NCAA Final Halftime Speech | Perfect in '76
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- Down by six points against Big Ten rival Michigan in the 1976 men’s NCAA Division I college basketball final, the Indiana Hoosiers entered halftime losing their star player Bobby Wilkerson to an injury. Coach Bob Knight delivered a speech for the ages ultimately leading to the Hoosiers becoming the first team in history to have a perfect season.
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As a junior in high school, I and three other players on our team went to the Pocono Mountains(PA) basketball camp, run by Coach Knight when he was the head coach at Army...On the first morning addressing the camp in a small airplaine hanger type of gym, coach told all of us to get up from our chairs and get in the defensive posture & to shuffle our our legs up and down...this went on for what seemed an eternity as he pushed us to keep at it...finally he had us stop...all of us were physically drained, but somehow we got through it...he then said to us "if you think your folks sent you here to go on a summer vacation, you're sadly mistaken"( and thats putting it mildly)...to this day, I'm both sore & exhausted...I came back home having learned basketball, but more importnatly the meaning of discipline, work ethic & perserverance...traits instilled in me to this day... I wouldn't trade that weeks experience for anything, period...thank you Coach Bob Knight.
RIP coach Knight! One of the very best leaders ever.
One of greatest coaches of all-time.
in the most defining moment of his career, Knight reminded his players about how close they were to THEIR goals. Leadership at it's finest.
Expertly stated. Thank you.
Brilliantly articulated!
LOVE the way Coach Knight plays soft piano while giving a speech!
Guy's talented!
And they got it done! 76 Hoosiers greatest TEAM and COACH in NCAA history.
I hope we rise again and win and compete…..but, my FIRST wish that EACH player goes to class and get their degree. Thank you Coach Knight for everything you stood for and giving us 3 National Championships.
Grew up in Southern Indiana in the 70s and 80s. Coach Knight raised a generation of kids (whether you payed basketball or not) to be humble, to do your job as part of a team, the invaluable nature of personal accountability, self-discipline and relentless hard work. He was so much more than a basketball coach to kids growing up during that era. Legend.
As a young teenager in North Central Indiana, my entire neighborhood watched this game in our living room. It was perfect.
Rest in peace legend
I'll tell you one thing people forget about Bobby Knight: He worked hard to make sure all his players graduated. Sure he was a bastard. But he was OUR bastard.
Amazing how a few well-chosen words can entirely change one's outlook - and the future.
Bob Knight was one of the best. He was demanding and strived for excellence.
Now the 2018/19 season. Still to this very day, the last team to go undefeated....... Legendary.
Now It’s 2021, and Gonzaga has a chance to the the second undefeated team 💯
@@sipgod3053 nah there’s be 7 undefeated teams. 1956 San Francisco, 1957 North Carolina, 1964 UCLA, 1967 UCLA, 1972 UCLA, 1973 UCLA and 1976 Indiana. Also it could’ve been 8 if Gonzaga beat Baylor in the finals.
@@ii_tfnwrmarmy7564 yeah you right. Sad Gonzaga didn’t get to be in there
@@ii_tfnwrmarmy7564 Read what the OP said again, only closer this time, and then fix your know-it-all comment.
@@stantheman9072 Read who his comment was addressed to again and then fix YOUR know-it-all comment.
Ah, the good ole days.
One of the best Coaches and best Men in American History. We need a lot more men like Bob Knight.
Nope
One of the best coaches yes but a asshole of a person
@@charlesminton4218 People are just pathetic now. Losers. If 80% of men were like Bob Knight we wouldn't allow the thug worshipers to hold cities hostage. America would be a lot better for it.
@@U2BEMatchmaker yep. In my opinion best coach of all time. He won with less talent than any coach with talent. It's a lot different today of course. Bobby Knight was a MAN amongst boys! He did it his way. Love coach Knight!
@@U2BEMatchmaker
If 80% of men were like Bobby Knight, chairs would be getting thrown constantly.
