Don Haskins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Don Haskins

American basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1930

Place of Birth: Enid, Oklahoma, United States

Date of Death: 07-Sep-2008

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Donald Lee Haskins (March 14, 1930 – September 7, 2008), nicknamed "The Bear", was an American basketball player and coach.
He played college basketball for three years under coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University).
He was the head coach at Texas Western College (renamed the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967) from 1961 to 1999.
His greatest triumph occurred in 1966, when his team won the NCAA Tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp.
The watershed game initiated the end of racial segregation in college basketball. In his time at Texas Western/UTEP, he compiled a 719–353 record, suffering only five losing seasons.
He won 14 Western Athletic Conference championships and four WAC tournament titles, had fourteen NCAA tournament berths and made seven trips to the NIT.
Haskins led UTEP to 17 20-plus-win seasons and served as an assistant Olympic team coach in 1972.He was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997 as a basketball coach.
His 1966 team was inducted in its entirety by the same Hall of Fame on September 7, 2007.