Even more amazing is Big Ten schools have lost the title game 8 times in a row since Sparty won in 2000. 8 times the bridesmaid: IU-2002, Illinois-2005, OSU-2007, MSU-2009, Michigan-2013, Wisconsin-2015, Michigan again-2018, Purdue-2024.
It really hurt IU as well that Knight was so bitter after his firing and did everything he could to payback his former school. The best example is convincing Sean May not to go to IU (he was a lock before Bobby got fired). Knight wanted him at Texas Tech, but he chose UNC as a compromise...
There was a Texas Tech merch store on the south side of Indy-when I lived there in the early 2000s. Always looked like business was good too.
To the original poster-I've been an IU fan a long time and its been so painful to watch us decline into what our program is now. I do agree that...
If all of them lost, I'd bet the rankings stay the same as this week. I'm pretty sure something like that happened a few years ago where the top 5 or 6 all lost on the same day/weekend.