Best Game Ever How Frank Mcguire's '57 Tar Heels Beat Wilt And Revolutionized College Basketball

by Lucas, Adam; Williams, Roy

• ISBN13: 9781592289820
• ISBN10: 1592289827
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

The Best Game Ever is a revealing look at the University of North Carolina Tar Heels' 1956-57 season, one of the most storied in college basketball history. From the first day of practice, when forward Lennie Rosenbluth predicted a winning season, to the final game, a 32-0 triple-overtime victory over Wilt Chamberlain's legendary Kansas team, the season was later acknowledged to have been the start of college basketball hysteria not only on Tobacco Road, but nationwide. The only previous team in Carolina history to achieve perfection was the 1924 team, years before the NCAA Tournament was created.

Author Biography

Author Adam Lucas is the publisher of Tar Heel Monthly, the nation’s most widely read magazine devoted to University of North Carolina athletics. He is a past winner of the North Carolina Sports Columnist of the Year Award, and the featured columnist on TarHeelBlue.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Roy Williams
Acknowledgments	xi
Prologue	xvii
A Basketball Coach for a Football School	1	(10)
Underground Railroad	11	(16)
Tobacco Road Tradition	27	(12)
Being Rip Kaplinsky	39	(20)
The Journey Begins	59	(14)
A Christmas Ritual	73	(6)
Inside the Smoking Car	79	(10)
``Carolina Is About to Get Beat!''	89	(20)
Road Tested	109	(8)
The Foul That Saved a Season	117	(8)
Cops, Robbers, and the Garden	125	(6)
Thirty and One	131	(10)
``The Dream College Game of Our Time''	141	(18)
The Epic Conclusion	159	(20)
The Homecoming	179	(14)
The Aftermath	193	(8)
Epilogue	201	(2)
1956--57 North Carolina Tar Heels Final Roster	203	(2)
1956--57 North Carolina Tar Heels Results	205