Right now, it is time for the way black History fact. In today's way Black History fact comes from Campus Echo dot Com. Eighty years ago, in the depths of the Jim Crow era, basketball teams from what is now North Carolina Central University and Duke University broke barriers in the South's first racially integrated college basketball game, known as the Secret Game. It brought together the Eagles varsity men's team and a squad from Duke's School of Medicine. Students in the YW SORRY the YMCA chapters at Duke in North Carolina College for Negroes as NCCU was known at the time, had been holding clandestine prayer meetings. A conversation at one of those meetings started it all. One of the ncc students overheard some nineteen forties trash talk about Duke's medical school team and issued a challenge to see who had the best team in Durham. According to the author Milton Katz on the documentary film Black Magic about the Secret Game, quote, one of the gentlemen from Duke boasted about their medical team. They said they were in the best shape and the best in the state, if not even beyond the state of North Carolina, said Katz, who wrote Breaking Through, a biography of NCC's coach at the time, John mcclindon, quote, another member of North Carolina College for a Negro, says, well, you may be great, but you haven't played the greatest. McLendon signed off on the idea and declared that the game would be held at NCC's gym, with referees and a legitimate game clock. The two squad scheduled the game for eleven am on a Sunday because they knew most Durham citizens, including the police, would be in church. The teams didn't tell any staff, and when a reporter for The Carolina Times found out, he agreed not to say anything. That morning, March twelfth, nineteen forty four, Duke's team jumped into borrowed cars, rode to NCC's gym, and put their jackets over their heads to keep them from being identified. There were no spectators. Cats said in the documentary the first moments of the game were misshots turnovers. I think they just had to get the bugs out, and they obviously did. Duke began to get going midway through the game, but in the second half the Eagles scored on nearly all of their possessions, pulling away to triumph eighty eight to forty four. Quote. Literally, they ran Duke's team out of the gym. Black College Sports Encyclopedia author Fred Whitteld said in the documentary the whole event was kept completely quiet because of a Jim Crow law prohibited competitions between HBCU's and p wis. Even the Durham Police Department never found out. This game helped pave the way for how modern basketball is played from high school to the NBA. Athletes from different backgrounds can compete against each other at the highest level without the fear of violence. Quote. History will never tell what they really did. It was just a ripple in the pond, with Bild said in the film. But the fact is that the ripple came and then pretty soon it became a title weight. All right, A couple of things I want to share here. This game came after Duke had won a national championship. So Duke was indeed you know that team until they played the Black team, and then they found out that they they barely got half as many points. Okay, this was back when there was no shot clock, and back when games were very low scoring. And so when we talk about how this this game fundamentally changed how basketball's played, that's one of the things to know. Nowadays there's sort of a razzle dazzle style of play. John mcclinnon from the North Carolina College for Negroes. He's known as the author of the fast Break. As I mentioned, games used to be very low scoring, but Duke ultimately borrowed the style of play from the North Carolina College for Negroes. And then you know, because they regularly used to score one hundred point games, once even having one hundred and fifty point game, they ultimately again changed the course of basketball. So if you're a basketball fan, this game has ties to perhaps why you love the game in the first place. Yes,

Right now, it is time for the way black History fact. In today's way Black History fact comes from Campus Echo dot Com. Eighty years ago, in the depths of the Jim Crow era, basketball teams from what is now North Carolina Central University and Duke University broke barriers in the South's first racially integrated college basketball game, known as the Secret Game. It brought together the Eagles varsity men's team and a squad from Duke's School of Medicine. Students in the YW SORRY the YMCA chapters at Duke in North Carolina College for Negroes as NCCU was known at the time, had been holding clandestine prayer meetings. A conversation at one of those meetings started it all. One of the ncc students overheard some nineteen forties trash talk about Duke's medical school team and issued a challenge to see who had the best team in Durham. According to the author Milton Katz on the documentary film Black Magic about the Secret Game, quote, one of the gentlemen from Duke boasted about their medical team. They said they were in the best shape and the best in the state, if not even beyond the state of North Carolina, said Katz, who wrote Breaking Through, a biography of NCC's coach at the time, John mcclindon, quote, another member of North Carolina College for a Negro, says, well, you may be great, but you haven't played the greatest. McLendon signed off on the idea and declared that the game would be held at NCC's gym, with referees and a legitimate game clock. The two squad scheduled the game for eleven am on a Sunday because they knew most Durham citizens, including the police, would be in church. The teams didn't tell any staff, and when a reporter for The Carolina Times found out, he agreed not to say anything. That morning, March twelfth, nineteen forty four, Duke's team jumped into borrowed cars, rode to NCC's gym, and put their jackets over their heads to keep them from being identified. There were no spectators. Cats said in the documentary the first moments of the game were misshots turnovers. I think they just had to get the bugs out, and they obviously did. Duke began to get going midway through the game, but in the second half the Eagles scored on nearly all of their possessions, pulling away to triumph eighty eight to forty four. Quote. Literally, they ran Duke's team out of the gym. Black College Sports Encyclopedia author Fred Whitteld said in the documentary the whole event was kept completely quiet because of a Jim Crow law prohibited competitions between HBCU's and p wis. Even the Durham Police Department never found out. This game helped pave the way for how modern basketball is played from high school to the NBA. Athletes from different backgrounds can compete against each other at the highest level without the fear of violence. Quote. History will never tell what they really did. It was just a ripple in the pond, with Bild said in the film. But the fact is that the ripple came and then pretty soon it became a title weight. All right, A couple of things I want to share here. This game came after Duke had won a national championship. So Duke was indeed you know that team until they played the Black team, and then they found out that they they barely got half as many points. Okay, this was back when there was no shot clock, and back when games were very low scoring. And so when we talk about how this this game fundamentally changed how basketball's played, that's one of the things to know. Nowadays there's sort of a razzle dazzle style of play. John mcclinnon from the North Carolina College for Negroes. He's known as the author of the fast Break. As I mentioned, games used to be very low scoring, but Duke ultimately borrowed the style of play from the North Carolina College for Negroes. And then you know, because they regularly used to score one hundred point games, once even having one hundred and fifty point game, they ultimately again changed the course of basketball. So if you're a basketball fan, this game has ties to perhaps why you love the game in the first place. Yes,