March 1939 : Before the Madness—The Story of the First NCAA Basketball Tournament Champions (Paperback)

from lindapanzo

March Madness and all the hoopla surrounding the annual national college basketball championship tournament had to start somewhere and this book beautifully chronicles the early days of the tournament, focusing on the the first national championship tournament winner, the Oregon Webfoots, who won...

from thornton37814

This is the story of the road to the first NCAA tournament. The author who has a connection with the Oregon Ducks (who were called the Webfoots back then) did tend to focus on their story more than on the story of the other teams that advanced in this first tournament, but it was still a very int...

from chillybee

I received this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers. My interest in it was twofold--I am a longtime fan of college basketball and I now live in Oregon. The book is a fascinating account of how the NCAA Tournament came into being. It was not dreamed up by focus groups or hard-nosed marketing...

from yankeesfan1

I liked this book, but it was not my favorite. I felt like the subject could have been presented in a more compelling manner and it just didn't pull me in the way I thought it would. I did enjoy the brief interweaving of WWII lead-up and more of that might have added an extra layer of interest to...

from mattralph

I have a love hate relationship with March Madness. I love it because I love college basketball and as a diehard Kansas Jayhawk fan have had a dog in the fight every season for the past 25 years. I hate it in the same way heavy drinkers hate New Year's Eve or hipsters hate when their favorite ban...