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1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team

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1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball
Big Ten champions
NCAA Tournament, Elite Eight
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 1
AP	No. 3
Record	31–1 (18–0 Big Ten)
Head coach	Bobby Knight (4th season)
Assistant coaches	Dave Bliss Bob Donewald Bob Weltlich Mike Krzyzewski (1st season)
Captain	Steve Green Quinn Buckner
Home arena	Assembly Hall
Seasons ← 1973–74 1975–76 →

1974–75 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No.3Indiana	18	–	0	1.000	31	–	1	.969
No.19Michigan	12	–	6	.667	19	–	8	.704
Minnesota	11	–	7	.611	18	–	8	.692
Purdue	11	–	7	.611	17	–	11	.607
Michigan State	10	–	8	.556	17	–	9	.654
Ohio State	8	–	10	.444	14	–	14	.500
Iowa	7	–	11	.389	10	–	16	.385
Wisconsin	5	–	13	.278	8	–	18	.308
Illinois	4	–	14	.222	8	–	18	.308
Northwestern	4	–	14	.222	6	–	20	.231

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University, led by fourth-year head coach Bobby Knight. The team played its home games on campus in BloomingtonatAssembly Hall, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.

The Hoosiers finished the regular season with a 29–0 record, and won the Big Ten Conference by six games at 18–0.^[1] They began the season third in the polls and were top-ranked since January 7.^[2]^[3] When combined with the following year, Indiana won 37 consecutive Big Ten games. The Hoosiers won their conference games by an average of 22.8 points. However, in an 83–82 win against Purdue on February 22, they lost consensus All-American forward Scott May to a broken left arm. The Hoosiers were so dominant that four starters – Scott May, Steve Green, Kent Benson, and Quinn Buckner – were named to the five-man All-Big Ten team following the regular season. With May's injury keeping him to seven minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92–90 in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament and finished the season at 31–1.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Roster[edit]

No.	Name	Position	Ht.	Year	Hometown
20	Bobby Wilkerson	G/F	6–7	Jr.	Anderson, Indiana
21	Quinn Buckner	G	6–3	Jr.	Phoenix, Illinois
22	Wayne Radford	G/F	6–3	Fr.	Indianapolis, Indiana
24	Steve Ahlfeld	G	6–1	Sr.	Wabash, Indiana
25	Doug Allen	F	6–6	Sr.	Champaign, Illinois
30	John Kamstra	G	6–1	Sr.	Frankfort, Indiana
31	John Laskowski	G/F	6–5	Sr.	South Bend, Indiana
32	Mark Haymore	F/C	6–8	Fr.	Shaker Heights, Ohio
33	Tom Abernethy	F	6–7	Jr.	South Bend, Indiana
34	Steve Green	F	6–7	Sr.	Sellersburg, Indiana
40	Jim Wisman	G	6–2	Fr.	Quincy, Illinois
42	Scott May	F	6–7	Jr.	Sandusky, Ohio
43	Don Noort	C	6–8	Jr.	Worth, Illinois
45	Jim Crews	G	6–5	Jr.	Normal, Illinois
54	Kent Benson	C	6–11	So.	New Castle, Indiana

Regular season game against Kentucky[edit]

On December 7, 1974, Indiana and Kentucky met in the regular season in Bloomington with a 98–74 Indiana win.^[7] Near the end of the game, Indiana coach Bobby Knight went to the Kentucky bench where the official was standing to complain about a call. Before he left, Knight hit Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall in the back of the head.^[8] UK's assistant coach Lynn Nance, a former FBI agent who was about 6 feet 5 inches, had to be restrained by Hall from hitting Knight. Hall later said, "It publicly humiliated me."^[9]

Knight said the slap to the head was something he has done, "affectionately" to his own players for years. "But maybe someone would not like that", he said. "If Joe didn't like it, I offer an apology. I don't apologize for the intent." ... "Hall and I have been friends for a long time", Knight said. "If he wants to dissolve the friendship, that's up to him."^[10] Knight blamed the furor on Hall, noting in his inimitable style, "If it was meant to be malicious, I'd have blasted him into the seats."^[11]

