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Making March madness : the early years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships 1922-1951

Title
Making March madness : the early years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships 1922-1951 / Chad Carlson.
Author
Carlson, Chad
Publication
  • Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2017.
  • ©2017.

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Additional Authors
  • National Collegiate Athletic Association.
  • National Invitation Tournament.
Description
xvi, 429 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Throughout the NCAA Tournament's history, the upsets, the underdogs, and the Cinderella stories have captured the attention and imagination of fans. Making March Madness is the story of this premier tournament, from its early days in Kansas City, to its move to Madison Square Garden, to its surviving a point-shaving scandal and taking its games to different sites across the country. Chad Carlson's analysis places college basketball in historical context and connects it to larger issues in sport and American society, providing fresh insights on a host of topics that readers will find interesting, illuminating, and thought provoking"--Back cover
Series Statement
Sport, culture & society
Uniform Title
Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
Subject
  • NCAA Basketball Tournament > History
  • NCAA Basketball Tournament
  • Basketball > Tournaments > History
  • Basketball > United States > History
  • Basketball
  • Basketball > Tournaments
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-408) and index.
Contents
Prolegomena to the tournaments, 1901-1937 -- Genesis of the Kansas City and New York City tournaments, 1937-1938 -- The NABC and the inaugural NCAA tournament, 1938-1939 -- Toward sustainability and financial solvency, 1939-1940 -- Early peaks and valleys, 1940-1942 -- New York City and true national championships, 1942-1945 -- Postwar boom, 1946-1950 -- The scandal, damage control, and alternate options, 1950-1951-- Epilogue: New beginnings, with leverage, 1952-2005 -- Appendices.
ISBN
  • 9781682260333
  • 168226033X
  • 9781610756150
  • 1610756150
LCCN
2017933627
OCLC
  • ocn979568567
  • 979568567
  • SCSB-8863127
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library