Popular Post Hovadipo Posted December 14, 2015 Popular Post Posted December 14, 2015 Saturday, December 19th at 9:00 Eastern, Big Ten Network is doing an hour-long episode of Big Ten Elite featuring the 2002 Indiana and Maryland basketball teams that met in the natty title game. Set your DVR's! FortWayneHoosier, Bobman1, IUsafety and 7 others 10 Quote
southsidehoosier Posted December 14, 2015 Posted December 14, 2015 About time. They have done final four teams such as Illinois. Need one for 1992 season now. Alford Bailey, Bobman1, WayneFleekHoosier and 1 other 4 Quote
Lt. John McClaine Posted December 14, 2015 Posted December 14, 2015 God I love that team! JaybobHoosier 1 Quote
Alford Bailey Posted December 15, 2015 Posted December 15, 2015 That team was aggravating too. Has some disappointing losses. Like they were still missing Haston. Played pretty well in B1G and kicked it into another gear in the Tourney. Refused to lose. Can't wait to watch that one. WayneFleekHoosier 1 Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted December 20, 2015 Posted December 20, 2015 Just watched. Show really highlighted how unprepared and undeserving Davis was for job. Davis said he knew how to play, and as a coach he understood other things like spacing but didn't know zone press schemes, etc... Davis is a good guy. Moye was teasing him about being so emotional. Coverdale "growing up in Indiana, you dream about winning Big Ten." Tough, hard nosed guys like Coverdale, Moye, and Fife. Odle filling in for George Leach was key. Forgot about Leach a little. That Maryland team was really good. Underrated. Dixon, Steve Blake, Chris Wilcox, Lonnie Baxter. Show was equally focused on Maryland, if not, more so. Showed Luke Recker loss in Big Tourney. That still hurts. Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted December 20, 2015 Posted December 20, 2015 Fife talks about boneheaded play. Hornsby and Odle weigh in. Lol. Davis joked on the play too. Jeffries said he was going to beat the ish out of Dane in the locker room. Joking now, but probably not then. Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted December 20, 2015 Posted December 20, 2015 Always loved Newtons game. Had a nice stroke for a tall guy. Sampson said he was confident that he would beat IU that year. Said Oklahoma was the better team. Maryland beat Kentucky, Uconn(Caron Butler), Kansas, and Indiana that year for the title. Impressive list. Quote
Uspshoosier Posted December 20, 2015 Posted December 20, 2015 Always loved Newtons game. Had a nice stroke for a tall guy. Sampson said he was confident that he would beat IU that year. Said Oklahoma was the better team. Maryland beat Kentucky, Uconn(Caron Butler), Kansas, and Indiana that year for the title. Impressive list.the game against Uconn featured 8 future nba players according to Gary Williams JaybobHoosier, WayneFleekHoosier and ALASKA HOOSIER 3 Quote
Scooter D Posted December 22, 2015 Posted December 22, 2015 i cried a little... southsidehoosier and ALASKA HOOSIER 2 Quote
ALASKA HOOSIER Posted December 22, 2015 Posted December 22, 2015 watched it last night on TIVO. Wow, i really enjoyed the behind the scenes look at everything. I really miss our basketball, like we used to have....before the purge.... Kirk H and the hook, Tom (chub) Coverdale. Dane F. Jared J. Jeff Newton, scrODLE. Quote
rebelhoosier848891 Posted December 22, 2015 Posted December 22, 2015 Wow---this brought back great memories. Arguably less talent then we have today---but certainly a lot tougher! I would love to see this year's team develop that toughness! ALASKA HOOSIER 1 Quote
DChoosier Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 Wow---this brought back great memories. Arguably less talent then we have today---but certainly a lot tougher! I would love to see this year's team develop that toughness! That team did have some talent ( talent, but not saying close to best talent in tourney) with Mr Basketballs from several states and a couple of burger boys but the toughness of Fife, Moye, Coverdale (and others) does not seem, at this point, to be remotely closely matched by this team. The 2001-2002 team just had guys with the strong will to win. On the current team I think guys like Bracey Wright (oops, I mean Blackmon) are probably good guys but do not seem to have the killer "do whatever it takes to win" attitude. All that being said.....it was great to see them claw back from 16 down against ND. Can they sustain that? Quote
bleedhoosier Posted December 24, 2015 Posted December 24, 2015 Hoping the team watched that too Quote
GnarlyNormEllenberger Posted December 24, 2015 Posted December 24, 2015 Just had a chance to watch this. A few thoughts... - It still amazes me how poorly the Knight firing was handled. Doninger seemed surprised that most players wanted to leave after that? His solution was co-head coaches? Really? The whole administration became so smug and big-headed after we had a little bit of success. Hearing what each of Brand, Clapacs and Doninger had to say.... I am very, very happy that they are no longer a part of this university. They truly believed they handled the situation in such a wonderful manner and that IU basketball was better for it when the reality of the situation is that we have never truly recovered from it. No wonder so many former players distanced themselves from IU during that time. - Mike Davis was a nice guy, but he was nowhere near ready for the IU job. Both from a PR standpoint and from an X's and O's standpoint. And he all but admitted it during the documentary. He did admit he had no idea what he was stepping into. Yet, once again, the administration thought he was clearly the right guy. Hindsight is 20/20, but good grief. - Dane Fife understands IU basketball. If he ever becomes the IU head coach, I don't think it's a bad hire. He GETS it. Just listen to him talk a little bit. - I'll admit, I don't think I ever gave Jared Jeffries enough credit for how good of a player that he was. Part of it was because I was a fan of his at Bloomington North, so I'm sure I was overly-critical of him at IU with watching him from before . But he was an extremely talented player that could do a whole lot. Glad he was a Hoosier. - It was a little hard to see Coverdale during the interview. I hope he is healthy. But he was such an important player during that run. Fearless and tough. One of several leaders on that team. akhosrof 1 Quote
Hovadipo Posted December 24, 2015 Author Posted December 24, 2015 - Dane Fife understands IU basketball. If he ever becomes the IU head coach, I don't think it's a bad hire. He GETS it. Just listen to him talk a little bit. I haven't had a lot of exposure to Fife because I'm just too young to *really* remember him as an IU player. After watching this though, I totally understand what everyone is talking about as him being the IU guy they'd like to see here. Quote
JSHoosier Posted December 24, 2015 Posted December 24, 2015 I haven't had a lot of exposure to Fife because I'm just too young to *really* remember him as an IU player. After watching this though, I totally understand what everyone is talking about as him being the IU guy they'd like to see here. I'm old enough to remember him. I loved Dane, one of my all-time favorites. I wanted him as an assistant here so bad. Class of '66 Old Fart, Hovadipo and southsidehoosier 3 Quote
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