Jerry West and Oscar Robertson. Both were already legends in college basketball, with Robertson coming off an illustrious career at the University of Cincinnati, where he averaged an otherworldly 33.8 ...

Sixty-five years and a week ago, on April 11, 1960, was a date celebrated in both college basketball and the NBA as the NCAA ...

A three-time All-America at Tennessee State where he led his teams to three consecutive NAIA national championships, Barnett, ...

West Virginia 70 (1959 finals) To win their lone national title, Hall of Fame coach Pete Newell and his Golden Bears had to take down Oscar Robertson and Cincinnati in the semifinals, then Jerry ...

The 1980’s, as Bilas well knows, were loaded with Hall of Fame big men. He personally played against David Robinson and Brad ...

Jerry West vs. Oscar Robertson seemed certain to play out in the NCAA finals, but Robertson never got there and, in 1960, West led the Mountaineers there but came up a point short in the final against ...

1990: A clerk at Ball-Mart in Itasca, which was owned by Joe Irmen, mistakenly sold a $1,200 Nolan Ryan rookie card to ...

was a date celebrated in both college basketball and in the NBA as the NCAA passed a large part of its history on to the professional league as Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson and West Virginia's ...