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The road to madness : how the 1973-1974 season transformed college basketball
- Title
- The road to madness : how the 1973-1974 season transformed college basketball / J. Samuel Walker, Randy Roberts.
- Author
- Walker, J. Samuel
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Roberts, Randy, 1951-
- Description
- x, 172 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--Dust jacket flap.
- Subject
- North Carolina State Wolfpack (Basketball team)
- North Carolina State University > Basketball
- UCLA Bruins (Basketball team)
- University of California, Los Angeles > Basketball
- NCAA Basketball Tournament > History
- NCAA Basketball Tournament
- Basketball > Tournaments > United States
- Basketball > United States > History
- Basketball
- Basketball > Tournaments
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-166) and index.
- Contents
- On the road to 105 -- The ACC's challenge to "you know who" -- Winning shots in the heartland -- The growth of the NCAA Tournament -- Bracketology 1974 -- The precarious road to the Final Four -- The battle of Greensboro -- Creating March Madness inadvertently.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7788
- ISBN
- 9781469630236 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1469630230 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781469630243 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016004011
- OCLC
- 936433319
- Author
- Walker, J. Samuel, author.
- Title
- The road to madness : how the 1973-1974 season transformed college basketball / J. Samuel Walker, Randy Roberts.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-166) and index.
- Added Author
- Roberts, Randy, 1951- author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7788