Author: Luke DeCock
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914958
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatestcollege basketball teams in the history of the game, and explains what made each one great.
Great Teams in College Basketball History
Author: Luke DeCock
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914958
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatestcollege basketball teams in the history of the game, and explains what made each one great.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914958
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatestcollege basketball teams in the history of the game, and explains what made each one great.
The Big East
Author: Dana O'Neil
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593237951
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history—the Big East “This book, full of long-standing rivalries, unmatched moments in the lives of coaches and players, and juicy insider gossip, is, like the game of basketball, a ton of fun.”—Philadelphia magazine The names need no introduction: Thompson and Patrick, Boeheim and the Pearl, and of course Gavitt. And the moments are part of college basketball lore: the Sweater Game, Villanova Beats Georgetown, and Six Overtimes. But this is the story of the Big East Conference that you haven’t heard before—of how the Northeast, once an afterthought, became the epicenter of college basketball. Before the league’s founding, East Coast basketball had crowned just three national champions in forty years, and none since 1954. But in the Big East’s first ten years, five of its teams played for a national championship. The league didn’t merely inherit good teams; it created them. But how did this unlikely group of schools come to dominate college basketball so quickly and completely? Including interviews with more than sixty of the key figures in the conference’s history, The Big East charts the league’s daring beginnings and its incredible rise. It transports fans inside packed arenas to epic wars fought between transcendent players, and behind locker-room doors where combustible coaches battled even more fiercely for a leg up. Started on a handshake and a prayer, the Big East carved an improbable arc in sports history, an ensemble of Catholic schools banding together to not only improve their own stations but rewrite the geographic boundaries of basketball. As former UConn coach Jim Calhoun eloquently put it, “It was Camelot. Camelot with bad language.”
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593237951
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history—the Big East “This book, full of long-standing rivalries, unmatched moments in the lives of coaches and players, and juicy insider gossip, is, like the game of basketball, a ton of fun.”—Philadelphia magazine The names need no introduction: Thompson and Patrick, Boeheim and the Pearl, and of course Gavitt. And the moments are part of college basketball lore: the Sweater Game, Villanova Beats Georgetown, and Six Overtimes. But this is the story of the Big East Conference that you haven’t heard before—of how the Northeast, once an afterthought, became the epicenter of college basketball. Before the league’s founding, East Coast basketball had crowned just three national champions in forty years, and none since 1954. But in the Big East’s first ten years, five of its teams played for a national championship. The league didn’t merely inherit good teams; it created them. But how did this unlikely group of schools come to dominate college basketball so quickly and completely? Including interviews with more than sixty of the key figures in the conference’s history, The Big East charts the league’s daring beginnings and its incredible rise. It transports fans inside packed arenas to epic wars fought between transcendent players, and behind locker-room doors where combustible coaches battled even more fiercely for a leg up. Started on a handshake and a prayer, the Big East carved an improbable arc in sports history, an ensemble of Catholic schools banding together to not only improve their own stations but rewrite the geographic boundaries of basketball. As former UConn coach Jim Calhoun eloquently put it, “It was Camelot. Camelot with bad language.”
Great Teams in Pro Basketball History
Author: Joe Giglio
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914927
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatest pro basketball teams in the history of the game, and explains what made each one great.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914927
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatest pro basketball teams in the history of the game, and explains what made each one great.
ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia
Author: Espn
Publisher: Espn Books
ISBN: 0345513924
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
A comprehensive reference provides historical overviews of all 335 Division 1 teams, season-by-season summaries, ESPN/Sagarin rankings of top-selected college basketball programs, and more.
Publisher: Espn Books
ISBN: 0345513924
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
A comprehensive reference provides historical overviews of all 335 Division 1 teams, season-by-season summaries, ESPN/Sagarin rankings of top-selected college basketball programs, and more.
Sports Illustrated The College Basketball Book
Author: The Editors of Sports Illustrated
Publisher: Sports Illustrated
ISBN: 9781603202077
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The history of college basketball is a tale of giants (Mikan, Russell, Alcindor), mammoth personalities (Wooden, Knight, Krzyzewski) and larger-than-life moments (N.C. State's upset in 1983, Laettner's shot in 1992 and, just last year, Butler's near-miss at a championship miracle). With over a half-century of experience covering the game, Sports Illustrated is uniquely positioned to tell that story, and in 256 super-sized pages, continuing in the tradition of its annual sport-specific coffee-table series, it has found just the right format to capture the enormously entertaining wonder of it all. Hall of Fame writers, including Frank Deford, Curry Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wolff and Gary Smith, have covered all the great back-door plays, morality plays and passion plays of perhaps our most emotional sport. They were there for North Carolina's triple overtime takedown of Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in 1957, for Texas Western's historic upset of Kentucky in 1966 and for Villanova's brilliant upending of Georgetown in 1985. Having chronicled all the madness from the fall (Midnight) through the spring (March) year after year, SI's award-winning photographers have captured the indelible images of buzzer-beating shots, of court-storming celebrations and of some of the world's largest men bawling over heartbreaking defeats. Those memorable stories and pictures are presented here as never before in this magnificent, must-have book for any college hoops fan.
