Part Two: Pioneers, 1960-1970

Overview

As the South was reworked by the civil rights motion within the Sixties, so too was the SEC. Texas Western’s historic win with an all-Black beginning 5 over Coach Rupp’s all-white Kentucky Wildcats within the 1966 NCAA last marked a turning level for basketball within the SEC. Vanderbilt’s Perry Wallace then grew to become the convention’s first Black participant, main the best way for pioneers who would journey a tough street to historical past. Down in Baton Rouge at LSU, Pete Maravich usual one of probably the most extraordinary school basketball careers of all time. In 1970, one other transformative SEC basketball determine in Dawn Staley was born in Philadelphia.