1993_in_basketball Knowpia

The following are the basketball events of the year 1993 throughout the world.

Championships edit

World Championship edit

None*

Professional edit

Men
- 1993 NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls over the Phoenix Suns 4-2.
- Eurobasket: Germany
Women
- Eurobasket Women: Spain def. France

College edit

Men
- NCAA
  - Division I: North Carolina 77, Michigan 71
  - NIT: University of Minnesota def. Georgetown University
  - Division II: California State University-Bakersfield 85, Troy State University 72
  - Division III: Ohio Northern University 71, Augustana College (Illinois) 68
- NAIA
  - Division I Hawaii Pacific University 88, Oklahoma Baptist University 83
  - Division II Willamette University OR 63, Northern State University SD 56
- 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
- NCAA
  - Division I: Texas Tech University 84, Ohio State University 74
  - Division II: North Dakota State 95, Delta State University 63
  - Division III: Central College Iowa 71, Capital 63
- NAIA
  - Division I: Arkansas Tech University 76, Union University TN 75
  - Division II: Montana State University - Northern 71, Northern State University (SD) 68
- NJCAA
  - Division I Kilgore College 104, Louisburg College 99
  - Division II Illinois Central College 76, Kankakee Community College 71 OT
  - Division III Hudson Valley Community College 51, Quinsigamond Community College 50

Awards and honors edit

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.
^
- 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.