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Cinderella ball : a look inside small-college basketball in West Virginia /
For most of the twentieth century, West Virginia was a college basketball hotbed. Its major programs were a success, but perhaps even more successful was the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, composed of fifteen schools that rarely earned headlines but set many records and became an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For most of the twentieth century, West Virginia was a college basketball hotbed. Its major programs were a success, but perhaps even more successful was the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, composed of fifteen schools that rarely earned headlines but set many records and became an identifiable part of small town culture and a source of state pride. This ethos exists today in small town Kentucky and Indiana but struggles to survive in West Virginia. Part of the reason is the state's population decline since the 1950s. That, author Bob Kuska argues, along with the rise of cabl. |
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| Notas: | "A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 289 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289). |
| ISBN: | 9780803220430 080322043X 1281958549 9781281958549 9786611958541 6611958541 |