25 December 2005
factoid you need to know: Pat Riley played college ball at Kentucky
There's a new disney movie coming out about the Texas Western basketball team that started 5 black players and won an NCAA championship. They were coached by Clem Haskins, and they faced Adolph Rupp's University of Kentucky team in the final that year. (Rupp was a good coach, but he refused to recruit black players.) Pat Riley played for Rupp on that Kentucky team.
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