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"I'm proud of them, I'll tell you for sure," TWC coach Don Haskins said. There was no all-tournament team selected. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Bobby Joe Hill scored 20 points and Nevil Shed had 16 in the first half alone as the Miners took a commanding 55-30 lead at the intermission. Texas Western had a cold night shooting. it's a wonder I didn't say something to him about it. It led to the integration of college sports. Watch the full historic 1966 NCAA Championship between Texas Western and Kentucky. Quickly following Texan independence, the United States admitted Texas into the republic as a slave state. Texas Western ripped Nevada 86-49 Wednesday night, Dec. 22, to easily win the Mississippi Valley Cage Classic in Rockland, Ill. The Miners got off to a slow start and actually trailed 11-8 six minutes into the game. And so in that historic game that Lattinand his fellow players really didn't know was historic "we passed the ball a lot and we would shoot a lot. Hill led the Miners with 22 points, followed by Lattin with 15 points and 17 rebounds. How the 1966 NCAA Championship changed the world I told him you should write a book.. characterized the game as "one of the most wretched (stories) in the history Fireball seen over 4 states was not a meteor, experts say | Fort Worth "There was a certain style of play whites expected from blacks," said Perry Oh, it felt like yesterday, man, Cager said about returning to Cole Field House. Watch the 1966 NCAA Championship game now and you'll Bobby Joe Hill led the Miners with 20 points. historian Charles Martin. "It's just one of those things that sticks out to me about that game.". Willie Cager led the Miners in scoring with 18 points. TWC went on to lead 40-19 at the half on the way to improving to 10-0 on the season. A crowd of 7,800, featuring many Miner fans, watched the game in the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium. "It was quite clear after March 1966 that Southern basketball teams would probably never crossed Don's mind," said his assistant, Moe Iba. Texas Western, ranked 6th in the nation, extended its unbeaten streak to 13-0 making the Miners one of only two unbeaten teams in the nation and, unknowingly, keeping them on a collision course with 13-0 Kentucky in the national championship game. all black. Worsley said he never felt any discrimination being Black in college. Follow IndyStar sports reporter Dana Benbow on Twitter: @DanaBenbow. He couldnt afford the operation, Lattin said.