Bump this thread when Indiana sucks
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Yes we separated Kenny and Tom after birth to keep him from the Empire.“No, there is another…”
-Yoda
Basketball season is back and this thread never dissapoints or dissapears. Thanks Indiana for continual suckage decade after decade.
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Why would we ever schedule Indiana they suck . We already have enough cupcakes to play .
Honestly, if you look back at their history they are a one coach wonder, much like UCLA .
It's really amazing how many coaches Indiana has gone through since Bobby Knight. Like, whomever they hire usually can have 1-2 good seasons but they can't sustain it. Like when Crean got them that #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament but after that season was not able to replicate that success.
IUsed2be's level of sucking went to even a lower depth today. Those goobs need to bring back Coach Tom Crean.
Ole McCracken had some success, but yeah they haven't done much since Knight. Thinking of it, I guess it makes me more grateful for ole Joe B. Hall and what he maintained after Rupp here.
Yeah guess if Sampson hadn't had those issues things may have turned out different for them.
Dan Dakich? Think maybe he was the interim IU coach after the Sampson issues.
Before Knight, IU had 2 rather anomalous titles (40, 53) under McCracken, and not much else.
From 1938-39 (his first year) until Knight arrived (71-72), they won all of 6 Big 10 titles, had 8 losing seasons, and- aside from the two championship years- won a total of 3 NCAA tournament games, all of them in regional consolation rounds.
Then Knight arrived, and his first 16 years produced 3 titles and 4 Final Fours. Since then, two Final Fours in 33 years... and not much else.
The years before McCracken were even worse, with 13 losing seasons from the program's inception (1901) thru 1937, and only 3 Big 9/Big 10 titles.
IU was never a "power" program. Just a school that got lucky on a hire. They were basically U of San Fran before Knight.
IU basketball will be good again when Nebraska football is relevant. Weird that Nebraska football was relevant more recently than IU basketball.
This is the right answer. The best way to demonstrate this is to look at seasons in which the team was a legitimate contender for a title —as measured by at least reaching a Regional Finals—the Elite Eight.
In NCAA Tournament history Kentucky has reached that game THIRTY EIGHT times…
Indiana has reached the Elite Eight 11 times in that same time period.
They are somewhere between one fourth and one third as successful as Kentucky historically. The Hoosiers are on the level of programs like Oklahoma State and Arizona in terms of consistent tournament success and behind programs like Arkansas and even Louisville.
Tubby Smith went to four Elite Eights and won a national title. The last five Indiana coaches combined have made it as far as the Elite Eight once and haven’t even won a Conference title.
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Called it. Indiana continues to provide material for this legendary thread. It may never end. I’m 39 and I’d wager a lot of money that this thread makes it to 10,000 pages when in 59 before Indiana competes for another title.
