Cager, who grew up in the Bronx, New York, helped put UTEP (Texas Western in 1966) and El Paso on the map March 19, 1966, when he and his Miners teammates won the 1966 NCAA basketball national ...

Dick Myers, a reserve on Texas Western's 1966 national championship basketball team, has died at the age of 81. UTEP ...

Today, basketball is a game played at a high level globally. Advertisement As a Western Kentucky graduate, the 1966 NCAA tournament carries an interesting conflict that ultimately increases my ...

UTEP and El Paso today will celebrate the 50th anniversary of a watershed moment in the history of the school, community and nation – Texas Western’s 1966 NCAA men’s basketball championship.

On Mar. 19, 1966, Texas Western College and the University of Kentucky met in the men’s college basketball championship game. It had been a year since the voting rights marches from Selma to ...

The 1966 Miners remain the only Texas team to win a NCAA men’s basketball championship. Houston has made the Final Four five times, Texas three times, Baylor twice and SMU once. None won a ...

Last night ESPN screened a grainy, washed-out tape of the 1966 NCAA title game in which Texas Western, with its five black starters, beat all-white Kentucky in what’s been called the Brown v ...

An hour before the start of the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, coach Don Haskins gathered his team in the locker room at University of Maryland"™s Cole Field House.

The Dayton Flyers were underdogs going into a 1966 NCAA tournament regional semifinal against No. 1-ranked Kentucky. Henry Finkel showed why he is one of UD’s all-time best.

The 1966 NCAA Tournament game would be the final game for current Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim as a college player. "The game was a little bit back and forth,'' Boeheim recalled recently.

The 1966 NCAA Tournament game would be the final game for current Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim as a college player. "The game was a little bit back and forth,'' Boeheim recalled recently.