The Final Four: A Pictorial History of the NCAA Basketball Classic

by Richard Whittingham

Book Overview

From the Back Cover: :From the beginning in 1939 when a few thousand fans filled tiny Patten Gymnasium on the Northwestern University campus to watch Oregon defeat Ohio State, 46 - 33, to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809255812
• ISBN13: 9780809255818
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A must-read if you are interested in the history of the NCAA tournament

Given the major sports event that it is now, it is hard to believe that the NCAA tournament used to be an also-ran to the more prestigious National Invitational Tournament (NIT). Every year during March, statistics are published concerning how much treasure and energy are taken up by office pools on the NCAA tournament. Both numbers are enormous. This book summarizes all of the NCAA tournaments from 1939 through 1983. The summaries are brief yet fairly complete and the statistics for the two semifinal and final games of each final four are included at the end. All of the great players from these years are mentioned in some way, from their triumphs to their disappointing play when it counted. If you are a fan of NCAA basketball and interested in the history of the tournament, then this is a book that will definitely interest you.