Buckeye Basketball: #4 Ohio State 93, #3 Indiana 85 (January 21, 1991)

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#4 Ohio State 93, #3 Indiana 85
Jan. 21, 1991
BLOOMINGTON, IN. -- Jamaal Brown scored a career-high 29 points and #4 Ohio State withstood a furious second-half comeback to defeat #3 Indiana 93-85 at Assembly Hall.
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GAME NOTES
* As with the OSU-G'Town game, the audio begins in sync but gradually loses its sync. Will look into possible causes/remedies. No commercials, no halftime.
* I know the double-overtime thriller (played later in the 1991 season) is everyone's favorite from that year, but this happens to be mine for a number of reasons. I stayed up late to record the game on Big Monday, which was a thing once upon a time. I don't think many expected Ohio State to win, and certainly not to run out to a 48-29 halftime lead-- Ohio State never won in Bloomington back then.
* The second-half officiating is just insanely frustrating to watch. At one point around the 10-minute mark, Greg Graham drives the basket and leads with his left arm to push Perry Carter off. Naturally, the call goes against Carter. There are about a half-dozen calls like that in the second half and it'll drive you nuts watching Indiana mount its comeback because they couldn't have done it without the refs.
* Likewise, Mike Patrick and Dick Vitale turned in world-class homer calls, announcing the game. They're basically openly rooting for Indiana over the final ten minutes of the game. For 16-yr-old me, this was high treason, and I never liked Patrick after that. Of course they were even worse in 1992 but it's amazing to listen to them pulling for IU.
* You may have heard the audio tape of Bob Knight destroying his team earlier in this season-- I believe it was recorded about a week before this game, which makes Patrick's soliloquy about how Knight's mellowed pretty amusing.
* Jamaal Brown is the TRUTH in this game. Bombing away from three-point range, making the key three-point play to ice the game with a minute to go, etc-- this was almost certainly the best game Brown played at Ohio State.
* Jim Jackson's passing in the first half is a real treat-- he has a couple of total highlight assists leading to Buckeye baskets.

[@dannyzappin8142]

Miss those days when OSU had a good baskeball team

[@INJURYCOMP]

Buckeye Jamaal Brown # 30. Condolences to the Family.

[@John-eg3gy]

LIKE A TRAVELING SALESMAN

[@ryannash4876]

RIP Jamaal Brown

[@capitanfuturo594]

Bob Knight was a real badass. 🤣

[@cylack]

NCAA basketball was far more enjoyable pre one and done era. You could follow players develop. Jimmy Jackson would have left after a freshman had he played now, but he was my favorite OSU player back then.

[@MangoSlade.]

R.I.POWER Jamaal Brown!!! Arlington legend!!

[@mike3376]

Great game, I remember it well. The insufferable Mike Patrick and Dick Vitale clearly pulling for the Hoosiers.

[@merchantsmithimages]

Young Dickie V!

[@Maal7432]

What a game. My Buckeyes owned IU that year.

[@teddywhitaker3967]

All i can remember from this year was Mark Baker's ineptness with ball handling couldn't get the ball past half court vs St.John's in season ending loss. Ugh!!!

[@chrisuncleahmad]

Cheaney, Bailey, Anderson, Henderson, Jackson, Funderburke.......... stacked collection of talent on the court

[@chinlin1646]

Perry carter