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Since coming to Indiana a season ago, Knight has turned an undisciplined Hoosier ball club into one of the toughest defensive teams in the country. Not blessed with extraordinary talent this year. Knight stresses basketball fundamentals in an effort to get the maximum out of each of his players. This year Knight has been forced to rely heavily on freshmen and sophomores. Evidently his coaching methods are effective, as his young athletes made few mistakes against Harvard...
...Hoosier coach explained that he felt that his coaching style would help his ballplayers in later life. "Ninety-nine per cent of all adult males must take orders from someone during their lives and I teach people how to take orders, in my coaching. I'm all for students' rights, but when I'm coaching, the kids listen...
...Harrison has attempted to teach the team two basic offenses. After arriving in Bloomington Friday night, the team went straight to Assembly Hall to work on its offensive patterns. Yet despite this emphasis, Harvard still failed to execute. Guard Jim Fitzimmons said after the game that the tough Hoosier defense was one of the reasons Harvard failed to run its offense smoothly, but to go through a game without running one complete pattern is quite a feat...
...Crimson is that it does not really play good man-to-man defense. As most coaches will say, you cannot teach a player how to play offense, but you certainly can teach defense. Indiana's coach Bobby Knight proved that assertion when he turned a run-and-gun Hoosier ball club into one of the best defensive teams in the nation. Except for center Steve Downing, none of the Indiana ballplayers were very outstanding on Saturday. However, they all played hard-nosed defense which they had been taught by Knight. Knight told Harrison before the game that...
Jeff Wheat, Len Adams and Lewis Brown will play up front. Wheat played 19 seconds of the varsity game against Indiana Saturday and was ejected from the game after accidentally clotheslining a Hoosier ball player. Adams was the second leading rebounder and scorer for the freshmen last year and has a fine outside shot...