Johnny Green and the NCAA night he met Adolph Rupp
Michigan State’s Johnny Green brought out the best in just about everyone during the 1956-57 basketball season. Upon joining a 4-7 lineup in January, he sparked a 10-game winning streak that captured the Spartans’ first Big Ten hoop title. And “just about everyone” included Kentucky head coach Adolph Rupp, a man history has painted a racist while he ruled his segregated state. Michigan State and Kentucky met in the 1957 NCAA Mideast Regional on the Wildcats’ campus, forcing…