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For the first time in league history, NBA coaches and general managers are just as likely to have played Division III basketball as they are to have played in the NBA. While the number of former D3 players working in the NBA is higher than ever, small college alums have served in leadership positions since the league's founding.

March 28, 1992. The final of the NCAA East Regional, Duke vs. Kentucky. Millions could say they witnessed the greatest game and the greatest shot in the history of college basketball. But it wasn't just the final play - an 80-foot inbounds pass with 2.1 seconds left in overtime - that made Duke's 104-103 victory so memorable. Each player and coach arrived at that point with a unique story to tell. In The Last Great Game, ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowski turns the game we think we remember into a drama filled with suspense, humor, revelations, and reverberations.

Written by the director of basketball operations at Southern Illinois University (who also played at Illinois and assisted at Kansas), GO GET THAT SCHOLARSHIP! helps high school basketball players and their parents navigate the often stressful and confusing process of securing a college basketball scholarship. Filled with interesting anecdotes, indispensible lists (“The Six Things You Have to Ask a Coach”), tips on everything from highlight videos to walk-on tryouts -- even a college basketball preparation checklist -- this honest, revealing and downright funny book tells high school ...

Throughout the NCAA Tournament’s history, underdogs, Cinderella stories, and upsets have captured the attention and imagination of fans. Making March Madness is the story of this premiere tournament, from its early days in Kansas City, to its move to Madison Square Garden, to its surviving a point-shaving scandal in New York and taking its games to different sites across the country.

As the star basketball player at EU, I was used to the stares that I'd get from women, however, this look from her beautiful grey eyes was different. It shocked me to my core. I'd never been denied before, but she was the first to do it. My teammates bet me that I couldn't sleep with her in four weeks. I bet them I could. In reality, all I wanted was her. I had to have her at any cost. Was it fate that brought us together or just the simple fact that we had the same first name? This other Jackie was one good looking man, but he was dangerous. I saw the way women acted around him. They ...

When college basketball teams make it to the NCAA tournament, they say they're "going to the dance". John Feinstein's riveting new book is the story of the last dance: the Final Four. There is no event in sports quite like it. The Final Four draws millions to their televisions and thousands to a chosen city; attendance is topped only by the Super Bowl. It is the epicenter of sports madness, a circus of media, coaches, and fans swirling around the four teams talented enough to have made it to the end.

Playing basketball for Duke University was a major accomplishment for me at eighteen! I was away from home for the first time, beginning to work towards my personal goals of becoming a WNBA pro player one day! My dreams encounter an immoveable object in my path, mainly my richer-than-god father and mother. They inform me that I am needed to further the family's interests. A fall from grace, a young woman finds her way in the dark of the world, cut off from all she has ever known. She discovers herself, her friends, and why she has never been able to feel attracted to a man! Not a cliche in ...

Discover the David vs. Goliath rise of Catholic college basketball, from Villanova to Georgetown to Gonzaga, where small schools perennially shoot past the big power conference programs.

Bianca Taylor has one goal. Make it to the pros. She works night and day for that dream. Every morning she wakes up early to shoot the basketball in the gym. Every morning was the same until Seth Williams walked in the gym. The sexy shooting guard, captured her attention and now she can’t keep her hands off him. March Madness is a steamy sports BWWM romance. This interracial short story is 3,400 words long and is for mature readers only.

Colby Jackson is lightning quick on the basketball court but off the court his life is a mess; a talented guy living down a mistake and dismissed by his family. But Lizzie Turner comes into his life. Can a true love balance his life on and off the court? Find out if Colby Jackson is able to use the strength of a loved one to help him move past his mistakes in the second book of the On the Rebound series, Battle off the Court.

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game. In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew, and Dan Klores have compiled nearly a thousand hours' worth of interviews with a staggering number of basketball greats. The audiobook that grew out of those interviews is an extraordinary project and quite possibly the most ambitious basketball work ever made.

When basketball fans hear the words Final Four, they probably think of the buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories, and bracket-busters that have thrilled people for years. However, you don't need to be a die-hard fan to know that the NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the most popular sports events in the United States. By the time the tournament of 64 teams has been whittled down to the Final Four, excitement reaches a fever pitch.

During the 1980s, Black athletes and other athletes of color broadened the popularity and profitability of major college televised sports by infusing games with a "Black style" of play. At a moment ripe for a revolution in men's college basketball and football, clashes between "good guy" white protagonists and bombastic "bad boy" Black antagonists attracted new fans and spectators. And no two teams in the 1980s welcomed the enemy's role more than Georgetown Hoya basketball and Miami Hurricane football. The Hoyas and the 'Canes made the bad-boy image look good. Pop culture took notice.

The college basketball scandals of 1951 were to basketball what the 1919 Black Sox scandals were to baseball - a loss of innocence, after which the game would be permanently tarnished, its relationship to power and big money firmly established. In Scandals of '51, Charley Rosen identifies all the major figures - including players, coaches, gangsters, clergymen, politicians - that made up the elaborate network that controlled the outcomes to many games or protected those who did so.

Colby Jackson was trying to start his life over. H e spent three years in prison for one stupid mistake. Would anyone forgive him? Or would they continue to remember an eighteen-year-old who delivered a backpack of coke to an undercover agent? His chance for changing his life came when an embattled basketball coach took a chance on him to start a new college basketball program. Would the two turn the basketball program around? More importantly, would Colby be able to get out from under the thumb of his past and his family?

I've blown it. Missed the last shot of the big game. My college basketball career is over. I'm embarrassed and humiliated as we head back to the locker room, but it's about to get so much worse. And so much better. When we hit the showers, my teammates show me just what it means to be a part of the team. It's intense and dirty, and it's exactly what I need. Taken in the Team Shower is a high heat, sexy short story that features a (not so) straight jock, verbal humiliation, and hot sexual situations that are intended for a mature 18+ audience.

This bratty boy can’t ignore the charm Charles exudes. Tony and Charles have been playing eye tag for over a year at their volunteer club. Charles is a hunky center on the basketball team, and Tony is an effeminate vlogger with attitude. Charles finally musters up the courage to approach Tony at their volunteer club after a summer apart. It’s their senior year of university, and Charles doesn’t want to miss his chance to have Tony. Their true colors emerge as they get to know each other. Tony is a brat, but Charles just might be the perfect man to become Tony’s daddy and teach the ...

This book is a look at the ups and downs of coaching, what parallels there are between coaching and managing groups of people in a business setting, and why many folks think that being a coach is their "Dream Job".

Colleges provide over $12 billion in financial aid and scholarships annually. Of this, $2.7 billion is awarded each year for athletic scholarships. Only six percent of high school athletes compete for that $2.7 billion. Score College Scholarships is produced from the perspective of a college applicant, who received multiple offers and earned six scholarships. With the help of this book, student-athletes, and their parents will learn the most effective strategies to get noticed by college coaches, balance academic and athletic considerations, and choose the "best fit" school.

He's searching for redemption, but she's not interested in a second chance. Kelsey Dupont's world tilts when she comes face-to-face with her high school sweetheart, Nate Hawkins, in the last place she expected. When the principal mandates her to work with him at a basketball camp, Kelsey's resentment simmers as she recalls Nate's betrayal. Once a man consumed by selfish desires and poor choices, Nathaniel Hawkins is now determined to prove he's changed. Accepting the role of head coach at his alma mater, Nate hopes to rebuild more than just his career. He longs for redemption and a chance ...