WEBVTT 00:00:00.418 --> 00:00:06.394 - Well, welcome to another program. Good afternoon. My name is Michael Carter. And as always, welcome 00:00:06.394 --> 00:00:12.728 - to my beautiful wife, Paulette, and my cousins, and my brother over there to my right. I left some sheets 00:00:12.728 --> 00:00:18.764 - of paper on all the tables with our upcoming attractions going all the way into September next year, 00:00:18.764 --> 00:00:25.278 - I think. And keep in mind, these aren't all set in stone. We have changes sometimes. We've had cancellations 00:00:25.278 --> 00:00:30.238 - before, and we just deal with them as they happen. We just finally work around it. 00:00:30.818 --> 00:00:38.708 - Many thanks to the American Legion for allowing us to have these programs. We've been partners in presenting 00:00:38.708 --> 00:00:46.164 - and preserving local history for over 12 years now. And thanks so much to their wait staff and kitchen 00:00:46.164 --> 00:00:53.402 - staff who does such a great job. It's great we have two such people as Brooke and Amanda. Please be 00:00:53.402 --> 00:01:00.062 - generous with them. I'd also of course like to thank CATS TV for recording our programs for 00:01:00.482 --> 00:01:07.798 - 10 years now, about. Yeah. And I'd like to recognize the fellow who's been recording these guys the 00:01:07.798 --> 00:01:15.406 - last few years, Dave Walter. Our expert cameraman. He does such a great job. It's an important service. 00:01:15.406 --> 00:01:22.575 - It allows us to upload each program to YouTube for people who can't make it to the live programs. 00:01:22.575 --> 00:01:29.086 - In addition, it allows us to preserve our local history for future generations to enjoy. 00:01:29.186 --> 00:01:35.521 - to our local history enthusiasts who attend these programs. That's great. We really appreciate your 00:01:35.521 --> 00:01:41.984 - support. And also the ones that watch these programs on YouTube are very much appreciated. It's great 00:01:41.984 --> 00:01:48.762 - that all these transplanted Bloomingtonians can see this, these all over the country, because they contact 00:01:48.762 --> 00:01:55.605 - me and tell me to keep doing it. They like it, to keep in touch with their old town. How many new attendees 00:01:55.605 --> 00:01:57.822 - today? We got some new faces here? 00:01:59.074 --> 00:02:10.929 - Not very many. Anybody that is new that has an email address they want to leave with us to be contacted 00:02:10.929 --> 00:02:22.556 - by direct email, you can do that. We won't sell your information, honestly. No, we won't. So our next 00:02:22.556 --> 00:02:29.054 - program, how many people have heard of Modesta, Indiana? 00:02:30.178 --> 00:02:37.152 - I don't even know where the heck it is, but the guy's going to do a program on that next month. So I'm 00:02:37.152 --> 00:02:44.126 - kind of curious where Modesto is. We'll find out. And we're taking December off, which we had the last 00:02:44.126 --> 00:02:50.897 - two or three years. It's kind of difficult for them to have their staff completely controlled as we 00:02:50.897 --> 00:02:57.871 - get into the holiday season. So we'll take December off, as usual, and then start in again in January. 00:02:57.871 --> 00:02:59.902 - But right now, Daniel Slegel. 00:03:00.898 --> 00:03:09.654 - Director of the History Center has a few remarks. Thank you, Michael. I just wanted to let everybody 00:03:09.654 --> 00:03:14.942 - know that coming up on Friday, November 7th, so next Friday, 00:03:15.042 --> 00:03:20.818 - And Saturday, November 8th, we are having our November garage sale extravaganza. That's the way that 00:03:20.818 --> 00:03:26.708 - we raise a lot of funds. A little over 25% of our funding come from the two garage sales. These ladies 00:03:26.708 --> 00:03:32.427 - work hard year round. So if you were looking to donate, you're going to have to wait till after the 00:03:32.427 --> 00:03:38.203 - new year. But the sale is coming up on Friday and Saturday. So you don't know how many amazing finds 00:03:38.203 --> 00:03:41.406 - you'll find out there. You say you don't need anything. 00:03:41.762 --> 00:03:47.398 - I say that every year and every year I go out there, I find something else I can't live without. So 00:03:47.398 --> 00:03:53.203 - make sure to come by and visit. There's a lot of great stuff. We also are very excited. Rod volunteers 00:03:53.203 --> 00:03:58.839 - at the History Center and does a lot of great work for us. So we're excited about his presentation. 00:03:58.839 --> 00:04:03.742 - But we also have an exhibit about this Hoosier team that's on display. It just opened. 00:04:03.906 --> 00:04:10.679 - I think a week, maybe two weeks ago, so it's still a very, very new exhibit in addition to Hey Neighbor 00:04:10.679 --> 00:04:17.257 - about the historic districts in downtown Bloomington. And then we have another exhibit about lantern 00:04:17.257 --> 00:04:23.901 - slides. So the way we've had to explain it to some school groups or even college students is this was 00:04:23.901 --> 00:04:27.678 - PowerPoint presentations before PowerPoint presentations. 00:04:27.970 --> 00:04:33.861 - And then they get it, it clicks right away and they go, oh, there's slides. I get why these are called 00:04:33.861 --> 00:04:35.806 - slides as you had to slide those. 00:04:36.322 --> 00:04:42.577 - It's fun to see that light bulb click on for them. But make sure you come by and visit. That is a really 00:04:42.577 --> 00:04:48.833 - neat exhibit about early 20th century Bloomington. So a lot of pictures from the very, very early 1900s. 00:04:48.833 --> 00:04:54.969 - And it's fun to see how some of the areas looked and how they've developed since. So make sure to come 00:04:54.969 --> 00:05:01.105 - by and see us at the History Center. And as usual, I brought a bunch of different items. Rod will even 00:05:01.105 --> 00:05:06.288 - highlight some of the photographs we have for sale that he's used in his presentation. 00:05:06.288 --> 00:05:14.296 - have some spooky fun Halloween-related stuff and some new books and things over there. So feel free 00:05:14.296 --> 00:05:22.385 - to pop over and say hi or grab one of these little reminders of when the garage sale is next week so 00:05:22.385 --> 00:05:30.473 - you can stop by and see us. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thanks, Daniel. Now to today's business. 00:05:30.473 --> 00:05:35.518 - So look, I know I use a football school. We all know that now. 00:05:35.778 --> 00:05:43.066 - But try to imagine a time when it wasn't. We're going to talk about a time when football was not a big 00:05:43.066 --> 00:05:50.426 - deal. Basketball wasn't. I think basketball will be again eventually. But the name of the program today 00:05:50.426 --> 00:05:57.785 - is Picture Perfect, HT Photos of the 1975-76 IU Undefeated Basketball Season by Rod Spah. And we'd also 00:05:57.785 --> 00:06:02.526 - like, and he'll probably tell you this, to hear from the attendees 00:06:02.818 --> 00:06:10.875 - about their favorite stories and memories from that year as it goes along. Feel free to comment any 00:06:10.875 --> 00:06:19.335 - time on what he's showing. So Rod? Oh, I'm going to take a few pictures. Then I'll turn the lights down, 00:06:19.335 --> 00:06:27.553 - just a couple of minutes. Thank you very much. And again, during the presentation, if my voice lowers 00:06:27.553 --> 00:06:31.582 - and you can't hear me, just wave, yell, whatever. 00:06:32.770 --> 00:06:41.584 - My name is Rod Spaw, and I'm currently a retired journalist. I worked for the Herald Times for 15 years, 00:06:41.584 --> 00:06:50.061 - starting in 2003. And before that, about for the time of this period, I was in Evansville, where, as 00:06:50.061 --> 00:06:58.623 - you may know, there's one or two IU fans in Evansville. So we were all keyed in on what was happening 00:06:58.623 --> 00:06:59.966 - in this season. 00:07:03.970 --> 00:07:14.895 - started. Okay, and we're going to talk about 75-76. We may stray here and there as is relevant to talk 00:07:14.895 --> 00:07:25.503 - about other teams in other years. But what do I mean by picture perfect? What does a perfect season 00:07:25.503 --> 00:07:33.246 - look like? Well, it looks like 32-0. It looks like an NCAA championship. 00:07:33.730 --> 00:07:42.684 - a Big Ten championship, a number one ranking every week of the season, having the national player of 00:07:42.684 --> 00:07:51.550 - the year, having the coach of the year, and being named the all-time March Madness team by the NCAA 00:07:51.550 --> 00:08:00.770 - in 2013. It'd be hard to improve on that unless you could win more than 32 games. And here's what we're 00:08:00.770 --> 00:08:03.518 - going to breeze through today. 