St. Johns defeated Bradley at Madison Square Garden, New York, 1951. See photos from the golden era of college hoops, featuring all-time greats by clicking below. ⬇️ (📷 Gjon Mili/LIFE Picture Collection) LIFEMagazine GjonMili CollegeBasketball
Pete Maravich fired off a fade-away jumper against Alabama in 1969.View Gallery
In the eight-team 1958 Dixie Classic, the Michigan State Spartans made it all the way to the final before falling to host North Carolina State ..These days college basketball careers go by in a flash—no sooner does a player make an impression on fans than he has left school to play professionallyt used to be different. Athletes stayed in college for four years. Fans could see stars mature and develop before they moved on to the NBA.
Here, LIFE.com presents a gallery of photographs from a golden era of college hoops, featuring all-time greats as well as other players who made brief splashes in their time and then like so many athletes, quietly faded from the public’s view., a terrific 6′ 3″ forward in the late 1940s who scored close to 2,000 points and graduated as the fourth highest-scorer in college history. Lavelli was selected as the Boston Celtics’ first pick in the 1949 draft.
Lavelli played two years of pro ball, but ultimately returned to his first love, going on to a long career as a performer and songwriter.Art Rickerby The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockBurke Scott was a starter on Indiana’s 1953 NCAA championship team.Seven-foot, two-inch Lew Alcindor left his native New York for UCLA, where he helped the Bruins win a record 88 games in a row and three national titles.The Long Island University Blackbirds practiced in 1940.
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