Books, Sports, Basketball, College & University

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Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips
Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
by Business Plus (Paperback)

Bo Ryan, Mike Lucas
Bo Ryan: Another Hill to Climb
by KCI Sports Publishing (Hardcover)

Bo knows hoops. As a member of the exclusive 500-win club, University of Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan has the second highest winning percentage among active coaches (with at least 500 victories) in college basketball, second only to North Carolina's Roy Williams. Ryan's formula for success can be traced back to UW-Platteville, where he won four national championships during a memorable 15-year run punctuated by two undefeated seasons. But there was still another hill to climb for Ryan, the all-time winningest coach in Division III history. After a short layover at UW-Milwaukee, where he coached the Panthers to their first back-to-back winning seasons in eight years, Ryan welcomed the challenge of proving himself all over again at the Big Ten level. And it didn't take long for Ryan to make his mark with the University of Wisconsin basketball program. In his first season, he guided the Badgers to their first share of the conference title in 55 years. Since then, Ryan has raised the ...

Debbie Jennings
Tennessee Lady Vols Basketball Vault
by Whitman Publishing (Hardcover)

John Wooden
They Call Me Coach
by McGraw-Hill (Paperback)

The critically acclaimed, classic autobiography of UCLA basketball's legendary coach "What Knute Rockne was to football, Connie Mack to baseball, and Wilbur and Orville Wright to flying, John Wooden is to basketball." --Los Angeles Times "They Call Me Coach is grassroots Americana, a story bigger than basketball. One of those rare sports books that is must reading for everyone." --Chicago Tribune Now featuring a great new look and a Foreword by hoop Hall of Famer Bill Walton, this classic bestselling sports bio by America's "winningest coach" is back. Still charming fans everywhere, college basketball legend John Wooden reflects on his record-breaking career, his inspired life behind the scenes, and how his top players went on to shape and change the NBA. With worldly wisdom, Wooden offers a very personal history of an unforgettable time in college basketball, answering the most-asked questions about his life, his career, and the players who made his team unbeatable.

Pat Conroy
My Losing Season
by The Dial Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-08-26)

PAT CONROY—AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER—IS BACK!“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to express himself in public....I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud while passing through the silent eye of the storm that was my childhood.” So begins Pat Conroy’s journey back to 1967 and his startling realization “that this season had been seminal and easily the most consequential of my life.” The place is the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, that now famous military college, and in memory Conroy gathers around him his team to relive their few ...

Ken Pomeroy, John Gasaway
College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009: The Essential Guide to the Men's College Basketball Season (College Basketball Prospectus: The Essential Guide to the)
by Plume (Paperback)

In the winning tradition of the New York Times bestselling Baseball Prospectus, the ultimate guide to college basketball. From the brand that brought sports fans the New York Times bestselling Baseball Prospectus comes an all-new, one-of-akind, authoritative guide to college basketball. Utilizing the same unique prediction model, College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009 applies objective knowledge, original hardhitting statistical analysis, and provocative writing to one of America’s most popular sports. Divided into three sections, the prospectus includes essays on various aspects of the college game and the past season, previews of all thirty-one Division-I conferences, and a statistical abstract with the same cutting-edge mathematical analysis that has yielded a winning record of accurate predictions for the Baseball and Pro Football Prospectus series. For the 60 million Americans who are diehard college basketball fans, College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009 is a slam dunk.

Will Blythe
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry
by Harper Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-01-09)

A thoroughly obsessive, intermittently uplifting, and occasionally unbiased account of the Duke–North Carolina basketball rivalry

Debby Schriver
In the Footsteps of Champions: The University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers, the First Three Decades
by Univ Tennessee Press (Hardcover)

Pat Summitt
Raise the Roof
by Broadway (Paperback) (Release Date: 1999-10-05)

Alan Ross
Second to None: The National Championship Teams of the Tennessee Lady Vols
by Cumberland House Publishing (Paperback)

There is no other current record like it in men's or women's college basketball: eight national championships. That is the record of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols, coached by the legendary Pat Summmitt -- the winningest coach in NCAA history. Second to None presents an intimate portrait of those championship seasons, as well as each of the national championship teams that have helped cut down the nets for the champion Lady Vols.

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