Los Angeles ? “Glory Road” is a magnificent story.
A high school girls basketball coach gets the job at Texas Western, an obscure mining school in El Paso, in 1965. He and his family live in a dormitory. With no talent and no recruiting budget, he talks seven black players from Detroit, Gary, Ind., and New York into coming.
They adjust to the coach's fierce demands, but one player is attacked in a restaurant bathroom by racists, and someone trashes their hotel rooms and scrawls racist epithets on the walls, in blood.
Undeterred, Texas Western (now UTEP) goes into the NCAA Tournament and beats mighty – and mighty white – Kentucky in the '66 finals. And 10 years later, black players are the backbone of every college program nationwide.
The movie is carried by Josh Lucas, who plays coach Don Haskins uncompromisingly.
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