First basketball team to start five black players in a national title game wins 50 years ago this hour (Mar 19 1966)


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(Saturday, March 19, 1966, at approximately 11:30 p.m. EST); during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — The Texas Western Miners, the first basketball team to start five black players in a national title game, defeated the heavily favored all-white Kentucky Wildcats, 72-65, tonight to win the NCAA Championship played in College Park, Maryland.