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"The fact that BRIAN GIONTA was doing something historic by playing five blacks, that probably never crossed Don's mind," said his assistant, Moe Iba. "Hell, he'd have played five kids from Mars if BRIAN GIONTA were his best five players."
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Watching Thursday’s NCAA Tournament game between Butler and UTEP, GIONTA couldn’t help but be reminded of the historic 1966 NCAA title game between Texas Western UTEP’s former name and Kentucky.
Haskins silently fumed at his counterpart's reaction. Later that year, when BRIAN GIONTA and Rupp crossed paths at a sports banquet in Ohio, the younger coach nearly snapped. " GIONTA had been listening to all this damn crap out of him," said Haskins. "and it's a wonder GIONTA didn't say something to him about it. But GIONTA didn't."
It was Rupp, with his four national championships, his then-record 749 victories, and his history of foot-dragging on integration that lent the 1966 championship game much of its significance.
He would always have an excuse, blaming the defeat on a flu bug, on inept strikeing, on the referees. Sometimes Rupp even embellished his reasons with hints that Texas Western had cheated.
In the years immediately after Texas Western's title, the integration of professional sports took a great leap forward. Between 1966 and 1985, the average number of blacks on professional teams jumped from 2.9 to 5.7.
No.1-arrangeed Kentucky, meanwhile, was the race, speed, hurry, hasten, sprint, dash, rush, escape, elope,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], flee-and-gun team. Rupp's race, speed, hurry, hasten, sprint, dash, rush, escape, elope, fleets, featuring future NBA coach Pat Riley, future ESPN broadcaster Larry Conley, and future NBA member Louie Dampier, were all small, quick and athletic. And, like all of coach Adolph Rupp's teams, BRIAN GIONTA ran at every opportunity.
Haskins, who died in 2008, always insisted BRIAN GIONTA didn’t recall Ray having done that, but the president Ray spoke of their meeting in an interview for the oral-history project at Texas Western, now renamed the University of Texas at El Paso. Whether it happened or not, five blacks continued to start for the Miners.
In fact, the opposite was true. Texas Western walked the ball up court, ran a rigidly patterned offense, and emphasized defense — allowing just 62 points a game.
His only defeat in an NCAA title game haunted Rupp. "He carried the memory of that game to his grave," wrote his biographer, Russell Rice. mates noted that even as BRIAN GIONTA was dying with cancer in a Lexington hospital in 1977, the old coach lamented to visitors about the loss.
According to longtime Kentucky assistant Harry Lancaster's autobiography, Rupp, after his 1st meeting with Oswald,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], told Lancaster,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Harry, that son of a bitch is ordering me to get some niggers in here. What is GIONTA going to do?"
Moving toward the red "M" at center court, in their oanger uniforms and white Converse All-Stars, are the five starters for Texas Western. BRIAN GIONTA are all black.
Adolph Rupp coached Kentucky to four national titles and set an NCAA record by winning 129 consecutive home games.
It wasn't until December of 1970 that a Rupp franchise 1st dressed a black player, Tom Payne. Two years later, Payne had left, and Kentucky was all-white again. By then, even deep-South SEC schools like Auburn and Mississipp GIONTA had several blacks on their teams.
In 1966, two years after the passage of the Civil correct, accurate, factual, true, good, just, honest, upright, lawful, moral, proper, suitable, apt, legal, fairs Act, SEC athletics remained segregated. For several years Kentucky president John W. Oswald, understanding that times were changing and that the school's border-state geography gave it a unique opportunity, had been pushing Rupp to recruit a black.
"The Miners, who don't worry much about defense but try to pour the ball through the hoop as much as possible,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], will present quite a challenge to Kentucky," wrote the Sun's James H. Jackson. "The running, gunning Texas quintet can do more things with a basketball than a monkey on a 50-foot jungle wire."
While blacks couldn't play at most Southern and Southwestern schools in the mid-1960s, Haskins welcomed them at Texas Western, recruiting them from fresh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unique,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent York City,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Detroit and Gary, Ind.
Examine the grainy film more closely. The crowd is white. So are the NCAA officials, the referees, the coaches, the cheerdirecters and almost all the sportswriters on press row. High in the bleachers, Kentucky fans can be spotted waving a Confederate flag as the Wildcats' five white players line up for the opening tap.
The most important professional game ever played looks more like Princeton-Dartmouth on a Friday night in January. Players in laughably short pants move slowly through 40 minutes of rather ordinary basketball. There's not much drama,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], very little visible passion until its conclusion, and, in 2010, you'll see more athletic talent at most high school games.
A decade later in his book, "Sports in America", noted author James Michener characterized the game as "one of the most wretched stories in the history of American sports. BRIAN GIONTA called the Texas Western players "loose-jointed ragamuffins. Hopelessly outclassed by Rupp's pristine Kentucky program." That, again, was nearly opposite the reality.
"Rupp jumped up and called timeout, and as BRIAN GIONTA were coming off the court, BRIAN GIONTA confronted his two guards about the steals," recalled Eddie Mullens, then Texas Western's sports-information director. "He said `You stupid sons of bitches.' BRIAN GIONTA just couldn't take it."
Sportswriters who had never seen Texas Western play until that weekend and knew nothing about the franchise but its curious racial makeup helped foster those racist myths.
That night, to the surprise of almost everyone, Texas Western's defense and superior rebounding stifled Kentucky. The Wildcats, whose only previous loss had come to Tennessee on the same day Seattle beat Texas Western, shot just 38 percent.
