Basketball category: 1106 books
Bird at the Buzzer
UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women's Basketball Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
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...
Fifty Years at the Pit
The University of New Mexico's Legendary Venue
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Basketball fans at the University of New Mexico have always been loyal, loud, and numerous, and the devotees have grown in number over the fifty years since the opening of the University Arena, a.k.a. the Pit, in 1966. Herron recounts many of the best players and games in this celebration of one of...
Best Game Ever
How Frank Mcguire's '57 Tar Heels Beat Wilt And Revolutionized College Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The Best Game Ever is a revealing look at the University of North Carolina Tar Heels' 1956–57 season, one of the most storied in college basketball history. From the first day of practice, when forward Lennie Rosenbluth predicted a winning season, to the final game, a triple-overtime victory over...
by Stan Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
- Butler basketball has a large following around the US due their history of outplaying more well-known teams.
- Winner of back-to-back NCAA tournaments.
- Sutton takes the reader through feats of the past teams to the new head coach LaVail Jordan.
- The author is a member of the Indiana Sports Writers and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
"Bad News"
The Turbulent Life of Marvin Barnes, Pro Basketball's Original Renegade
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Marvin Bad News” Barnes was considered a future Hall of Fame basketball player before he even graduated from college. A standout at Providence College, where he averaged 20.7 points and 17.9 rebounds per game, he was an All-American with the world at his fingertips.
Although Barnes enjoyed...
by Stephen Saine
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
What would do you to ensure your family’s success? For one man, the answer was simple – anything.
In his attempt to secure a better future for his nephew, Stephen Saine, a reformed Memphis street hustler turned Man of God, tried to navigate the murky waters of college basketball...
Tales from the Maryland Terrapins
A Collection of the Greatest Terrapin Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In this reissue of Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, fans can relive the most profound memories from more than 100 years of athletics at the University of Maryland in College Park. Authored by David Ungrady, a former two-sport athlete at the school, the book includes a series of first-person anecdotes...
by Walter Townes, Barry Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Born and raised in the projects of Newark, NJ, Willie Joe Cunningham aspires to become a professional basketball player. Surrounded by everything from race riots to drug and alcohol abuse, Willie Joe manages to rise above his humble beginnings. Guided early by a few caring mentors, he now has to confront...
by Terry Hutchens
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
583 basketball players from the state of Indiana have gone on to play basketball at Indiana University in more than 110 years of competition. Amon the group are 26 players who won the coveted Mr. Basketball award as high school seniors. Also included are 35 players who went on to become All-Americans...
A Century of Jayhawk Triumphs
The 100 Greatest Victories in the History of Kansas Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
Basketball wasn't invented at Kansas but basketball tradition was. It's where James Naismith taught, Phog Allen coached, Wilt Chamberlain dominated, Danny Manning performed a miracle and Roy Williams wins like no other coach in the college game. It's been a century of national championships, All-Americans,...
by Jerod Morris, Andy Bottoms, Ryan Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team entered the 2015-16 season with great expectations. But the season was soon in shambles after a miserable trip to Maui and a pathetic loss at Duke in early December. Would this talented team sputter, splinter, and fall apart? Would senior leader Yogi Ferrell...
True Blue
A Tribute to Mike Krzyzewski's Career at Duke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
It’s been over thirty years since Mike Krzyzewski became the head basketball coach at Duke University. And on November 15, 2011, Coach K became the most successful coach in NCAA Division I men’s basketball history with his 903rd victory. Now the impact and inspiration of this living legend is...
Tales from the Villanova Wildcats Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Wildcat Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Take a bunch of nice kids, dump in gobs of fiery Italian seasoning, mix in copious measures of robust Augustinian teaching, and stir gently for four years. That’s the winning recipe that transformed April Fool’s Day 1985 into a feast for underdogs and everymen everywhere. March Madness maddened...