(01-23-2016 01:17 PM)BlueRaiderBoy Wrote:  

(01-23-2016 01:09 PM)GO_MONARKS Wrote:  

That's why UTEP's name ought to still be TEXAS WESTERN UNIVERSITY! That was the classic David vs. Goliath moment in NCAA Sports. If memory serves (and yes, I am that old) Rupp had to integrate Basketball at Ky. as a result of their loss to Texas Western and its all-black starting 5!

That game never happens if a game wasn't stolen from Western on a jump ball foul call....

no not off the ball but on the guy jumping. No way KY beats Western because Western was basically Texas Western ...with a couple white guys.

Here's how one news paper called it

"8. 1966 Mideast Region round of 16, Michigan 80, Western Kentucky 79. With 11 seconds left and WKU up one — in a game where a win would set up a round-of-eight meeting with UK's Rupp's Runts — Western's Greg Smith and Michigan's Cazzie Russell were to contest a jump ball. Rather than jump to control the tip, Russell grabbed Smith by the arm, pulling the Western player into his shoulder. Referee Steve Honzo called Smith for a foul. Russell hit both foul shots and WKU star Clem Haskins missed a potential game-winning jumper. In 2008, a New York Times article described Honzo's foul call as "one of the worst calls in NCAA Tournament history."

9+ minute video the call is at the end of it




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Dawgxas Western would fit right in with todays style...Big Mac was 7ft but he could run, jump, hit the outside shot. A lot of his points would be 3s today...he loved the baseline corner.