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The 1973–74 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team would be Bill Walton's final year with the school. During the season, the Bruins' 88 game winning streak would end. The defeat was a 71–70 loss to the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Prior to joining the varsity team, Walton (18.1 ppg, 68.6% field goal accuracy), along with Greg Lee (17.9 ppg) and Keith Wilkes (20.0 ppg), was a member of the 20–0 1970–71 UCLA freshman team. The varsity UCLA team, led by seniors Sidney Wicks , Curtis Rowe , and Steve Patterson defeated Villanova in the 1971 NCAA Championship Game for ...
The 1972–73 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team went undefeated again at 30–0 and claimed a seventh consecutive national championship. [2] [3] [4] [5]In the title game of the NCAA tournament at St. Louis, junior center Bill Walton scored 44 points (21 of 22 field goal attempts) with thirteen rebounds as the top-ranked Bruins defeated #12 Memphis State, 87–66.
He led the UCLA team to back-to-back NCAA titles in 1972 and 1973. Walton began his NBA career with the Portland Trail Blazers after being selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 1974 NBA draft.
The Buckeyes were one of 22 teams to lose to UCLA in the 1971-72 season. Here's how Bill Walton did against Ohio State. Bill Walton and UCLA faced Ohio State men's basketball once.
From calling John Wooden twice a week to pretending to be NBA players on voice messages left for his son, Bill Walton was an eternally kind and quirky soul. Plaschke: Bill Walton's kindness and ...
The 1971–72 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won the National Collegiate Championship on March 25, 1972, in the Los Angeles Sports Arena with an 81–76 victory over Florida State. [2] It was the sixth consecutive championship (and eighth in nine years) under John Wooden, in his 25th year as head coach at UCLA. This was the final year that ...
UCLA went wire-to-wire at No. 1 in consecutive seasons as part of a record streak of 46 straight weeks on top of the AP Top 25 poll. The Bruins also were ranked 221 straight weeks, a record streak ...