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"Winning a national title... winning it at Kentucky? There's
nothing like it. You're always going to be remembered." -- Truman
Claytor, member of UK's 1977--1978 NCAA National Championship team
Joe B. Hall, Jack "Goose" Givens, Rick Robey, and Kyle Macy --
these names occupy a place of honor in Rupp Arena, home of the
"greatest tradition in the history of college basketball." The team
and coaches who led the University of Kentucky Wildcats to their
94--88 victory over the Duke Blue Devils in the 1978 national
championship game are legendary. Yet the full, behind-the-scenes
story of this team's incredible redemptive season has remained
untold until now. In Forty Minutes to Glory, Doug Brunk presents an
inside account of this celebrated squad and their championship
season from summer pick-up games to the net-cutting ceremony in St.
Louis. Brunk interviewed every surviving player, coach, and student
manager from the 1977--1978 team and he shares unbelievable tales,
such as how James Lee's father talked him out of quitting. Brunk
also reveals heart-wrenching moments, recounting the time when Jay
Shidler traveled 150 miles to visit his seriously ill mother on the
eve of the national semifinals game against Arkansas and how Scott
Courts coped with his father's death just days before the
championship game against Duke. Published to coincide with the
fortieth anniversary of the national championship victory, Forty
Minutes to Glory invites the Big Blue Nation to relive a special
season. Featuring chapters by Jack Givens and Coach Hall, this
engaging book is a fitting tribute to one of the most talented and
determined teams ever to compete on the hardwood.
Until I was nine or ten, everyone called me Joe or Joe Hall. Then
one day, my grandmother, for reasons known only to her, pulled me
aside, telling me my name was "too short and too plain." She said,
"Let's add your middle initial to make it more interesting. From
now on, you say your name is Joe B., not just Joe. It's Joe B.
Hall." Joe B. Hall is one of only three men to both play on an NCAA
championship team (1949, Kentucky) and coach an NCAA championship
team (1978, Kentucky), and the only one to do so for the same
school. In this riveting memoir, Hall presents intimate details
about his remarkable life on and off the court. He reveals
never-before-heard stories about memorable players, coaches, and
friends and expresses the joys and fulfillments of his rewarding
life and career. During his thirteen years as head coach at the
University of Kentucky, from 1972 to 1985, Joe B. Hall led the team
to 297 victories. The most memorable of these is the 1978 NCAA
Men's Division Basketball Championship. This legendary coach
followed in the colossal footsteps of Adolph Rupp to chart his own
path to success and become one of college basketball's all-time
greats and winningest coaches.
Until I was nine or ten, everyone called me Joe or Joe Hall. Then
one day, my grandmother, for reasons known only to her, pulled me
aside, telling me my name was "too short and too plain." She said,
"Let's add your middle initial to make it more interesting. From
now on, you say your name is Joe B., not just Joe. It's Joe B.
Hall." Joe B. Hall is one of only three men to both play on an NCAA
championship team (1949, Kentucky) and coach an NCAA championship
team (1978, Kentucky), and the only one to do so for the same
school. In this riveting memoir, Hall presents intimate details
about his remarkable life on and off the court. He reveals
never-before-heard stories about memorable players, coaches, and
friends and expresses the joys and fulfillments of his rewarding
life and career. During his thirteen years as head coach at the
University of Kentucky, from 1972 to 1985, Joe B. Hall led the team
to 297 victories. The most memorable of these is the 1978 NCAA
Men's Division Basketball Championship. This legendary coach
followed in the colossal footsteps of Adolph Rupp to chart his own
path to success and become one of college basketball's all-time
greats and winningest coaches.
In 1952, just one year after Coach Adolph Rupp's University of
Kentucky Wildcats won their third national championship in four
years, an unlikely high school basketball team from rural Graves
County, Kentucky, stole the spotlight and the media's attention.
Inspired by young coach Jack Story and by the Harlem Globetrotters,
the Cuba Cubs grabbed headlines when they rose from relative
obscurity to defeat the big-city favorite and win the state
championship. A classic underdog tale, The Graves County Boys
chronicles how five boys from a tiny high school in southwestern
Kentucky captured the hearts of basketball fans nationwide.
Marianne Walker weaves together details about the players, their
coach, and their relationships in a page-turning account of triumph
over adversity. This inspiring David and Goliath story takes the
reader on a journey from the team's heartbreaking defeat in the
1951 state championship to their triumphant victory over Louisville
Manual the next year. More than just a basketball narrative, the
book explores a period in American life when indoor plumbing and
electricity were still luxuries in some areas of the country and
when hardship was a way of life. With no funded school programs or
bus system, the Cubs's success was a testament to the sacrifices of
family and neighbors who believed in their team. Featuring new
photographs, a foreword by University of Kentucky coach Joe B.
Hall, and a new epilogue detailing where the players are now, The
Graves County Boys is an unforgettable story of how a community
pulled together to make a dream come true.
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