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...

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Main Author: Kemper, Kurt Edward (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Series:Sport and society.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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