1993 in basketball
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The following are the basketball events of the year 1993 throughout the world.
| Years in basketball |
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Championships
[edit]World Championship
[edit]- None*
Professional
[edit]- Men
- Women
- Eurobasket Women: Spain def. France
College
[edit]- Men
- NCAA
- NAIA
- NJCAA
- Division I Pensacola Junior College 79, Butler Community College - Kansas 74
- Division II Owens Technical College, OH 109, Northeastern Christian Junior College PA 85
- Division III Onondaga Community College 84, Minneapolis CC MN 78
- Women
Awards and honors
[edit]Professional
[edit]- Men
Collegiate
[edit]- Men
- John R. Wooden Award: Calbert Cheaney, Indiana
- Naismith College Coach of the Year: Dean Smith, North Carolina
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Sam Crawford, New Mexico State
- Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year: Calbert Cheaney, Indiana
- NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player: Corliss Williamson, Arkansas
- USBWA National Freshman of the Year: Jason Kidd, California
- Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year: Eddie Fogler, Vanderbilt
- Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball: Dave Gavitt
- Women
- Naismith College Player of the Year: Sheryl Swoopes, Texas Tech
- Naismith College Coach of the Year: C. Vivian Stringer, Iowa
- Wade Trophy: Karen Jennings, Nebraska
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Dena Evans, Virginia
- NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player: Sheryl Swoopes, Texas Tech
- Carol Eckman Award: C. Vivian Stringer, Iowa
- Class of 1993:[1]
Births
[edit]- March 7
- Özge Kavurmacıoğlu, Turkish basketball player
- Stefan Popovski-Turanjanin, Serbian basketball player
- May 11 – Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player[2]
- June 18 – Gianluca Marchetti, Italian professional basketball player
Deaths
[edit]- January 3 — Johnny Most, Famed announcer for the Boston Celtics (born 1923)
- January 15 — Henry Iba, Hall of Fame college coach and two-time national champion (Oklahoma A&M) and three-time Olympic coach (born 1904)
- January 18 — Paul Hansen, 64, American college coach (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State).[3]
- January 19 — Chris Street, Iowa Hawkeyes forward (born 1972)
- January 22 — Jim Pollard, Hall of Fame player for the Minneapolis Lakers (born 1922)
- March 8 — Don Barksdale, College basketball's first African-American consensus All-American (UCLA) (born 1923)
- March 9 — Vanya Voynova, Bulgarian women's player and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1934)
- April 11 — Malcolm Wiseman, Canadian Olympic silver medalist (1936) (born 1913)
- April 28 — Jim Valvano, Coach of the 1983 National Champion NC State Wolfpack (born 1946)
- June 3 — Joe Fortenberry, member of 1936 US Olympic champion team (born 1911)
- June 7 — Mike Bloom, All-American college player (Temple), ABL, BAA player (born 1915)
- June 7 — Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball star of the New Jersey Nets (born 1964)
- June 16 — Arad McCutchan, Hall of Fame coach of the five-time NCAA College Division national champion Evansville Purple Aces (born 1912)
- July 27 — Reggie Lewis, NBA All-Star from the Boston Celtics (born 1965)
- October 17 — Bill Reigel, AAU player and college coach (McNeese State) (born 1932)
- October 21 — Irv Torgoff, College All-American (Long Island), NBL, BAA player (born 1917)
- October 26 — Everett Dean, Hall of Fame coach of the 1942 NCAA Champion Stanford Indians (born 1898)
- November 26 — Tom Scott, American college coach (North Carolina, Davidson) (born 1908)
- November 28 — Robert Hawkins, NBA player (born 1954)
- December 9 — Matt Guokas, Sr., American player (Philadelphia Warriors) and announcer (born 1915)
- December 30 — George Stone, American ABA player (Utah Stars, Carolina Cougars) (born 1946)
References
[edit]- ^ "Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 Oct 2014.
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- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
- ^ "Ex-Oklahoma State coach Paul Hansen dies at 64". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 19, 1993. p. 32. Retrieved May 30, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
