Editorial Review

When it comes to middle-grade series books on collegiate basketball teams, certain topics are expected: a history of the team highlighting its best years, profiles of its outstanding players and coaches, color photos of players during games, and introductions to the team’s mascot and major rivals. The new College Basketball Teams series provides all that and more. The series fills a gap that has been growing larger and more inexplicable every year through its inclusion of women’s collegiate basketball teams. Writing in a straightforward manner, Anderson provides comparable, chronological coverage for the university’s men’s and women’s teams, while discussing their histories as well as separate outstanding athletes and coaches. Duke comments on Mike Krzyzewski’s extraordinary 42-season run as head coach of the men’s team, including its 5 national championships. Indiana relates the long history of women’s basketball on the campus as well as the 2022—23 NCAA team’s 28-4 record. The volume on UCLA features a two-page spread on Ann Meyers, who achieved the first quadruple double in NCAA history (men’s or women’s) and became ‘the first woman to sign a con- tract with an NBA team.’ Kentucky provides an overview of the men’s and women’s teams’ ups and downs through the years while briefly introducing outstanding players and coaches. An attractive, inclusive new sports series for college basketball fans.