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Velvet James Barnes (April 13, 1941 – September 14, 2002), [1] also known as Jim "Bad News" Barnes, was an American basketball player, who was an Olympic Gold Medalist and the No. 1 overall pick of the 1964 NBA draft. He played college basketball at Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso).
The Kentucky Wildcats, the number one ranked team in men's college basketball, faced the Texas Western Miners, who were ranked third in the nation. Texas Western's starting lineup of five African Americans was the first all-black lineup in an NCAA title game; their opponents, by contrast, fielded an all-white squad. The Miners won 72–65 ...
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. The team won the national championship in 1966 , becoming the first team with an all-black starting lineup to do so. [ 1 ]
As Texas Western, the Miners won the 1966 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.The 72–65 victory over Kentucky in College Park, Maryland is considered one of the most important in the history of college basketball, as it marked the first time that a team with five African-American starters won a title game.
Complete statistics from Friday night’s Kentucky Wildcats 2023-24 men’s basketball game against the Texas A&M-Commerce Lions in Rupp Arena.
Freshman Tre Johnson scored 32 points, and senior Tramon Mark had 26, season bests for both, and Texas defeated No. Kentucky 82-78 on Saturday night, snapping a three-game losing streak. Texas (16 ...
The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team played Oakland University in an NCAA Tournament round-of-64 game in Pittsburgh on Thursday night. The South Region No. 3 seed Wildcats were ...
The 2006 film Glory Road is based on the story of the 1966 Texas Western team. Their tournament games against fourth-ranked Kansas and Kentucky are depicted in the film. The tournament is also significant in that it was the last tournament until 2021 , and one of two since the league's official founding, that the Ivy League did not send a ...