I don’t know if IU, or any team for that matter, has played so well against such great comp (John Lucus, Albert King, Buck Williams, Earnest Graham, etc.) A performance for the ages.
Most memorable IU game you have ever watched
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Correction. Lucus wasn’t on that team at that time. But they also had Greg Manning, who was very good.
Probably the best performance that I have ever watched an IU team play. 1981 IU vs Maryland (The Maryland Massacre)
The "Fly By" by Bob Knight on his way to the locker room after being ejected was within an inch of TV Ted's shoulder.
I thought RMK was going to deck TV Ted when he headed straight for him, I immediately thought, Oh No!
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One for the Time Capsule. One of the greatest college basketball performances of All-Time, by any team.
Seems to me they had a tough time in one game against LSU maybe??? They had a little guard named Morton and Isaiah got in foul trouble early? Might have been down at the half.
Yeah, My apologies about that, I jumped the gun and posted before I read your post........I'll watch that in the future.
That was something...Knight walks out of the gym through the visitor's tunnel so he can walk past Valentine...I thought, at the time, there's going to be a punch...
All the above were great games so one not mentioned-
IU-Auburn second round 1987 in the Hoosier Dome with 35,000 in attendance. RMK says well our defense isn’t very good but maybe if we can beat Auburn we have a chance to win some games in the tourney.
Auburn comes out very strong. They play a junk defense on Alford and Dean Garrett picks up his third early in the first half. Auburn is dominant. The crowd really isn’t into it until RMK goes to the scorer table and really really makes his displeasure known to the officials. Then it turns completely around and IU finishes them without much problem.
In those days I scared my family when I watched IU on TV so they were outside. A neighbor came over to talk and heard me in the house and asked if I was beating a dog.
RMK was a genius.
IU-Auburn second round 1987 in the Hoosier Dome with 35,000 in attendance. RMK says well our defense isn’t very good but maybe if we can beat Auburn we have a chance to win some games in the tourney.
Auburn comes out very strong. They play a junk defense on Alford and Dean Garrett picks up his third early in the first half. Auburn is dominant. The crowd really isn’t into it until RMK goes to the scorer table and really really makes his displeasure known to the officials. Then it turns completely around and IU finishes them without much problem.
In those days I scared my family when I watched IU on TV so they were outside. A neighbor came over to talk and heard me in the house and asked if I was beating a dog.
RMK was a genius.
didn't Benson have a tip in at the buzzer in Btown to send it to overtime? (would probably have gone to replay today).
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didn't he really pound on the scorer's table and and maybe pound a phone down as well iirc.
believe you on the camera thing, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was televised in Btown.
but might have been, and i'm mis remembering.
now i'm curious if it was.
have to be several here who remember which.
enquiring minds want to know.
AJ Guyton's game winner vs Temple in Bloomington. I didn't get to attend a ton of game but I was sitting behind one of the baskets for that one.
those days in the 60s in 17th st fieldhouse were great times, and i was young.
a much different and more intimate atmosphere than SSAH, but probably not as good as when they played in the big room in the HPER.
today we see every big moment a hundred times, and are available in perpetuity on the internet.
all those moments back then were fleeting and lasted an instant.
a shame there isn't good video from the 60s. (most games were televised on Ch 4, but if taped at all, i think Ch 4 just taped over everything). (and video probably degrades).
another memorable loss i didn't mention, 1965, the Vans and McGlocklin's senior yr, (Branch's last), they lost a game in Btown that went to the last possession to #1 Mich and Cazzie Russell.
i know it was televised, as i was being punished and couldn't go, so had to watch on tv.
Indiana vs Davidson in the 1978 Indiana Classic. Why that game? Simple. The first time I was in Assembly Hall.
were you there by chance. i think i've heard about that one before.
my mom told me about everybody being huddled around the radio for the 53 champ game.
i love that pic in the IMU bookstore window of Big Bell's outstretched arms holding basketballs in each hand over other players.
if you've seen, do you know who the other players are.
"One of the most iconic IU basketball photos. L to R: Bill Slayback, Gary Long, Walt Bellamy, Leroy Gamble, and Herbie Lee. Photo: courtesy of Indiana University Archives."
