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I don’t know when it happens, I don’t know how it happens, but I’m betting that Elijah Gertrude will win the ‘Hoos a game this season. The true freshman guard from New Jersey is recovered from the torn ACL he suffered in his last year of high school basketball, and he seems destined to be knocking on the door of the guard rotation throughout the season.
It might be one shot late in the game when the vets are in foul trouble, maybe he gets hot, or makes some intangible play because of his athleticism. But Gertrude is too good, too polished, and too athletic to not make an impact on this team. He’s a big game player, and that’ll shine through in his first season at some point at the very least.
Maybe I’m too invested in looking towards the future and valuing young, unproven players’ upside. But I believe Blake Buchanan is going to be the exception to the Tony Bennett big man rule. It’s so rare for Virginia to have a true big play heavy minutes in his true freshman season, yet both out of necessity and because of how polished of an athlete and defender he is, Buchanan will be the guy to break the mold.
Nearly 50 years later, his 1975-76 Indiana team is still the last Division I men's team to go undefeated. The season before that, Indiana finished 31-1 and lost in the Elite Eight to Kentucky. Knight said it was that team, not the undefeated one, that he thought was his best overall. He also guided IU to Final Fours in 1973 and 1992.
Knight won national coach of the year awards in 1975, 1976, 1987 and 1989; he was an eight-time Big Ten Coach of the Year. In 1991, Knight was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. The following season, Indiana took its last Final Four trip under Knight.
Knight's motion offense was a revolutionary concept when he brought it to Indiana in the 1970s. It influenced a generation of coaches who followed in his footsteps. Though not nearly as popular as it was in in the 1980s and 1990s, it is still used by some coaches today.
He developed the nickname "The General" both due to his time at Army and because of his no-nonsense, authoritative coaching style. Knight carved out the majority of his legacy while at Indiana, which included contempt and counterblast when he was fired in 2000 by IU president Myles Brand after striking a student.