| Description |
xvi, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Gavitt's Folly "There would never be a Big East without him" -- A Rivalry Ignites a Conference "Manley Field House is officially closed" -- Arrives, and So Does the Big East "He's the most important player in the history of the league, period" -- The Magic of Madison Square Garden "I just knew that was the place to play" -- John Thompson, Patriarch of Hoya Paranoia "He wanted people to hate him so they wouldn't hate his kids" -- St. John's, A Team Even New Yorkers Could Love "Eh, that's Lonie being Lonie" -- Pasta, Family, and Massimind "Who the hell is this little Halian dude?" -- Pitino and the 3-Point Revolution "Best coaching job I've ever witnessed." -- Out of the Cellar and into the Championship for the Hall "It was like witnessing something that seemed impossible happening" -- From Yukon to Uconn: The Huskies' Rise from Obscurity "What the hell kind of league did I get myself into?" -- The Last of the Originals: Boeheim Finally Gets his Ring "We're going to get if right this time" -- Six Overtimes and the End of an Era "My final gift to you". |
| Summary |
"The names need no introduction: Thompson and Patrick, Boeheim and the Pearl, and of course Gavitt. And the moments are part of college basketball lore: the Sweater Game, Villanova Beats Georgetown, and Six Overtimes. But this is the story of the Big East Conference that you haven’t heard before—of how the Northeast, once an afterthought, became the epicenter of college basketball. Before the league’s founding, East Coast basketball had crowned just three national champions in forty years, and none since 1954. But in the Big East’s first ten years, five of its teams played for a national championship. The league didn’t merely inherit good teams; it created them. But how did this unlikely group of schools come to dominate college basketball so quickly and completely? Including interviews with more than sixty of the key figures in the conference’s history, The Big East charts the league’s daring beginnings and its incredible rise. It transports fans inside packed arenas to epic wars fought between transcendent players, and behind locker-room doors where combustible coaches battled even more fiercely for a leg up." --book jacket |
| Subject |
Big East Conference -- History.
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Basketball -- East (U.S.) -- History.
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| Added Title |
Inside the most entertaining and influential conference in college basketball history |
| ISBN |
9780593237939 |
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0593237935 |
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