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The ___MASK67___ at Chicago or UIC is a state - funded public research - intensive university located in Chicago , Illinois , United States . Its campus is in the Near West Side community area , adjacent to the Chicago Loop . The second campus established under the ___MASK37___ , UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago area , having approximately 29 , 000 students enrolled in 15 colleges . The Kansas Jayhawks , commonly referred to as KU , are the teams of the athletic department at the ___MASK80___ . KU is one of three schools in the state of Kansas that participate in NCAA Division I . The Jayhawks are also a member of the Big 12 Conference . ___MASK80___ athletic teams have won eleven NCAA Division I championships : three in men ' s basketball , one in men ' s cross country , three in men ' s indoor track and field , three in men ' s outdoor track and field , and one in women ' s outdoor track and field . Othyus Jeffers ( born August 5 , 1985 ) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball Association ( PBA ) . Jeffers played college basketball with the ___MASK67___ at Chicago for two years , before transferring to Robert Morris University for his senior season . He then started his professional career with the Iowa Energy of the NBA D - League , a minor league basketball organization owned and run by the NBA . He has had stints with three prior NBA teams : the Utah Jazz , the San Antonio Spurs , and the Washington Wizards . He has also spent a short stint in Italy with NGC Cantù . The Young Men ' s Christian Association ( commonly known as ___MASK87___ or simply the Y ) is a worldwide organisation based in Geneva , Switzerland , with more than 57 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations . It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams in London and aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy " body , mind , and spirit ." These three angles are reflected by the different sides of the ( red ) triangle  part of all ___MASK87___ logos . 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 ___MASK80___ 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 ___MASK13___ , as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament ( 1938 ) and the NCAA Tournament ( 1939 ). The history of basketball is traced back to a ___MASK87___ International Training School , known ___MASK75___ as Springfield College , located in Springfield , Massachusetts . The sport was created by a physical education teacher named James Naismith , who in the winter of 1891 was given the task of creating a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that would prevent them from getting hurt a lot . The date of the first formal basketball game played at the Springfield ___MASK87___ Training School under Naismith ' s rules is generally given as December 21 , 1891 . Basketball began to spread to college campuses by 1893 . Basketball is a sport that is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court . The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and mounted at a height of to backboards at each end of the court . The game was invented in 1891 by Dr . James Naismith , who would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks , one of the most successful programs in the game ' s history . The Iowa Energy is an American professional basketball team based in Des Moines , Iowa . It is an affiliate of the Memphis Grizzlies for the 2016  17 season . They play in the Western Conference in the NBA Development League ( NBA D - League ), a minor league basketball organization owned and run by the National Basketball Association ( NBA ). The Energy play their home games at the Wells Fargo Arena . They broke the D - league attendance record on their first ever home game with 8 , 842 fans . The record was later broken again by the Energy in Game 2 of the 2011 D - League Finals with an attendance of 14 , 036 fans . The Energy won the 2011 D - League Finals , having defeated the Rio Grande Valley Vipers two games to one . The Loop is the central business district of Chicago , ___MASK46___ . It is one of the city ' s 77 designated community areas . The Loop is home to Chicago ' s commercial core , City Hall , and the seat of Cook County . In the late nineteenth century , cable car turnarounds and prominent elevated railway encircled the area , giving the Loop its name . Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the U . S . state of Iowa . It is also the county seat of Polk County . A small portion of the city extends into ___MASK100___ . It was incorporated on September 22 , 1851 , as Fort Des Moines , which was shortened to " Des Moines " in 1857 . It is located on and named after the Des Moines River , which likely was adapted from the French colonial name , " Rivière des Moines ," meaning " River of the Monks ." The city ' s population was 203 , 433 as of the 2010 census . The five - county metropolitan area is ranked 91st in terms of population in the United States with 599 , 789 residents according to the 2013 estimate by the United States Census Bureau . The ___MASK67___ is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three universities : Urbana  Champaign , Chicago , and Springfield . Across its three universities , the ___MASK37___ enrolls more than 80 , 000 students . It had an operating budget of $ 5 . 6 billion in 2015 . System . The ___MASK37___ of universities comprises three universities in the U . S . state of Illinois : Urbana  Champaign , Chicago , and Springfield . The university in Urbana  Champaign is known as " Illinois ", " U of I ", or  UIUC , whereas the Chicago campus is known as  UIC  and the Springfield campus as " UIS ." A university (" a whole ", " a corporation ") is an institution of higher ( or tertiary ) education and research which grants academic degrees in various subjects . Universities typically provide ___MASK20___ and postgraduate education .