@BigBad Unfortunately, Bobby Knight fumbled Larry Bird - but he was at least honest enough in a later interview to cite that as his biggest mistake as a college coach (the interview PREDATED his firing by IU though).

@wissox Indiana University isn’t the only college in Indiana. Ever hear of Purdue? Notre Dame? BUTLER? How about Ball State?

@wissox Indiana University isn’t the only college in Indiana. Ever hear of Purdue? Notre Dame? BUTLER? How about Ball State?

@BigBad Unfortunately, Bobby Knight fumbled Larry Bird - but he was at least honest enough in a later interview to cite that as his biggest mistake as a college coach (the interview PREDATED his firing by IU though).

@jaybate-1-0 In 1925, Naismith visited an Indiana basketball state finals game along with 15,000 screaming fans and later wrote, that while it was invented in Massachusetts, “basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.”

Wikipaedia article about “Hoosier Hysteria”

With all due respect to KU’s history in early college basketball, Indiana is BY FAR the most basketball-loving state in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_high_school_gyms_in_the_United_States