Guest blogger: Abdiweli 1

Glory Road is based on a true story it’s about a college coach (Don Haskins) that goes out and looks all over the nation for the top basketball players. He travels as far Gary, Indiana and New York. He normal started out by starting tree black guys and two white guys as the season kept going they had some disagreements and there were some fights between the teammates and coach(Don Haskins) didn’t take side he treated them the same he told them if you start anything I won’t think twice about cutting you. But mainly the blacks went through most of the trouble as they couldn’t go into bars with their white teammates but the white guys were yelled at when they were seen out in public just because there on the same team as them. He brings them all together in Texas and he ends up starting all of them he was the first coach in history to start five black players. when asked about his decision on why he started five black players, Haskins downplayed the significance of this decision “I really didn’t think about starting five black guys. I just wanted to put my five best guys on the court. I just wanted to win the game.” Though credited with starting five black guys in college basketball in the south he wrote a book named “I certainly did not expect to be some racial pioneer or change the world.” After he did that that season dunking was banned in the NCAA from 1967 to 1976, not least due to the success of the Texas Western basketball team and an UCLA player named Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabber). There were 12 members on the basketball team and they won the NCAA Nation Championship that season. The team was made the Basketball Hall of Fame.