Racial Participation and Integration in Intercollegiate Basketball: A Longitudinal Perspective

This article adds a 5-year period (1985-1990) to the longitudinal evidence on racial participation and integration in intercollegiate basketball since 1948. In addition to extending through 1990 the analyses of previous studies, the paper includes the first longitudinal evidence of racial relations on women s basketball teams, examines the changing structure of the coaching staffs of both men’s and women s teams, and considers the discrepancies between student-athletes’ experiences on the basketball court and in the collegiate environment generally.