Basketball In The Big East Conference

Author : Jason Porterfield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435846036
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basketball in the Big East Conference written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NCAA men’s basketball is always a hot sport because of the talented young players and exciting action on the court. However, history and tradition also play huge roles in the sport’s popularity. Basketball in the Big East Conference takes a closer look at the great teams, players, and coaches in the powerhouse Big East conference, as well as the heated rivalries and longstanding traditions that make the Big East conference among the best in college hoops.

Author : Bill Reynolds
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 : 9780451167965
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Hoops written by Bill Reynolds and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1990-11-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dana O'Neil
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593237951
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big East written by Dana O'Neil and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history—the Big East “This book, full of long-standing rivalries, unmatched moments in the lives of coaches and players, and juicy insider gossip, is, like the game of basketball, a ton of fun.”—Philadelphia magazine The names need no introduction: Thompson and Patrick, Boeheim and the Pearl, and of course Gavitt. And the moments are part of college basketball lore: the Sweater Game, Villanova Beats Georgetown, and Six Overtimes. But this is the story of the Big East Conference that you haven’t heard before—of how the Northeast, once an afterthought, became the epicenter of college basketball. Before the league’s founding, East Coast basketball had crowned just three national champions in forty years, and none since 1954. But in the Big East’s first ten years, five of its teams played for a national championship. The league didn’t merely inherit good teams; it created them. But how did this unlikely group of schools come to dominate college basketball so quickly and completely? Including interviews with more than sixty of the key figures in the conference’s history, The Big East charts the league’s daring beginnings and its incredible rise. It transports fans inside packed arenas to epic wars fought between transcendent players, and behind locker-room doors where combustible coaches battled even more fiercely for a leg up. Started on a handshake and a prayer, the Big East carved an improbable arc in sports history, an ensemble of Catholic schools banding together to not only improve their own stations but rewrite the geographic boundaries of basketball. As former UConn coach Jim Calhoun eloquently put it, “It was Camelot. Camelot with bad language.”

Author : Gabriel Kaufman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 140421383X
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basketball in the Big Ten Conference written by Gabriel Kaufman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, key people, teams, important games, and mascots of the Big Ten Conference of NCAA basketball.

Author : Richard Kent
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781456519094
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big East Confidential written by Richard Kent and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big East Confidential is an inside look at the exciting 2010-11 Big East men's basketball season. It takes the reader from the initial Jim Calhoun press conference in October at Media Day in Madison Square Garden to cutting down the nets after winning a third National Championship in April. Much is made of the great season had by UConn star guard Kemba Walker.It deals in depth with the officiating mistakes at the Big East Tournament, recruiting and the resurgence of the Rutgers Program under Mike Rice. The Top 50 Big East players of all-time are selected along with predictions for the 2011-12 season. It is a must read for all avid college basketball fans and especially fans of the Big East and UConn

Author : Dana O'Neil
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1633198332
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Shots written by Dana O'Neil and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 31 years after the Perfect Game &– Villanova's shocking national championship upset over Georgetown &– Nova struck again with the Perfect Shot, taking down North Carolina in one of the most thrilling finishes in sports history. The shot and second national title in school history were the culmination of 15 years of Coach Jay Wright painstakingly building the unheralded program, through ups and downs, heartbreak and triumph. In Long Shots: Jay Wright, Villanova, and College Basketball's Most Unlikely Champion, ESPN senior writer Dana O'Neil uses exclusive access to Coach Wright and Nova basketball to delve into the inner-workings of a championship program. In the spirit of A Season on the Brink, O'Neil not only explores behind-the-scenes of the historic 2015-2016 NCAA championship season but also the improbable path that the Nova program took to college basketball immortality. In overcoming a disappointing NCAA Tournament track record, the breakup of the Big East conference as we knew it, and Nova's underdog status among traditional college hoops powerhouses, Jay Wright and his team provided the blueprint for how a “have-not” can prevail over the blue bloods the right way &– the Villanova Basketball Way.

