The number of black players Texas Western put on the floor at the start of the 1966 national final. No team had started five in a title game before.
The two programmes
Texas Western was a small college in El Paso, later renamed the University of Texas at El Paso. Don Haskins had arrived in 1961 from high school coaching and recruited wherever he could find players, which in practice meant the cities of the north and east.
Kentucky were the most decorated programme in the country. Adolph Rupp had been their coach since 1930 and had won four national titles. He did not recruit black players.
The game
It was played at Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland, on 19 March 1966. Bobby Joe Hill took the ball off two Kentucky guards in quick succession early on and scored both times, and Texas Western led for most of what followed.
Seventy two to sixty five.
What Haskins said
He was asked about the starting five for the rest of his life and gave the same answer every time. He had played the best players he had. They happened to be black. He said he had not thought about it as a statement until other people told him it was one.
He stayed at the school for thirty eight years.
What changed
Southern programmes that had stayed segregated began recruiting black players over the following few years. Kentucky signed its first, Tom Payne, in 1969.
The 1966 team went into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a unit in 2007.
The thing to be careful about
The game did not integrate college basketball on its own, and the players have spent decades correcting accounts that treat them as a symbol rather than as a team that was good enough to win. They were 28 and 1 that season.