Unlike other sports with playoffs, the NCAA takes part in a postseason tournament. ... The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is a youth league designed to support kids to play organized sports. The AAU League is one of the largest nonprofit volunteer sports organizations in the United States; it was founded by William Buckingham Curtis 1888 (Wood, The History of the AAU Basketball, 2013). The Amateur Athletic Union or AAU is divided into 56 different Districts, which have 34 sports programs to sanction, 250 national champs, and over 30,000 age division events (Wood, 2013). ... Even though the AAU i...

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