Down by six points against Big Ten rival Michigan in the 1976 men’s NCAA Division I college basketball final, the Indiana Hoosiers entered halftime losing their star player Bobby Wilkerson to an injury. Coach Bob Knight delivered a speech for the ages ultimately leading to the Hoosiers becoming the first team in history to have a perfect season.
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Bob Knight is such a jerk Larry Bird enrolled in IU in 1974, Knight ran him off basically. Larry is by far the best player to ever come out of Indiana period. Can you imagine how good this team could have been?
I loved these 1970s Indiana basketball teams – they were a very Midwestern team. Though racially integrated, even majority Black, they played a very White Midwestern form of basketball, stressed defense, passing, no dunking or show boating. Coach Knight was good in my book in the 1970s, later in his career he became a problem, a bully a Mao type figure, but I live these 1970s Indiana teams.
This still runs on Showtime occasionally. Is excellent especially if you went to IU – has a number of local IU and Bloomington stories – Dunn Meadow Vietnam protest scene, Larry Bird recruited and leaving, McDonald's giving free food if opponent held to under 50 points.
Knight was a asshole
Knight was a great old school no BS coach, today society of soft boys couldn't handle his style and would cry to have him canceled.
in the most defining moment of his career, Knight reminded his players about how close they were to THEIR goals. Leadership at it's finest.
If you watch this game on youtube In the second half indiana got every call plus some phantom calls poor Michigan beat Indiana but lost to the refs
Knight was the greatest. He yelled and screamed. But back then that's what coaches did. There was no shot clock. But back then shoving pushing were norm. It was a contact sport short of tackling. There no 3 point shots either. Austin Carr averaged almost 40 a game.
Garbage call cost Alabama the game against indiana.
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This 1976 Indiana team is a big inspiration to the 2020/21 Gonzaga Bulldogs. It is March 19 2021 and we will know in a few weeks if 2021 is the year a team finally does it !
One of the greatest coaches of all time and one of the greatest jack ass of all time.
Fred Taylor once said “ I hope he teaches defense better than he played it at Ohio State” lol
nice little Hoosier feel good story after UCLA just got done winning 10 national titles the pervious 12 seasons.
Different halftime speech if Greg Graham is on the roster
Go Zags
"becoming the first team in history to have a perfect season"??
Both UCLA and USF have had perfect seasons and won the NCAA championship!
Indiana was the last team to have a perfect season, but far from the only team.
Undefeated national champions since 1939:
YEAR SCHOOL RECORD
1975-76 Indiana 32-0
1972-73 UCLA 30-0
1971-72 UCLA 30-0
1966-67 UCLA 30-0
1963-64 UCLA 30-0
1956-57 North Carolina 32-0
1955-56 San Francisco 29-0
Was this before or after Bob Knight showed them the crap covered piece of toilet paper? Or after he murdered one of their bench players? Bob Knight is a terrible human being.
As a junior in high school, I and three other players on our team went to the Pocono Mountains(PA) basketball camp, run by Coach Knight when he was the head coach at Army…On the first morning addressing the camp in a small airplaine hanger type of gym, coach told all of us to get up from our chairs and get in the defensive posture & to shuffle our our legs up and down…this went on for what seemed an eternity as he pushed us to keep at it…finally he had us stop…all of us were physically drained, but somehow we got through it…he then said to us "if you think your folks sent you here to go on a summer vacation, you're sadly mistaken"( and thats putting it mildly)…to this day, I'm both sore & exhausted…I came back home having learned basketball, but more importnatly the meaning of discipline, work ethic & perserverance…traits instilled in me to this day… I wouldn't trade that weeks experience for anything, period…thank you Coach Bob Knight.
Best. Coach. Ever.
My high school basketball coach was from Indiana. Was a total jerk like Knight. Wouldn’t talk to people or look at people. Was too good. Played his own kids every minute like Knight. Ran off countless players. Not cool. Not OK. Our society used to accept and even celebrate people like Knight and their behavior. No longer, thank goodness.
I wonder if a speech like that would've made any difference for the 2007 Patriots or the 2015 Kentucky Wildcats…I mean it is awfully embarrassing to be on the verge of becoming one of the greatest teams of all time and then end up not even being the best team of that year 🙁
That team emerged from the locker room and completely ground the Wolverines down. Outscored them 57-34 in the last 20 minutes!
Bobby Knight was, is and always will be a a complete lunatic who should never have been in a position of mentoring young men.
And they got it done! 76 Hoosiers greatest TEAM and COACH in NCAA history.
75-1 in two seasons. In 1975 same exact IU team lost in 2 ot in the final four. Only loss in 2 years. (Scott May broke his arm), and IU needed him.
One of greatest coaches of all-time.
Greatest coach and greatest college team of all time!
Bob Knight was one of the best. He was demanding and strived for excellence.