00:08:03.618 --> 00:08:12.407 - We have to talk a little bit about this was kind of a redemption tour for IU. And we'll go through conference 00:08:12.407 --> 00:08:20.717 - and non-conference highlights, the NCAA tournament, and how people in Bloomington reacted to this team. 00:08:20.717 --> 00:08:28.787 - And if there's time at the end and you want to get into it, we can talk about how likely it would be 00:08:28.787 --> 00:08:32.542 - to ever repeat as an undefeated NCAA champion. 00:08:32.674 --> 00:08:43.748 - And particularly in the Bedlam and Bloomington section, please feel free to add your experiences of 00:08:43.748 --> 00:08:55.044 - that time. And if you see yourself in any of these images, please let me know after the presentation, 00:08:55.044 --> 00:08:59.806 - because it helps us document what we have. 00:09:03.394 --> 00:09:11.268 - I'm going to start out with the credits, because I was a journalist for 40 years. And of course, I never 00:09:11.268 --> 00:09:18.842 - thought that they got enough credit for their work. These are the HT photographers whose work you'll 00:09:18.842 --> 00:09:26.941 - see in these images. Dave Mathers, Russ Cochran, Phil Whitlow, Larry Kruehl. Larry was a chief photographer 00:09:26.941 --> 00:09:29.566 - for 30 years at the HT, and he did 00:09:29.794 --> 00:09:39.523 - He became the principal IU photographer and did all three of Coach Knight's championships. He was at 00:09:39.523 --> 00:09:49.156 - the 67 Rose Bowl. He was at the bowl trips with Bill Mallory's team. So he was the man when it came 00:09:49.156 --> 00:09:56.766 - to IU sports. And then, of course, the man on the writing side was Bob Hamill. 00:09:57.922 --> 00:10:06.842 - Now, unfortunately, as you know, he passed away this past summer. But he is here in spirit because I've 00:10:06.842 --> 00:10:15.505 - read every piece that he wrote during the 76th season. And I also got to visit with Bob for a couple 00:10:15.505 --> 00:10:24.511 - of hours last winter. So you'll see him quoted here. And most of the factual information has some origin 00:10:24.511 --> 00:10:26.398 - in Bob Hamill's work. 00:10:26.914 --> 00:10:35.693 - And of course, the Monroe County History Center, where I volunteered since I retired in 2018. And much 00:10:35.693 --> 00:10:44.557 - of my work there, particularly with Hillary Fleck, the curator, is in processing the HD photo archives, 00:10:44.557 --> 00:10:53.336 - which we picked up when Gannett closed the old building on South Walnut Street. And we picked up 8,000 00:10:53.336 --> 00:10:56.830 - prints and nearly 50 years of negatives. 00:10:58.114 --> 00:11:06.678 - And as you can imagine, we are still processing it. So it will take a long time. Now, I know that there's 00:11:06.678 --> 00:11:14.999 - a certain danger in doing this kind of presentation in Bloomington. And anywhere where there's a bunch 00:11:14.999 --> 00:11:23.159 - of Hoosier fans, for this reason, because we all know everything there is to know about the greatest 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:27.198 - game and the greatest team and the greatest game. 00:11:27.330 --> 00:11:34.939 - You know, I remember them. I saw every game, talked about them, analyzed them with my friends. 00:11:34.939 --> 00:11:43.188 - And so I know, as you all do, that all these players were 10 feet tall. They scored 100 points a game, 00:11:43.188 --> 00:11:51.838 - and they were always kind to animals and small children. But in curating this, and it took me about a year, 00:11:52.194 --> 00:12:00.351 - to go through, to find and then go through all the negatives particularly. There were some things, and 00:12:00.351 --> 00:12:08.429 - talking to Bob of course, there were some things that I didn't remember, didn't remember correctly or 00:12:08.429 --> 00:12:14.686 - never knew. And one of those, and then I also kind of wanted to reflect on the 00:12:14.946 --> 00:12:25.045 - putting this achievement in perspective. And one of the first factoids I came across was this. This 00:12:25.045 --> 00:12:35.446 - is from 2023 census figures that nearly over 72% of the population is not old enough to have seen this 00:12:35.446 --> 00:12:39.486 - team play. They are 50 years and under. 00:12:40.034 --> 00:12:48.274 - So think about that. So the next time you're talking to your grandkids and you mention Scott May and 00:12:48.274 --> 00:12:56.432 - they go, huh? Well, that's why. And that's why it's important for places like the History Center to 00:12:56.432 --> 00:13:04.672 - collect and celebrate these stories. And we consider IU part of our community and part of our story. 00:13:04.672 --> 00:13:07.038 - So that's what we try to do. 00:13:07.874 --> 00:13:15.337 - I also was thinking what's happened in sports since 1976. There have been 15 perfect games played in 00:13:15.337 --> 00:13:22.948 - Major League Baseball. You know, that doesn't happen every day. We have four horses and win the Triple 00:13:22.948 --> 00:13:28.638 - Crown. There have been 30 undefeated national football champions in the last 00:13:28.898 --> 00:13:39.082 - And then according to Google AI, an estimated 275,000 college basketball games have been played since 00:13:39.082 --> 00:13:49.366 - Indiana were crowned NCAA champions in March of 1976. So it's something, it's an achievement that kind 00:13:49.366 --> 00:13:54.558 - of gets bigger every year that it's not duplicated. 00:13:55.426 --> 00:14:02.878 - There have been close calls since 76. Six men's basketball teams have begun the tournament with perfect 00:14:02.878 --> 00:14:10.186 - records. Two have reached the title game before losing. You know, I didn't remember Indiana State was 00:14:10.186 --> 00:14:17.351 - one of those. 133 games that year. One more than the Hoosiers. But they had one more loss. And then 00:14:17.351 --> 00:14:24.158 - Gonzaga was also 31-1. And I think other undefeated teams that got to the final four, I think, 00:14:24.418 --> 00:14:34.245 - or got to the tournament, UNLV, Kentucky did, and the other two escaped me. But last year's champion, 00:14:34.245 --> 00:14:41.278 - University of Florida, had a record of 35 and 4. And if you notice that, 00:14:41.858 --> 00:14:50.943 - That's 39 games. It's several more than 32. And it's not been unusual since in the last 20 years for 00:14:50.943 --> 00:15:00.478 - the champion to have played 39, 40 games in a season. That's because of all the new preseason tournaments 00:15:00.478 --> 00:15:10.462 - that have cropped up and the conference tournaments and things like that. 76 was Indiana's third championship. 00:15:12.706 --> 00:15:22.624 - And the first two were under Branch McCracken. These are photos from the 53 team. And here's another 00:15:22.624 --> 00:15:32.444 - reason we should have never let UCLA in the Big Ten. Before UCLA, it just screws up all the records 00:15:32.444 --> 00:15:42.558 - and the statistics in basketball because of their dominance in the early, in the 60s. But before UCLA, 00:15:42.658 --> 00:15:51.358 - throw them out. IU and Michigan State are still the only of those original Big Ten schools that have 00:15:51.358 --> 00:16:00.145 - more than one title. Michigan State has two. And these pictures are from the Arbitus, the yearbook of 00:16:00.145 --> 00:16:08.759 - the 53 team. And I picked these two because it features the guy right here who is probably the main 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:11.774 - reason I'm an IU fan. Got anybody? 00:16:12.322 --> 00:16:21.293 - Anybody recognize that person? Yeah. Bonus points to these two right here. But yeah. Dick Farley, pride 00:16:21.293 --> 00:16:29.918 - of Pike County, Indiana in Winslow High School, which my mother attended about a decade before this 00:16:29.918 --> 00:16:38.717 - guy. But I grew up in a household where basketball was measured against the achievements of the great 00:16:38.717 --> 00:16:39.838 - Dick Farley. 00:16:41.122 --> 00:16:50.976 - And if you drove down to Winslow after this meeting, you'll see his name is still on the town signs. 00:16:50.976 --> 00:17:01.025 - 60 years after he died, proof again that in Indiana, the surest way to immortality is not baptism, but 00:17:01.025 --> 00:17:08.830 - basketball. You're probably more familiar with some of these playing teammates. 