"One of the most iconic IU basketball photos. L to R: Bill Slayback, Gary Long, Walt Bellamy, Leroy Gamble, and Herbie Lee. Photo: courtesy of Indiana University Archives."
much thanks for the original pic and the other players' names.
i'm gonna guess this is the upstairs gym in the HPER against the east wall, with the door being the door to the big metal staircase leading down to the fieldhouse big room.
the pic in the IMU bookstore i've seen is out of context of the background, and you only see the players superimposed against a white background..
this is the 1st time i've seen the pic as it was shot, with the room also in the pic.
if it is the upstairs gym, the cage in front of the radiator is interesting.
wonder if that's to protect the radiator, or protect players on the center court after driving the lane full bore or such, from going into the radiator and burning themselves on it
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I think he pounded the phone during one of the games in Cincy... Duke or LSU.
Google says LSU in Cincy...
They go at it again today, those two noted mentors of emotion, Bob Knight and Dale Brown, the head basketball coaches of Indiana and Louisiana State, respectively. They don't meet often, which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your tolerance for psychological fervor.
The last time they met was five years ago in the second round of the NCAA Tournament - the same circumstance as now - when Knight/Indiana overcame an eight-point deficit in the final seven minutes to beat Brown/LSU, 77-76. The game was all the more memorable because Knight threw a nationally televised temper tantrum in the second half, storming the scorer's table and slamming down a telephone, and then, in the press conference afterward said, "I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance."
https://www.deseret.com/1992/3/21/18974351/5-years-later-knight-and-brown-meet-again
Terrific thread. A couple games no one has mentioned. Dakich shutting down (slowing down) MJ in the tournament. Bailey tore up Kentucky his senior year.
Went to the IU-UNC game in ‘84 in Atlanta. Had stayed in the same hotel as UNC the weekend before in Charlotte and they and their fans were pretty confident. Hoped IU could hang with them for awhile but we were realistic that that wasn’t going to happen. Still incredible how that game turned out.
The Knight, Soviet, Burr game. Sat right behind the scorers table and listened to the entire thing. Many said and still say that Knight pulled the team in protest which is not accurate.
I cant recall who they were playing...lets say Southeast Tx Border Baptist at the Holiday Classic at MSA (because Knight had a lot of respect for what Coach Magillicutty is doing there). I am sitting low directly across from the bench. Knight gets pissed and tosses a half full paper cup of water (maybe Gatorade) over his head into the first 6 or 7 rows. A couple people get water on them. one guy grabs the cup stomps down and smashes it on Knight's empty chair. Funny as hell.
Purdue grads sob about that for decades. They were deeply offended.
I thought about those two as well. We had no business hanging with UNC '84 based on talent on the court. MJ gets two fouls in the first half, Smith puts him on ice, IU plays efficient ball on both ends. And I do remember Damon giving it to UK. Also remember the last second loss at Kansas (Jacque Vaughn shot?)...remember yelling "I am so F'n tired of losing to Kansas" as they had been a thorn in our side during the early 90s.
Thanks, I started this thread because the other posts just keep turning into a bitchfest, and all of us true long time fans have great memories of these classic games from years gone by. I was in FL during spring break when Nick Anderson hit that shot in 89, and I had to go outside and walk around the hotel parking lot, sweating my ass off, for over an hour just to calm down. Still remember it like it was yesterday.
Good one...yes we were not getting a very good account of what was actually happening on TV. Played out in bizarro fashion on the tube. I think that was the first televised IU game since the 'Cuse championship game many months prior...IU rated fairly high preseason, some had Keith Smart as a preseason AA, Edwards and Jones arriving...then this first preseason game fiasco...the 87-88 season started in a very auspicious manner.
A thorough butt whipping of a Maryland team many thought had the talent to win the National Title
Then the USSR Soviet coaches and players waved arms raised to the IU Assembly Hall fans and the IU fans started booing them. Fans were laughing and cheering when RMK took the team off the floor. Exhibition game over. Knight points at and later tells the IU AD, "You better straighten this F'r out. We had a lane violation and this a$$h@le's calling technical fouls. You better straighten this (guy) out or I'm taking my team off the floor..." to paraphrase or words to that effect heard on TV. It was surreal. The Soviet team and coaches didn't know what to do. Old white haired Soviet coach looked around completely befuddled. I think the officials walked over to the score table, signed the book, and walked off the floor. Game over. Edwards and Jones were Freshmen at IU. Only months after winning IU Banner #5.
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Jim Burr called the forfeit and only then, with the game decided, did Knight pull the team off the floor. Todd Jadlow relayed exactly what happened on an Indy radio show a few years ago. A strange contest.
I remember there were plenty of people who didn’t give IU much of a chance, since Buck and King were so dominant. UD Arena was a great venue for that game.