NCAA tournament[edit]

Following the one-sided regular season game in early December,^[7] Indiana and Kentucky met again in the 1975 Elite EightinDayton, Ohio, the Mideast regional final. Entering that game on March 22, the top-ranked Hoosiers had a 34-game winning streak and Kentucky (24–4) was ranked fifth. However, Indiana had lost star player Scott May to a broken arm in the regular season finale against Purdue. May scored 25 points in the regular season IU-UK meeting, but he managed only two points in seven minutes in the tournament game, which he played with a cast on his left arm. IU surged out to an early seven-point lead before UK rallied to tie it at 44 by halftime. Despite Indiana's Kent Benson scoring 33 points (13-of-18) and grabbing 23 rebounds, Kentucky won by two points, 92–90.^[4]^[5]^[6] The game made USA Today's list of the greatest NCAA tournament games of all time.^[12] The win put Kentucky in the Final Four in San Diego, where they dropped the NCAA title game to UCLAinJohn Wooden's final game as head coach.

The loss for Indiana prevented what could have been back-to-back undefeated seasons and national championships as the Hoosiers went on to take the national title in 1976. Bob Knight would later say that this 1974–75 team was the best he ever coached, even better than the undefeated national champions of 1976.

Schedule and results[edit]

Date time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site city, state
Non-conference regular season
11/30/1974*	No. 3	Tennessee Tech	W 113–60	1–0	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
12/4/1974*	No. 3	at No. 7 Kansas	W 74–70 ^OT	2–0	Allen Fieldhouse Lawrence, Kansas
12/7/1974*	No. 3	No. 15 Kentucky Indiana–Kentucky rivalry	W 98–74	3–0	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
12/11/1974*	No. 3	at No. 11 Notre Dame	W 94–84	4–0	Joyce Center Notre Dame, Indiana
12/14/1974*	No. 3	vs. Texas A&M	W 90–55	5–0	Market Square Arena Indianapolis
12/16/1974*	No. 3	Toledo	W 92–70	6–0	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
12/20/1974*	No. 2	Creighton Indiana Classic	W 71–53	7–0	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
12/21/1974*	No. 2	Nebraska Indiana Classic	W 97–60	8–0	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
12/26/1974*	No. 2	vs. Florida Rainbow Classic Quarterfinals	W 98–84	9–0	Neal S. Blaisdell Center Honolulu, HI
12/27/1974*	No. 2	vs. Ohio State Rainbow Classic Semifinals	W 102–71	10–0	Neal S. Blaisdell Center Honolulu, HI
12/30/1974*	No. 2	vs. Hawaii Rainbow Classic Championship	W 69–52	11–0	Neal S. Blaisdell Center Honolulu, HI
Big Ten regular season
1/4/1975	No. 2	at Michigan State	W 107–55	12–0 (1–0)	Jenison Fieldhouse East Lansing, Michigan
1/6/1975	No. 2	at No. 17 Michigan	W 90–76	13–0 (2–0)	Crisler Arena Ann Arbor, Michigan
1/11/1975	No. 1	Iowa	W 102–49	14–0 (3–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
1/13/1975	No. 1	Minnesota	W 79–59	15–0 (4–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
1/18/1975	No. 1	at Northwestern	W 82–56	16–0 (5–0)	Welsh-Ryan Arena Evanston, Illinois
1/20/1975	No. 1	at Wisconsin	W 89–69	17–0 (6–0)	Wisconsin Field House Madison, Wisconsin
1/25/1975	No. 1	No. 20 Purdue Rivalry	W 104–71	18–0 (7–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
1/27/1975	No. 1	Illinois Rivalry	W 73–57	19–0 (8–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
2/1/1975	No. 1	at Ohio State	W 72–66	20–0 (9–0)	St. John Arena Columbus, Ohio
2/3/1975	No. 1	Michigan	W 74–48	21–0 (10–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
2/8/1975	No. 1	at Iowa	W 79–56	22–0 (11–0)	Iowa Field House Iowa City, Iowa
2/10/1975	No. 1	at Minnesota	W 69–54	23–0 (12–0)	Williams Arena Minneapolis
2/15/1975	No. 1	Northwestern	W 82–58	24–0 (13–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
2/17/1975	No. 1	Wisconsin	W 93–58	25–0 (14–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
2/22/1975	No. 1	at Purdue Rivalry	W 83–82	26–0 (15–0)	Mackey Arena West Lafayette, Indiana
2/24/1975	No. 1	at Illinois Rivalry	W 112–89	27–0 (16–0)	Assembly Hall Champaign, Illinois
3/1/1975	No. 1	Ohio State	W 86–78	28–0 (17–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
3/8/1975	No. 1	Michigan State	W 94–79	29–0 (18–0)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
NCAA Tournament
3/15/1975*	No. 1	vs. UTEP Quarterfinals	W 78–52	30–0	Memorial Coliseum Lexington, Kentucky
3/20/1975*	No. 1	vs. Oregon State Sweet Sixteen	W 81–71	31–0	University of Daytona Arena Dayton, Ohio
3/22/1975*	No. 1	vs. No. 5 Kentucky Elite Eight	L 90–92	31–1	University of Dayton Arena Dayton, Ohio
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

