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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795621503321

Autore

Kemper Kurt Edward

Titolo

Before March Madness : the wars for the soul of college basketball / / Kurt Edward Kemper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2021

ISBN

0-252-04326-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages)

Collana

Sport and society

Illinois scholarship online

Disciplina

796.323630973

Soggetti

Basketball - United States - History - 20th century

Basketball - Economic aspects - United States

College sports - United States - History - 20th century

College sports - Economic aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Basketball's Civil War: The Struggle for American Basketball (1927-1936) -- 2 Searching for Champions and Finding Enemies: The Rise of Tournament Basketball (1937-1939) -- 3 The Citadel of Home Rule: The Liberal Arts' Failed War against Commercialism (1936-1951) -- 4 Barbarians at the Gate: Basketball, the NAIA, and the Promise of a Small College Revolt (1941-1953) -- 5 Rebels with a Conscience: Race, the NAIA, and College Basketball in Mid-Century America (1939-1953) -- 6 Home Rule's Last Redoubt: Race, the NCAA, and College Basketball in Mid-Century America (1950-1955) -- 7 Defending the Kingdom: The NAIA War and the Division of the NCAA (1955-1957) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

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 universities, and the competing interests of the NAIA, each with distinct interests of their own. Kurt Edward Kemper



tells the story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-century-and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day.