Madness (eBook)

The Ten Most Memorable NCAA Basketball Finals

Mark Mehler, Charles Paikert (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
256 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-994-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Relive the biggest games in college basketball championship history!

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The annual NCAA Basketball Tournament, which has become known as ';March Madness' has emerged as a major sports event, matched only by the Super Bowl and the Olympics. In Madness, Mark Mehler and Charles Paikert tell the stories behind the ten most compelling and memorable championship games in tournament history, from North Carolina's triple-overtime victory over Wilt Chamberlain's Kansas Wildcats in 1957 to Duke's heart stopping victory over underdog Butler in 2010. As a bonus, five more games that just missed the cut are also examined. Madness goes beyond the games to tell the the backstories of these classics, each entirely unique unto itself. For example, Jim Valvano taking his impossible dream of a national title and making it come true for the 1983 North Carolina State Wolfpack; Rollie Massimino turning spaghetti and clam sauce into inspiration for his underachieving 1985 Villanova team; and Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, breaking down in tears while taking a Broadway curtain call in front of a wildly-applauding audience who two hours earlier didn't know who these two guys were decades after their head-to-head matchup in 1979. Some of these stories also resonate far beyond the basketball court, including the 1966 triumph by the Texas Western Miners, which helped chisel away the college basketball color line and stamped their victory as "e;Glory Road."e; Over sixty years of college basketball history is brought to life in this must-have for all basketball fans.

Autor

Mark Mehler is a veteran journalist whose work has appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines including the New York Times and the Village Voice. He lives in Jackson Heights, New York.Charles Paikert is a journalist based in New York City. He wrote the text for the history of professional basketball exhibit in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and has written about basketball for Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. He resides in South Orange, New Jersey.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.2.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Schlagworte: 1966 basketball final • 1979 ncaa final • 1985 basketball final • acc basketball • basketball championship games • basketball dynasties • basketball history • best college basketball games ever • big east basketball • big ten basketball • Bill Walton • blue devils • books on basketball • books on college basketball • books on john wooden • books on march madness • bracketology • Butler • christian laettner • chris webber • coack k • college basketball champions • dean smith • duke basketball • ed obannon • elite eight • fab five • Final Four • final four basketball • georgetown basketball • glory road • great basketball coaches • Indiana Hoosiers • indiana state and michigan state • jamaal wilkes • john calipari • john thompson • John Wooden • kansas wildcats • Kareem Abdul Jabbar • kentucky wildcats • larry bird • larry brown • lew alcindor • magic johnson • magic johnson and larry bird • March Madness • Michael Jordan • Michigan • michigan state spartans • Mike Krzyzewski • ncaa basketball • ncaa brackets • ncaa championship • ncaa titles • ncaa tournament • one-and-done • pac 12 basketball • patrick ewing • ralph samson • reggie miller • sports upsets • Sweet Sixteen • tar heels • ucla basketball • ucla bruins • UNC • Villanova basketball • wilt chamberlain • wizard of westwood
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-994-6 / 1613219946
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-994-2 / 9781613219942