The NAIA changed basketball, and Kansas City

Posted By: Stacie Coulter on March 14, 2011

By: BLAIR KERKHOFF

Alcorn State was minutes away from tipping off a game at the 1974 NAIA Tournament when Braves coach Davey Whitney received a tap on the shoulder from a Municipal Auditorium official.
“Phone call,” he was told.
Now? Whitney shooed away the messenger.
A few minutes later came another tap.
“I was told it was important and I had to take the call,” Whitney said. “So I left the bench and got on the phone.”

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