IU basketball

Maybe some forgave on Saturday. Nobody forgot.

Freshman phenom or one-and-done?

“Back in the early 1800s, when Indiana’s political map was drawn, that many counties seemed about right.”

“If y’all don’t respect the Indiana Pacers now, I have no respect for you.”

Don’t think of it as cheering for Purdue, but for the American space program. Do you hate the moon?

“Whether you do or do not talk to New Albany coach Jim Shannon, that’s not changing your chances of getting Romeo Langford,” one recruiting analyst says.

“What the hell
 difference does it make?” says Knight. “So I’m 50.”

“When did the sport coat give way to the sweater?” I asked. “Why did Bobby become Bob?” Questions hardly so nervy as to provoke the explosion that followed.

“I do remember that he was swearing after we went off air,” recalls one of Knight’s former ESPN broadcast crew members. “Something or other was always pissing him off.”

“When you have a guy who’s a genius, a lot of people don’t understand him,” says Lawrence Funderburke. “Not to excuse anything he’s done, but he thinks differently and he sees differently.”

Bow down, Hoosier fans. National powerhouse Butler has THE Indiana basketball program.

“I went to Ohio State instead of one of your favorite schools,” Knight told the audience in Grand Rapids, which reacted with a hearty chorus of boos.

Forty years ago, Larry Bird passed on a chance at big-time basketball. The small-town star left Bob Knight’s IU team before a single game and returned home.

Reggie Miller: I was a better shooter than Steph Curry.

Dick Vitale turns on the disappointed-dad voice in critique of IU basketball.