Due to March Madness, we'll be posting some great basketball-centered movies over the next few days, and this feel-good story from 2006 is the first. The sports movie in general tends to follow a now cliched formula of overcoming obstacles on the way to gaining unprecedented success, but this one really moved me, and as it pertains to college basketball, it couldn't be more appropriate. Based on the true life story of the team that changed the sport by integrating college basketball in the 1960's, Josh Lucas stars as the coach of the small school of Texas Western, and Derek Luke is one of the star players of the 1966 season. It's a heartwarmer.
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