00:17:09.154 --> 00:17:17.654 - Bob Leonard and Dick Schlunt there. Then we have Fardley, Berkscott, and then Charlie, and all those 00:17:17.654 --> 00:17:26.154 - guys were Hoosiers. Charlie Crack was from Illinois. Of course, the great Branch McCracken. And this 00:17:26.154 --> 00:17:35.412 - was a pretty good two-year record. This was a starting five for two years, two outright Big Ten championships 00:17:35.412 --> 00:17:38.526 - and NBA championships. 43-7 overall. 00:17:39.202 --> 00:17:48.628 - So anybody would be pleased with that. But let's take a look at these are the seniors on the 76 team. 00:17:48.628 --> 00:17:57.961 - All of these guys were recruited in Bob Knight's second year at IU. And these are all, I would never 00:17:57.961 --> 00:18:07.202 - question Hamill on any of his statistics because that's what he was famous for. 108 games, four Big 00:18:07.202 --> 00:18:08.958 - Ten championships. 00:18:09.282 --> 00:18:21.426 - 37th Street Big Ten games. And here they're the seniors and we have Bobby Wilkerson, Tom Abernathy, 00:18:21.426 --> 00:18:33.935 - Scott May, Jim Cruz, and Quinn Buckner. And those guys had a two-year record of 63-1. So I don't think 00:18:33.935 --> 00:18:37.214 - there's any doubt of who's 00:18:37.794 --> 00:18:47.213 - can come out on top there. And this is a photo of them with some of the hardware they won during their 00:18:47.213 --> 00:18:56.723 - four years at IU. Absent from here, there is no, you know, the NCAA championship should go right there. 00:18:56.723 --> 00:19:06.142 - But it's not there, which tells me that this was probably taken preseason before the 75-76 play began. 00:19:07.778 --> 00:19:16.223 - Whoa. Now, I got to talk a little bit about that one blemish on the record. Over the years, friends 00:19:16.223 --> 00:19:25.006 - have asked me, why do you dislike Purdue so much? Why can't you ever root for Purdue, even when they're 00:19:25.006 --> 00:19:33.535 - not playing IU? And I always have one answer. They broke Scott Mazar. And this was from, this was at 00:19:33.535 --> 00:19:37.758 - the locker room at West Lafayette, February 22nd. 00:19:38.338 --> 00:19:48.777 - May broke his arm. IU went on to win that game by two points. They won the last three games of the regular 00:19:48.777 --> 00:19:58.046 - season and the first two games of the NCAA tourney. And then the day that will live in infamy, 00:19:58.046 --> 00:20:06.046 - March 22, 1975 in Dayton, Ohio, NCAA regional finals, and Kentucky of all people. 00:20:06.882 --> 00:20:16.412 - beat IU by two points. Kentucky was a team IU had beaten by 24 points earlier in the year. And you can 00:20:16.412 --> 00:20:25.849 - see there, May played, but his heavily wrapped arm, he was very ineffective. And Kentucky just played 00:20:25.849 --> 00:20:32.510 - an inspired ball game, particularly in the second half, to pull it out. 00:20:32.962 --> 00:20:41.937 - Coach Knight put up a sign in the locker room the next season that referenced this score and blamed 00:20:41.937 --> 00:20:50.912 - bad defense for that game. Not poor officiating or anything else. He just said bad defense. Because 00:20:50.912 --> 00:21:00.156 - this was way more, 92 was way more than they allowed any other person that entered the team that year. 00:21:00.156 --> 00:21:01.502 - And 90 points. 00:21:01.986 --> 00:21:11.217 - was more than they usually scored. And here is, oh, let me see. Look down that bench there. This was 00:21:11.217 --> 00:21:20.723 - the look of somebody who's just shot their dog, all of them. And here is Steve Green, who was a starter 00:21:20.723 --> 00:21:29.406 - on that team, who consoling Kent Benson, who had 33 points in that game. So he tried his best. 00:21:31.490 --> 00:21:41.453 - And here is the next day, they return home to Bloomington. And there you have a nice crowd gathered. 00:21:41.453 --> 00:21:51.416 - And this sign says, number one in our hearts, still the best. And here is Knight looking like he has 00:21:51.416 --> 00:21:58.814 - not slept in days, and probably hasn't. But that loss gave them a mission. 00:21:59.906 --> 00:22:07.755 - Now, Bob Hamill told me this, that on October 14th of every year, Knight would meet with his players 00:22:07.755 --> 00:22:15.682 - before the start of official practices and go over his goals for the year. Bob said Knight's goal was 00:22:15.682 --> 00:22:20.190 - always number one, win the Big Ten, except for this year. 00:22:21.250 --> 00:22:29.808 - He got them together and said, you guys are not going to be satisfied just winning a Big Ten championship, 00:22:29.808 --> 00:22:38.047 - just winning an NCAA championship. We can win every game, and that should be our goal. And I don't see 00:22:38.047 --> 00:22:43.966 - anywhere that was ever publicized until after they won the championships. 00:22:46.114 --> 00:22:54.772 - The first game, it really didn't count in the 32-0. It's a preseason exhibition game against the Soviets. 00:22:54.772 --> 00:23:03.593 - But this was a tough match. This was the core of the Soviet team that had upset the USA in the 72 Olympics. 00:23:03.593 --> 00:23:12.414 - They played together for more than a decade. And you could see they're huge. This is Mark Hamor. He's 6'8". 00:23:12.770 --> 00:23:20.552 - And this is Vladimir Tichenko. I remember that name from 72, who is just a giant. And I included this 00:23:20.552 --> 00:23:28.333 - picture of Knight because see what he's wearing here? This is the last time you'll see a solid sports 00:23:28.333 --> 00:23:36.039 - coat on Bob Knight. He broke out the plaids right after that. But this was a tough game. Because the 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:42.142 - Soviets were so tough, four of his starters got in foul trouble the first game. 00:23:42.562 --> 00:23:51.777 - So it fell to Haymore. And here's Wayne Radford, sophomore of that year. Here is Rich Valavicius. Everybody 00:23:51.777 --> 00:24:00.394 - remember that name? Freshman from Hammond. And as you can see here, he showed a knack very early on. 00:24:00.394 --> 00:24:07.390 - He didn't mind a little of the rough stuff. He was going to do OK in the Big Ten. 00:24:07.554 --> 00:24:16.010 - And there was these three reserves that actually allowed IU to go into halftime, up six, and then the 00:24:16.010 --> 00:24:24.715 - starters came back in the second half and pushed it out to almost 20 points. And it was played in Market 00:24:24.715 --> 00:24:33.005 - Square Arena, brand new. They didn't build an easy schedule that year. Don't let anybody think they 00:24:33.005 --> 00:24:37.150 - had a cakewalk by any means, because they didn't. 00:24:37.826 --> 00:24:46.258 - Three of the first four opponents were ranked in the top 20. Three of the first four games were on the 00:24:46.258 --> 00:24:54.608 - road. And the first regular season game that counted was the defending national champion in preseason 00:24:54.608 --> 00:25:01.566 - number two, UCLA. And that was played in St. Louis. It was made for TV extravaganza. 00:25:03.074 --> 00:25:12.725 - hyped as the championship game that should have been but wasn't from the previous NCAA tournament. And 00:25:12.725 --> 00:25:22.189 - I love this photo. You see Benson here going up, getting ready to spike the ball. And did any of you 00:25:22.189 --> 00:25:29.310 - see his daughter Ashley play volleyball for IU? Any of you? Well, I saw her 00:25:29.538 --> 00:25:39.793 - quite a few her matches. And she assumed this pose many times. I can recognize the form and where she 00:25:39.793 --> 00:25:50.149 - got it now. She was the only all-American volleyball player IU has had. And they won. It was just kind 00:25:50.149 --> 00:25:59.198 - of pushed out the lead the whole game. And Quinn addressed the elephant in the room about 00:25:59.362 --> 00:26:08.996 - We're not playing last year's game. We're playing every game the best as we can. And it was a good attitude 00:26:08.996 --> 00:26:18.005 - because the next game was a home game against Notre Dame, and they nearly lost. They blew a 14-point 00:26:18.005 --> 00:26:27.371 - lead in the second half to one point with a minute remaining. It was not pretty by any means. Both teams 00:26:27.371 --> 00:26:28.798 - shot under 40%. 00:26:29.026 --> 00:26:39.860 - and IU held on for a three-point win. And if that wasn't close enough, then they go to Kentucky and 00:26:39.860 --> 00:26:51.236 - playing in Lexington. Oh, Louisville, excuse me. And this, you know, sometimes you just got to be lucky. 