under Phog Allen. Allen also coached Hall of Fame coaches Dutch Lonborg and Ralph Miller. Allen founded the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), which started what is now the NCAA Tournament. The Tournament began in 1939 under the NABC and the next year was handed off to the newly formed NCAA.
Title: Christian Moody
Passage: Mark Christian Daniel Moody (born December 28, 1983 in Washington, DC) is an American former professional basketball player, who last played with Australia's Lakeside Lightning. He was also a four-year letter winner for the University of Kansas Men's basketball team from 2002 to 2006. He was also member of the Athletes in Action USA team that won the Gold Medal in the 2006 William Jones Cup, Taipei, Taiwan.
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