1994 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 1994 throughout the world.
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Championships
World Championship
- Men
- United States 137, Russia 91
- Women
- United States 100, Australia 95
Professional
- Men
- 1994 NBA Finals: Houston Rockets over the New York Knicks 4-3. MVP: Hakeem Olajuwon
- 1994 NBA Playoffs
- 1993-94 NBA season
- 1994 NBA Draft
- Eurobasket: None
- 1994 NBA Finals: Houston Rockets over the New York Knicks 4-3. MVP: Hakeem Olajuwon
- Women
- Eurobasket Women: None
College
- Men
- NCAA
- Division I: Arkansas 76, Duke 72
- NIT: Villanova University def. Vanderbilt University
- Division II: California State University-Bakersfield 92, University of Southern Indiana 86
- Division III: Lebanon Valley College 66, 59 New York University OT
- NAIA
- Division I Oklahoma City University 86, Georgetown College KY 80
- Division II Eureka College IL 98, Northern State University SD 95 OT
- NJCAA
- Division I Hutchinson Community College 78, Three Rivers Community College (MO) 74
- Division II Joliet Junior College IL 85, Owens Technical College OH 80
- Division III Gloucester County College 71, Sullivan County CC 69
- NCAA
- Women
- NCAA
- NAIA
- Division I: Southern Nazarene (Okla.) 97, David Lipscomb (Tenn.) 74
- Division II Northern State University (S.D.) 48, Western Oregon 45
- NJCAA
- Division I Trinity Valley CC 104, Westark Community College, Ark. 95
- Division II Southwestern Michigan College 81, Chattahoochee Valley CC 72
- Division III Anoka-Ramsey Community College 69, Triton College 62
Awards and honors
Professional
Collegiate
- Naismith College Player of the Year
- Men: Glenn Robinson, Purdue
- Women: Lisa Leslie, USC
- Naismith College Coach of the Year
- Men: Nolan Richardson Arkansas
- Women: Pat Summitt Tennessee
Deaths
- March 13 — Sam Ranzino, All-American at NC State (born 1927)
- May 3 — Vladimir Kostin, FIBA Hall of Fame Russian referee (born 1921)
- June 25 — Katrín Axelsdóttir, Icelandic national team player (born 1956)
- July 10 — Earl Strom, Hall of Fame NBA and ABA referee (born 1927)
- September 3 — Glen Rose, American college player and coach (Arkansas) (born 1905)
- November 11 — Frank McGuire, Hall of Fame coach of the undefeated 1957 National Champion North Carolina Tar Heels (born 1914)
- November 20 — Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian (Soviet) Olympic Silver medalist (1956, 1960, 1964) (born 1930)
References
- "Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 Oct 2014.
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