This was contemporarily reported to include ultimatums of suspension or firing if the coach received technical fouls, and interference with contract negotiations.

[3] His annual briefings to the athletic department called for more diversity, which was understood to be directed at the basketball coaching staff.

[4] Coach Underhill later claimed in the press that Flack required athletic director Mike Cusack to interview black basketball players specifically looking for any racial animus.

The fact that if Underhill hadn’t created such a competitive basketball program Flack would never have conceived of that level of success was lost on nobody.

[9] President Flack made an ultimatum to star center Vitaly Potapenko that he would have only one more chance to pass the English as a second language exam or face expulsion.

Bilaal Neal had left the team with an illness, and junior college swingman Johnnie Blake again promised to join the roster but did not do so for the second year.

On November 11, head coach Ralph Underhill attended the MCC preseason media event in Indianapolis.