00:26:51.236 --> 00:26:54.270 - Well, this was a lucky one. 00:26:54.402 --> 00:27:02.023 - Kentucky led with under eight minutes left in regulation. And as time expired, there was a shot from 00:27:02.023 --> 00:27:09.946 - IU that missed. And Benson had another volleyball move. He stuck out his big hand and just hit the ball, 00:27:09.946 --> 00:27:17.568 - just going to tap it up. He wasn't actually taking a shot, but it went straight up and then straight 00:27:17.568 --> 00:27:19.454 - down through the basket. 00:27:20.930 --> 00:27:29.318 - And then they went ahead 13 to 4 in the extra period to win. This was not a close game by any means, 00:27:29.318 --> 00:27:37.705 - but it was an important one for Coach Knight. This one was also played in Indianapolis. And this was 00:27:37.705 --> 00:27:46.259 - his 200th coaching victory. And a couple of people I want to point out here. Here is Tim Knight, Coach 00:27:46.259 --> 00:27:50.494 - Knight's oldest son. And here, this is Tate Locke. 00:27:50.626 --> 00:28:01.308 - coach at Army and he hired Knight to be his assistant and then later Locke went on to coach at places 00:28:01.308 --> 00:28:11.990 - like Clemson and Indiana State. The rest of the non-conference schedule was pretty routine, only they 00:28:11.990 --> 00:28:20.158 - had their regular Indiana classics and holiday tournaments where they cruised 00:28:20.386 --> 00:28:29.984 - most of the time. And the only, the toughest one was they played in a holiday tournament at Madison 00:28:29.984 --> 00:28:40.159 - Square Garden where they beat the St. John's Redmond 76-69 and there is Coach Knight with Luke Carneseca. 00:28:40.159 --> 00:28:43.710 - This came from Bob saying, you know, 00:28:43.874 --> 00:28:52.072 - Bob Knight started at IU in 1971, came from Army, but he had played at Ohio State, and he was an Ohio 00:28:52.072 --> 00:29:00.833 - native, so he was very familiar with the Midwest. And he came in convinced that you could build a basketball 00:29:00.833 --> 00:29:08.871 - team with nothing but kids from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. As Hamill said, he liked the idea that 00:29:08.871 --> 00:29:10.398 - a player's parents 00:29:10.530 --> 00:29:20.478 - could drive, could be within driving distance to see a game once in a while with their kids playing. 00:29:20.478 --> 00:29:30.820 - And here are the, these are the seniors and Kent Benson who started, he was a junior in this year, Bobby 00:29:30.820 --> 00:29:35.646 - Wilkerson. And look at their size, Quinn Butler, 00:29:36.802 --> 00:29:48.128 - Scott May, Tom Abernathy. These weren't any little fellas. These were men. And if you remember, Buckner 00:29:48.128 --> 00:29:59.017 - played his first two years. He played for the football team and was a starting linebacker, I think. 00:29:59.017 --> 00:30:00.542 - Safety? Yeah. 00:30:04.930 --> 00:30:16.574 - And of course, Benson was just a huge person. And here were the three. Well, Cruz had started several 00:30:16.574 --> 00:30:28.447 - games in his four-year career. He only started one game in the championship year. He'd started the game 00:30:28.447 --> 00:30:33.470 - when they played UCLA in the 73 semifinals. 00:30:34.114 --> 00:30:42.820 - Cruz started that game. And then here we have sophomore Wayne Radford, sophomore Jim Wiseman, and then 00:30:42.820 --> 00:30:51.863 - here's Valovich's freshman from Hammond. And those were the guys that got the lion's share of the minutes. 00:30:51.863 --> 00:31:00.062 - These were the other guys on the team, because I didn't think it was fair to omit them entirely. 00:31:00.226 --> 00:31:10.145 - But they didn't get a lot of playing time except in cleanup. And here was Knight's staff. And this was 00:31:10.145 --> 00:31:19.872 - a nice photo of Knight talking to his players during a game that was taken by Larry Kruehl. I'm just 00:31:19.872 --> 00:31:29.214 - going to show, we don't have photos of every game home and away. We have most of the home games. 00:31:29.538 --> 00:31:39.966 - one or two of the way games. So I'm just going to show images from the games we have. And here is Knight 00:31:39.966 --> 00:31:50.394 - getting some exercise during the Northwestern game. This is the first Michigan game. And IU had an eight 00:31:50.394 --> 00:31:56.254 - point lead. I just added that this morning with 429 to go. 00:31:56.706 --> 00:32:05.953 - And they ended up winning by six. They had five turnovers in the last five minutes. Many, some of you 00:32:05.953 --> 00:32:15.471 - may remember, night, it was a much different game back then. There was no time clock. There was no three 00:32:15.471 --> 00:32:24.718 - point line. You had a center jump to start each half. Oh, there was no dunking this year. Dunking had 00:32:24.718 --> 00:32:26.078 - been outlawed. 00:32:26.210 --> 00:32:34.643 - So it was a much different game. And part of the regular night strategy was if you were up a few points 00:32:34.643 --> 00:32:43.157 - with three or four minutes to go, you just held the ball out. It wasn't the North Carolina four quarters 00:32:43.157 --> 00:32:51.671 - as much. They would still run some motion. But you only took a shot if it was a layup or you got fouled. 00:32:51.671 --> 00:32:53.374 - And this was a game. 00:32:54.050 --> 00:33:02.443 - Michigan State in all three games they played that year were much quicker, particularly at the guard 00:33:02.443 --> 00:33:11.002 - post than IU. And that strategy almost came back to bite him a couple times, and this was one of them. 00:33:11.002 --> 00:33:19.893 - And Butler's on the bench, as he often was because of foul trouble. He had a really bad habit of preaching 00:33:19.893 --> 00:33:23.134 - instead of guarding, so with his feet. 00:33:24.322 --> 00:33:32.594 - I guess he thought he was still safety and was going through the player. This is one of the few way 00:33:32.594 --> 00:33:41.446 - games we have. Illinois, no big deal. I put this up because these are the two main guys. And they averaged 00:33:41.446 --> 00:33:49.801 - about 40 points a game and 20 rebounds a game. And if you've got those guys playing at that level in 00:33:49.801 --> 00:33:53.854 - a game, IU was always going to be in good shape. 00:33:54.338 --> 00:34:02.982 - Now, of course, you know, they had defenses that wanted to take one or the other out of the game, then 00:34:02.982 --> 00:34:12.046 - the other guys had to pick up the slack. Like this, these two Purdue games. They used a zone, and basically 00:34:12.046 --> 00:34:21.278 - it was a collapsing zone, and they wanted to force Benson out of the middle, which they did. And the Hoosiers 00:34:21.410 --> 00:34:30.953 - were always in the lead, but not by very much. And IU also won the rematch in West Lafayette, which 00:34:30.953 --> 00:34:40.974 - they used the same tactic. Here's a couple more. Scott May going up against a pretty good Purdue player, 00:34:40.974 --> 00:34:43.646 - Wayne Walls. And Key Stats. 00:34:45.026 --> 00:34:53.378 - May had 32 points in this one. Benson didn't score quite as much because of the zone. And then Wilkerson 00:34:53.378 --> 00:35:01.412 - had eight assists and four steals. Now, this was always, you know, when I started, I said, oh, well, 00:35:01.412 --> 00:35:09.366 - Buckner was the guy. He was the quarterback, and he did all the playmaking and stuff. Wilkerson had 00:35:09.366 --> 00:35:13.502 - 40 more assists on the season than Buckner did. And 00:35:13.634 --> 00:35:21.813 - Buckner had 30 more fouls than anybody else, which gave Wilkerson more of an opportunity to get an assist 00:35:21.813 --> 00:35:29.684 - with Buckner out of the game. The airplane was constant here, and I didn't put the score on the front 00:35:29.684 --> 00:35:35.934 - slide because I don't think you'd believe it. Here's Benson going in for a shot. 00:35:42.562 --> 00:35:53.249 - They won by 53 points. Now, we haven't beaten Wisconsin a half a dozen times in the last 25 years. And 00:35:53.249 --> 00:36:04.041 - maybe they're still getting even. But I put these three up, because those of you that are photographers 00:36:04.041 --> 00:36:05.182 - will know. 00:36:05.666 --> 00:36:14.611 - They were a 35 millimeter film. It's a little, narrow strip of film with images that are about an inch 00:36:14.611 --> 00:36:23.469 - square. Well, these are, and during a game at Assembly Hall, the HD photographers, there were usually 00:36:23.469 --> 00:36:32.328 - two. And between them, they would shoot 500 or 600 images. These are three. And as you can see, I put 00:36:32.328 --> 00:36:35.454 - all the frames on a roll or number. 