Wildcat Madness: Great Eras in Kentucky Basketball

by Wilton Sharpe

Overview

The story of the Universityof Kentucky's basketball teams, told by the players, coaches, opponents, fans, and media, weaves a tapestry of heroes and characters, headlines, saluting great players, teams, traditions and moments, as well as rosters from all seven NCAA championship squads.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581824735
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Series:	Golden Ages of College Sports
Pages:	253
Sales rank:	1,047,722
Product dimensions:	5.16(w) x 8.36(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

WILTON SHARPE is a freelance writer and former copy editor for the (Nashville) Tennessean sports department. His articles have appeared in Athlon Sports publications, NFL Insider and GAMEDAY magazines, Athletic Administration, the Cleveland Browns yearbooks, Coffee Corner, Titans Exclusive, and NFL.com. A former columnist for the Nashville City Paper, the one-time Connecticut native currently syndicates a weekly sports content package to community newspapers. He has written two previous books, Bulldog Madness and Buckeye Madness.

Editorial Reviews

"They had it before you; they had it during you; they'll have it when you're gone." Al McGuire's impromptu words on University of Kentucky basketball tradition might stand as the epigraph of this oral history of the school's greatest teams. Wilton Sharpe's Wildcat Madness covers the Fab Five back-to-back championship teams of 1948 and 1949 and other proud Big Blue combos. The book also contains an all-time Kentucky team, plus complete rosters from all seven NCAA championships squads.