March 1939: Before the Madness--The Story of the First NCAA Basketball Tournament Champions

by Terry Frei

Book Overview

In 1939, the Oregon Webfoots, coached by the visionary Howard Hobson, stormed through the first NCAA basketball tournament, which was viewed as a risky coast-to-coast undertaking and perhaps only a one-year experiment. Seventy-five years later, following the tournament's evolution into a national obsession, the first champions are still celebrated as "The Tall Firs." They indeed had astounding height along the front line, but with a pair of racehorse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589799240
• ISBN13: 9781589799240
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"