Haskins, Don

Haskins, Don
▪ 2009
Donald L. Haskins 
      American college basketball coach

born March 14, 1930, Enid, Okla.

died Sept. 7, 2008, El Paso, Texas
helped bring racial integration to college basketball when in 1966 he started five African American players on his Texas Western College team, and the squad defeated the all-white University of Kentucky team to win the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I championship. The season was memorialized in the 2006 movie Glory Road, based on a 2005 book of the same title by Haskins and coauthor Dan Wetzel. Haskins, who was regarded as an exceptionally tough and talented coach, first headed the basketball program at Texas Western (from 1967, the University of Texas at El Paso) in the 1961–62 season and retired in 1999. In his 38-year career, he led 14 teams to the NCAA tournament and had a career win-loss record of 719–353. Haskins was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997, and in 2007 he was inducted again with his 1965–66 Texas Western team.

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