The game was in Dayton.
sounds reliable as far as internet rumors go. Did she arrive in a black helicopter?
Was really a f'n weird day, I was 8-ish, was walking home from a friend's very nearby house and this new trashy, bully type 7th grader who'd been picking on a few of us was coming after me alone on his BMX bike, I was walking, couldn't out run him and get in our fence without an ass-kicking. I did not panic! I casually pretended I didn't know it was coming from behind and slowly approached the boulevard where I grabbed a big stick and jabbed it in his spokes when he was slowing to attack. F'd the dude up bad, but I wasn't bothered by him again, or many of my friends for that matter.
I listened to the second half of that game live on my radio in the parking garage of my apartment building in Hawaii. I left the ship early to get ready for the party I was having that night for the delayed broadcast. The people in the garage probably thought I was nuts jumping up and down in uniform when IU won. My party guests didn’t know that I knew IU won but were suspicious of my cool as a cucumber demeanor towards the end. 😉
That was the ‘81 championship.
then you'd think you'd remember that was in '81!
Another of the things today's kids will never experience! If you want a good laugh, see if you can find a car with manual roll up windows and have a kid try and roll it up. They don't have that muscle or coordination or something. It was hilarious with my kids and their friends, but I'm easily amused!
Could not agree more. Totally got screwed that game. Rarely been that pissed off in my life!!! BTW, 71 and fan since the VanArsdales. Rarely miss a game though I did graduate from Miami of Ohio. Go Redskins😜🤨as wellIU had two teams in the '90s that could have, maybe should have, won the national championship. The Final Four when IU lost to Duke remains the only loss that I've ever blamed on the Refs. There is no doubt in my mind that Teddy V was paid off or incompetent. There is no other option on that one.
I would have put the NNW&CC to shame with my overly emotional screaming and yelling about the refs during that game. However, I was watching it in California on TV with a smallish group of people, so it was OK.
59, I became a fan shortly after the 1972 season when my dad became a fan. He was born and raised in Illinois and moved to Indiana after college. His conversion was due to RMK. I went to a football game in '73 I think. I do remember seeing Quin Buckner playing football and knowing he was also on the basketball team.
I did something similar on my college art project/fake ID. Did you know you could make an old IN drivers license' 5 into a 3 with a bit of determination, white out, a sharp #2 pencil and about 3 pencil dots?
I will never, ever argue with you about anything you post. Respect your elders and especially women. Cheers!
72 and became a fan right after RMK got there. Good old Channel 4. If I remember right the game against the Russian touring team got quite rough and a little out of hand. At one time in the game RMK went to the scorers table and took off his shoe and pounded it on the table imitating Khrushchev at the United Nations. LMAO and I think that incident endeared him to a lot of people.
Yes, that's when I really watched my first IU game. I'm a Hautian and was young, prior to that day it was all ISU cause they were good, I knew very little about IU until that night watching Isaiah and mixed in with updates about Reagan, weird introduction to IU bball.
People from Terre Haute are Haitians? I did not know that.
He was very disappointed the USSR boycotted the 1984 Olympics when he coached the US team. He was itching to give them a severe beating. He had the team to do it too.
I went to almost every ECW game in 71. They were an unbelievable team who made other really good teams look really bad. The state final game was not their one of their best, but the semifinal game was probably one of the best games ever played in the state of Indiana. (its on youtube and you will love it even if you had no skin in the game so to speak) They didnt care about defense but made sure you only got one shot, And with the front line, 6foot7 Tim Stoddard, 6foot 5 Ulysses Bridgeman and 6foot6 Pete Trgovich most teams didnt have a fair chance of getting a board. Their guards ( Rubin Baily, Darnell Adell) were at half court by the time the other team even knew what hit them. It was by far the fastest basketball I have ever seen. Scored 344 points in the final four games of the state tournament. All 5 starters went on to play D!. Washington should have never beaten Gary Tolleston in the State finals in 69. That was probably the worst officiated final in state history. I still have a couple of friends that talk about all that went on at that game and all the questionable calls. Things got really ugly in the stands during the game and came close to a riot after the game. I say In a fair and square game ECW takes Washington by 12, but we will never know.
That was a helluva time to be at IU during those four years!
66, started in the late 60s listening to football and basketball games on WOWO in my dads Chevy wagon. Got hooked in February 1975 when I came to Bloomington to see the IU puke game. Sat in the balcony, stayed with a buddy in briscoe and went to rapps for pizza. Man my freshman year 75/76 was great!
If you are talking about the 75 game, UK beat IU at Dayton Ohio. I am not sure when the NCAA changed the rule but it wasn't then because I attended and have photos of the 1981 Mideast Regional game at Assembly Hall where IU beat UAB and St Joe that weekend.
The real fear was that because of logistical difficulties, the game might not be rescheduled. Can you imagine UNC/IU co-National Champs, what a tainted banner that would be amongst the others? Would it have been displayed as 7’-6” tall instead of 15’ like the others?
Teddy brought being a Richard Noggin to a whole new level.
I was holding my breath thinking it might be a Woody Hayes moment. But it was just RMK's way of showing his utter disgust and comtempt for that man.
