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Roundtable: Kentucky - Texas Western Anniversary and perception of Adolph Rupp

In case you missed it, Wednesday was the 50th anniversary of the 1966 Kentucky/Texas Western title game, and to commemorate it, ESPN aired the game in its entirety Wednesday night.

This was a great moment in sports and life in general as it helped pave the way for equality in college athletics. Even though UK is essentially the bad guy in that they're who Test Western had to beat for the title, there's no question it was a great moment in sports and a great story overall.

But one of the few tragedies of the story is how it's wrongfully told in several areas, whether it's the movie Glory Road or just how lazy journalists portray Rupp as an ignorant racist who was essentially the bad guy in all of this.