Publisher: Sports Illustrated
ISBN: 9781603202077
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The history of college basketball is a tale of giants (Mikan, Russell, Alcindor), mammoth personalities (Wooden, Knight, Krzyzewski) and larger-than-life moments (N.C. State's upset in 1983, Laettner's shot in 1992 and, just last year, Butler's near-miss at a championship miracle). With over a half-century of experience covering the game, Sports Illustrated is uniquely positioned to tell that story, and in 256 super-sized pages, continuing in the tradition of its annual sport-specific coffee-table series, it has found just the right format to capture the enormously entertaining wonder of it all. Hall of Fame writers, including Frank Deford, Curry Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wolff and Gary Smith, have covered all the great back-door plays, morality plays and passion plays of perhaps our most emotional sport. They were there for North Carolina's triple overtime takedown of Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in 1957, for Texas Western's historic upset of Kentucky in 1966 and for Villanova's brilliant upending of Georgetown in 1985. Having chronicled all the madness from the fall (Midnight) through the spring (March) year after year, SI's award-winning photographers have captured the indelible images of buzzer-beating shots, of court-storming celebrations and of some of the world's largest men bawling over heartbreaking defeats. Those memorable stories and pictures are presented here as never before in this magnificent, must-have book for any college hoops fan.
Great Teams in Hockey History
Author: Luke DeCock
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410914866
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
What are greatest teams in hockey and what made them stand out? Learn which players were inducted into the Hall of Fame and the records of unstoppable teams. Discover how players came together to beat their opponents. Read about changes that were constantly being made to keep up with the growing sport. From talented players to dynamic coaches and managers, this book spans almost 50 years to find the best in hockey history.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410914866
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
What are greatest teams in hockey and what made them stand out? Learn which players were inducted into the Hall of Fame and the records of unstoppable teams. Discover how players came together to beat their opponents. Read about changes that were constantly being made to keep up with the growing sport. From talented players to dynamic coaches and managers, this book spans almost 50 years to find the best in hockey history.
Great Teams in College Basketball History
Author: Luke DeCock
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410914880
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
What are greatest teams in college basketball and what made them stand out? Learn statistics about players and the records of unstoppable teams. Discover how players came together to beat their opponents. Read about changes that were constantly being made to keep up with the growing sport. From talented players to dynamic coaches, this book spans 40 years to find the best in college basketball history.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410914880
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
What are greatest teams in college basketball and what made them stand out? Learn statistics about players and the records of unstoppable teams. Discover how players came together to beat their opponents. Read about changes that were constantly being made to keep up with the growing sport. From talented players to dynamic coaches, this book spans 40 years to find the best in college basketball history.
The Winning Tradition
Author: Humbert S. Nelli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813115191
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813115191
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Great Teams in Pro Football History
Author: Joe Giglio
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914903
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatest pro football teams ever and explains what it was that made each one so great.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914903
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatest pro football teams ever and explains what it was that made each one so great.
The Road to Madness
Author: J. Samuel Walker
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469630249
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the iconic events in American sports. In this fast-paced, in-depth account, J. Samuel Walker and Randy Roberts identify the 1973–74 season as pivotal in the making of this now legendary postseason tournament. In an era when only one team per conference could compete, the dramatic defeat of coach John Wooden's UCLA Bruins by the North Carolina State Wolfpack ended a decade of the Bruins' dominance, fueled unprecedented national attention, and prompted the NCAA to expand the tournament field to a wider range of teams. Walker and Roberts provide a richly detailed chronicle of the games that made the season so memorable and uncover the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that set the stage for the celebrated spectacle that now fixes the nation's attention every March.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469630249
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the iconic events in American sports. In this fast-paced, in-depth account, J. Samuel Walker and Randy Roberts identify the 1973–74 season as pivotal in the making of this now legendary postseason tournament. In an era when only one team per conference could compete, the dramatic defeat of coach John Wooden's UCLA Bruins by the North Carolina State Wolfpack ended a decade of the Bruins' dominance, fueled unprecedented national attention, and prompted the NCAA to expand the tournament field to a wider range of teams. Walker and Roberts provide a richly detailed chronicle of the games that made the season so memorable and uncover the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that set the stage for the celebrated spectacle that now fixes the nation's attention every March.