I think it's pretty cool when you have a dictator type coach who comes in at halftime when the team isn't playing well and doesn't rip their heads off. Sometimes doing the opposite of what the team thinks you will do is the right answer.
You're exactly right. I believe most great coaches are also master psychologist. X's and O's are only part of the game.
Coach Knight has been a role model my whole life I use his commitment to victory every day
RIP Bobby Knight
RIP Coach Bobby Knight 🙏🏼
Bobby Knight - great coach
One of the greatest teams in college basketball history coached by one of the four greatest coaches in basketball history.
Bama beat them
who are the others? Dean Smith, Coach K and Jim Pollard?
@@Lorenshyne obviously John Wooden would have to be on that list.
Wooden Cheated , UCLA with Sam gilbert paid the players . @@SadDad01
Bama did not beat them. But continue with your hilarious delusions.@@TheJpep2424
Best College Basketball team Ever 1976 . And I was at the Title Game in Philly , Great time in College Basketball
The John Wooden UCLA Bruins might disagree.
Im sure they would. But Indiana for the 2 seasons played a more difficult schedule , both years than any UCLA team ever. UCLA would walk into the final 4 , then play a good team. Never did they ever have to go thru teams like the eastern and southeast teams to get to the final 4. Beat BYU and Wyoming and then your in the Finals . Teams like Villanova ,St. Johns , St Bonaventure , All the ACC teams Maryland NC State , dNorth Carolina and many others fought each other and knocked each other OUT to get to the final 4. this was a much tougher route than the western Schools had to go through. getting back to those 2 Indiana teams, they beat the '68 and '69 UCLA team by 6 or 8 points each time @@johncirillo9544
Rip bobby knight
As a 60 year old man whom was born and raised in the state of Indiana attended I.U. I cried when Bobby Knight came back home to Bloomington to live again. We won the championship again in 1981 while I was in school and, in 87 again.
Growing up IU games were like a big event in my house and nowadays it’s like a painful chore to watch them 😫 also the fact that the court hasn’t been named after Bobby knight is egregious !
Was also at IU in 81. Watched the championship game at Nicks. Did not know if game would be played as was the day Reagan was shot. I think, at the time, IU had the most loses of any championship team but won by the largest average score of any. An exciting time!
I too was born and raised in Indiana. The '87 win was and still is memorable, my father passed away later that night after battling cancer. I want to believe he was hanging on for the final. I too cried like a baby that night.
@@garrygayda2404 I am from Washington Indiana. I went into the Air Force and was stationed at Grissom AFB. In 87 I watched the National Championship game in someone's dorm and the room was full of people. I was the only IU fan in there so when Smart hit that baseline shot I was the only one to jump up and down. What a night that was. Go IU!
I cried too. Despite the detractors, we know what he meant and that he’s not what they portray him to be. Those teams and moments and the players who grew like our own family. It gave us such pride and happiness. I miss it and remembered it all at once when they brought him back home.
Best team and coach in the existence of the game of basketball I'm from Indiana Gary to be exact you say something bad about IU or Bob Knight you had to knuckle up and pack a lunch
76 Hoosiers are the last men's national champion to go undefeated
And for the past 43 years no other team has gone undefeated to win the national championship. If all-American Scott May had not broken his forearm the year before in 1975, I.U. would have gone undefeated to win the championship that year as well.
I've heard that the 1974-75 team was better overall then then the 1975-76 team.
36-0 in the Big Ten in ‘75 and ‘76; and the conference was really good...
@@donkotouc8377 It sure was. In 1976 I.U. beat Michigan by 18 in the title game. Good point.
If and buts were candy and nuts, what a very merry Christmas it would be…Kentucky beat them, with or without May. And in 76 it took a last second Benson shot to take it to overtime to beat UK. 76 Indiana team wasn’t as good as other 70’s team like North Carolina State and UCLA among others.
