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The Baron and the Bear : Rupp's Runts, Haskins's Miners, and the season that changed basketball forever / David Kingsley Snell ; foreword by Nolan Richardson.
Author
Snell, David Kingsley
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Description
xii, 278 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GV885.43.U53 S64 2016
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Kentucky Wildcats (Basketball team)
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History
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University of Kentucky
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Basketball
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History
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Texas Western Miners (Basketball team)
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History
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Texas Western College
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Basketball
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NCAA Basketball Tournament (1966 University of Maryland)
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Rupp, Adolph 1901-1977
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Haskins, Don 1930-2008
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Summary note
In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s, helped destroy stereotypes about black athletes. This book tells the story of two intensely passionate coaches and the teams they led through the ups and downs of a college basketball season. In the twilight of his legendary career, Kentucky's Adolph Rupp ("The Baron of the Bluegrass") was seeking his fifth NCAA championship. Texas Western's Don Haskins ("The Bear" to his players) had been coaching at a small West Texas high school just five years before the championship. After this history-making game, conventional wisdom that black players lacked the discipline to win without a white player to lead began to dissolve.Northern schools began to abandon unwritten quotas limiting the number of blacks on the court at one time. Southern schools, where athletics had always been a whites-only activity, began a gradual move toward integration.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
A drop of water
"No good, even if it goes!"
A new direction
Brothers against the bastard
The true religion
The big change
A synchronized leap
Finding his team
He didn't recruit; he chose
Never gave it a thought
Intensity, thy name is Adolph
The Haskins way
"Quite improbable"
The games were the break
Seeing things I really like
Things that I can't
Give Iowa a try
Neutral-court advantage
The break from hell
"The secret of basketball"
Togo time
Clyde and the Commodores
They could be very good
The naked truth
Working hard and hardly working
Tennessee two-step
Seattle surprise
The mountain man and Cazzie
Time and overtime
Larry Conley's ass
The runnin' Utes
The real championship game
The smart money
And then there was David
An unreal thing
A matter of pride
He changed basketball
Epilogue
Where are they now?
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Baron and the bear
ISBN
9780803288553 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0803288557 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016021597
OCLC
946906270
Other standard number
40026578635
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