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The WestStar Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational is an annual men's NCAA Division I college basketball tournament held in El Paso, Texas. The tournament was founded in 1961. It is held at the Don Haskins Center. Four teams compete in a two-day, four-game bracketed tournament. [1]
0–9. 1971 NCAA University Division basketball championship game; 1980 Southwest Conference men's basketball tournament; 1981 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament
Tracor was the brainchild of physicist Richard N. Lane, its first president. He recruited Frank W. McBee, Chester McKinney, and Jess Stanbrough as its founders, and these four added an attorney friend, Harry Pollard, and machinist Byron Grisham, Jr. Early contracts included sales to Union Carbide and the United States Navy. The company's early ...
Between 1948 and 1988, Texas only competed in five NCAA Tournaments before former coach Tom Penders made the Longhorns a March Madness regular with eight appearances in his 10 years.
The guard tandem of Pop Isaacs and Joe Toussaint, who combined for 36 points in Texas Tech’s 78-67 win over Texas in Austin on Jan. 6, shot a combined 4-of-19 from the floor and 1-of-14 from 3 ...
Passed over by the NCAA Tournament selection committee, Texas received a bid to the 1980 NIT, the last postseason tournament a Lemons-coached Texas team would reach. [110] The Longhorns posted a 70–61 win over St. Joseph's before falling to Southwestern Louisiana , 77–76, in the second round to finish with a 19–11 overall record.
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In the late 1930s, Goodyear, Firestone, General Electric, and other companies with similar Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Elite teams, decided to form the National Basketball League (NBL) to showcase their teams (it was actually that the MBC changed its name to the NBL). [2] The Wingfoots won the first NBL title in 1938.