@@ajs32z I think I agree with this. The '75 UCLA team might have beaten them had they gotten past Kentucky, and I believe definitely the '74 UCLA and NC State teams would have beaten '75-'76 Indiana.
RIP Coach, this whole comment section of critics is kissing your ass right now.
That was a great year. All Big 10 final. Michigan with an unorthodox team that somehow made it work. 6'-7" center Phil Hubbard, and 6'-2" forward Waymon Britt. But it was one of the quickest, most explosive transition teams ever. Also featured Rickey Green and Steve Grote. Indiana was loaded with future NBA and totally dominant. Michigan and Marquette were the only two teams that year that even had a chance against them, but both fell short.
Alabama in the Regional final gave them a Scare. Leon Douglas was a big time player back then for the Crimson Tide
I remember that. Bama had just beaten UNC, if I recall, and Leon Douglas was the reason. @@stever1791
“We’re going to talk about the speech but not tell you what he said.”
Would have had so many bleeps that it becomes incoherent
@@MrPernell27 Clearly not, based on what was shown in this clip. He did the opposite.
Good video, may I suggest placing the players names on the screen when they apprear? thx
RIP Coach Knight.
RIP
Even as a Purdue grad, I rooted for Indiana to do it! Being a born Hoosier won out.
I remember watching this game remember when wilkerson got hurt real good game.
Greatest men’s ncaa basketball team in history with the greatest basketball coach in history!!
Not at all but the Perspective is understood.
Bob Knight knew how to get the best out of the men on his team. Young men for the most part today are incredibly weak minded and too emotional to handle a tough coach like Knight. Facinating to see the change in men and how soft they have become over time
(Quote above from some old guy)
I think emotional players make the best players. Great coaches know how to use those emotions and put them into play. I guarantee you he got them angry as hell before the games.
Really? Weak-minded? Think about the young men today. They have grown up in a nation that has been at war since 2001. It's these young men who have served in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other hotspots around the world. They've lived through the 2008 recession and the 2020 pandemic. They completed courses online and watched as their parents were laid off from work. They go to college and graduate deeply in debt. We've left them in a climate crisis and a nation that is, also, deeply in debt. All problems created by the "tough-minded" generations before them. And we've left it for them to fix. The young men and the young women we have today are the best we've ever had.
but John Wooden is the GOAT..
@@shanesawyer5103 You mean MAN!
I was a huge UCLA fan.
But I love b. Knight
Greatest coach and greatest college team of all time!
The greatest team of all time. They played the Russian gold medal team before season started and dominated them
LOL!! Goes to show you how much better Coach Knight was than Hank Iba. And that 72 team was missing so many great players. Had anyone but Iba been coaching, they probably get some of those great players.
the greatest single season.? perhaps. but the greatest men's collegiate basketball program of all time belongs to the UCLA Bruins
@@bconni2I guess if you don’t count cheating.
I don't like Indiana but I definitely respect what they've accomplished as a program with a true legend RIP Coach Knight
I have a bobblehead of Bobby knight throwing the chair.
Go Zags
This 1976 Indiana team is a big inspiration to the 2020/21 Gonzaga Bulldogs. It is March 19 2021 and we will know in a few weeks if 2021 is the year a team finally does it !
Trying to find sum entertainment from tournament. Lon Kruger still coaching is amazing. The days of legends is over for now...like basketball in Indiana.
NOPE!
As a 10th grader in 76, We all got to see championship basketball explode in the Hoosier State.
nice little Hoosier feel good story after UCLA just got done winning 10 national titles the pervious 12 seasons.
.....with questionable recruiting practices.
@@543dp3555 perhaps if a small school did it in a small town? . but don't forget UCLA is situated in a talent hot bed. the greater Los Angeles area has the best high school- prep basketball in the nation / world.
