As the South was transformed by the civil rights movement in the 1960s, so too was the SEC. Texas Western's historic win with an all-Black starting five over Coach Rupp's all-white Kentucky Wildcats in the 1966 NCAA final marked a turning point for basketball in the SEC. Vanderbilt's Perry Wallace then became the conference's first Black player, leading the way for pioneers who would travel a hard road to history. Down in Baton Rouge at LSU, Pete Maravich fashioned one of the most extraordinary college basketball careers of all time. In 1970, another transformative SEC basketball figure in Dawn Staley was born in Philadelphia.