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 [Browse]
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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    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?
    Other title(s)
    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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