ASIN: B001IZZ7V8
Publisher: Gemini Publishing
Pages: 215
As the 1973-74 college basketball season began, most experts expected John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins—led by All-American Bill Walton—to win its eighth straight national championship. Only one team truly challenged them: an archetypal Naismith team created in the image of Coach Everett Case-the Old Gray Fox of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball-by one of his first recruits, Norman Sloan. The NC State Wolfpack was led by All-Americans David Thompson, Monte Towe, and Tommy Burleson; and the team made college basketball history in 1974 when they defeated UCLA in the semi-finals and the late Al McGuire’s Marquette Warriors in the finals. Those final four wins not only ended the longest streak of NCAA basketball championships ever (UCLA had won seven) but also completed the House That Coach Everett Case Built (the William Neal Reynolds Coliseum) with a national championship banner.
