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1972–73 NCAA University Division Men's Basketball Rankings
The 1972–73 NCAA University Division men's basketball rankings was made up of two human polls, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various other preseason polls. Legend AP Poll Coaches Poll References {{DEFAULTSORT:1972-73 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings *Rankings College men's basketball rankings in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972–73 UCLA Bruins Men's Basketball Team
The 1972–73 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team went undefeated again at and claimed a seventh consecutive national championship.UCLA media guide In the title game of the NCAA tournament at St. Louis, junior center Bill Walton scored 44 points (21 of 22 field goal attempts) with thirteen rebounds as the top-ranked Bruins defeated #12 Memphis State, Some regard this as the greatest ever offensive performance in American college basketball. Tied at 39 at halftime, the Bruins dominated the second half and outscored the Tigers, UCLA set a new NCAA record of 75 consecutive wins and a three-season composite record of . Roster Starting lineup : Schedule , - !colspan=9 style=, , - !colspan=12 style="background:#;", Notes * The 1972 team was ranked No. 1 by both AP and UPI pre-season polls * Walton set a school record with 506 rebounds * Larry Farmer and Larry Hollyfield became the only players to have the best winning record over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Coast Athletic Association
The Big West Conference (BWC) is an American collegiate athletic conference whose member institutions participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The conference was originally formed on July 1, 1969, as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA), and in 1988 was renamed the Big West Conference. The conference stopped sponsoring college football after the 2000 season. Among the conference's 11 member institutions, 10 are located in California (with 9 located in Southern California alone) and one is located in Hawaii. All of the schools are public universities, with the California schools evenly split between the California State University and the University of California systems. In addition, one affiliate member plays two sports in the BWC not sponsored by its home conference. History Pacific Coast Athletic Association The Big West Conference was formed in June 1968 as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The five original charter membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sky Conference
The Big Sky Conference (BSC) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I with football competing in the Football Championship Subdivision. Member institutions are located in the western United States in the eight states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Four affiliate members each participate in one sport: two from California are football–only participants and two from the Northeast participate only in men's golf. History Initially conceived for the Big Sky was founded on July 1, 1963, with six members in four of the charter members have been in the league from its founding, and a fifth returned in 2014 after an 18-year absence. The name "Big Sky" came from the popular 1947 western novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr.; it was proposed by Harry Missildine, a sports columnist of the '' Spokesman-Review'' just prior to the founding meetings of the conference in Spokane in February 1963, and was adopted w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972–73 Weber State Wildcats Men's Basketball Team
The 1972–73 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team represented Weber State College during the 1972–73 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Wildcats were led by second-year head coach Gene Visscher and played their home games on campus at Wildcat Gym in Ogden, Utah. They were in the regular season and in conference play. The conference tournament was three years away, and for the sixth consecutive season, Weber State won the Big Sky title and played in the 25-team NCAA tournament. In the West regional at nearby Logan, they met Jerry Tarkanian's fourth-ranked Long Beach State 49ers in the first round for the third time in the four years. The Wildcats led by two points at the half, but lost by a dozen. Weber's next NCAA appearance was five years later in 1978. Senior center Rich Cooper and senior guard Brady Small were named to the all-conference team; junior guard Dan Dion and senior forward Ken Gubler were on the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972–73 Washington Huskies Men's Basketball Team
The 1972–73 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1972–73 NCAA college basketball season. Led by second-year head coach Marv Harshman, the Huskies were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington. The Huskies were overall in the regular season and in conference play, tied for fifth in the standings. References External linksSports Reference– Washington Huskies: 1972–73 basketball season {{DEFAULTSORT:1972-73 Washington Huskies men's basketball team Washington Huskies men's basketball seasons Washington Huskies Washington Washington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972–73 Marshall Thundering Herd Men's Basketball Team
The 1972–73 Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team represented Marshall University during the 1972–73 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The Thundering Herd, led by first-year head coach Bob Daniels, played their home games at the Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse The Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse was an 8,500-seat (6,500 for basketball) multi-purpose arena in Huntington, West Virginia. It was built in 1950. Prior to the completion of the Huntington Civic Center (now known as Mountain Health Arena) in 1976 ... as an independent. They finished the season 20–7 and received a bid to the NIT where they lost to Fairfield in the First Round. Roster Schedule and results , - !colspan=8, Regular Season , - , - !colspan=8, NIT References {{DEFAULTSORT:1972-73 Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball seasons Marshall Marshall Marshall Thundering Herd bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Coast Athletic Conference
The West Coast Conference (WCC) — known as the California Basketball Association from 1952 to 1956 and then as the West Coast Athletic Conference until 1989 — is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I consisting of ten member schools across the states of California, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. All of the current members are private, faith-based institutions. Seven members are Catholic Church affiliates, with four of these schools being Jesuit institutions. Pepperdine is an affiliate of the Churches of Christ. Brigham Young University is an affiliate of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The conference's newest member, the University of the Pacific (United States), University of the Pacific (which rejoined in 2013 after a 42-year absence), is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, although it has been financially independent of the church since 1969. History The league was chartered by five northern California institutions, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio Valley Conference
The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern and Southeastern United States, Southeastern United States. It participates in NCAA Division I, Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA; the conference's College football, football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS; formerly known as Division I-AA), the lower of two levels of Division I football competition. The OVC has 10 members, six of which compete in football in the conference. History ''Primary source:'' The Ohio Valley Conference can trace its roots to 1941 when Murray State Racers, Murray State athletic director Roy Stewart, Eastern Kentucky Colonels, Eastern Kentucky athletic director Charles "Turkey" Hughes, and Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, Western Kentucky public relations director Kelly Thompson first formulated the idea of establishing a regional athletics conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term ''Ivy League'' is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools as a group of elite colleges with connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. Its members are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. While the term was in use as early as 1933, it became official only after the formation of the athletic conference in 1954. All of the "Ivies" except Cornell were founded during the colonial period; they thus account for seven of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The other two colonial colleges, Rutgers University and the College of William & Mary, became public institutions. Ivy League schools are v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ten states, three additional public land-grant universities, and one private research university. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I in sports competitions; for football it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A. Members of the SEC have won many national championships: 43 in football, 21 in basketball, 41 in indoor track, 42 in outdoor track, 24 in swimming, 20 in gymnastics, 13 in baseball (College World Series), and one in volleyball. In 1992, the SEC was the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a championship game (and award a subsequent title) for football and was one of the foundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big 8 Conference
The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and Washington University in St. Louis. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an original member of the MVIAA, while maintaining joint membership in the Western Conference (now the Big Ten Conference). The conference was dissolved in 1996. Its membership at its dissolution consisted of the University of Nebraska, Iowa State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, the University of Missouri, the University of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State University. The Big Eight’s headquarters were located in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1994, the Big Eight and the Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southland Conference
The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Southland sponsors 18 sports, 10 for women and eight for men, and is governed by a presidential Board of Directors and an Advisory Council of athletic and academic administrators. Chris Grant became the Southland's seventh commissioner on April 5, 2022. From 1996 to 2002, for football only, the Southland Conference was known as the Southland Football League. The conference's offices are located in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas. According to a press release from April 11, 2022, the conference will undergo a rebrand in 2022 that includes a new name and logo. History Chronological timeline Founded in 1963, its members were Abilene Christian College (now Abil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
