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Don Haskins, 78; basketball coach was first to win NCAA title with 5 black starters

Don 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.

By Robyn Norwood

September 8, 2008

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