1989    This culminated a nice decade of great college basketball in Bloomington, which is of course due to a legend called Robert Montgomery Knight. That year there was serious talk of him going to New Mexico, which seemed so odd to me that you might have well suggested that people would colonize the moon in the next decade. In clear hindsight, maybe he should have left around '96 or '97. But he is doggedly loyal to his constituency, and us diehards would have had it no other way.

            This was my last chance for glory before the big mission, and my hopes were high. I had personally witnessed Jay Edwards slip the dagger into Michigan at the last second from about thirty feet out. To see 36,000 hands raise at once after an eternity of 11 seconds running out while down two is a beautiful thing. Jones and Edwards were Indiana basketball, the three time champs from Marion.

We were down in Florida when IU got its first round victory in March, but made it back for the Sunday afternoon game that they ended up winning against someone like-- New Mexico? Seton Hall, the dark horse put us out after a hard fought battle, and ended up giving Michigan a tough ride until Rumeal Robinson hit the free throw at the end to get the Wolverines some glory. At least it was Big-10 and I knew IU was as good.