Last undefeated team

[EvilMD]

Does anyone else think it's kind of dumb that we always talk about Indiana being the last undefeated team when UCLA pulled it off two or three times that same decade? When Indiana did it, it was not a special achievement. So why does Bob Knight get to pass judgment on UNLV and Kentucky? Knight we won 32 straight just like your team did and won another six before the numbers game caught up with us.

 

[cawoodsct]

You had a chance and you blew it!

 

[KWilt43atbuzz]

Ummmm because 1976 was the last year a team went undefeated and aforementioned team so happens to be IU?

 

[bigbluelou]

Just like the 1972 Dolphins...like it or not, they were the last ones to do it. Regardless of context or how different the game and the tourney are nowadays, it is what it is.

Nevertheless, Bob Knight can go fornicate himself with a metal spike on a blazing and greased pole to hell.

 

[Kentucky fan 1989]

If he dies I won't be happy but I won't be sad either.

 

[TeoJ]

Does anyone else think it's kind of dumb that we always talk about Indiana being the last undefeated team when UCLA pulled it off two or three times that same decade? When Indiana did it, it was not a special achievement. So why does Bob Knight get to pass judgment on UNLV and Kentucky? Knight we won 32 straight just like your team did and won another six before the numbers game caught up with us.

Sometimes you just have to ask yourself who was the last team to go undefeated and it should answer the question.

 

[ORCAT]

Because they WERE the last team to go undefeated???

 

[EvilMD]

UCLA had an 88-game winning streak in the early 70s and had at least two undefeated champions, maybe more. IU went undefeated in 1976. In 2016 Bob Knight said he didn't feel it necessary to comment on anyone else going undefeated because no one since his 1976 team had really come close.

The Miami Dolphins went undefeated in 1972. No one else before or after achieved this feat. They can talk smack. The also won all six of their preseason games that year.

 

[morgousky]

Until a major league baseball team goes undefeated, color me not impressed.

And UCLA has a spiritual asterisk next to everything they accomplished under Wooden. The reason you dont hear more about their run is because it's understood, probably on a subconscious level, that it never really happened that way. Give Cal Sam Gilbert and a lax NCAA, think we could make that sort of run? Probably close.

 

[TeoJ]

UCLA had an 88-game winning streak in the early 70s and had at least two undefeated champions, maybe more. IU went undefeated in 1976. In 2016 Bob Knight said he didn't feel it necessary to comment on anyone else going undefeated because no one since his 1976 team had really come close.

The Miami Dolphins went undefeated in 1972. No one else before or after achieved this feat. They can talk smack. The also won all six of their preseason games that year.

But they were not the last to do it.

 

[EvilMD]

I get that IU was the most recent, but for Knight to say "well no one has really come close to what we did since"...1) we pushed it to 38 games before losing, Knight, while your team barely made it to 32, and 2) you were one of three undefeated teams in a five year span...kind of makes the point that it was easier to accomplish back then, doesn't it?

 

[bthaunert]

I get that IU was the most recent, but for Knight to say "well no one has really come close to what we did since"...1) we pushed it to 38 games before losing, Knight, while your team barely made it to 32, and 2) you were one of three undefeated teams in a five year span...kind of makes the point that it was easier to accomplish back then, doesn't it?

Let's take UCLA out of the conversation, because there has never been anything like that (Sam Gilbert cough, cough) nor will there ever be again. Only 3 other teams in 80ish years have gone undefeated and won the NCAA Tournament. That's pretty freaking impressive. Removing the Fighting Sam Gilberts, and no one did it for 19 years before IU did. It's impressive, simple as that.

 

[ORCAT]

I get that IU was the most recent, but for Knight to say "well no one has really come close to what we did since"...1) we pushed it to 38 games before losing, Knight, while your team barely made it to 32, and 2) you were one of three undefeated teams in a five year span...kind of makes the point that it was easier to accomplish back then, doesn't it?

Let's take UCLA out of the conversation, because there has never been anything like that (Sam Gilbert cough, cough) nor will there ever be again. Only 3 other teams in 80ish years have gone undefeated and won the NCAA Tournament. That's pretty freaking impressive. Removing the Fighting Sam Gilberts, and no one did it for 19 years before IU did. It's impressive, simple as that.

No matter how you try to downplay IU's undefeated team and say things like it was easier it still remains that they did accomplish an undefeated season, including the tournament wins. Can't take that away from them and yes, it is an impressive run as bthaunert has explained. I agree that Knight's statement is sour grapes on his part and has little merit but I don't quite understand why you are pushing it so hard to diminish someone else's undefeated season. I hate IU about as much as any other team and fanbase (including UL) but I can't deny them the fact they were the last team to go undefeated. Why get so worked up about Knight, he probably loves that someone is still talking about him.

 

[EvilMD]

It's just one of those quirks. Indiana went undefeated in 1976 because Kent Benson threw a shot at the rim that bounced in the air and came down through to send the Kentucky game into overtime. I believe that 1991 UNLV and 2015 Kentucky beat that Indiana team by 20 points.

 

[TeoJ]

But they didn't,that's the difference.............I did see the Benson prayer could not believe that shot went in.Larry Johnson played a great game that night.