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...
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...
Still, his impact on the game was massive. 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 ...
NCAA titles, some team was bound to take the plunge. So the Celtics traded centreEd Macauleyand the rights to guard-forwardCliff Hagan, who hadyetto play in the NBA owing to hismilitary service, to theSt. Louis Hawksshortly after the Hawks used the second overall pick of the draft to ...
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 better chance you coach in the second game as you si...
In college, he was a member of the University of Michigan Wolverines' "Fab Five" (along with Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson) that reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as both freshmen and sophomores. Rose played in the ...
In the ’73 title game, Walton took 22 shots and missed only one, scoring a championship contest-record 44 points. The team at one point won 88 straight games, a men’s record that still stands. In each of his three varsity seasons, Walton was the national college player of the year...