Rankings[edit]

Team players drafted into the NBA[edit]

Year	Round	Pick	Player	NBA Club
1975	2	30	Steve Green	Chicago Bulls
1975	2	32	John Laskowski	Chicago Bulls
1976	1	2	Scott May	Chicago Bulls
1976	1	7	Quinn Buckner	Milwaukee Bucks
1976	1	11	Bob Wilkerson	Seattle SuperSonics
1976	3	43	Tom Abernethy	Los Angeles Lakers
1977	1	1	Kent Benson	Milwaukee Bucks
1978	2	27	Wayne Radford	Indiana Pacers

^[13]

References[edit]

^ "Indiana Basketball Men's Database". IndyStar. Retrieved November 16, 2015.

^ Damer, Roy (January 8, 1975). "Improved Indiana now No. 1". Chicago Tribune. p. 5, sec. 4.

^ "Top ranking is 'pressure'". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. January 8, 1975. p. 17.

^ ^a ^b McDermott, Barry (March 31, 1975). "It will be a horse race". Sports Illustrated. p. 22.

^ ^a ^b Damer, Roy (March 23, 1975). "Kentucky topples Indiana by 92–90". Chicago Tribune. p. 1, sec. 3.

^ ^a ^b "Kentucky topples Indiana". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 23, 1975. p. 1, sports.

^ ^a ^b "Hoosiers blast Kentucky". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press. December 8, 1974. p. 3, sec. 3.

^ "Recapping the rivalry". Retrieved March 22, 2012.

^ "none". Atlanta Constitution Journal. February 28, 1982.

^ Laudeman, Tev (December 8, 1974). "none". Louisville Courier Journal.

^ Delsohn, Steve (2006). Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography. Simon & Schuster. pp. 96. ISBN 9780743243483.

^ Mike Douchant – Greatest 63 games in NCAA Tournament history. The Sports Xchange, published in USA Today, March 25, 2002

^ "1975 NBA Draft on databaseBasketball.com". Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2013.

v t e Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball
Venues	Old Assembly Hall (1900–1917) Men's Gymnasium (1917–1928) The Fieldhouse (1928–1960) New Fieldhouse (1960–1971) Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (1971–present) Cook Hall (practice)
Rivalries	Illinois Kentucky Purdue
Culture & lore	2011 Kentucky upset A Season on the Brink (film) Blue blood status Crimson Guard Crossroads Classic "Indiana, Our Indiana"
People	Head coaches NBA draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	List of seasons 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
NCAA national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics

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