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The consensus 1966 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. [1] To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
The 1965–66 Houston Cougars men's basketball team represented the University of Houston in NCAA University Division competition in the 1965–66 season. Houston, coached by Guy Lewis , played its home games in Jeppesen Fieldhouse , Delmar Fieldhouse , and the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas , and was then an Independent .
1965–66 American college basketball standings templates (18 P) 1966 National Invitation Tournament participants (1 P) 1966 NCAA University Division basketball tournament participants (7 P)
1965–66 NCAA Division I men's basketball season; Preseason AP No. 1: UCLA [1] [2] NCAA Tournament: 1966: Tournament dates: March 7–19, 1966 – National Championship: Cole Field House College Park, Maryland: NCAA Champions: Texas Western: Helms National Champions: Texas Western: Other champions: BYU : Player of the Year : Cazzie Russell ...
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Basketball Game That Changed American Sports (2000) Haskins, Don with Dan Wetzel. Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever. New York:Hyperion, 2006. 254 pp. No index. ISBN 1-4013-0791-4. Hutchison, Phillip.
The 1966 NCAA University Division basketball tournament involved 22 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national men's basketball champion of the NCAA University Division, now Division I. It began on March 7 and ended with the championship game on March 19 in College Park, Maryland. A total of 26 games were played ...
The 1965–66 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in NCAA competition in the 1965–66 season. Coached by Adolph Rupp , the team had no player taller than 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)—unusually small even for that era—and became known as "Rupp's Runts".
In September 1965, the NCAA granted the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) an automatic berth in the NCAA College Division tournament. Tommy Niland, head coach of Le Moyne, which had received an at-large berth to each of the previous two NCAA tournaments, said that he was generally in favor of automatic qualification for the tournament, but, with one less at-large bid ...