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Open a modal to take you to registration information. Button that open a modal to initiate a challenge. Link to a random quiz page. One of the ultimate box-score stuffers, Larry Bird turned little Indiana State into a national powerhouse during his years there. Averaging a double double for his career, including a ridiculous But Bird had the more impressive overall college career, if you ask us. In addition to his performance in that blockbuster game, Hayes averaged 31 points and 17 rebounds for his career and became a two-time consensus All-American.
He also broke down plenty of doors for black players at colleges in the South. Gola also set the all-time NCAA record for double doubles, recording 96 of them. He took La Salle all the way, winning a championship in and was three times named a consensus All-American.
One of the greatest players to never win a championship, The Big O did all he could to take Cincinnati all the way, even making it to the NCAA title game twice. He proved to be an unstoppable player, averaging an astounding Of all the great basketball players to come out of the s, nobody had a better career than Bill Russell.
He was named the National Collegiate Player of the Year three consecutive times, from to , which ties the all-time record. He also led UCLA to back-to-back titles in and When Walton was the star at UCLA, the team had two undefeated seasons and pulled off an incredible game win streak that will likely never be matched in the sport.
In an era before the three-point line existed, Maravich averaged more than 44 points per game for his entire career. The numbers are simply mind-boggling. The dominance of some schools in college basketball is evident, but it is not the same for those programs when they play college football , the difference is big. Registering implies accepting the Terms and Conditions. College Basketball. Check our latest news in Google News.
But I didn't. It was the presence of Rupp, with his four national championships, his then-record victories, and his history of foot-dragging on integration that leant the championship game much of its significance. He and his all-white Kentucky program were not only the epitome of college basketball at the time, but the ideal 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. For several years Kentucky president John W. Oswald, realizing changing times and the school's border-state geography gave it a unique opportunity, had been pushing Rupp to recruit a black. According to longtime Kentucky assistant Harry Lancaster's autobiography, Rupp, after his first meeting with Oswald, told Lancaster, "Harry, that son of a bitch is ordering me to get some niggers in here.
What am I going to do? Still, Rupp held out. His reputation was such that even those black players he did recruit -- like Kentuckians Butch Beard and Wes Unseld -- were reluctant to play for him. It wasn't until December of that a Rupp team first dressed a black player, Tom Payne.
Two years later, Payne had left, and Kentucky was all-white again. Ray suggested Haskins start at least one white player. Haskins contends he doesn't recall the incident, but 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.
A pool-shooting hustler from Enid, Okla. Don Haskins coached the Miners to wins and the national championship. In the years immediately after Texas Western's title, the integration of college sports took a great leap forward. Between and , the average number of blacks on college teams jumped from 2.
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