Southern Hoops series

60sdog

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After reviewing summaries of the 7 episodes, it looks like there will be NO mention of Babe McCarthy or the trailblazing MSU teams of the late 1950s/early 1960s, which featured such great players as Bailey Howell.

Maybe the synopses of the series left us out and there will be some slight mention in an actual episode. I will reserve judgment until after viewing them. If true, however, this will truly be a farce. They also pretty much left MSU out of the football history series they did a year or so ago.
 

Dawgg

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I noticed the same thing. I hope it’s just left out of the synopsis. It would be in the second episode, so we’ll know soon.
 

DawgInThe256

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I watched the first episode. There was a brief snippet with Bailey Howell where he talked about how the MSU team got called back home from a tournament in Evansville Indiana because one of the teams had African American players. I'm sure the Game of Change will be featured in a future episode.

I don't really have much opinion of him, but it seemed to really go out of its way to convince us Adolph Rupp wasn't racist.
 
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AROB44

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It was the NCAA not the NIT tournament. Back then there were only 16 teams invited.