by Ed Breslin
Author Ed Breslin writes winningly of his season (2011-12) spent shadowing Yale's head basketball coach, James Jones. Breslin details the demands of college basketball from the perspective of both coaches and players: the academic pressures, relentless game schedules, intense rivalries, and heartbreaking losses that comprise a season of NCAA Division I basketball.
by Frank Fitzpatrick
Veteran sportswriter Fitzpatrick chronicles one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history: the underdog Villanova Wildcats' defeat of the mighty Georgetown Hoyas to win the 1985 NCAA Division I tournament. Almost 30 years later, the duel is still referred to as "the perfect game" -- and the outcome continues to inspire Cinderella teams at every level.
March 28, 1992: the final of the NCAA East Regional, Duke vs. Kentucky. An 80-foot in-bounds pass from Grant Hill to Christian Laettner, with 2.1 seconds left in overtime. Veteran sportswriter Wojciechowski recounts the drama behind what many fans consider to be the greatest game -- and greatest shot -- in college basketball history.
Mark Titus, author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com, spent four years warming the bench at Ohio State University, "playing" alongside seven future NBA players, and racking up a total of nine whole points in his career of Big Ten and NCAA tournament play. A hilarious, uncensored look at life inside an elite NCAA Division I program.
by Seth Davis
On March 26, 1979, Indiana State's Larry Bird squared off against Michigan State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson in an epic NCAA Division I championship game, the only time the future NBA Hall-of-Famers faced each other in their college careers. The game remains the highest-rated college basketball game in television history. CBS sports analyst Davis tells the story behind the match-up that transformed the NCAA tournament into the multi-billion dollar franchise that it is today.
by Michael Litos
Michael Litos spent the 2005-06 season on the front lines of the Colonial Athletic Association, a year when mid-major basketball teams turned the world of college basketball upside down -- including underdog George Mason's historic run to the NCAA's Final Four. Cinderella is an inside look at the NCAA's mid-major basketball programs, which fight for one shot to battle the elite teams for the national championship.
Sports journalist John Feinstein was granted unlimited access to legendary basketball coach Bob Knight and his Indiana Hoosiers during their pivotal 1985-86 season -- and his riveting portrayal of the team and its fiery coach remains the bestselling sports book of all time. A true sports classic, Feinstein's tale reveals the high stakes and emotional toll associated with building a championship-caliber college basketball team.
This classic sports film tells the true story of future Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins of tiny Texas Western University, who made college basketball history in 1965 by playing the first all-African American starting line-up. In a turbulent time of social and political change, the team's unlikely success sent shock waves through the sport, ending in an epic showdown with legendary coach Adolph Rupp's all-white, #1 ranked Kentucky Wildcats for the national championship.
Sam Rockwell narrates this compelling documentary that examines the business of college football and basketball and the NCAA's treatment of its athletes. The hard-hitting expose tells a story of how college sports became a billion dollar industry built on dedicated, young athletes who are deprived of numerous rights. Weaving interviews, archival and behind-the-scenes footage, the documentary sheds a new light on all college sports programs.
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