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UTEP Men's Basketball
The UTEP Miners Men's Basketball team is part of Confrence-USA in NCAA Division-l Men's Basketball League. The Miners are most known for their NCAA Tournament Championship in 1966. Not only did they win the championship but they conqured this feat starting 5 negro players for the first time ever in college basketball history! Don Haskins led the Miners to this feat as head coach.

History
In 1966, Don Haskins recruited several negro players and intended to start them. Of course, the public hated this. Voilence and letters threatning to kill either Coach Haskins or any other player if they didn't stop playing or coaching. But this didn't stop any of them. UTEP (Texas Western at the time) made it to the Final Four. Duke, Kentucky, and Utah also made it to the final four. Of course no one picked UTEP to even make it to the championship game. In the Final Four, Kentuckey defeated Duke, 83 to 79, and UTEP defeated Utah, 85 to 78. Still this defeat against Utah didn't change anybody's mind on who was going to win, Kentucky. FOR THE REST SEE 1966 Men's B-Ball in article below.