He wrote the original basketball rulebook , founded the University of Kansas basketball program , and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , as well as the birth of both the National Invitation Tournament ( 1938 ) and the NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Championship ( 1939 ) .
He lived to see basketball become an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .