1995 in basketball

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The following are the basketball events of the year 1995 throughout the world.

National team tournaments

FIBA World Under-19 Championship

Summer Universade

Men

Women

Eurobasket

Men

EuroBasket 1995 in Greece:
  Yugoslavia

  Lithuania

  Croatia

Women

EuroBasket Women 1995 in the Czech Republic:
  Ukraine

  Italy

  Russia

European Youth Summer Olympic Days

1995 European Youth Summer Olympic Days in the United Kingdom:
  Greece

  Spain

  Croatia

Professional club seasons

Men
- 1995 NBA Finals: Houston Rockets over the Orlando Magic 4-0. MVP: Hakeem Olajuwon

College

Men
- NCAA
  - Division I: UCLA 89, Arkansas 79
  - NIT: Virginia Tech def. Marquette University
  - Division II: University of Southern Indiana 71, UC Riverside 63
  - Division III: Wis.-Platteville 69, Manchester 55
- NAIA
  - Division I Birmingham-Southern College AL 92, Pfeiffer University NC 76
  - Division II Albertson (Idaho) 81, Whitworth (Wash.) 72 OT
- NJCAA
  - Division I Sullivan College, Louisville, KY 103, Allegany CC, Cumberland, MD 98 O/T
  - Division II Penn Valley CC, Mo. 93, Kishwukee CC, Ill. 88
  - Division III Sullivan County CC 74, Gloucester County College 63
Women
- NCAA
  - Division I: University of Tennessee 83, University of Georgia 65
  - Division II: North Dakota State 104, Shippensburg 78
  - Division III: Wis.-Oshkosh 66 Mount Union 50
- NAIA
  - Division I: Southern Nazarene (Okla.) 80, Southeastern Oklahoma State University 79
  - Division II Western Oregon 80, Huron (S.D.) 77
- NJCAA
  - Division I Trinity Valley CC 69, Independence CC 55
  - Division II Lansing CC 74, Kankakee CC 68
  - Division III Central Lakes College-Brainerd 71, Monroe CC 57

Awards and honors

Professional

Men

Collegiate

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Class of 1995:^[1]

Movies

Births

February 25 — Mario Hezonja, Croatian professional basketball player for Orlando Magic

Deaths

January 7 — Art Stoefen, American NBL player (born 1914)
January 18 — Cliff Fagan, former president of the Basketball Hall of Fame (born 1911)
February 12 — Nat Holman, Hall of Fame player for the Original Celtics and coach of the 1950 NCAA and NIT champion CCNY Beavers (born 1896)
February 20 — Margaret Wade, women's player and coach at Delta State University (born 1912)
March 16 — Art Mollner, member of 1936 US Olympic championship team (born 1912)
April 4 — Joe Richey, All-American at BYU (born 1931)
April 13 — Mal McMullen, American NBA player (Indianapolis Olympians) (born 1927)
April 17 — Jay McCreary, American college coach (LSU) (born 1918)
April 28 — Walter Devlin, American NBA player (Fort Wayne Pistons, Minneapolis Lakers) (born 1931)
May 25 — Krešimir Ćosić, Hall of Fame Croatian player. First foreign player to earn collegiate All-American status while at Brigham Young University (born 1911)
June 12 — Pierre Russell, American ABA player (Kentucky Colonels) (born 1949)
July 21 — Tarzan Woltzen, American NBL player (born 1905)
July 23 — Chuck Hanger, America AAU player (born 1924)
August 21 — Hal Cihlar, American NBL player (born 1914)
August 25 — John Mills, American BAA player (Pittsburgh Ironmen) (born 1919)
November 3 — Cookie Cunningham, American college coach (Washington and Lee, North Dakota) (born 1905)
December 12 — Jack Friel, American college coach (Washington State) (born 1898)

References

^ "Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 Oct 2014.

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