Sports Illustrated The College Basketball Book

Sports Illustrated The College Basketball Book by Editors of Sports Illustrated. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781603202077.

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. States upset in 1983, Laettners shot in 1992 and, just last year, Butlers 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 Carolinas triple overtime takedown of Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in 1957, for Texas Westerns historic upset of Kentucky in 1966 and for Villanovas brilliant upending of Georgetown in 1985. Having chronicled all the madness from the fall (Midnight) through the spring (March) year after year, SIs award-winning photographers have captured the indelible images of buzzer-beating shots, of court-storming celebrations and of some of the worlds 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.