UCLA men's basketball just watched UConn's 3-peat attempt die against Florida. John Wooden's Bruins remain the only men's ...

Abdul-Jabbar, formerly Lew Alcindor, was a tremendously gifted ... "You can't compare them. John Wooden has forgotten more about the game than Pat Riley will ever get to know," Abdul-Jabbar ...

John Wooden, who played for Purdue and coached UCLA ... When the Bruins, led by Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem ...

This year, his main job is to get the ball to Alcindor, and his own scoring average has slipped to 12.5. “Mike is even more valuable as a floor leader,” says U.C.L.A. Coach John Wooden.

John Wooden seemingly did it all ... and he was always his own best example," said Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor when he led UCLA to three NCAA titles from 1967-69). "He discouraged expressing ...

Even after losing Hazzard to the NBA, the Bruins kept the ship steady and became the fifth Division I men's basketball program to win back-to-back national championships, joining Oklahoma A&M (became ...

John Wooden's UCLA teams of the 1960s and '70s ... UCLA had a massive advantage with those teams, first with Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), then with Bill Walton, two of the greatest ...

John Wooden, who played for Purdue and coached ... When the Bruins, led by Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), played Purdue in the first game at Mackey Arena, it was not the ...