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The Big East

Author : Dana O'Neil
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593237951
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 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.”

Basketball in the Big East Conference

Author : Jason Porterfield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435846036
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 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 mens 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 sports 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.

Big Hoops

Author : Bill Reynolds
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 : 9780451167965
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (679 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:

The Big East

Author : Dana O'Neil
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593237943
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 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 2021-11-09 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.”

Bird At the Buzzer

Author : Jeff Goldberg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803235402
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 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.

Fast Breaks, Finger Rolls, and Fisticuffs

Author : Mark Hostutler
Publisher : Service of Change
ISBN 13 : 9780692669136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (691 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.

Football in the Big East Conference

Author : Adam Hofstetter
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404219236
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Football in the Big East Conference written by Adam Hofstetter and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the history and individual teams of the Big East football conference.

Summary of Dana O'Neil's The Big East

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669364275
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Dana O'Neil's The Big East written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-25T22:59:00Z with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Gavitt was the founder of the Big East Conference, and he was also the commissioner of it. He was universally praised as brilliant, but his real gift lay in his people skills. He was intelligent but not elitist, and everyone loved him. #2 Gavitt was able to connect with people easily, and he was able to make connections that carried him throughout his life. He was able to lead teams to the Final Four in both basketball and baseball, and he was named New England Coach of the Year after leading Providence to the NCAA Tournament in both 1969 and 1973. #3 Gavitt was a coach, and he was also the commissioner of the Big East conference, which was created in 1979. He believed his region, the East Coast, would benefit from a conference to rival the ACC. He never found a receptive audience, though. #4 In 1978, the NCAA passed a rule that required teams that competed against one another in postseason tournaments to also play a full round-robin regular-season schedule. This meant that coaches would have to build a schedule that included two games against regional foes.

FOOTBALL IN THE BIG EAST CONFERENCE (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427088772
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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FOOTBALL IN THE BIG EAST CONFERENCE (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427088780
Total Pages : 89 pages
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I Came As a Shadow

Author : John Thompson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250619343
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book I Came As a Shadow written by John Thompson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. After five decades at the center of race and sports in America, Thompson—the iconic NCAA champion, Black activist, and educator—was ready to make the private public at last, and he completed this autobiography shortly before his death in the historically tumultuous summer of 2020. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (three Final Fours, four-time national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson’s book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. What were the origins of the the phrase “Hoya Paranoia”? You’ll see. And parting his veil of secrecy, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a D.C. drug kingpin in his players’ orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes of his years on the Nike board. Thompson’s mother was a teacher who had to clean houses because of racism in the nation's capital. His father could not read or write. Their son grew up to be a man with his own larger-than-life statue in a building that bears his family’s name on a campus once kept afloat by the selling of 272 enslaved Black people. This is a great American story, and John Thompson’s experience sheds light on many of the issues roiling our nation. In these pages, he proves himself to be the elder statesman whose final words college basketball and the country need to hear. I Came As A Shadow is not a swan song, but a bullhorn blast from one of America’s most prominent sons.

Long Shots

Author : Dana O'Neil
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1633198332
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 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.

East is a Big Bird

Author : Thomas GLADWIN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674037625
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book East is a Big Bird written by Thomas GLADWIN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puluwat Atoll in Micronesia, with a population of only a few hundred proud seafaring people, can fulfill anyone's romantic daydream of the South Seas. Thomas Gladwin has written a beautiful and perceptive book which describes the complex navigational systems of the Puluwat natives, yet has done so principally to provide new insights into the effects of poverty in Western cultures.The cognitive system which enables the Puluwatans to sail their canoes without instruments over trackless expanses of the Pacific Ocean is sophisticated and complex, yet the Puluwat native would score low on a standardized intelligence test. The author relates this discrepancy between performance and measured abilities to the educational problems of disadvantaged children. He presents his arguments simply and clearly, with sensitive and detailed descriptions and many excellent illustrations. His book will appeal to anthropologists, psychologists, and sailing enthusiasts alike.

Shock the World

Author : Peter F. Burns
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555537936
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Shock the World written by Peter F. Burns and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Jim Calhoun made the University of Connecticut a basketball powerhouse and became the greatest coach of his generation

Miracles on the Hardwood

Author : John Gasaway
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1538717123
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Miracles on the Hardwood written by John Gasaway and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the David vs. Goliath rise of Catholic college basketball, from Villanova to Georgetown to Gonzaga, where small schools perennially shoot past the big power conference programs. In MIRACLES ON THE HARDWOOD, author John Gasaway traces the rise of Catholic college basketball—from its early days (Villanova made an appearance in the Final Four in the first NCAA tournament in 1939) to the dominance of the San Francisco Dons in the 1950s and the ascendance of powerhouses Georgetown, Villanova, and Gonzaga—through their decades-long rivalries and championship games. Featuring interviews with notable coaches, players, alums, and fans—including Loyola Chicago's most famous and dedicated fan, 100-year-old Sister Jean—to get at the heart of how these universities have excelled at this sport. Small in number but devout in the game's spirit, these teams have made the miraculous a matter of ritual, and their greatest works may be yet to come.

Bleeding Orange

Author : Jim Boeheim
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062453211
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Bleeding Orange written by Jim Boeheim and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller In this candid autobiography, Syracuse head coach and long time college basketball fixture Jim Boeheim reflects on his life, his teachers, and the game he loves. Jim Boeheim walked onto the Syracuse campus as a freshman in 1963 . . . and never walked off. A man who has been written off at various stages of his career and criticized for being disagreeable, Boeheim has experienced it all—triumph, despair, redemption; controversy, heartbreak, and scandal; championships, epic disappointments, colorful personalities, NCAA investigations. His combative personality helped ignite what was arguably the most competitive college basketball conference ever: the Big East of the 1980s, when he and Syracuse battled with Big John Thompson of Georgetown, roly-poly Rollie Massimino of Villanova, feisty Jim Calhoun of Connecticut, and beloved Looie Carnesecca of St. John’s, turning the Big East into a Coaches Conference and the Best Show in College Basketball. Boeheim talks about those days and the coming battles with powerhouses North Carolina and Duke, now that Syracuse has joined the Atlantic Coast Conference. From his association with Syracuse greats Dave Bing (a college teammate), Pearl Washington, and Derrick Coleman, to the Olympics—where he coached players such as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Durant—Boeheim has learned many lessons that have helped his team and continue to encourage him now as he nears seventy. His unprecedented fifty-year career as a player, assistant, head coach and icon has given him unique insight into coaching and the college game, knowledge he now shares.

ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia

Author : Espn
Publisher : Espn Books
ISBN 13 : 0345513924
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia written by Espn and published by Espn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference provides historical overviews of all 335 Division 1 teams, season-by-season summaries, ESPN/Sagarin rankings of top-selected college basketball programs, and more.