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 mens 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 Woodens 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 nations attention every March.

Autor

J. Samuel Walker is a prize-winning historian and author of books on the history of American foreign policy, nuclear energy, and college basketball. His most recent book is ACC Basketball: The Story of the Rivalries, Traditions, and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Randy Roberts is distinguished professor of history at Purdue University and an award-winning author. He has written thirteen books on sports history, the most recent of which is Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X (with Johnny Smith).

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