In this Book
- Making March Madness: The Early Years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships, 1922-1951
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
Throughout the NCAA Tournament’s history, underdogs, Cinderella stories, and upsets have captured the attention and imagination of fans. Making March Madness is the story of this premiere tournament, from its early days in Kansas City, to its move to Madison Square Garden, to its surviving a point-shaving scandal in New York and taking its games to different sites across the country.Chad Carlson’s analysis places college basketball in historical context and connects it to larger issues in sport and American society, providing fresh insights on a host of topics that readers will find interesting, illuminating, and thought provoking.
Table of Contents
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- Series Editor’s Preface
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- 5. Early Peaks and Valleys, 1940–1942
- pp. 123-150
- 7. Postwar Boom, 1946–1950
- pp. 203-266
- Appendix B. Retrospective Polls, 1893–1952
- pp. 321-322
- Bibliography
- pp. 371-408
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610756150
Related ISBN(s)
9781682260333
MARC Record
OCLC
987690911
Pages
425
Launched on MUSE
2017-05-25
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017