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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)
Johnson was President of the United and Walt Frazier hold
States. The Vietnam War was taking the NIT Trophy after
SIU beat Marquette.
place overseas. A few months earlier, the
Green Bay Packers rolled over Kansas
City in the rst 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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