CHARLOTTE, N.C. - About all the teams from North Carolina and Washington State have in common is a basketball and the two hours they will spend together tonight. Geographically, stylistically, historically, they are polar opposites. In 216 combined ...
WASHINGTON - Forget Christian Laettner, Tate George and Bryce Drew. If Justin Hare's running one-hander from midcourt fell through the net on Thursday night at the Verizon Center, it would have relegated all the great last-second baskets in NCAA ...
The mistake in assessing the Hoosiers was to compare them to their peers, the other top teams in the nation. Knight, Indiana's coach, did not make that mistake. There was only one college basketball team against which to measure Indiana, and that ...
Its official title was the Superdome. But to those who spend the best years of their lives in pursuit of a bouncing ball, any building with a court and backboards at each end forever will be a gym. As it was at the Springfield YMCA, where the first ...
The shot heard 'round the nation was not credited to a specific college player or team. It was not notable for the way in which it left a shooter's hands. Nor was it made at a certain stage of a game. All that distinguished this shot was a launching ...
There was only one college basketball team against which to measure Indiana, and that was the one in Bob Knight's mind. The team he envisioned was hard-working, unselfish and perfect in every way. The team he brought to the 1976 Final Four ...
The show almost didn't go on. And even after it did, there were those who thought it shouldn't have. Such was the state of the union on the evening of March 30, 1981. The following story appeared in Sporting News magazine following Indiana's ...
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