00:36:35.938 --> 00:36:45.937 - So you can see at what point they occurred. And so all these three images are clearly one event. And 00:36:45.937 --> 00:36:55.936 - here's Knight starting with L3. And then he follows this guy to the scores table and giving him some 00:36:55.936 --> 00:37:03.262 - advice. And he's still going at him here just to make sure he understood. 00:37:05.794 --> 00:37:15.410 - And I did look it up, and I got two technical fouls in this game. His team is ahead 30 points at halftime. 00:37:15.410 --> 00:37:24.576 - They win the game by 53, and he still gets upset enough to get two technical fouls. Next, oh, this is 00:37:24.576 --> 00:37:34.462 - the game I remember most from that year. Maybe some of you do too. This was the second Michigan game at home. 00:37:35.138 --> 00:37:44.365 - And it was a national game. You can see this is what TV cameras used to look like when they brought 00:37:44.365 --> 00:37:53.592 - out the big guns for a national game. And you see here, I'm sure Knight didn't appreciate this. And 00:37:53.592 --> 00:38:03.742 - here's Knight's son Tim again. He had a heck of a year. You see pictures of him on the team bus and at games. 00:38:06.178 --> 00:38:16.590 - IU trail by 10 at halftime. It was the largest deficit at halftime since 1973. They just couldn't hit 00:38:16.590 --> 00:38:27.410 - the side of a barn. Michigan showed off their quickness, got out in transition and got some easy buckets. 00:38:27.410 --> 00:38:35.678 - And then Radford came in and keyed an IU rally with 16 points and five rebounds. 00:38:36.098 --> 00:38:44.700 - But the Hoosiers were still down four with 30 seconds left. And this is what I remember. I'm watching 00:38:44.700 --> 00:38:53.302 - the game with my folks at their house. And you know, IU didn't lead, hadn't led the entire game. They 00:38:53.302 --> 00:39:01.988 - were having a heck of a time catching up. And I was a nervous wreck by 30 seconds left. I'm sure a lot 00:39:01.988 --> 00:39:03.422 - of IU fans were. 00:39:03.554 --> 00:39:13.808 - I just didn't see it, you know. And finally, my dad looked at me and says, boy, don't you know, the 00:39:13.808 --> 00:39:24.062 - refs won't let them lose at home. Now, I can see you know where I'm going with this. Here's a great 00:39:24.062 --> 00:39:29.086 - photo, six seconds left. There's still down two. 00:39:30.114 --> 00:39:38.978 - Their best player has a ball, but he didn't get a shot off. Buckner got a shot off. He missed. It got 00:39:38.978 --> 00:39:47.407 - batted up against the backboard, came off, and then somehow Benson tipped it in as time expired. 00:39:47.407 --> 00:39:56.097 - But you know, there was no instant replay in those days, so the refs had to get together and make a 00:39:56.097 --> 00:40:00.094 - decision of whether that last basket counted. 00:40:01.026 --> 00:40:12.183 - And they decided it did. And then my dad suddenly became the smartest guy since old Scooter. Or he knew 00:40:12.183 --> 00:40:23.662 - everything, even before it was going to happen. IU Michigan State, not much there. But Benson, he exploded 00:40:23.662 --> 00:40:28.382 - for 38 points and 10 rebounds in that game. 00:40:28.482 --> 00:40:38.257 - IU Illinois was closer than it should have been. It was another one of those Illinois I think was playing 00:40:38.257 --> 00:40:47.664 - a zone and IU was trying to hold it out and that, and they needed some outside shooting from crews to 00:40:47.664 --> 00:40:55.134 - secure the win. There are more shot. There's a, this is Validicious and Buckner. 00:40:58.978 --> 00:41:07.633 - IU was pretty much in control of these games, although they did in both. That was the only Big Ten opponent 00:41:07.633 --> 00:41:15.887 - to lead IU at halftime in both games that year. Prior to the first Minnesota game, the Hoosier did not 00:41:15.887 --> 00:41:23.980 - trail at the half in two years. And across the whole season, there were six times where they trailed 00:41:23.980 --> 00:41:25.022 - at halftime. 00:41:27.106 --> 00:41:35.140 - And I also, there's Radford doing what he did. He was a battler, you know. If you needed somebody to 00:41:35.140 --> 00:41:43.334 - go in and mix it up, you know, he wasn't the tallest guy on the floor, but he was one of the toughest. 00:41:43.334 --> 00:41:51.686 - Look at it. Bobby Wilkerson, 6'7", and he regularly jumped center. He's jumping here against a guy named 00:41:51.686 --> 00:41:53.118 - Michael Thompson. 00:41:53.666 --> 00:42:01.707 - an all-American from Minnesota. And I want you to look at these reference points. Look at where the 00:42:01.707 --> 00:42:09.828 - heel is. Look at the knee compared to his knee, the waist compared to that waist, and even where his 00:42:09.828 --> 00:42:18.110 - wrist is compared to this guy. This guy had a crazy vertical jump. And of course, when he got the tip, 00:42:18.110 --> 00:42:21.246 - he would tip it toward Benson, who was 00:42:21.730 --> 00:42:31.652 - who was 6'11". So they got most of the center jumps. Next game was the season finale at Assembly Hall. 00:42:31.652 --> 00:42:41.574 - And this was against Ohio State, and it was the last game of Fred Taylor's coaching career. Taylor had 00:42:41.574 --> 00:42:48.702 - been Knight's coach at Ohio State when he won an NCAA championship there. 00:42:49.282 --> 00:42:56.556 - And then Knight, I don't know if he'd done this before, but it was kind of his tradition when a Big 00:42:56.556 --> 00:43:04.049 - Ten coach retired, when he came in for the last time, Knight would, you know, give him a gift. I think 00:43:04.049 --> 00:43:11.614 - he was usually a rocking chair, and Fred got a rocking chair, and you see he's got a fishing pole here. 00:43:14.658 --> 00:43:23.463 - The other tradition of the last game Knight started was senior day. And here are May and Buckner coming 00:43:23.463 --> 00:43:31.929 - out of the game for the last time. And Buckner getting that patented Knight slap on the back of the 00:43:31.929 --> 00:43:40.734 - head. They only reserved for people he really liked, like Buckner and Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall. Yeah. 00:43:41.794 --> 00:43:49.294 - I don't, Hall didn't appreciate as much as Buckner did though. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. And then 00:43:49.294 --> 00:43:56.867 - there was that, he smacked him with a rolled up program one year or two that didn't go over real good. 00:43:56.867 --> 00:44:04.734 - But anyway, here's Buckner waiting to get his chance to speak. And here are the five seniors taking there. 00:44:05.122 --> 00:44:13.399 - waiting for their turn. And then as Knight said in the past four years, and I speak now as a fan, we've 00:44:13.399 --> 00:44:21.517 - been privileged to sit in this building and watch five tremendous young men perform their skills. And 00:44:21.517 --> 00:44:29.715 - fans broke out this sign on the last game. And of course, you know, the final four that year was going 00:44:29.715 --> 00:44:33.694 - to be in Philadelphia. And of course, we were all 00:44:33.954 --> 00:44:43.901 - knew we were going to be there. We were all looking forward to that. A couple quick things about the 00:44:43.901 --> 00:44:53.946 - tournament started in 1939. It was just an 18 tourney. It was mainly major conference champions. They 00:44:53.946 --> 00:45:00.446 - just got together and they played and expanded 16 teams in 51. So 00:45:00.610 --> 00:45:09.541 - McCracken won an 18 tourney, and he won a 16-team tourney with his 53-team. The Bill Russell-led San 00:45:09.541 --> 00:45:18.384 - Francisco Dons were the first undefeated national champion. University of North Carolina duplicated 00:45:18.384 --> 00:45:27.404 - that the next year. And then, of course, John Wooden just messed up everybody's stats. Again, he went 00:45:27.404 --> 00:45:29.438 - undefeated four times. 00:45:30.050 --> 00:45:41.391 - in that period of time. And then the tourney expanded to 32 teams, I think it was in 75. And now we 00:45:41.391 --> 00:45:53.073 - have 68 teams play, including a play-in of four teams. Indiana won five tournament games in 76. Nobody 00:45:53.073 --> 00:45:56.702 - got a bye in a 32-team tourney. 00:45:57.122 --> 00:46:06.319 - But now, a team that did not receive a first round bye would have to win six games. And I had to include 00:46:06.319 --> 00:46:15.515 - the women, because I am a season ticket holder for the IU women's team. I was there last night for their 00:46:15.515 --> 00:46:23.486 - first preseason game. There have been 10 undefeated women's champions in much fewer years. 00:46:23.810 --> 00:46:32.482 - And University of Connecticut has taken over the UCLA role there with multiple. This is IU's Denise. 