And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Basketball Game That Changed American SportsU of Nebraska Press, 2000 M01 1 - 256 pages The story of the 1966 NCAA Championship game, the first time that a team with an all-black starting five, Texas Western, faced a team with an all-white starting five, Kentucky. Don Haskins was the Texas Western coach. |
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