# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-haskins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:31:48.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-haskins"
name: "Don Haskins"
slug: "don-haskins"
description: "Donald Lee Haskins, nicknamed \"the Bear\", was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for three years under coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M. He was the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1961 to 1999. In 1966 his team won the NCAA tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp. The watershed game highlighted the end of racial segregation in college basketball."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach (1930–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DonHaskinsUTEPcoach.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1930-03-14"
deathDate: "2008-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.2
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.541701333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Haskins"
    title: "Don Haskins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "دون هاسكينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Haskins"
    title: "Don Haskins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Haskins"
    title: "Don Haskins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Haskins"
    title: "Don Haskins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Haskins"
    title: "Don Haskins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Haskins"
    title: "Don Haskins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716284"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump