1893 in basketball

Events

 * Clara Gregory Baer introduces basket-ball (as it was written at the time) to Sophie Newcomb College (now part of Tulane University)
 * February 7 – Vanderbilt University plays against the local YMCA in Nashville, Tennessee – the first recorded instance of a college basketball team facing an outside opponent.
 * April 8 – In the second recorded instance of an organized college basketball game, Geneva College faces the New Brighton YMCA in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Births

 * Birch Bayh (basketball coach), coach
 * Benjamin Van Alstyne, coach
 * William Reid (basketball), coach
 * Clarence Applegran, coach
 * Wilmer D. Elfrink, coach and player
 * Norman C. Paine, coach