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phreakzilla85 t1_j96l2if wrote

That’s quite the slope for UCLA

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patienceisfun2018 t1_j96mqb2 wrote

They won 10 championships in 12 years, a pantheon dynasty.

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BarneyBeard2 t1_j990rdf wrote

w/Bill Russel for a few years

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BibliosaurusLex t1_j998vf1 wrote

Russell played for the University of San Francisco. You might be thinking of Bill Walton or Lew Alcindor.

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Frequent-Block773 t1_j9d7wja wrote

You’re right, sorry.

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BibliosaurusLex t1_j9dnx22 wrote

No worries! Let's face it, Russell took USF to back-to-back championships. That's a heck of an achievement on its own.

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MR___SLAVE t1_j96ogm0 wrote

The Wooden Era

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michael_bgood t1_j990xjb wrote

Amazing visual of what a single, exceptional human can influence

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gordo65 t1_j99hb1h wrote

Wooden invented the fast break and the full court zone press. He was the first college coach to recognize that a well conditioned team could win by keeping up the game tempo and exhausting the other team. Also the first to recognize that building strength and endurance in the gym was as important as working on skills.

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BoilsofWar t1_j9prhxd wrote

If only he had taught Purdue the press and how to break it when he played there, we'd be perennial contenders....

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gordo65 t1_j99gwgu wrote

So named because the coach gave the program such a big woody.

Seriously, though, when Wooden first arrived at UCLA, basketball wasn’t even a varsity sport. His first challenge was convincing the athletic department to take it on as a varsity sport, with full scholarships for all team members.

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jamkoch t1_j96rh7x wrote

That is because they attended the NCAA tourney instead of the NIT during this era.

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