including two 20-point, 20-rebound games in the 1972 NCAA tournament. As we mentioned earlier, Walton had 33 points and 21 rebounds against Louisville in the national semifinal, then he had 24 and 20 against Florida State in the national championship game. ...
Walton enrolled at UCLA in 1970. He played center for John Wooden’s Varsity team for three seasons (1972-1974), after an undefeated year with the freshman team in 1971. He was a member of two undefeated NCAA championship teams compiling an NCAA record 88 consecutive game winning streak. B...
collegiate career was the key role he played in UCLA’s NCAA-record 88-game winning streak, as he led the team to the final 73 victories of that run during his first two and a half years at the school. Walton was named the NCAA player of the year in three consecutive seasons (1972...
BOSTON -- Tributes for Bill Walton began shortly after news broke Monday that NBA Hall of Famerhad died at the age of 71. Walton, who won a pair of NCAA Championships at UCLA and two NBA titles during his pro career, is being remembered as a game-changing player and a fun spirit wh...
One of the greatest college basketball players in history, Bill Walton won two NCAA championships at UCLA before being selected by the Portland Trailblazers with...
Bill Walton’s career began in college basketball at UCLA, where he played under coach John Wooden. He led UCLA to two NCAA championships and had one of the greatest performances in college basketball history. In the 1973 national championship game,Walton made 21 of 22 shots, scoring 44 point...
His most famous game was the 1973 NCAA title game, UCLA against Memphis, in which he shot an incredible 21 for 22 from the field and led the Bruins to another national championship. Advertisement “One of my guards said, ‘Let’s try something else,” Wooden told The Associated Press in...
1992: Duke and Coach K go back-to-back in NCAA tournament The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team owned the early '90s, when, after winning the program's first NCAA championship in 1991, took home the title the following season. Led by Grant Hill (#33) and Christian Laettner, Duke...
’ And there was actually talk of me coaching in the first-round game (of the NCAA Tournament), but the doctor said, ‘If you coach in the first round game, there’s a good chance you won’t coach the second game.’ So, they told me that there was a bet...
Walton was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. From playing to broadcasting Despite growing up with a stutter, Walton went on to a successful broadcasting career as a sometimes outlandish commentator for both NBA and NCAA basketball games, most recently working ...