Gee, iu baseball, Notre Dame had to fly across country after playing a double overtime two nights ago and amazingly, they aren't getting blown out in San Diego. In fact, they are ahead in the second half against a talented Alabama as a I type this.
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Fish don’t care about sports! Geez you’re weird!
What were grandpappy’s favorite memories of IU hoops?
In the last six seasons, NU has been into the second round of the NCAA tournament more than IU.
But at least Cody Zeller still has his Sweet 16 ring.
Is this even English? Sure hope you are a Walmart Hoosier with this grammatical effort!
We have not played well, Bern in many or won. How many titles, tournament appearances, Big Ten titles in bball or baseball have you won,or even been in. I basketball tourney game, ever. Baseball you guys are the laughingstock of college baseball, just like basketball. So you are a bit better than us in football, but even in football, you own the longest losing streak in the history of college football. How about those apples
Thanks for the history lesson. Now go back to class on Monday and learn to proof read.
Wrong, Mr. Putin. Go fact check yourself, although I suspect you already knew this statement was untrue even as you one-fingered pecked it out on your computer.
SERIOUSLY?? REALLY? Wow. Having played hundreds of pick up games in that ordinary gym back in the 80s, I find that fact above hard to imagine.
Please notice he said the old Patten Gym. It was demolished around 1940 to build the technological institute. The new Patton gym was built a bit south of there and opened around 1952
They took that old Patten Gym and moved it to Indianapolis, where it starred in the movie "Hoosiers" and is the current home of the Butler Bulldogs...It was a cool place:
The court and peach baskets are the originals, a tremendous home court advantage for Butler.
"And you guys being a fairly conservative leaning school"
Northwestern is pretty far to the left. Totally "woke." Not sure where you would get the impression it is conservative. Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska are conservative for the Big Ten, but not compared to anything south.
Maybe you are confusing "not a lot of fun" with "conservative."
Um, no. Is this comedy maybe?
Butler (later Hinkle) Fieldhouse was built in 1928.
Right. I’m pretty sure Patten was donated and ‘oversized load’ed to the University of Minnesota.
So anyways, Miller, how are you? All jokes on this board aside, I hope you had a good time in Bloomington this year and didn't miss the big city too much. Good luck with whatever major your credits transferred into, hope it's a good career!
Back in the early 60s I played in lots of intramural basketball games in the "new" Patten. Also finished second one year in the intramural free throw shooting contest, and finished runners-up with my fraternity brother in the Chicago Table Tennis Tournament, despite being unseeded. What an athlete - a legend in my own mind!
There was a plaque or sign there in the mid-2000s; don’t know when it was put in. I used to lift in Patton and that fact blew my mind when I first saw it.
That's great stuff, No Chores. One of my favorite memories of playing in countless games at Patten in the early '80s was all the players on the football team I played against and got to know. This would happen every year in winter quarter, and after lifting for 2-3 hours over at the football weight room next to Dyche, lots of the players would "relax" by coming over and running with us stiffs at Patten. That was a blast.
Bobby Anderson was flat out unstoppable - of course he also played on the NU basketball team for a couple years. So was George Jones, and Chris Capstran. George had the most explosive first step I've ever seen on the basketball court, and had unbelievable hang time and body control. He had the most "Whoa! Did you see that?!?" moments of any guy I ever played with at Patten, including Art Aaron.
Cap was an immovable tank. When he got the ball down in the post... forget about it. Bob Pratt, who started at left guard next to Hinton in 1982 when we finally got off the schneid, and could run the ball for a change, was one of my favorite guys to run with. Great, nimble athlete for such a huge dude. He was also immovable in the post. But his bread and butter was a soft turn around jumper from ten feet on the low block.
Tony Coates, Rudy Germany and Tracy Parsons were also just ridiculous athletes, and fun guys to run with.
Great memories.
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These kinds of stories are my favorite part of the Board discussions. Always happy to hear about the memories of the young guys like you!
Did you and @mountaindrew have formal Intramural leagues as well?
The FB team had some pretty nasty IM basketball teams in the mid 2000s. Essex and Strief formed a formidable frontcourt that was tough to defend. Pretty sure that team with Ray Bogeneief, Roger Jordan, and many others won the league every year.
I remember Jay Williams stopped by after his career ending crash / injury to check our a few games. I think he had a high school friend at NU who player on one of the teams and enjoyed the spectacle.
I played in a 5'9" and under intramural league at Patten Gym one year during the early 80s. My team had a ringer who had been a really good high school player in New Jersey. The problem was that he was around 6' or 6'1". He would play in loose sweatpants so he could bend at the knees when they lined us up against the wall before the game to measure us against the tape marking 5'9". When other teams would complain during the game, we would blame it on his white guy afro making him look taller than he was.
Guys were shorter in the olden days.
As I recall, almost everyone on the team was 5'8" to 5'9", which is a pretty common height. With that said, the league was not terribly competitive. Our ringer wreaked havoc.
Yes, there were formal leagues consisting primarily of fraternities and residence halls as I recall.
IU baseball………now we know why IU is thought of as the dumbest fan base in college sports!!!
Logically, they must be the dumbest. They root for a football team with a worse all-time win % than NU's