{"id":697203,"date":"2026-04-04T04:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:25:48","slug":"it-has-been-50-years-since-the-last-perfect-ncaa-champion-indiana-will-be-honored-not-far-from-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697203\/","title":{"rendered":"It has been 50 years since the last perfect NCAA champion. Indiana will be honored not far from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"N2KSV3KRMVA5ZEWL635VI27SDY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BLOOMINGTON, Ind. \u2014 Bob Knight\u2019s halftime speech on March 29, 1976, was an instant classic.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5MBUVDZ7BJEYHDSQ2LRHKMX7SU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Indiana\u2019s players remember walking into the locker room, down 35-29 to a Michigan team they\u2019d already beaten twice in close games earlier that season with starting guard Bobby Wilkerson ruled out because of an injury. That\u2019s when <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/indiana-hoosiers-knight-statude-69dab8161b21eea8cee633bc2a8d0470\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the late Hall of Fame coach<\/a> arrived and issued the challenge that fueled the comeback and made history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLOOMINGTON, Ind. \u2014 Bob Knight\u2019s halftime speech on March 29, 1976, was an instant classic. Indiana\u2019s players remember&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,87715,217,325,354,231,772,20001,1544,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-697203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bkc-ncaa-unbeaten-hoosiers","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-mens-college-basketball","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-ncaa-mens-division-i-basketball-championship","16":"tag-ncaab","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116344545992408898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}