MSU's presence in Omaha in 2009.

cormacthewhaler · 06-16-2009, 05:06 PM

A buddy of mine went to Omaha to see USM play and I got a call from him this morning, I thought this was kind of funny.

Apparently the NCAA is doing a segment on black history throughout NCAA history. He said he looked up and there was a black and white video (half reenacted, half real) of the 1963 incident between MSU basketball and Governor Ross Barnett. He said the video was actually really good, so if anyone could look for it and find it... post it... I'd like to see it.

Quote:

In 1963, the team made history by defying an order from then Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett not to play in the NCAA tournament, because the team they faced, Loyola University of Chicago, had African-Americans on its squad (4 of them were starters). (The Jackson Daily News also tried to intimidate the Bulldogs against playing the Ramblers by prominently featuring pictures of the 4 black players on the front page of the paper.) Coach Babe McCarthy sneaked the team out of Starkville to travel to East Lansing, Michigan, to face Loyola, only to lose to the Ramblers, who went on to win the title that year. This was one of the first times that an all-white school faced a team with black members, and it is considered to be a watershed moment in the Civil Rights era.