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In what was the first-ever nationally televised regular season college basketball game, the Cougars pulled off the stunning upset 71-69 in front of 52,000 fans in the Astrodome.
But there was more to the story than just a basketball game, as author Robert Jacobus explains in his book Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century.
He joins Houston Matters to talk about some of the stories in his book.
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