Legendary college basketball coach Don "The Bear" Haskins ((pictured, thanks KVIA.com)) died Sunday at the age of 78 due to congestive heart failure.
He is best known for taking his Texas-El Paso squad ((then, Texas Western College)) to the NCAA basketball championship and defeating an all-white team from the University of Kentucky in 1966. Haskins started five black players against the Wildcats.
He coached those teams in El Paso for almost 40 years and won seven WAC titles. Haskins was inducted in to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997.
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