32-0

Indiana University has had a mens basketball team since 1901. IU has five national championships in 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, and 1987. In 1976, under the direction of Robert Montgomery Knight, the mens basketball team went undefeated with a record of 32-0. They had made it through the preseason, conference season and post season play without losing a game. This was a great accomplishment as only six other teams have ever gone the entire season undefeated.

The first team to do it was San Francisco in 1956. They were 29-0. North Carolina was 32-0 in 1957. The great John Wooden was undefeated four times in 1964, 1967, 1972, and 1973. Each time UCLA had a record of 30-0. The last team to do it was the Indiana Hoosiers, as mentioned above.

Robert Montgomery Knight brought the 'motion offense' to Assembly Hall in Bloomington. After 29 years at Indiana, Mr. Knight was fired in 2000. Some members of the 32-0 Hoosiers (that I remember) were Quinn Buckner, Kent Benson, Scottie May, Tom Abernathy, Jim Crews, Bob Wilkerson, Wayne Radford and Jim Wisman. Some of my all-time favorite Hoosiers are, Calbert Chaney, Steve Alford, A J Guyton, Mike Woodson, Alan Henderson, and my all-time fav, Damon Bailey.

Robert Montgomery Knight is the winningest basketball coach in division I with 902 wins. He is the winningest coach to every coach at IU at 661-240 for .734% from 1972-2000. I remember meeting Mr. Knight at Columbus, Indiana in 1994 at a mall with Cingular Wireless was opening a new store. I was luck enough to get his autograph on the back of my Indiana silk jacket. This is one of my many highlights of my 47 years of life :-)

Currently, the Memphis Tigers are undefeated in Division I basketball at 25-0. They are rated #1 in the AP and ESPN/USA Today Polls. the Tigers have six regular season games left. Tulane 15-9, Tennessee 23-2, Tulsa 13-10, Southern Miss 13-11, Southern Methodist 8-15, and UAB 17-8. The game I am looking forward to is Saturday at 9 p.m. #1Memphis vs #2Tennessee. Each year there is usually a team rated #1 who's undefeated, but before the regular season is over, they lose, keeping Indiana University as the last team to be perfect. Right now, it looks like the Vol's are the only team who has a chance to spoil Memphis' perfect season. If they don't, I will be rooting against the Tigers in the NCAA tournament.



Long live the General!