Author : John M. Shea
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448894212
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syracuse Basketball written by John M. Shea and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early years at Archbold Gymnasium to today's record-breaking crowds at the Carrier Dome, readers learn the rich history of the Syracuse Orange, the fifth winningest Division I men's basketball program. Early chapters trace the team from its founding in 1901 to its emergence onto the national scene in the 1960s, led by Hall of Famer Dave Bing and his teammate and future coach Jim Boeheim. Since 1976, Coach Boeheim has led Syracuse to multiple NCAA appearances, including a national championship. Later chapters follow the team through its membership in the Big East from 1979 to 2013, when it left to join the ACC.

Author : Jeff Goldberg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803235402
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird At the Buzzer written by Jeff Goldberg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 6, 2001, the top two women’s college basketball teams in the nation, UConn and Notre Dame, played what was arguably the greatest game in the history of the sport. When UConn’s Sue Bird hit a twelve-foot pull-up jumper at the buzzer over national player of the year Ruth Riley in the Big East Tournament championship game, it marked the end of an epic contest that featured five future Olympians and eight first-round WNBA selections. Bird at the Buzzer re-creates this unique season with a detailed account of the games that led up to—and beyond—the tournament finale; profiles of the two coaches, UConn’s Geno Auriemma and Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw; close-ups of the players who made the year so memorable; and, finally, an in-depth recap of the game worthy of being designated ESPN’s first-ever women’s basketball “Instant Classic.” Author Jeff Goldberg shows us the drama on the court and behind the scenes as the big game pitted Riley and the upstarts from Notre Dame against what many believed was the most talented team in UConn history, under Hall of Fame coach Auriemma. A see-saw affair in which neither team led by more than eight points, the 2001 Big East championship game encapsulates the quintessential inside story of the individual talents and skills, team spirit and smarts, and the moment-by-moment realities of college athletics that made this season a snapshot of sports at its finest.

Author : Seth Davis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805088105
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When March Went Mad written by Seth Davis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davis recounts the dramatic story of how two legendary players--Earvin Magic Johnson and Larry Bird--burst on the scene in a 1979 NCAA championship that gave birth to modern basketball.

Author : Mark Hostutler
Publisher : Service of Change
ISBN 13 : 9780692669136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fast Breaks, Finger Rolls, and Fisticuffs written by Mark Hostutler and published by Service of Change. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979, Providence athletic director Dave Gavitt gifted the college basketball world a conference like no other. Much has been said about the unique brand of hoops played during the Big East's golden era, when football shared the entertainment throne and its specter had yet to hover over every other sport in America. However, very little of that dialogue has come from the mouths of the players, the men who made the magic. In Fast Breaks, Finger Rolls, and Fisticuffs: Memories of Big East Basketball, Mark Hostutler interviewed 50 alumni of the conference's first decade and a half to compile its oral history from the players' perspectives. Whatever the moment - Georgetown's national title in 1984, Villanova's the next year, Jerome Lane's glass-rupturing dunk, Syracuse's unlikely runs to the final in 1987 and 1996, or Boston College's shocking upset of defending-champion North Carolina in the 1994 NCAA Tournament - Hostutler spoke with someone who experienced it. Connecticut's Chris Smith, Seton Hall's Terry Dehere, Villanova's Doug West and Kerry Kittles, Felipe Lopez of St. John's, Boston College's Bill Curley, and Syracuse's Rony Seikaly, Lawrence Moten, and John Wallace are among the many who shared their stories of being on the inside. These men help fans relive the Big East's notorious battles of attrition, the violence of its post play, and the ball-handling exhibitions and perimeter-scoring displays that transcended some of the most physical, suffocating defenses in the country. Although the Big East has recently survived the football-dictated, tectonic shift of the NCAA's terrain with its original, basketball-centric ethos intact, what remains are just the fossils of the greatest alliance in college basketball history. This book turns back the clock, transporting readers to a time when the best players in America treated the college campus as their second home and not just a brief stop along their path to the NBA.