I’d say Mike Lewis bc he argued w BK. Never saw that happen before or since by any player to any coach ever. And he lived to tell about it.
Who were/are IU’s meanest/dirtiest players?
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Mike was neither mean nor dirty. He was tough and strong willed enough to bark back at BK. The closest thing he did to being dirty was bouncing a ball off of the nose of a deserving Iowa player who couldn't seem to grasp the inbounding rules.
I don't know about dirty but I bet one of the players that opponents and opponents fans loved to hate is currently on our bench.
He indeed had his moments. Took a bite out of the competition.
I don't know how mean or dirty he was, but I always got the feeling Will Sheehey could get under opponents and their fan's skin, pretty easily.
yep. He was never dirty (although it was almost criminal what he did to the Iowa dude on that poster dunk). But he was cocky. Bicep flex in front of fat boy PU cheerleader....classic.
IU really hasn't been a hot bed for ice hockey goon type of players. Actually the opposite.
I'm sure someone will mention Elston's "footwork".
Lewis was hard nosed and scrappy, but not at all 'dirty'.
Who was it who threw the ball off Iowa Jacks' mug? Not that the kid wasn't asking for it every night.
The bicep flex at Mackey was superb and fitting for how that night went. I think it was Jadlow that hit the Iowa player in the face on the inbound. There's been some debate on who did that, so I'm wondering if it happened other times as well.
Jadlow- I think you may be right. I'm also betting Jess Settles was on the court, since he played for the hawkeyes for 20 yrs.
Isaiah Thomas...
He was like the mouthy cousin from three streets over who starts the sh%* then runs home...
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as a lifelong IU fan, I can honestly say...Jadlow deserved a punch in the face for that. I would have lost my shit. As a player....there are some lines you don't cross. Hit him in the knees, not the nose.
The Willflex enraged the puers and earned him the "**** You Shee- hey" chant despite the fact that the flex was aimed at his teammates and not the student section (unlike Haarms' antics).
Mike did it as well to a more than deserving Jaacks but his was less obviously intentional than Jadlow's, who should have gotten rung up for it.
Never forget when Rosie Barnes clearly sucker punched Zeke leading to the iconic Jack Purdue segment on the BK show.
Edmondson or Scearce nearly decapitated Wittman in Bloomington that year too. RMK showed it on his show.
Lewis with the two-handed slam off Jaacks face at the 58:15 mark. Was the moment I dubbed him "The Assassin".
THAT is a guy that never should have worn the jersey.
Is he in prison?
Seemed fairly normal when he was on the court besides being another average Crean reach.
thanks, so I'm not crazy....I knew somebody popped Jaacks. Much deserved.
I'd say him for what he did to Jaaks from Iowa, but Jaaks was dirty too and totally deserved it.
Haris Mujezinovic. At least he always looked like one tough SOB to me…
Eli Holman. But just during exit interviews.
Yeah, there was quite a bit of extra curricular stuff from Jaaks that game. I actually attended that game as a student, Jaaks getting the ball to the face was karma.
I agree it’s poorly worded but it is the best I could manage under trying circumstances. Thanks For holding my feet to the fire.
Armon Bassett-when ordering pizza.
EDIT: Just googled Armon and he has all kinds of legal trouble-facing 3 felonies right now for a domestic incident in Terra Haute.
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The year before, Lohaus took one off the dome from him in Iowa City.
Blab bounced one off an Iowa players face too
If you look at both of those instances (Jadlow and Lewis) where they threw the ball off the Iowa guy's faces, BOTH Iowa players were standing ON the end line. Neither time the official called it.
Knight always had a issue with Davis' teams because when they pressed they always tried to skirt the rules in order to apply their press.
From the article:
"He throws it from three feet away into a guy's face ...," Davis said. "Then they call a technical on my assistant coach for getting up from the bench."
Knight said Lewis was just trying to get the ball inbounds.
"They were crossing the line all game," Knight said of the Hawkeyes' defensive pressure on inbounds plays. "If he crosses the line and gets hit in the face, that's his problem, not the guy who's throwing the ball in."
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Knight didn't tell both Lewis and Jadlow explicitly to slam it off an Iowa defender's face if they crowded the endline.
Knight always had a issue with Davis' teams because when they pressed they always tried to skirt the rules in order to apply their press.
From the article:
"He throws it from three feet away into a guy's face ...," Davis said. "Then they call a technical on my assistant coach for getting up from the bench."
Knight said Lewis was just trying to get the ball inbounds.
"They were crossing the line all game," Knight said of the Hawkeyes' defensive pressure on inbounds plays. "If he crosses the line and gets hit in the face, that's his problem, not the guy who's throwing the ball in."
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Knight didn't tell both Lewis and Jadlow explicitly to slam it off an Iowa defender's face if they crowded the endline.
It was nowhere near three feet away. I assure you that knight said if they keep it up and the refs won't call it...pop him on th nose. Jaacks was more than deserving.
Of note is IU wasn't the ONLY team to slam Iowa in the face. Northwestern did also, and I think Michigan and Michigan St both did as well.
No, the Iowa defender (Horton?) was in Jadlow's face jumping up & down on the end line and maybe out of bounds on Doctor Tom's full court press. Jadlow throw a fastball off of the Iowa defenders beak, and the Iowa player swung wildly at the air with tears in his eyes from a nose that may have been broken. If anything, the Iowa player could have gotten a Technical for throwing wild punches that did not connect and guarding the inbounds pass while out of bounds.
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