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WHoosiers?
Unless you’re from Indiana or a college basketball fanatic,
the Indiana Hoosiers might be little more than an inspirational college
basketball movie you watched on any particular Saturday or Sunday Afternoon. A
school filed beyond your usual March Madness pick repertoire of NCAA men’s
basketball schools… Kentucky, Kansas, Duke or any of the NBA-lite, media-frenzy
schools of the Big East. What’s been going on this year at Indiana could be
nothing short of the sort of basketball exorcism that occurred at Kentucky a
few years ago.
During the 1971 to 2000 Bobby Knight coaching era the
Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team appeared in 24 NCAA Tournaments, won 3
NCAA Championships, 11 Conference Championship titles, and in 1976, became the
last undefeated NCAA men’s basketball champion finishing with a perfect 32-0
record. This was a program that in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s had come as
closely synonymous with “winning” as Charlie Sheen, and as recent as even 10
years ago eyed a possible NCAA tournament title in 2002, has finished 11th,
9th and 11th respectively in the Big Ten Conference the
last three years. With the 2002 loss to
Maryland in the NCAA title game aside, Indiana has not seen a Sweet Sixteen
appearance since 1994. Indiana is indicating it wants that changed though in
2012.
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Spartans’ Head Coach Mark Dantonio Again Hostpitalized
The pre-game “Mark Dantonio Show” on the Michigan State radio network is sponsored by McLaren Health Plan.
A voice during a commercial Saturday afternoon told listeners, “Part of your heart is shaped like a football.” But Dantonio, the Spartans’ head coach, was not part of his show Saturday.
In one of the end zones of Spartan Stadium, a rotating sign just happened to show the word “Sparrow” to advertise the local hospital where Mark Dantonio spent Saturday’s game against Wisconsin with a blood clot in his leg that is an after-effect of his recent heart attack.
He missed a thriller in which the 24th-ranked Spartans defeated the 11th-ranked Badgers, 34-24, clinching it with a one-yard touchdown pass with 2:43 left in the fourth quarter.
In the post-game hubbub, defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi suggested that Dantonio sent in the game’s key play during a Spartans’ timeout on fourth down and goal to go.
“He was texting and calling the entire game.” Narduzzi said. “I think he might have even called the play.” Read More >>
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