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1967 NIT ChAMPIoNS
The Salukis won four
games at Madison Square
Garden in 1967 to win the
National Championship.
It was March of 1967. Lyndon Baines
Ralph Johnson (left) and
Johnson was President of the United Walt Frazier hold the NIT
States. The Vietnam War was taking Trophy after SIU beat
Marquette.
place overseas. A few months earlier, the
Green Bay Packers rolled over Kansas
City in the first Super Bowl. The Beatles’
renowned “Sgt. Pepper’s” album was still
two months away from its release date.
Meanwhile, people in the small town
of Carbondale, Ill., were overcome with
Saluki fever.
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