00:46:32.482 --> 00:46:41.240 - I think this is from 83, which was the first year they became eligible for the tournament. And she is 00:46:41.240 --> 00:46:49.912 - still IU's third leading scorer and still holds a rebounding record for career. The first tournament 00:46:49.912 --> 00:46:52.574 - game for IU was in South Bend. 00:46:52.930 --> 00:47:02.251 - And again, they duplicated their win over even one by a little bit more. You can see, you know, all 00:47:02.251 --> 00:47:11.759 - the tournament games get a little rougher even than the Big Ten a lot of times. And this one was. And 00:47:11.759 --> 00:47:20.894 - keep the points. Here we have May and Benson combining for 20 rebounds and 53 points. Next up was 00:47:21.058 --> 00:47:30.671 - The regional semifinal and final both played in Baton Rouge, Alabama, led with 328 to go and then IU 00:47:30.671 --> 00:47:40.759 - shut them down. And then they won with three free throws. And here you can see Benson got in foul trouble 00:47:40.759 --> 00:47:47.326 - trying to guard this guy named Leon Douglas. He was an All-American. 00:47:47.778 --> 00:47:57.789 - So they, so Benson wasn't an effective against him. We see May got 25. Then Wilkerson and Buckner picked 00:47:57.789 --> 00:48:07.514 - up the slack on the scoring. And you see Wilkerson had 12 rebounds. So, you know, if you can out jump 00:48:07.514 --> 00:48:16.190 - a 6'11 guy at the center jump, you ought to be able to get a rebound or two. And he could. 00:48:16.866 --> 00:48:25.886 - This is Marquette, which was the number two ranked team in the country when they played in the regional finals. 00:48:26.050 --> 00:48:35.185 - McGuire got a technical with 25 seconds to go. IU was ahead, and then he got the technical on a foul 00:48:35.185 --> 00:48:44.862 - call against his team. So IU got two free throws. They got the technical. They got the ball out of bounds, 00:48:44.862 --> 00:48:54.449 - and that accounted for the final margin. But don't feel too sorry for Al McGuire. He won the championship 00:48:54.449 --> 00:48:55.806 - the next year. 00:48:58.850 --> 00:49:07.721 - and there was his star, Bo Ellis. This, you would think this might be for after the Final Four, 00:49:07.721 --> 00:49:17.700 - but it wasn't. This was the scene at Monroe Airport when the plane, team plane came back from the regional. 00:49:17.700 --> 00:49:24.446 - You know, IU was going to the Final Four and you can see who came out to 00:49:25.154 --> 00:49:33.353 - congratulate them. If you remember that 75 photo at the airport, there was all the fans there could 00:49:33.353 --> 00:49:41.635 - fit under one of these wings. And here, they're out on the tarmac. Was anybody here that was in this 00:49:41.635 --> 00:49:50.244 - scene? Did you go? You were? You know you could never get out on the tarmac again. They would be calling 00:49:50.244 --> 00:49:53.278 - Homeland Security if you tried this. 00:49:57.090 --> 00:50:11.640 - And here's the, I'm curious, what drew so many people there? Were you just so happy? Ma'am? Uh-huh. 00:50:11.640 --> 00:50:23.134 - OK. Nobody hears it. And if anybody knows who these people are, tell me later. 00:50:24.034 --> 00:50:31.792 - But you see, it was a cold day that day, right? You remember? Because these guys are really bundled 00:50:31.792 --> 00:50:39.706 - up. And here's Scott May looks as scared as he was the whole season trying to get through this crowd. 00:50:39.706 --> 00:50:47.852 - The Final Four was played in Philadelphia at the Spectrum. And that might sound familiar, because that's 00:50:47.852 --> 00:50:50.878 - also where IU won the 81 championship. 00:51:00.130 --> 00:51:12.536 - Reagan. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. But you went ahead to the game, right? Oh, absolutely. Oh, OK. Yeah. I took 00:51:12.536 --> 00:51:24.704 - a picture of the scoreboard with North Carolina and IU up there was zero. And something happened. The 00:51:24.704 --> 00:51:29.118 - final score, I took a picture of it. 00:51:29.474 --> 00:51:43.520 - and the final score is imposed over the 0-0 scoreboard. I don't know how it happened. Not intentional. 00:51:43.520 --> 00:51:57.566 - Well, in photography, some accidents are very fortunate. This was the semifinal game against UCLA. And 00:51:57.698 --> 00:52:06.987 - Benson again found himself in foul trouble trying to guard this all-American, Richard Washington. So 00:52:06.987 --> 00:52:16.828 - they switched and put Abernathy on him and really clamped down on him. And here we go, Wilkerson. Benson's 00:52:16.828 --> 00:52:22.622 - on the bench. Wilkerson picks it up. 19 rebounds in that game. 00:52:27.170 --> 00:52:37.121 - And this is a setup for the, oh, and here is one of the photographs that we have that Daniel has over 00:52:37.121 --> 00:52:47.170 - on the table. If you'd like to, we don't have many copies, but we have some. And about the photos that 00:52:47.170 --> 00:52:56.926 - Daniel has, they are not ones that Daniel made on his office printer. These are extra, a duplicate, 00:52:57.378 --> 00:53:05.617 - HD prints that they would print out for, they had several publishing projects concerning IU basketball 00:53:05.617 --> 00:53:14.256 - and what we have are duplicates from all that. And we have been given permission by the Gannett Corporation 00:53:14.256 --> 00:53:22.655 - that we can sell the duplicates and then we'll use those proceeds to, you know, there are costs involved 00:53:22.655 --> 00:53:26.334 - in maintaining and working with these images. 00:53:28.418 --> 00:53:39.429 - And it won't cover it. You know, it's very, very little. And the key stat. Oh, you might remember this. 00:53:39.429 --> 00:53:50.441 - It just started in an awful. Because three minutes in, Bobby Wilkerson, you just saw he got 19 rebounds 00:53:50.441 --> 00:53:56.158 - the previous game. And he just literally knocked out. 00:53:56.450 --> 00:54:04.353 - And it probably contributed to this fact that they trailed at halftime. Knight tried a couple people 00:54:04.353 --> 00:54:12.491 - in Wilkerson's plays, but Jim Wiseman, the sophomore, had the steadiest play, played most of the second 00:54:12.491 --> 00:54:20.473 - half. And Knight credited him with saving their bacon there in the second half by just keeping things 00:54:20.473 --> 00:54:24.542 - steady, getting a ball where it was supposed to go. 00:54:26.338 --> 00:54:36.922 - And here, of course, we have Knight with the Buckner, May, and the trophy, and the iconic one. And that's 00:54:36.922 --> 00:54:47.205 - another one Daniel has with the score and that. Now, you weren't at the 76 game. I was. You were? Yes. 00:54:47.205 --> 00:54:51.998 - Well, tell me about it. How was it? Wild. Wild? 00:54:56.098 --> 00:55:05.161 - left to go. No tickets or anything. But when we got there, the scalpers were out there with their tickets. 00:55:05.161 --> 00:55:13.801 - Did you leave from Boomington? Yes. I got my ticket from the final game. Do you remember what it cost 00:55:13.801 --> 00:55:22.526 - you from the scalper? Six dollars. I got my tickets. It was about $13.75 I think for original tickets. 00:55:24.130 --> 00:55:33.166 - Oh, well, they've gone out some there. The lower section is the seventh row in the first seat, right 00:55:33.166 --> 00:55:42.290 - underneath the basket. Well, that was some good shots there. Was that where he got the nets down? Did 00:55:42.290 --> 00:55:51.326 - you see them? We couldn't see that. They were jumping up in front of us, and I couldn't find my box. 00:55:53.282 --> 00:56:03.247 - And here is Benson celebrating. And I've heard on the panel discussions talking to these guys. I think 00:56:03.247 --> 00:56:13.503 - good ones you can find on YouTube from the 40th anniversary. And Buckner's saying that what he remembered 00:56:13.503 --> 00:56:21.630 - most vividly was Knight smiling. He had never seen him smile so much in four years. 00:56:27.106 --> 00:56:35.660 - Bedlam and Bloomington. Now, you all, I want you all to look for yourselves in these crowds and tell 00:56:35.660 --> 00:56:44.214 - me what was happening. Kirkwood, you know, 1030,000 people. This is looking, most of the ones I have 00:56:44.214 --> 00:56:52.684 - are looking North Walnut back toward Kirkwood. And you can see here, this one is at, this is at 7th 00:56:52.684 --> 00:56:55.902 - and Walnut where this guy got up for, 00:56:57.410 --> 00:57:12.390 - See it. Barzo's Blitz. Anybody remember that? Is that where Brothers is now? Brothers Nightclub, 00:57:12.390 --> 00:57:25.054 - Brothers Bar, next to the Vid? Yeah. Well, here are a couple fans getting a lift. 00:57:28.642 --> 00:57:46.379 - And of course, there's small to the department store. Mike's Tavern. That was before my day. 00:57:46.379 --> 00:57:57.822 - And this truck, I figured out, is in front of the Bluebird. 