75-1 in two seasons. In 1975 same exact IU team lost in 2 ot in the final four. Only loss in 2 years. (Scott May broke his arm), and IU needed him.
In '75 IU lost in the regional final in Dayton as Kentucky won 92-90. Mike Flynn from Jeffersonville, In. led the Cats with 22 points and my friend Kevin Grevey had 17. It would have been back to back if May was healthy.
That team emerged from the locker room and completely ground the Wolverines down. Outscored them 57-34 in the last 20 minutes!
How many national titles does he have? How many NBA hall of famers? All stars? I am not saying his way was the best, but effective and impressive.
This still runs on Showtime occasionally. Is excellent especially if you went to IU - has a number of local IU and Bloomington stories - Dunn Meadow Vietnam protest scene, Larry Bird recruited and leaving, McDonald's giving free food if opponent held to under 50 points.
I watched the game in the early morning over in Germany on Armed forces t v while serving in the Army. 32-0
Alguém do 🇧🇷
I was at the camp at the same time as well, if I remember correctly the first four days you didn’t really touch the basketball until the final day
Greatest team ever.
Should have been 64-0 ... I still think the '75 Indiana team was better. What great memories!!!
@@gocatgo74123 yeah if it hadn't been for Kentucky!
IU demolished KY earlier in the year! Would have done the same had they had May.
Probably so!
The best team ever would be John wooden’s bruins of the 1960s with Lou Alcindor and Lucius Allen
Where can I see the full episode
I wonder if they would have been undefeated in ‘76 if the shot clock had been implemented; or ‘75. The shot clock brings concern and pressure to the game at some point. I think it’s unlikely they would have been. I saw them hold the ball on more than one occasion and force the foul.
Knight was the greatest. He yelled and screamed. But back then that's what coaches did. There was no shot clock. But back then shoving pushing were norm. It was a contact sport short of tackling. There no 3 point shots either. Austin Carr averaged almost 40 a game.
Indiana was the last team to have a perfect season, but far from the only team.
Undefeated national champions since 1939:
YEAR SCHOOL RECORD
1975-76 Indiana 32-0
1972-73 UCLA 30-0
1971-72 UCLA 30-0
1966-67 UCLA 30-0
1963-64 UCLA 30-0
1956-57 North Carolina 32-0
1955-56 San Francisco 29-0
One of the greatest coaches of all time and one of the greatest jack ass of all time.
Fred Taylor once said “ I hope he teaches defense better than he played it at Ohio State” lol
Who was the second guy in this video? The first is Abernathy and the third was Scott May.
Season on the Brink
Both UCLA and USF have had perfect seasons and won the NCAA championship!
Duh- this is about the last team to have one.
@@stevefischer9336 If you read the description above, you will better understand my comment. "Coach Bob Knight delivered a speech for the ages ultimately leading to the Hoosiers becoming the first team in history to have a perfect season."
1956 San Francisco Dons were the 1st, 1957 North Carolina Tar Heels were 2nd. UCLA Bruins were 3rd in 64, 67, 72, and 73. Indiana Hoosiers were the last in 1976.
You are definitely wrong? They were right on the cusp of winning another if one of his players can’t remember his name as it’s too early in the morning 😃 and at the same time just about all coaches use a lot of technology that he employed in his game! The greatest coach ever, the only reason you or anyone else doesn’t like this man is because of the bad press that you see over and over again from the bad news organizations that thrive on controversy!
Is that Danny C. from carefree north? Greenwood, Indiana??
@@leskobrandon691 no I’m his cousin 😃
You are right. By the way for those of you who don't know, Bobby Knight mentored his assistant coach, Mike K. from Duke. Ask Mike what he thought about Bobby. Although I don't agree with some of Bobby's tactics, at the same time, most of todays players are cry babies when it comes to discipline. It is mostly the parents fault who are two weak to show what respect is when the parents are really worried about what people think of them and their failure. It is not a coincident that with each passing generation, respect takes a back seat to kissing the cry baby kids butts.
