Texas Western Alum Challenges SI's Ranking of 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship
Sports Illustrated has it at #23, but a former team member thinks it should be much higher.
On Sports Illustrated’s countdown of the “100 Greatest Moments in Sports History,” the entry at #23 reads as follows:
DATE: March 19, 1966
LOCATION: Cole Field House, College Park, Md.
MOMENT: Texas Western met Kentucky in the 1966 NCAA Basketball title game, becoming the first school ever to start five black players in an NCAA championship game. In a stadium full of almost exclusively white fans, officials and coaches, Texas Western defeated No. 1 Kentucky and changed the college basketball landscape forever.
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