UTEP Miners Basketball

6'2 combo guardESPN #91 ranked point guard

A steal and dunk by the Miner in the College Basketball Invitational. Listed at 6'0" he's probably closer to 5'10".

Clip from a movie made about Texas Western's improbable 1966 win over Kentucky in the NCAA men's basketball championship. Texas Western, later became UTEP, fielded an all black starting five that had to face off against an all white starting Wildcat five, a school that hadn't yet integrated their sports programs.

Documentary style news piece on the all black starting 5 from the 1966 Texas Western (later became UTEP) men's basketball team that won the NCAA Division 1 tournament and championship. Includes recollections from Pat Riley, star of Kentucky, the team that lost to Texas Western in the final that fielded an all white starting 5.

From NCAA ON DEMAND: http://www.youtube.com/user/ncaaondemandUTEP defeats Kentucky to win the 1966 NCAA men's basketball Division I championship 72-65. UTEP fielded an all black starting 5 and showed up the stodgy Kentuckians who had yet to allow a black player on their team. It should be noted though that Western Kentucky's team, that lost to Kentucky in the Final Four, was integrated, with 2 black players.

Aside from Memphis is there another team in the Conference USA worthy of the Big Dance.

Marvin Kilgore misses the floater, but Claude Britten puts in back up and in with 3 seconds left to give UTEP a win over Tulane