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Coach Jerry C. Johnson’s LeMoyne-Owen College basketball team won the 1975 NCAA Division III Championship making him the first African-American coach to do so and LOC the first HBCU to accomplish the task. Their journey was chronicled in “Forgotten Champions.”

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