Goofs

The close-up cutaway shots of the scoreboards in several sections of the movie do not match the scoreboards used in the wide shots or action shots. Most of the time, the action shots use a modified Nevco Model 2400. The cutaways are sometimes a TransLux Fair Play/Fair Tron scoreboard, sometimes another brand scoreboard all together. The Nevco 2400 can be programmed to display a zero in the minute column when there is less than a minute of play left. In the movie, one shot shows the scoreboard display ":55" with no 0 for the minutes and later in the same scene "0:02" with a 0 in the minute column.

After Lattin picks up his fourth foul in the Championship game, Coach Don Haskins takes him out of the line-up. But after the next basket by Texas Western, you see him running back down the court. it's not until later, with two minutes to go, Coach Haskins puts Lattin back in the game.

During the final game, there are several flipped shots of Coach Haskins cheering, and his wedding ring and watch are visible on his right hand instead of his left.

During the grueling "AM" practice, Coach Haskins is seen wearing a white shirt while mocking the players about the previous night. In other frames of the practice, he is seen wearing a black shirt. When he goes back to his room and kisses his wife, the shirt is white again.

The amount of blood on Shed's shirt after the bathroom scene.

The movie makes it seem like Willie Cager misses almost the entire second half of the season with his heart condition. In reality Cager played in 27 out of 29 total games for the Miners that season.

Coach Don Haskins was in his fifth season as head coach at Texas Western when they won the NCAA Championship, not his first as the movie portrays.

In their inaugural game versus Eastern New Mexico, Texas Western actually won by a score of 89-38. The movie shows a struggling team that barely wins its first game.

In the championship game, the crowd is portrayed waving Confederate flags and singing "Dixie." This never happened, as can be seen in the historical footage at the end of the movie.

In the game against #4 Iowa, Texas Western won by 18 points, 86-68, rather than by 1 point on a last second shot as depicted in the movie.

Flipped shot: Before the national championship game begins, Coach Rupp shakes hands with one of the officials. They shake Left hands and Coach Rupp is approaching from the Texas Western bench direction.

In the opening, the caption reads "Fort Worth, Texas 1965 High School State Championship" which was not possible, since Coach Don Haskins began coaching at Texas Western in 1961.

Coach Haskins says, when offered the job at TWC, that he's glad to have a job offer in "Division 1". The NCAA didn't have divisions until 1971. In 1965, schools were divided into a "University Division" and a "College Division".

When Texas Western is playing Kansas for the Midwest Finals, there is a KU banner hanging from the rafters of the ceiling of the auditorium. The banner depicts the KU Jayhawk facing the right. That is the current KU logo, but in 1965, the logo would have been facing left.

In the beginning of the film, Don Haskins is coaching a girl's basketball game. A standard 5 on 5 game is depicted, however up through the 70s (and in some states 80s and even 90s) High School Girls Basketball was played 9 to a team with the players assigned specific zones that they could not leave at any time. This was also the college rule until 1971.

There is a banner in Memorial Gym that says "Western Athletic Conference". Texas Western did not join the WAC until 1967.

When Bobby Joe Hill is forced to run stadium stairs as punishment by his coach, his microphone can be seen through the back of his T-shirt as he is bending over.

In the semi-final game you can see the real lights (turned off) behind the ones that were actually used to film the shot. This shot was filmed in the Lakefront arena in New Orleans.

The scene from Haskins' home after the high school girls victory in Ft Worth shows mountains on the horizon. There are no mountains around Ft Worth.

During the game against Kansas, the announcer states that the winner of the game will advance to the national championship, when in fact the winner advanced to play Utah in the national semifinal.

Early in the film, the radio announcer identifies himself as broadcasting on KTSM. At the Seattle game, the radio announcer says WTSM. KTSM is the correct El Paso radio station.