Harry Flournoy, team captain and the leading rebounder on Texas Western College’s historic 1966 national championship team, passed away on Saturday morning in Atlanta. He was 72 years old.
So many emotions...please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers! Rest In Paradise Father, Harry Flournoy Jr. pic.twitter.com/GCWIN4N9vT
— TL FLOURNOY (@thihiesha) November 26, 2016
Flournoy averaged 8.3 points and 10.7 rebounds in the Miners’ drive to a 28-1 record and upset of heavily-favored Kentucky in the 1966 national title game. It remains the only national championship won by a Division I men’s team in the state of Texas.