@@alanmerritts amen
Best. Coach. Ever.
Different halftime speech if Greg Graham is on the roster
my favorite male athletes/jocks ever are + were #1 tied wilt chamberlain + bill russell #2 kareem abdul-jabbar + #3 hakeem olajuwon
Gary no one gives a shit about your favorite NBA players here!! Knight won the right way!! Greatest men’s college basketball team ever!!
@@beowulf3303 that team isn't the best cuz they didn't face legends like oscar robertson kareem abdul-jabbar wilt chamberlain + bill russell
@@beowulf3303 u say no give a shit can + or will u prove that at all
@@beowulf3303 they need to give a shit/care for multiple reason's
@@beowulf3303 ok they need to care give a shit cuz of my 100 % accuracy + i'm not saying that arrogantly at all period
I'm glad coach Knight didn't pay more attention to Larry Bird in his short stint in Bloomington. In between there and ISU I got to play forward opposite Larry on the '75 Indiana AAU state champs. Go figure, we lost to Michigan in regionals.
And now we all know who knight is.
Where’s the rest of it?
I’M SICK AND TIRED OF LOSING TO PURDUE!!!! I’M NOT HERE TO FUCK AROUND!!!
Maybe the 07 Patriots should’ve saw this video during halftime in the superbowl.
I loved these 1970s Indiana basketball teams - they were a very Midwestern team. Though racially integrated, even majority Black, they played a very White Midwestern form of basketball, stressed defense, passing, no dunking or show boating. Coach Knight was good in my book in the 1970s, later in his career he became a problem, a bully a Mao type figure, but I live these 1970s Indiana teams.
Knight was a great old school no BS coach, today society of soft boys couldn't handle his style and would cry to have him canceled.
nah the game left him behind. adapt or die and he couldn't adapt
i was so disappointed when iu beat my heels in '81. heels have lost 6 ncaa finals games and won 6 ncaa titles. both ku and dook have also lost 6. ku has won 4 and dook 5. so at least our win % is better. but i do not think iu has lost one but won 5.
I wonder if a speech like that would've made any difference for the 2007 Patriots or the 2015 Kentucky Wildcats...I mean it is awfully embarrassing to be on the verge of becoming one of the greatest teams of all time and then end up not even being the best team of that year :(
wow ... that was *soooooo* inspiring 😴
😳
Why is Coach Knight's nose bright red?
Alcohol
He is a sportsman idiot. He stays outside and hunts and fishes. You two great achievers should really get out of Mom's basement.
Rosacea
LLPRODUCTIONS no, he’s just stating the obvious. Are u mad he called out 2 people that probably are literally living in Mom’s basement
@@terrycoonce5119 why, because he asked a simple question.
"becoming the first team in history to have a perfect season"??
yep! and win the championship no else has ever done it! although gonzaga almost did the other night! the hoosiers are in my hometown but we’re not as good anymore haha
No! Both UCLA and USF had perfect seasons and won the NCAA championship.
No! Both UCLA and USF had perfect seasons and won the NCAA championship.
@@rubez5545
Undefeated national champions since 1939:
YEAR SCHOOL RECORD
1975-76 Indiana 32-0
1972-73 UCLA 30-0
1971-72 UCLA 30-0
1966-67 UCLA 30-0
1963-64 UCLA 30-0
1956-57 North Carolina 32-0
1955-56 San Francisco 29-0
@@ronfugle2096 i’m so sorry i didn’t mean to ever win it i meant the last one to do it! my mistake sorry
Garbage call cost Alabama the game against indiana.
My high school basketball coach was from Indiana. Was a total jerk like Knight. Wouldn’t talk to people or look at people. Was too good. Played his own kids every minute like Knight. Ran off countless players. Not cool. Not OK. Our society used to accept and even celebrate people like Knight and their behavior. No longer, thank goodness.
