The Miners beat Kentucky (an all-white program until 1969) 72–65 in the historic championship game, played on Saturday, March 19, at Cole Field House on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, a suburb of Washington, D.C.[2][3][4] The team was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007 [5] and inspired the book and film Glory Road.

The 1965–66 Texas Western basketball team faced many issues due to racism.

[7] As for their professional outlooks following this season, only one of the players from this team (David Lattin) would end up playing in the NBA, being selected as a Top 10 pick by the San Francisco Warriors in the 1967 NBA draft.

After spending a year in San Francisco, he would be called up by the Phoenix Suns in the 1968 NBA expansion draft and play a season with them before spending the rest of his professional career in the early 1970s in the rivaling upstart American Basketball Association, playing his final years with the Pittsburgh Condors and Memphis Tams before retiring in 1973.

Finally, the rest of the roster would not even touch the NBA or the ABA themselves following this season onward.