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Today’s question: A new era dawned at UCLA basketball in 1967 with the arrival of Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). He dominated college basketball like nobody before him and the Bruins ...
“That’s crazy,’’ she said. Like Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor during his time at UCLA) and Walton before her, the 6-foot-7 Betts was a force for UCLA near the basket Sunday night at Pauley ...
It was first given in 1969 to UCLA's Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). The trophy was designed and sculpted by Atlanta artist Marty C. Dawe. The Naismith Trophy has since expanded to honor ...
On Jan. 20, 1968, the country’s top-ranked teams met inside the Astrodome in a game that would transform college basketball ...