 The team then struggled to be competitive until it won two conference championships in 1984 and 1990, under head coach Jerry Matthews.The 1965–66 men's basketball team and the City of Commerce were portrayed as racially abusing opposing players in a fictionalized scene in the Disney film "Glory Road", which chronicled the NCAA-champion Texas Western team (the first to start five African American players in a national championship game).University president Keith McFarland even voiced his displeasure with the film's portrayal of the university to Walt Disney Studios chairperson Richard Cook.