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Don Haskins, 78; basketball coach was first to win NCAA title with 5 black starters (Los Angeles Times)
September 8, 2008Don Haskins, the coach who hastened the full integration of college basketball when he started five black players for Texas Western College against an all-white University of Kentucky team and won the 1966 national NCAA championship, died Sunday. He was 78.
UConn Men's Basketball Schedule Announced (Hartford Courant)
September 8, 2008The planning and preparation for the 2008-09 UConn men's basketball season began as soon as the 2007-08 season ended in March with an upset loss to San Diego in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Glendale in running to host a NCAA men's Final Four (The Arizona Republic)
September 8, 2008Glendale has been named a finalist to host a NCAA Division I men's Final Four in the period from 2012 to 2016. Making the cut wasn't that difficult - all 10 cities that submitted bids to host college basketball's premier event those years were named finalists.
Men's basketball announces schedule for 2008 - 2009 (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
September 8, 2008After being sent home in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last season, the road to redemption for the men's basketball team features two games against Big East foes Pittsburgh and Notre Dame, a trip to Virgin Islands and late-season home date with Michigan.
SDSU men's basketball makes BracketBusters list (The Argus Leader)
September 8, 2008Practice doesn't start for more than a month, but the South Dakota State men's basketball team has pulled off one surprise already: Getting into the ESPNU BracketBusters tournament. The Jackrabbits will be among 102 NCAA Division I squads from 17 conferences participating in the seventh annual event, which pits mid-major programs against one another late in the season in the hope of enhancing ...
Pitt announces men's basketball schedule (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
September 8, 2008The Pitt men's basketball team will play 14 games against NCAA Tournament teams, nine non-conference opponents with top-100 RPI ratings and make at least 11 national-television appearances.
Basketball pioneer Don Haskins dies at 78 (Austin American-Statesman)
September 8, 2008Don Haskins, the coach who hastened the full integration of college basketball when he started five black players for Texas Western College against an all-white University of Kentucky team and won the 1966 NCAA national championship, died Sunday. He was 78.
Men's basketball: Schedule presents challenges for Badgers (La Crosse Tribune)
September 8, 2008MADISON — A day before getting started with their annual preseason conditioning runs up the hill at Elver Park, members of the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team learned what the climb toward the school's 11th straight NCAA tournament appearance will look like.
On Campus — Basketball schedule unbelievably brutal (The State News)
September 8, 2008Tom Izzo and the masochist who does the scheduling for the MSU men’s basketball team must have been pretty angry when they laid out their 2008-09 slate of games.
Indiana, Purdue announce men's basketball schedules (WTHR Indianapolis)
September 8, 2008The Indiana men's basketball team will make its debut under new coach Tom Crean with home games against Northwestern State and IUPUI and then head to Hawaii to play Notre Dame in the Maui Invitational.