00:58:00.066 --> 00:58:11.705 - Maybe it was a band truck, you know, you always see those out there. And these are also from the Herald 00:58:11.705 --> 00:58:23.121 - Times, all the on the spot reporting, Drunks on Cars, Bacchanalia. And that's a pretty fancy word for 00:58:23.121 --> 00:58:27.262 - a journalist, you know, Bacchanalia. 00:58:28.546 --> 00:58:40.061 - And then we have a street sign going down here as a souvenir. And here is, this is a little bit further 00:58:40.061 --> 00:58:51.354 - up on North Walnut where you see the town cinema playing a naughty movie at the time. And there's the 00:58:51.354 --> 00:58:57.886 - princess there to orient you. Anybody seen themselves yet? 00:58:59.490 --> 00:59:18.003 - No? Oh. More, there's more up close. And here are some conscientious citizens picking up all the beer 00:59:18.003 --> 00:59:29.438 - cans and bottles. And the stat from the Herald Times was that, 00:59:29.538 --> 00:59:40.567 - Altogether about a half dozen celebrants ended up under arrest for public intoxication. Another 27 were 00:59:40.567 --> 00:59:51.914 - treated at Bloomington Hospital for everything from traffic injuries to, quote, acute alcoholism, unquote. 00:59:51.914 --> 00:59:57.534 - So was it the party of the year there before? Crazy? 01:00:04.962 --> 01:00:15.350 - OK, yeah. Yeah. Oh, I got a picture. That's coming up. That was the next day. Yeah. And then I don't 01:00:15.350 --> 01:00:25.738 - have any pictures of Showalter Fountain, but that was quite a scene. And it was one of the occasions 01:00:25.738 --> 01:00:31.806 - where one of the fish got removed from its moorings. Yeah. 01:00:34.306 --> 01:00:42.886 - And this was probably at the height of about 4,000 people. And North Walnut traffic was stopped all 01:00:42.886 --> 01:00:51.467 - the way back to Kirkwood, between Kirkwood and 7th Street. And it was 1 a.m. police reported before 01:00:51.467 --> 01:00:58.846 - traffic could move freely through North Walnut. Here we go. Here's your welcome home. 01:00:59.874 --> 01:01:09.640 - These are all the people that stayed sober the night before, because they're out there the next morning. 01:01:09.640 --> 01:01:19.034 - Yeah. And night did not. Oh, here we go. That's part of the crowd. You see they're not all students. 01:01:19.034 --> 01:01:27.870 - There's a good range of people there. And then this must be the trucks you were talking about. 01:01:29.794 --> 01:01:38.442 - Yeah, yeah. I think somewhere between here and the airport, they moved from the team bus on to this. 01:01:38.442 --> 01:01:47.004 - Because I've got another one. You can blow it up here. Yeah, you see here. Oh, OK. OK. Well, that's 01:01:47.004 --> 01:01:53.854 - what's happening here. They're getting up there so that everybody can see them. 01:01:58.370 --> 01:02:08.977 - Yeah, and Bob told me that, you know, riding back from the airport, you know, there were people standing 01:02:08.977 --> 01:02:19.382 - by the side of the road to see him and wave, and they were hanging off the overpasses, and it was kind 01:02:19.382 --> 01:02:25.342 - of like a holiday. Yeah. Yeah, no, night wasn't with them. 01:02:26.722 --> 01:02:36.076 - Because he had stayed to visit Bobby Wilkerson in the hospital. They kept him overnight for observation. 01:02:36.076 --> 01:02:45.073 - And the night was also going to an All-Star game down in Washington, D.C., before he flew home. This 01:02:45.073 --> 01:02:54.427 - is a big rally. I'm sure some of you probably were here at Assembly Hall the next day. Well over 10,000. 01:02:54.427 --> 01:02:56.030 - It was televised. 01:02:57.986 --> 01:03:08.323 - Channel 4. Huge crowd filled the floor and the lower bowl. I assume there are probably some people on 01:03:08.323 --> 01:03:18.760 - the balcony too. And then here are Nye, May, and Buckner. And I think there's an assistant coach here. 01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:22.206 - Some more scenes from that rally. 01:03:25.762 --> 01:03:35.637 - Anybody know who this woman and the baby is? If it looks familiar, let me know later. Because nobody 01:03:35.637 --> 01:03:46.000 - that I've spoken to with IU ties can tell me who that is. And then, of course, they had the chair leaders 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:53.822 - waiting for them. And this is my favorite photo from that. Or if anybody knows, 01:03:54.402 --> 01:04:03.448 - Is this one of you? One of you here? If not, or if you know who it is, let me know. This picture is 01:04:03.448 --> 01:04:12.855 - not in the exhibit downtown, at least yet. I'm still working on Hillary to get that included. So I have 01:04:12.855 --> 01:04:19.006 - a few, particularly of the celebrations that she doesn't, so to get 01:04:19.618 --> 01:04:27.382 - To see all the images, you have to go both places. You have to be here, and you have to go downtown 01:04:27.382 --> 01:04:35.535 - and see what we have up in the, it's on the second floor in what's called the Monroe County Sports Room. 01:04:35.535 --> 01:04:43.455 - This is a month later. Bloomington is still celebrating. 3,200 people at Gladstone Field House at the 01:04:43.455 --> 01:04:49.278 - time. It was the largest crowd they'd ever gotten for one of these things. 01:04:52.226 --> 01:05:04.919 - Here you have Doc Bowen and Bob Knight. And Bowen giving a nice tribute to the team. And there is our 01:05:04.919 --> 01:05:18.110 - Bob Hamill right there. And there is Nancy Knight, which is a coach, first wife. John Ryan with a trophy. 01:05:21.890 --> 01:05:35.692 - Here's another one I love. Adolph Rupp came up from Kentucky to give this trophy to Scott May. And doesn't 01:05:35.692 --> 01:05:46.270 - he look happy to be there? And here are the IU's five seniors taking a final bow. 01:05:51.554 --> 01:06:02.300 - Yeah, I mean, they all broke out the plaids there. And of course, you got Bobby Wilkerson styling there. 01:06:02.300 --> 01:06:12.636 - He looked cool. I remarked to Hillary, if some of you know Hillary, with his hair and the sideburns. 01:06:12.636 --> 01:06:20.414 - He reminded me of Sly Stone from Sly and the Family Stone. And I said that. 01:06:20.642 --> 01:06:27.864 - I mentioned after Hillary and she gave me that blank look like, I don't know what you're talking about, 01:06:27.864 --> 01:06:34.739 - but I don't want to admit it. But, you know, she had no idea who I was talking about. And this is, 01:06:34.739 --> 01:06:41.892 - I'll give, we'll give the last word to Bob Hamill, because how could you not? This is from his memoir. 01:06:41.892 --> 01:06:48.350 - Those teams' deeds seem Arthurian. A college of basketball camel walk that didn't last long. 01:06:48.994 --> 01:06:57.878 - But don't let it be forgot to back-to-back unbeaten regular seasons, one ending in tears, the other 01:06:57.878 --> 01:07:07.296 - in triumph, unmatched to this day. And still unmatched going into our 50th season. And here's from the... 01:07:07.296 --> 01:07:16.447 - Now, I'm just going to ask a question here. You know, when these were first commissioned for the lobby 01:07:16.447 --> 01:07:18.046 - of Assembly Hall, 01:07:18.498 --> 01:07:29.184 - Coach Knight declined to be included. He didn't want his statue there. But now, if his family had no 01:07:29.184 --> 01:07:39.765 - objections, is it time to put the coach in with his players? All right. Well, relay that to anybody 01:07:39.765 --> 01:07:47.806 - you know at IU. Maybe we'll get that done this year. And of course, here is 01:07:49.282 --> 01:08:03.027 - And let's see if I can remember. This is Abernathy, Cruz, Buckner, May, Benson, and Bobby Wilkerson. 01:08:03.027 --> 01:08:16.773 - And that's all I got, unless you have questions or more memories. And please come down to the, yeah, 01:08:16.773 --> 01:08:18.814 - just a minute. 01:08:18.914 --> 01:08:27.554 - Please come down to the History Center and see the exhibit we have. We have 103 images up there of this 01:08:27.554 --> 01:08:36.443 - season. And I always put in a plug for the Canopy of Lights open house we have the day after Thanksgiving. 01:08:36.443 --> 01:08:45.000 - That's a fun time, refreshments. You know, especially if it's a cold, wet night, take a break and come 01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:47.326 - down to the History Center. 