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[...]... 10:50:20 PS PAGE xi 11442$ CNTS 08-26-05 10:50:20 PS PAGE xii Photographs Butch Lee 22 Desmond Cambridge 48 Wilt Chamberlain 76 Trenton Hassell 137 James Fitzgerald with Bob Lanier 146 The Savoy Big Five 165 Al McGuire 192 Curley ‘‘Boo’’ Johnson 203 David Thompson 228 James ‘‘Fly’’ Williams 246 xiii 11442$ PHOT 08-26-05 10:50:25 PS PAGE xiii 11442$ PHOT 08-26-05 10:50:25 PS PAGE xiv Acknowledgments... hitting 21 out of 22 shots Walton grabbed 13 rebounds in the title game en route to earning Most Outstanding Player (MOP) honors Many consider Walton’s title–game performance as the greatest single game effort by a college basketball player 1 11442$ $CH1 08-26-05 10:50:44 PS PAGE 1 2 Basketball’s Most WantedTM II 2 PERVIS ELLISON The 1986 title game featured the high-flying Louisville Cardinals against... including five three-pointers During the six games he scored a record 184 points The record still stands as the most points by an individual in a single NCAA tournament 6 LEW ALCINDOR Lew Alcindor may have been the most dominant force in the history of college basketball He was college basketball’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) all three years of his college career (freshman were not eligible in Alcindor’s... and 1946 due to their towering 6Ј 10Љ center, Bob ‘‘Foothills’’ Kurland He was the MVP in both tournaments In the final game of the 1945 title 11442$ $CH1 08-26-05 10:50:45 PS PAGE 3 4 Basketball’s Most WantedTM II game, Kurland scored 22 of his team’s 49 points The next year, Kurland scored 23 of his team’s 43 points to lead them to a 43–40 win over North Carolina 8 ALEX GROZA In 1949 Alex Groza,... of the 1961–62 season, the mighty Boston Celtics faced off against their newest rivals, the Los Angeles Lakers The growing Celtic dynasty met a 11442$ $CH2 08-26-05 10:50:48 PS PAGE 7 8 Basketball’s Most WantedTM II stiff challenge from a talented Laker team that featured ‘‘Mr Inside’’ Elgin Baylor and ‘‘Mr Outside’’ Jerry West In Game 5 in the finals Baylor scorched the Celtics for an NBA Finals–record... Buccaneers In Game 7, Hawkins scored 20 points, grabbed 16 rebounds, and dished out 9 assists It was a fitting end to an MVP season Hawkins played 11442$ $CH2 08-26-05 10:50:50 PS PAGE 9 10 Basketball’s Most WantedTM II one more year in the ABA before moving to the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, effectively lifting its ban on Hawkins 10 ZELMO BEATY 1971 Zelmo Beaty was a star center in the NBA for several years... Blue Raiders, a ࠻11 seed, shocked a powerful Kentucky team led by future NBA players Dirk Minniefield and Melvin Turpin Jerry Beck, the Ohio 11 11442$ $CH3 08-26-05 10:50:50 PS PAGE 11 12 Basketball’s Most WantedTM II Valley Conference (OVC) Player of the Year, led the Blue Raiders to an unbelievable 50–44 upset Beck and freshman guard Edward ‘‘Pancakes’’ Perry played all forty minutes of the game The... minutes to play; however, the Bruins would not score again With seconds remaining, Princeton sophomore center Steve Goodrich fed freshman forward 11442$ $CH3 08-26-05 10:50:52 PS PAGE 13 14 Basketball’s Most WantedTM II Gabe Lewullis on a backdoor layup to win the game 43–41 6 COPPIN STATE OVER SOUTH CAROLINA 1997 Only four times in NCAA history has a ࠻15 seed defeated a ࠻2 seed In three of those games... points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists in the title game against Kansas, and was only the third freshman ever named the MOP of an NCAA Final Four 11442$ $CH4 08-26-05 10:50:52 PS PAGE 17 18 Basketball’s Most WantedTM II 4 JASON KIDD In 1993, point guard prodigy Jason Kidd led the University of California Bearcats to the NCAA tournament Kidd earned Pacific-10 (PAC-10) Freshman of the Year honors with 13... and Maryland by 3 points in its first three tournament games Most believed that Villanova’s only chance of winning the title was to play a perfect game The ࠻8–seed Wildcats played a nearperfect game, missing only six field goal attempts the entire game Villanova won 66–64 3 NORTH CAROLINA STATE OVER HOUSTON 1983 The Houston Cougars were the most talented team in the country in 1983 The team—nicknamed . Basketball—Miscellanea. I. Title: Basketball’s most wanted 2. II. Title: Basketball’s most wanted two. III. Title. IV. Series. GV885.H79 2005 796.357—dc22 2005007482 Printed. First Ten Amendments of the Constitution PAGE ii 11442$ $$FM 08-26-05 10:50:15 PS Basketball’s Most Wanted TM II The Top 10 Book of More Hotshot Hoopsters,