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The Road to MadnessHow the 1973-1974 Season Transformed College Basketball$
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The Road to Madness: How the 1973-1974 Season Transformed College Basketball

J. Samuel Walker and Randy Roberts

Print publication date: 2016

Print ISBN-13: 9781469630236

Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: May 2017

DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630236.001.0001

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Creating March Madness—Inadvertently

Creating March Madness—Inadvertently

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(p.141) Chapter Eight Creating March Madness—Inadvertently
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The Road to Madness
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J. Samuel Walker

Randy Roberts

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University of North Carolina Press
DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630236.003.0009

The 1974 NCAA Tournament demonstrated much of what was right—and wrong—with college basketball. It showcased great coaching and extraordinary athletic talent, close games and nail-biting excitement. But the twenty-five team format and the one team per conference rule excluded great programs from the “Big Dance.” The 1973-1974 season proved that Tom Scott’s call to reform the tournament was correct. In the next few years the size of the tournament would increase and more than one team from a conference would be eligible.

Keywords:   March Madness, NCAA Tournament, Scott

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