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Word: alcindor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to be at the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball championships? Coach John Wooden and his U.C.L.A. Bruins would arrive each year carrying an empty suitcase to be used for toting home the trophy and championship banner. From 1963-64 to 1974-75, the likes of Walt Hazzard, Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton won the NCAA title ten times, including a miraculous string of seven straight championships, ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Cinderella at the Ball | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...Bruins have won the NCAA title 11 times, and names like John Wooden, Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton linger in the team's background. But inexperience (four freshmen play key roles) and the problems that 6-ft., 6-in. center Mike Sanders is going to have with Joe Barry dictate that the Bruins won't get by Purdue...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Four on the Floor | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

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