Before March Madness : the wars for the soul of college basketball /
Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on a commercialized game that privileged wins and profits. Opposing them was a tenuous alliance of liberal arts colleges, historically Black colleges, and regional state...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Sport and society.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Basketball's civil war : the struggle for American basketball (1927-1936)
- Searching for champions and finding enemies : the rise of tournament basketball (1937-1939)
- The citadel of home rule : the liberal arts' failed war against commercialism (1936-1951)
- Barbarians at the gate : basketball, the NAIA,and the promise of a small college revolt (1941-1953)
- Rebels with a conscience : race, the NAIA, and college basketball in mid-century America (1939-1953)
- Home rule's last redoubt : race, the NCAA, and college basketball in mid-century America (1950-1955)
- Defending the kingdom : the NAIA war and the division of the NCAA (1955-1957)
- Conclusion.