Please use some hindsight folks.

[TR32]

Even Coach Knight was losing to teams that he should not have lost to in his final years. The game was changing, but his approach was not.

The players were changing. The media scrutiny was changing.

 

[IUHoopster]

Yet we still made the tourney every single year. I can’t even imagine making the tourney every year.

And yet, at that time, he was criticized for early exits from the tournament. Suddenly the latter part of his career are the glory days? I’ll agree IU hasn’t accomplished similar since then with the exception of Crean.