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Carolina basketball : a century of excellence / Adam Lucas ; with the assistance of Matt Bowers ... [et al.] ; foreword by Dean Smith and afterword by Roy Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucas, Adam, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Basketball--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--History.
- Basketball.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Basketball--History.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team)--History.
- North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Boasting six national championships and scores of Hall of Fame coaches and players, Carolina Basketball has come a long way from the first season--when the campus newspaper published a notice asking an unknown culprit to return the team's basketball. These pages are packed with little-known stories from the program's earliest days and new insights into its best-loved moments. All the greats are here, from Jack Cobb and the ""Blind Bomber"" George Glamack to Lennie Rosenbluth, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Michael Jordan, Antawn Jamison, and Tyler Hansbrough. Lucas reveals the meaning of the ""Carol
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Images of 100 Years; 1 A New Game Arrives on Campus; 2 White Phantoms Haunt the Southern Conference; 3 Winning Games, Fighting Battles; 4 The League That Basketball Built; 5 Rivalries: The Passion of the ACC; 6 UNC-Duke: An Unrivaled Rivalry; 7 1957: Television Stars; 8 Dean Smith Changes the Game; 9 Tar Heels at the Top; 10 Family across the Decades; 11 1982: Making Legends; 12 Eight for the Ages; 13 1993: A True Team; 14 Home-Court Advantages; 15 Endings and Beginnings; 16 2005: Taking Back the Neighborhood; 17 2009: The Latest Golden Era; 18 Life Lessons
- 19 Beyond the First CenturyAfterword; 100 Years by the Numbers; Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908842-3-7
- 0-8078-9968-2
- OCLC:
- 698110364
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