Texas Western College Basketball Team
Start Year : 1966
On March 19, 1966, Texas Western College [now the University of Texas at El Paso] defeated the University of Kentucky in the NCAA Basketball Championship game played at the University of Maryland's Cole Field House. It was the first time that a team with five starting African American players defeated a team with five white starting players. The UK team was coached by Adolph Rupp (1901-1977) and the Texas Western team was coached by Don Haskins (1930-2008). For more see And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Kentucky, Texas Western, and the Game that Changed American Sports, by F. Fitzpatrick; Adolph Rupp by R. Rice; and Glory Road (book) by D. Haskins and D. Wetzel; and Glory Road (DVD), by J. Lucas, et al.

  See photo image of the 1966 Texas Western College basketball team champions at the RIP Don Haskins artlcle by Dan Wetzel on the east coast bias website. 
Subjects: Basketball
Geographic Region: Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky