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Texaswestern V.Kentucky

Robert Siegel speaks with ex-college basketball players Willie Worsley and Larry Conley about the historic 1966 championship game between Kentucky and Texas Western (now UTEP). In the game, the all-Black starting players for Texas Western beat the all-White Kentucky team. Although the game had tremendous implications for the integration of college basketball, neither Worsely, who played for Texas, nor Conley, who played for Kentucky, realized it at the time.

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