WAC Basketball: Sports brief - Legendary UTEP coach dies
Don Haskins, who is best remembered for coaching the 1966 national championship basketball team died Sunday. He was 78 years old.
Haskins coached the University of Texas-El Paso’s all-black team to a national championship in 1966 where they beat the University of Kentucky, which was an all-white team coached by Adolph Rupp. Rupp didn’t believe in recruiting black players before he lost to the all-black team.
Haskins was survived by his wife Mary and three sons; Brent David and Steve. His fourth son, Mark, died in 1994.
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