In a nail-biting game against Clark University, the Bears made history on Sunday as the first NEWMAC basketball team to ever win six consecutive championships.
Smith will return to the NCAA Division III tournament on Friday, March 6.
Less than two years after the invention of basketball, in 1891, Smith’s director of physical education, Senda Berenson, adapted the game for women. The first women’s basketball game was played in the Alumnae Gym in 1893, with the sophomores beating the first-years 5–4. Berenson was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
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