The 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers, coached by Bobby Knight, remain the last Division I men’s basketball team to go undefeated.
at Indiana from 1971 to 2000. Knight led the Hoosiers to 11 Big Ten championships, 24 NCAA tournaments and three NCAA titles. His first title, in 1976, completed a perfect season that hasn’t been matched since. Here’s a look back at Knight’s 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers, the last Division I men’s basketball team to go undefeated.
Unlike Indiana’s 1974-75 regular season, which featured only four games decided by single digits, the 1975-76 campaign brought numerous close calls. On Dec. 11, the Hoosiers survived a furious second-half comeback by eighth-ranked Notre Dame and improved to 3-0 with a 63-60 win at Assembly Hall.“I’ve said it all along that this basketball team has a long way to go,” Knight told reporters. “Our concentration broke down.
Michigan gave Indiana all it could handle in an 80-74 Hoosiers win in Ann Arbor in early January. In the rematch at home on Feb. 7, Indiana trailed 47-39 with 12:52 remaining before rallying for a 72-67 overtime win.Sophomore forward Wayne Radford sparked the comeback with a career-high 16 points off the bench, including six in the extra session.
“I’m happy for the team” Knight said after the win over Marquette. “That’s what I told them in the dressing room; that I was really pleased they have a chance to go to the Final Four of the tournament.”Indiana earned its 31st consecutive win and clinched a spot in the national title game with a 65-51 win over UCLA at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Wilkerson finished with five points, seven assists and 19 rebounds, and he led a stifling defense that limited the Bruins to 34 percent shooting.
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