1993 in basketball

none January 2018 1993 Championships World Championship None* Professional Men 1993 NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls over the Phoenix Suns 4–2. 1993 NBA Playoffs 1992-93 NBA season 1993 NBA draft 1993 NBA All-Star Game Eurobasket: Germany Women Eurobasket Women: Spain def. France College 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 Professional Men NBA Most Valuable Player Award: Charles Barkley, Phoenix Suns NBA Rookie of the Year Award: Shaquille O'Neal, Orlando Magic NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award: Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston Rockets NBA Coach of the Year Award: Pat Riley, New York Knicks Collegiate 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 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1993:Hall of Famers http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers-index/ Basketball Hall of Fame 12 Oct 2014 25 March 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130325102924/http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers-index/ dead Walt Bellamy Julius Erving Dan Issel Dick McGuire Ann Meyers Calvin Murphy Uļjana Semjonova Bill Walton Births March 7 Özge Kavurmacıoğlu, Turkish basketball player Stefan Popovski-Turanjanin, Serbian basketball player May 11 – Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player203090 h/harklma01 June 18 – Gianluca Marchetti, Italian professional basketball player Deaths 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).Ex-Oklahoma State coach Paul Hansen dies at 64 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52444969/st-louis-post-dispatch/ St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 19, 1993 32 Newspapers.com May 30, 2020 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