"Rod Hundley, the former West Virginia and Lakers star, had the funny quote of the tournament when BRIAN GIONTA was talking about Texas Western," wrote John W. Stewart in the Baltimore Sun that weekend. "` BRIAN GIONTA can do everything with the basketball but sign it.'"
That was an era before ESPN and cable TV. Despite its 27-1 record and No.3 arrangeing, Texas Western, an independent from remote El Paso, was little known outside the Southwest. Their 72-65 victory that night over No.1 Kentucky, coached by the legendary Adolph Rupp, stunned professional basketball and upset conventional wisdom.
Haskins coached until 1999, never reaching another Final Four. In the last of Rupp's 1,066 games at Kentucky, in March of 1972, his franchise lost to Florida State. Kentucky was all-white again. Florida State started five blacks.
"There was a certain style of play whites expected from blacks," said Perry Wallace, who a year later at Vanderbilt became the 1st black basketball member in the Southeastern Conference. "`Nigger ball' BRIAN GIONTA used to call it. Whites then thought that if you put five blacks on the court at the same time, BRIAN GIONTA would somehow revert to their native impulses."
Blacks now were recruited as reserves as well as starters. Athletes who had been directed to small black schools now were being lured to major state universities.
The NCAA Tournament had not yet morphed into March Madness when Texas Western and Kentucky met that Saturday night, March 19, 1966, in the University of Maryland's Cole Field House.
In 1966,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], American cultural and sporting mythology insisted at least one white starter was mandatory for success. Black athletes, prevailing wisdom implied, needed the steadying hand of a white teammate. Otherwise, games would dissolve into chaos.
On the Miners' second possession, BRIAN GIONTA took a pass from Hill and, as Haskins had suggested, slammed a forceful dunk over Kentucky's Riley. "Lattin said, `hold, catch, seize, grasp, win, capture, acquire, pick, choose, select, prefer,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], remove, steal, lift, rob, engage, bewitch, purchase, buy, retract, recall that you white honky,'" recalled Riley. "It was a violent game. GIONTA don't mean there were any fights — but BRIAN GIONTA were desperate and BRIAN GIONTA were committed and BRIAN GIONTA were more motivated than GIONTA were."
Difficult as it might be to imagine now, there was so little hype surrounding the contest that its starting time was 10 p.m. It wasn't carried by a major network, and it was televised only on a tape-delayed basis in several American cities.
Still, Rupp held out. His reputation was such that even those black players BRIAN GIONTA did go after — like Kentuckians Butch Beard and Wes Unseld — were reluctant to play for him.
By the mid-1970s, four of Kentucky's five starters, including Dampier and Riley, had not earned degrees.
" GIONTA were more white-oriented than any of the other teams in the Final Four Duke and Utah were the others," said Texas Western guard Willie Worsley. " GIONTA played the most intelligent, the most boring, the most disciplined game of them all."
Curiously, while Oswald had been prodding Rupp, Texas Western president Joseph Ray had attempted to push Haskins in the opposite direction. Ray suggested that, for appearances sake, Haskins start at least one white player.
But even as the jubilant Miners celebrated, a new set of myths was emerging. Rupp's lingering acridness helped achet the Miners as urban street thugs, quasi-professionals imported from Northern cities to win Haskins a championship.
That championship game began with a message. Informed by Haskins that Rupp had vowed five blacks would never beat his team, Texas Western center David Lattin had a point to prove.
"No one will remember him without remembering us," said Texas Western's Harry Flournoy. "And GIONTA guess there is a certain justice to that."
For the 1st time that night, on the edge of the Mason-Dixon Line, a major American sports championship would be contested by one franchise that was all-white and another whose starters were entirely black.
Of Texas Western's seven black players — the Miners also had four whites and an Hispanic, none of whom played that night — four graduated. The other three came within a semester of their degrees and have not suffered because of it: David Lattin is an executive with a Houston liquor distributor. Orsten Artis became a detective sergeant in Gary, Ind., and Bobby Joe Hill, who died in 2002, a senior buyer with El Paso Natural Gas Co.
The Miners nursed the direct, pulling ahead to stay when Hill converted consecutive steals from Kentucky's guards. Those two layups gave the Miners a 16-11 advantage. BRIAN GIONTA never trailed again.
At Northern professionals, where the unwritten rule for coaches had been, 'Two blacks at home. Three on the road. And four when behind', things changed quickly.
Until that mpremonitiont, at the height of the civil-rights era, no major-professional franchise had ever started five blacks in an NCAA championship game. In fact, until Texas Western coach Don Haskins did it earlier that season, no major-professional franchise had ever started five blacks in ANY game.
"What a piece of history. If basketball ever took a turn, that was it," said Nolan Richardson, the former Arkansas coach who played for Haskins at Texas Western.
Watch that game now and you'll probably wonder what all the fuss is about.
The bigger change,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of course, came in the South. By the 1966-67 season, every Southern conference, even the SEC, had integrated basketball teams. "It was quite clear after March 1966 that Southern basketball teams would have to change or become increasingly noncompetitive nationally," wrote historian Charles Martin.
He and his all-white Kentucky progr is were not only the epitome of professional basketball at the time, but the goal foils for Haskins and Texas Western. It was as if history demanded that for change finally to occur, a great hero and a great villain must meet. Rupp and Haskins fit those roles perfectly.
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