You wanna see the real jerk? Look in the mirror!
Sir,
Think about the state of things in this country.....the people I work with are scheduled to work 8 hours a day ....almost every one comes in late, or goes home early and take long lunches if they come back at all....they won't listen to any one and can't/won't pick up after themselves so the shop is always a mess...one guy showed up without his shoes..I am not making this up....I wish the employer would "run off countless" employees but they are afraid they will hurt someones feelings and get sued...the customers are pissed because we can't give them a time when someone will be able to work on their car....the employer pays everyone the same wage so all are treated equally, consequently the experienced and knowledgeable help has moved on or retired during a time when cars are becoming outrageously complex and the people running the place can't find their shoes or are high in the parking lot....
The next time you get your car worked think to yourself...if Bob Knight were running this place would my car be serviced by now?....same could be said for every business or government entity....but all the Bob Knights have been run off...
Almost all of Knights former players love the guy....
He was a great Coach for his era, the reason Indiana wasn't winning titles after the 3 point line came in was because Knight couldn't evolve, that's the main difference between Knight and Coach K, Coach K evolves with every generation, playing style and the way kids are different, Coach Knight would be irrelevant today because his methods wouldn't work...
Ask Me Wrong
@@fm1668 Hense why Knights last group at Indiana got him ousted, hense why he never won a title after 87. Point proven....
Agreed, kids these days wouldnt put up with Knights ego
@@fm1668 No little Elias you're wrong and perhaps even stuck in that old era like your hero Coach Bobby "Boo-Boo" Knight. 😑
@Basketball Knowledge, Coach Knight did win a title after the 3 point line came into college. It was fully implemented in 1986. They won a title in 1987
If you watch this game on youtube In the second half indiana got every call plus some phantom calls poor Michigan beat Indiana but lost to the refs
Bobby Knight was, is and always will be a a complete lunatic who should never have been in a position of mentoring young men.
Bobby Knight is the greatest college coach of the greatest college team. You are jealous.
you are a child@@Henry-eh2jk
@@philphillips3875 You are just jealous
no response Henry?
@@philphillips3875 Bobby Knight is the greatest college coach of the greatest college team, ever.
Bob Knight is such a jerk Larry Bird enrolled in IU in 1974, Knight ran him off basically. Larry is by far the best player to ever come out of Indiana period. Can you imagine how good this team could have been?
Not true! Larry is on record as stating he was overwhelmed at the large campus (33,000 students) and became homesick. Larry came from tiny French Lick. He left before basketball season even started. Get your facts straight before you condemn someone. Yes, Knight was profane and had a temper, but he did many things for the university and his players with what he did for Landon Turner after his career ending accident the most memorable.
@@garym3081 I think (could be wrong) Bird left before classes even started. As for Bird being the best player to come out of Indiana, well he's definitely in the top two, but Oscar Robertson is in most people's top ten all-time. Pick the one you like, but the Big O can't be slighted by anybody who knows basketball.
I played AAU ball with Larry in the spring of '75 and he said a big part of leaving IU was Kent Benson messing with him for the 24 days he was there. Robertson and Bird were the best players at their positions.
Was this before or after Bob Knight showed them the crap covered piece of toilet paper? Or after he murdered one of their bench players? Bob Knight is a terrible human being.
"Hey Knight" - He must have been on Xanax or Ambien. Probably the last time Bob Knight didn't strangle a kid, throw a chair, or a tantrum. You think he would have learned something. Nah.
must be a lonely Michigan fan
No ... I don't buy sentimentality connecting in any way with Knight. The guy yelled non-stop and, and IMO, de-motivated his teams. If they came back and won, it was inspite of Knight; not because of him.
Bob Knight a lucky sham.
i hate hate almost all iu athletics members ever
Bobby Knight was a terrible coach and an even worse human being. He was a narcistic megalomaniac. To honor him is like honoring Charles Manson.
RIP Bob Knight