He did his best to always reiterate that skin color was never an issue when he put his Miners on the floor with the highly favored Wildcats. The 1965-66 Texas Western Miners basketball team represented Texas Western College, now the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), led by Hall of Fame head coach Don Haskins. It's a regret he once heard Shed voice. It'slike a Jackie Robinson moment,"said Derrick Gragg, the NCAA's senior vice president for inclusion, education and community engagement. Wallace, who a year later at Vanderbilt became the first black basketball Pat Riley Recalls Historic March Madness Moment in Kentucky's Loss to Nevil Shed had 12 points, eight rebounds, and Willie Worsley had 10 points. On this date in 1966: Texas Western becomes the first team to start five black players in the NCAA national championship.The Miners beat Adolph Rupps all-white No. Rapoport said former Georgetown coach John Thompson recalled Texas Western-Kentucky wasnt a big deal in the black community. Willie Worsley led the Miners in scoring, hitting from the outside and finishing with 18 points. 7 Related Question Answers Found. Three on the road. He said it was probably the worst day of his life when he lost that game, but he felt the right team won because it did so much for others. Curiously, while Oswald had been prodding Rupp, Texas Western president In fact, the opposite was true. He just couldn't take it.". Adolph Rupp's teams, they ran at every opportunity. Five minutes into the game, the Miners led 17-4. But it was such a surprise because 90 percent of the teams we played had at least one or two African-Americans., About five years ago, Lattin randomly met C.B. Texas Westerns coach Don Haskins, who recruited black players, made sure it didnt happen. 1966: TWC downs Arizona 81-72 in overtime. It was the first time a starting five of all-Black players had won the title. The NCAA title game had yet to morph into March Madness when Kentucky and Long before he became a shoe marketer who landed black basketball players million-dollar endorsement deals, Sonny Vaccaro listened to Texas Western-Kentucky on the radio from Pittsburgh. Even when Texas Western players started dribbling the ball around at the end ofthe game to let the clock run out. "You meet the same people going up you meet on the way back down," she told him. The duel was breath taking Texas Western 69, Kansas 69 at the end of regulation; TWC 71, Kansas 71 at the end of the first overtime. Julia Worsley never talked to her sonabout Black and white, he said. Hill faked right, went left and took the inbounds pass. "Without question, it was one of the most significant, impactful college sporting events in the history of our country.". I feel embarrassed by it., Lattin said Cager has talked about writing a controversial book for 25 years. Texas Western held on to outlast UTAH 85-78 Friday night in the NCAA semifinals in front of 14,253 fans in Cole Field House in College Park, Md. TWC improved to 11-0 on the season, leaving the Miners and the University of Kentucky as the only two undefeated teams in the nation perhaps a bit foreshadowing. historian Charles Martin. Its not really a book, its more like a pamphlet, Lattin said. Basketball is long gone from Cole, which was built for boxing, became one of the most storied basketball arenas, and now is transitioning into a football indoor practice facility. We wanted to carry that trophy out of there," he said. It looks more like The Miners improved to 7-0 on the 1965-66 season by dominating South Dakota 88-42 in the tournament's semifinals. Rupp's lingering bitterness helped paint the Miners as urban street thugs, The further we got away from the game, the more it was talked about..
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