01:08:47.906 --> 01:08:58.575 - All right, thank you. Oh, ma'am? I'm sorry, you were watching. I was watching the Oscars. Oh, yeah. 01:08:58.575 --> 01:09:09.244 - And Elliot Gould came out to make a presentation for an award. And before he even did that, he said 01:09:09.244 --> 01:09:17.566 - Indiana one and he did the score. And it was quite a reception at the Oscars. 01:09:18.754 --> 01:09:27.253 - Well, how come you were watching the Oscars, not the game? Okay, anybody else? Yes, sir. This 01:09:27.253 --> 01:09:36.295 - is a sports-related topic, so I have a sports-related, not basketball, but baseball. Last night, or 01:09:36.295 --> 01:09:45.246 - this morning, I stayed awake till 3 o'clock to watch the World Series game. There were 18 innings. 01:09:45.666 --> 01:09:52.987 - The reason I stayed so late, I was going to leave about the 13th inning, but I noticed that in the Dodger 01:09:52.987 --> 01:10:00.031 - bullpen, there's only one pitcher left, a guy named Will Klein. And I had to watch him pitch, because 01:10:00.031 --> 01:10:07.006 - he used to play at North. He's from Bloomington. The guy that was the winner of that game last night 01:10:07.006 --> 01:10:14.120 - or this morning was from Bloomington. And his grandfather, who some of you may know, was Mickey Klein, 01:10:14.120 --> 01:10:15.294 - who did a lot of 01:10:15.490 --> 01:10:43.422 - All right. Thank you. Yes, sir. Yeah. 01:10:46.722 --> 01:11:15.102 - Do you want to give him the microphone so we can hear? Oh, Abernathy did a great job guarding 01:11:15.810 --> 01:11:24.831 - Richard Washington, and the Philadelphia paper said that he should be on the Philadelphia Flyers hockey 01:11:24.831 --> 01:11:33.939 - team, because he was so rugged. And didn't he hurt his ankle in that, or knee or something in that game, 01:11:33.939 --> 01:11:43.134 - and didn't know if he could get back? Yeah. But yeah, after Benson got in foul trouble. OK, anybody else? 01:11:48.674 --> 01:11:55.973 - Oh, yes, ma'am. OK, you had a picture of Nancy Knight. She sat two rows in front of us for all that 01:11:55.973 --> 01:12:02.762 - season. And I have never met such a religious woman in my life. She would carry in with her, 01:12:02.762 --> 01:12:10.281 - I could you not, something like, I don't know, close to 20 stuffed animals for good luck. Oh, yes. And 01:12:10.281 --> 01:12:17.726 - she was, and they sat in the seat beside her. She had piled them up. And usually she had the younger. 01:12:18.210 --> 01:12:24.285 - son with her and not the older one. But she, I mean, every game she swept that out and prayed. I've 01:12:24.285 --> 01:12:30.482 - never seen anybody so religious at a basketball game. I'm not kidding you. And we would watch her and 01:12:30.482 --> 01:12:36.618 - the ushers were really good. They would wait on her. You know, they would help carry her animals and 01:12:36.618 --> 01:12:42.754 - all these things down there. But I do believe she had one stuff per thing for each player, you know, 01:12:42.754 --> 01:12:44.030 - not voodoo doll, but 01:12:44.290 --> 01:12:51.147 - But she was so nervous, and I thought, I'd hate to go home to that. It could be really hard if they 01:12:51.147 --> 01:12:58.347 - didn't win and didn't play. But she, I mean, every game we would watch her. And she was, she loved every 01:12:58.347 --> 01:13:05.205 - one of those boys. And I think without her support, Bobby would not have been the Bobby he was. She 01:13:05.205 --> 01:13:06.782 - really totally let him 01:13:07.202 --> 01:13:14.524 - back up and take over in her home life. That was a whole different thing. But to see those boys win, 01:13:14.524 --> 01:13:21.846 - she's never been as happy as she was then. It was wonderful. Yeah. I'm surprised there was never any 01:13:21.846 --> 01:13:30.110 - picture taken of all those animals. I'll have to look again through the negatives and see if I can find some. OK. 01:13:32.706 --> 01:13:39.469 - So this isn't the same year, but I'd like to know. Was anybody actually at the game where Bobby threw 01:13:39.469 --> 01:13:46.498 - the chair? I was. Yeah, several people. We had really good seats. It was my boss's seat, so on the floor, 01:13:46.498 --> 01:13:53.129 - catacorded from where Bobby was across the court. And I remember I looked up. There was a foul that 01:13:53.129 --> 01:14:00.091 - happened. For some reason, I looked at the band just for a second. And my sister-in-law, who was sitting 01:14:00.091 --> 01:14:02.014 - next to me, said, oh my god. 01:14:02.562 --> 01:14:09.976 - And I turned around, and there was a chair floating on it. And Bobby said he wanted to give his seat 01:14:09.976 --> 01:14:17.316 - to an older lady there, I think, something like that. But anyway, oh, and I also remember the crowd 01:14:17.316 --> 01:14:24.729 - went totally silent at the moment he threw it, just for a second, and then just exploded. I mean, it 01:14:24.729 --> 01:14:32.510 - was the loudest noise. Let me get this guy, and then I'll come back. On top of what Mike was saying, I've 01:14:32.706 --> 01:14:40.968 - I've always thought that that game that he threw the chair to the lady, that was the first game that 01:14:40.968 --> 01:14:49.147 - he came out not wearing a sport coat. He was wearing the red sweater. And it was my opinion that he 01:14:49.147 --> 01:14:57.409 - intentionally wanted to get thrown out of that game. He had some reason he didn't want to coach that 01:14:57.409 --> 01:14:59.454 - day for something. Yeah. 01:15:00.002 --> 01:15:07.132 - And it was against Purdue. And that's why he was going to get thrown out. He just had the opportunity 01:15:07.132 --> 01:15:14.193 - to come over. And he threw that chair in. And she was standing over there. And he wanted to give her 01:15:14.193 --> 01:15:21.323 - a chair to sit down. So I don't know. But that was the first game that came out with the red sweater. 01:15:21.323 --> 01:15:28.733 - That was in 83. Yeah. I talked to the HD photographer that was working that game. His name, John Terhune, 01:15:28.733 --> 01:15:29.502 - later went 01:15:29.826 --> 01:15:37.769 - was a photographer at Lafayette. But I was going through his negatives and I tracked him down and talked 01:15:37.769 --> 01:15:45.561 - to him and said, hey, I could see by your negatives, you were right in line with Knight. What happened 01:15:45.561 --> 01:15:53.277 - with the chair? And there was kind of a silence on the line there for a second. And he said he had it 01:15:53.277 --> 01:15:58.270 - all lined up. And when he pushed the shutter, he was out of film. 01:16:04.514 --> 01:16:12.433 - For that ball game, my seats were straight across from the team. And I was sitting on row one. And when 01:16:12.433 --> 01:16:20.505 - that chair stopped, it was about 15 feet from where my seat was. So I had a prime view of what was taking 01:16:20.505 --> 01:16:28.501 - place. Also wanted to say, when I went to Philadelphia that year, my friend and I, my wife fixed a baked 01:16:28.501 --> 01:16:33.374 - pie for us. He made ham sandwiches. And we took our Volkswagen. 01:16:33.698 --> 01:16:43.910 - My ticket was free. And so I was the driver and a retired banker. And so we were driving down one of 01:16:43.910 --> 01:16:54.324 - the streets before the ball game. And I saw a $20 bill flowing across the street. So that paid for our 01:16:54.324 --> 01:17:01.502 - gas back home. Anybody else? Something to share? Let me get over here. 01:17:06.594 --> 01:17:19.200 - Yes, sir. I purchased the chair at a surplus auction at IU. Do you still have it? Oh, very good. Do 01:17:19.200 --> 01:17:31.805 - you sit in it? Oh, god, though. OK, anything else? Oh, someday you might consider a donation to the 01:17:31.805 --> 01:17:33.822 - History Center. 01:17:41.570 --> 01:17:49.531 - is it the game that they won in New Orleans when they won the final four? But the actual game, the first 01:17:49.531 --> 01:17:57.189 - game, was better than the second game. You know how they play? No, they play to see who gets, no, to 01:17:57.189 --> 01:18:05.150 - see who's going to be in the final game. The semifinal, thank you. The semifinal was a much better game, 01:18:05.150 --> 01:18:08.638 - but boy, that was a fun night in New Orleans. 01:18:10.114 --> 01:18:20.435 - I don't see how you could get much funner than a shot at the buzzer win. Anybody else? Okay. Well, thank 01:18:20.435 --> 01:18:30.560 - you very much. And we have a lot of, we have even more photos of the 81 and 87 championships. So just, 01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:35.966 - you know, you can look forward to that. We'll be back.