The Road to Madness (eBook)

How the 1973-1974 Season Transformed College Basketball

J. Samuel Walker, Randy Roberts (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
184 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3024-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 197374 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 14 halftones, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Al McGuire • Atlantic Coast Conference • Big Eight Conference • Bill Walton • college basketball on television • creation of March Madness • David Thompson • Digger Phelps • history of NCAA Tournament • John Wooden • Marquette University basketball • Maurice Lucas • Monte Towe • national championship 1974 • Norm Sloan • North Carolina State University basketball • Ted Owens • Tom Burleson • Tom Scott • UCLA dynasty • University of Kansas basketball • University of Maryland basketball • University of Notre Dame basketball • Walter Byers
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3024-9 / 1469630249
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3024-3 / 9781469630243