The College Basketball Book Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

The history of college basketball is a tale of giants (Mikan, Russell, Alcindor), mammoth personalities (Wooden, Knight, Krzyzewski) and larger-than-life moments (N.C. State's upset in 1983, Laettner's shot in 1992 and the 2010 Butler's near-miss at a championship miracle). With over a half-century of experience covering the game, Sports Illustrated is uniquely positioned to tell that story, and in 256 super-sized pages, continuing in the tradition of its annual sport-specific coffee-table series, it has found just the right format to capture the enormously entertaining wonder of it all. Hall of Fame writers, including Frank Deford, Curry Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wolff and Gary Smith, have covered all the great back-door plays, morality plays and passion plays of perhaps our most emotional sport. They were there for North Carolina's triple-overtime takedown of Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in 1957, for Texas Western's historic upset of Kentucky in 1966 and for Villanova's brilliant upending of Georgetown in 1985. Having chronicled all the madness from the fall (Midnight) through the spring (March) year after year, SI's award-winning photographers have captured the indelible images of buzzer-beating shots, of court-storming celebrations and of some of the world's largest men bawling over heartbreaking defeats. Those memorable stories and pictures are presented here as never before in this magnificent, must-have book for any college hoops fan.

Details

• Title The College Basketball Book
• Author The Editors of Sports Illustrated
• Binding Hardcover
• Edition number 1st
• Edition 1
• Pages 256
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Sports Illustrated Books
• Date 2011-10
• Illustrated Yes
• ISBN 9781603202077 / 1603202072
• Weight 4 lbs (1.81 kg)
• Dimensions 12.25 x 11.25 x 1 in (31.12 x 28.58 x 2.54 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Basketball - United States - History, College sports - United States - History
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011925184
• Dewey Decimal Code 796.323