March 19, 1966: The fault lines between American race relations and the sport of basketball intersect in a major way, when a team starting five black players beats a team starting five white ones. March 23, 2011: the fault lines intersect again, when Huffington Post blogger Rob Kirkpatrick wrote his piece “The Racial Biases of Duke Hating.”

Forty-five years ago, Texas Western University coach Don Haskins pitted five black starters against University of Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp’s five white starters.