When was the college Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team represented founded?
2007–08 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team The 2007–08 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 2007–08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Jeff Capel, who was in his second year with the team. The team played its home games in the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma and was a member of the Big 12 Conference.
James Naismith James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach and innovator. He invented the game of basketball at age 30 in 1891. He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).