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Players of men's basketball at Guilford College. Pages in category "Guilford Quakers men's basketball players" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
After building a nationally competitive team in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Guilford finally cracked through to win its first national championship in 1972–73. Under the direction of third-year head coach Jack Jensen, the unseeded Quakers (29-5) completed an improbable run through the NAIA Tournament field with a 99–96 win over eighth ...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been the most successful college in the NCAA Tournament, winning 11 national titles. Ten of those championships came during a 12-year stretch from 1964 to 1975. UCLA also holds the record for the most consecutive championships, winning seven in a row from 1967 to 1973.
Guilford College is the only Quaker-founded college in the southeastern United States and the first co-ed college in the South. [8] Opening in 1837 as New Garden Boarding School, the institution became a four-year liberal arts college under its current name, Guilford College, in 1888. [9]
The Early College at Guilford has about one-fourth of its students each year named as semi-finalists for the National Merit Scholarship. Scholarships and awards received by the Class of 2023 totaled more than $12,000,000 [ 22 ] and in 2022 totaled nearly $8,000,000.
North Carolina has one of the most prestigious college basketball programs, with their first official national championship coming in 1957. The 1924 team is thus one of the school's first great teams, when the nationally prominent athletic schools were in the northeast or midwest rather than the south. [2]
Jerry Steele (March 10, 1939 – July 11, 2021) was an American basketball player and coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina from 1962 to 1970 and High Point University in High Point, North Carolina from 1972 to 2003, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 609–486.
The All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) men's basketball team is an annual Atlantic Coast Conference honor bestowed on the best players in the conference following every college basketball season. The selections started in the ACC inaugural season in 1953–54. At the end of the season, ten players were nominated in two teams (first and second ...