But after Knight took over at Indiana, the Hoosiers' scoring fell off a cliff.
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The Hoosiers just couldn't solve the Syracuse zone even though they knew what was coming.
The Hoosiers were led in scoring (16.7) and rebounding (8.0) by sophomore forward Cody Zeller.
The Badgers allowed only seven points after the top-seeded Hoosiers pulled within one with 9:45 left.
He was a booster to the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team and friend of Coach Bobby Knight.
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The worst losses for both the Hoosiers and the Cardinals was by nine points.
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The Hoosiers led by an 8- to 10-point margin for most of the second half.
But the Illini had won nine of the last 10 against the Hoosiers in Champaign.
The Hoosiers already had four turnovers and were in the process of missing their first five shots.
"They never really succeeded in getting the ball in the right places, " Boeheim said about the Hoosiers.
The Hoosiers won the 1987 championship game, 74-73, on Keith Smart's baseline jumper with 4 seconds left.
And nothing could have been worse for the Hoosiers (20-3, 8-2) than the way the game ended.
Mr Bayh is an anomaly in generally Republican Indiana, having long occupied a unique place in Hoosiers' hearts.
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The Hoosiers finished No. 4 in the final AP Top 25 poll and held the top spot for 10 weeks.
The cool-shooting Hoosiers had only five points with 10 minutes elapsed and were down 29-11 with 3:39 left before intermission.
Zeller scored the first five points in a 10-0 run that gave the Hoosiers a 41-40 lead with 13:27 remaining.
That strong stretch was enough to put away the Hoosiers, who managed just two field goals in the final 5:02.
Watford and Remy Abell made 3-pointers on consecutive Indiana possessions to help the Hoosiers open a 20-14 lead with 9:04 remaining.
It would "cost thousands of Hoosier jobs and cause additional harm to many Hoosiers to manufacture and grow our products, " Pence said.
It is good to be back in Indianapolis. (Applause.) Hello, Hoosiers!
You know, sort of like "Hoosiers" if all the players left in the middle of the tournament because they hated each other.
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The Hoosiers had fallen behind in recruiting their own in recent years.
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That streak will almost certainly end Monday, with the 9-0 Hoosiers coming off a stunning, buzzer-beating victory over No. 1 Kentucky on Saturday.
In 2009, one year after Sampson's departure, there came a final insult: Poor academic performance cost the Hoosiers two basketball scholarships for a season.
Unburdened by a shot clock, the Hoosiers walked the ball up the court, patiently ran Knight's motion offense and then played suffocating man-to-man defense.
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And conversely, 1996, which was a quite a competitive presidential campaign in Indiana, Hoosiers saw Bill Clinton as much more of a moderate Democrat candidate.
Knight, the white-haired general in the red sweater, led the Hoosiers to three national titles in 29 seasons and is No. 2 all-time in victories.
While the Hoosiers started winning again, the shine rubbed off quickly.
Both were Hoosiers and were on opposite sides of the epic struggle over who would control America's electric utilities, which appeared pivotal to controlling the economy.
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