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Title: Glory Road (2006)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Josh Lucas | ... | Don Haskins | |
| Derek Luke | ... | Bobby Joe Hill | |
| Austin Nichols | ... | Jerry Armstrong | |
| Jon Voight | ... | Adolph Rupp | |
| Evan Jones | ... | Moe Iba | |
| Schin A.S. Kerr | ... | David Lattin | |
| Alphonso McAuley | ... | Orsten Artis | |
| Mehcad Brooks | ... | Harry Flournoy | |
| Sam Jones III | ... | Willie Worsley | |
| Damaine Radcliff | ... | Willie 'Scoops' Cager | |
| Emily Deschanel | ... | Mary Haskins | |
| Al Shearer | ... | Nevil Shed | |
| Red West | ... | Ross Moore | |
| Kip Weeks | ... | Togo Railey | |
| Mitch Eakins | ... | Dick Myers | |
In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Glory Road is a very entertaining movie if you are will to overlook its many inaccuracies. The movie would make the viewer think that Coach Haskins came to TWC and recruited a national championship caliber team in his first year as a collegiate coach. The truth is that Coach Haskins had been at TWC for 3 or 4 years before the national championship year and that there were several black players already at TWC including Nolan Richardson. Haskins also recruited Jim Barnes before the championship year and teams that Barnes played on may have been better than the championship team.
The film also take too many liberties with the games that were played during the championship year. The first game of the year was not a nail biter as the film shows but almost a 50 point blowout. The film shows that Iowa led TWC most of the game. The Iowa game was never close and certainly was no buzzer beater. The fact is that TWC only played a handful of games that were close that year, most notably against New Mexico and then in the NCAA Tournament against Cincy and Kansas.
The most disappointing inaccuracy shown in the film was the final game against Kentucky. Kentucky only led briefly in the game and TWC had as much as an 11 point lead in the 2nd half. TWC was not behind when Bobby Joe Hill stole the ball twice in the first half. The two steals allowed TWC to expand its lead to 5 points and set the tone for the rest of the game. I know the producers of the movie had to have a more exciting finish to keep the audience excited but the truth is that the game was never much in doubt. If anyone has seen the actual game film that exists, you will see a poorly played offensive game by both teams and an outstanding defensive effort by TWC. The movie should have paid more time on Coach Haskins' three guard strategy to counter Kentucky's fast break offense.
Glory Road is an inspirational movie but not a very accurate movie if you know the history of TWC. See the movie if you want to watch a feel good movie but not if you are looking for sports fact.