That's the school led by perhaps the two greatest college players ever — Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Bill Walton. The school with the most Final Four appearances in a ...

Their great teams of 1966–67 and ’67–68, powered by future Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes, ran into the only superior team and superior big man: Lew Alcindor and the UCLA Bruins. Houston was a ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The freshman phenom Cooper Flagg had a record-breaking year. In 2025, Flagg was named the Naismith Men's College Player of the Year after a stellar season with the Blue Devils that ...

Each year, the Naismith Men's College Player of the Year award is given to the nation's best men's college basketball player. The recipient of the Naismith Trophy is determined by a board that ...

The differential this season is one of the largest in history, on par with Lew Alcindor's Milwaukee Bucks and Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls. Both teams went on to win the title, clearly a good ...

NILES, Ohio – Long before she stood at the podium Thursday as keynote speaker for the 2025 Unmute the Uncomfortable symposium, NBC correspondent Yamiche Alcindor found a more personal connection to ...

UCLA's best player was Lew Alcindor, and Hayes was so talented that he stole player of the year awards away from the player eventually known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Hayes put up video game numbers ...

Only Lew Alcindor – later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – was drafted before him. Alcindor is known as arguably the best college basketball player of all time. No Florida player has been ...

Houston had the misfortune of running into the UCLA juggernaut led by Lew Alcindor, later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The Cougars lost to the Bruins in the national semifinals. They did, at least, beat North ...

In 1965, before he was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, an 18-year-old Lew Alcindor arrived at UCLA alongside Lucius Allen, Lynn Shackelford and Kenny Heitz, as ballyhooed a freshman class as the college ...