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1974 AIAW National Basketball Championship

basketball tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2024
Entity authorityQ110612839 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1974 AIAW women's basketball tournament was held on March 20–23, 1974. The host site was Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.

Sixteen teams participated, and Immaculata College, now known as Immaculata University, was crowned national champion at the conclusion of the tournament for the third straight year.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1974 AIAW National Basketball Championship” as basketball tournament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where AIAW, National and Basketball can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as basketball tournament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 5, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q110612839. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “1974 AIAW National Basketball Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.