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- ↑ "The Early SIAA/Southern Conference Atlanta Basketball Tournament". www.bigbluehistory.net.
- ↑ SIAA having trouble filling basketball tournament, , The Paducah Sun-Democrat 02 Mar 1947 Page 16, retrieved April 30, 2019.
- ↑ Mike Donahue (1907). "Intercollegiate Basket Ball in the South". Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide: 55.
- ↑ "NCAA Basketball Rule Change History" . Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- ↑ "Vanderbilt SIAA champs in 1920". Vanderbilt University Athletics.
- ↑ "2017-18 WKU Hilltopper Basketball Media Guide". Issuu.