IU vs Auburn 1987 NCAA Tournament 2nd Round 03 14 87

[@joshua462]

The Big Ten was very tough that year. I miss the days when I.U. was good

[@dabneyoffermein595]

Auburn was very good that year. Not a team to ever forget, they played super basketball and were one of the best teams in the country. I still can't believe Indiana scored that many against them

[@breakmylegs7294]

I noticed Indiana got almost every call from the referees after they fell behind 24-10, every offensive rebound or move in the paint resulted in an Auburn foul, if the refs call a fair game Indiana most likely would of still won, but if Auburn got all the calls Indiana did Auburn would of won

[@breakmylegs7294]

Well that was thanks to the referees at least a dozen calls on Auburn that were no calls benefited knight, Auburn would of won if the refs had done that to Indiana

[@TomBartlett-q7c]

For some reason the auburn guards thought they needed to reach in on every rebound indiana got and got nailed with a foul every time

[@TomBartlett-q7c]

I'll bet sonny Smith wishes his players wouldn't have tried punking out Steve afford kicking him shoving him ect.alford made them pay he scorched auburn,what auburn should have learned after this convincing victory is that Steve afford is a bad ass and never try and punk him out ever

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

This was the same Auburn team that nearly made the previous year's Final Four

[@chrismorfas7515]

A very raucous game! Auburn came out ready to challenge IU, and IU responded in-kind.

[@johnstarnes1925]

Really good AU team War Eagle!

[@brentstraddle1462]

Not the highest quality video, but this game brought out the toughness in IU. They learned from 86 vs Michigan.

[@kevinwilkins3248]

Alford was such a great shooter with terrific fundamentals, but was also very unselfish and rarely forced things. Lol, watching these classic games during Indiana's great tourney run that year brings back awesome memories of when I was 13 yrs old and wanted to be the next Alford. Too short and too slow for the NBA, but there's no doubt he was one of the great college players of all time.

[@michaeld5]

In December 1989 when The Sporting News published its Ten Best College Bball Players of the 1980s, Alford was #10!

[@kevinwilkins3248]

@@michaeld5 Yes, I remember that, too. Still one of the all time great pure shooters in NCAA history. Only had the 3 point line his Senior year and made 107-202 for 53%. Pretty sure he's probably still in the top 10 all time for college FT shooting as well. People tend to forget his 3 point shooting in the first half of the title game against Syracuse kept IU in the game. Finished 7-10 from 3 for a game high 23 pts in the championship. And had that big 33 point game in the semifinal in that absolute CLASSIC battle with UNLV. I agree with Smart getting the MVP of the Final, but it is Alford who SHOULDVE won the MOP for the entire tourney over Smart, based on the full 6 games.

[@slpguy6026]

Still to this day, in 2022, the most accurate 3-pt shooter of all time

[@gregpettis1113]

Too short?

[@powerboatguy2308]

Chris Morris was a high flyer, had a decent NBA career.

[@brianclevenger7429]

Indiana showed why the sec needs to stay home and not play with the Big boys.

[@danmartin9606]

I forgot how biased the announcers were against Knight and the Hoosiers. Never ending back then.

[@ashdavis5000]

@Joanne Rogers hahahaha he's the greatest of all time and he didn't coach your team ........we get it

[@shanetrimble9265]

​@HENRY DA NEXT PAT MAHOMES he went on to Texas Tech and did pretty good

[@chrismorfas7515]

Musburger and Packer for a second-round game. IU was a big deal back then.

[@dabneyoffermein595]

Yes, it was the #1 CBS team. That was back in the day when you could expense just about everything so I'm sure Packer and Musburger lived high on the hog on those road-trips. I'd like for some CBS crew to chime in and enlighten us as to what you guys did for entertainment while staying away on these trips and also tell us how Musburger and Packer were to work with? like who was the mean one and who was the nice one, usually one is opposite the other and that way they can better stand to be around one another for longer periods of time. Again, if you traveled with them, let us know.

[@alfonsogreen2722]

Basically the hoosiers had the "HOME COURT ADVANTAGE" & as far as the refs they probably were from the BIG 10

[@TomBartlett-q7c]

The refs in a ncaa 😅tournament would be hired by the ncaa and as far as tight rims go ask Mike Jones and jeff Moore how they liked them they both hit every shot they put up atheist most of them the final score of the game indicates the rims were not an issue

[@davanmani556]

Bullyball by Knight on those refs. Auburn was going to win. There was nothing legal about those screens. The rims were always tight when you played Indiana in Knight’s tenure.

[@brianschocke9642]

Were the rims just tight when Auburn had the ball. What kind of point is this? Enjoy your zero National Championships

[@stevenzimmerman4057]

194 points were scored...tight rims?

[@mwalker3547]

Sounds like a Kentucky fan.

[@slpguy6026]

Is that right Davan? What exactly was illegal about the thousands of screens IU set that year? Are you a conspiracy theorist? A Trumper? Did Knight conspire with every ref all year? And all previous years? Rhetorical questions. Don’t answer just go away

[@dabneyoffermein595]

Knight appreciated a good ref. If you were a bad ref, by the time the game ended, you knew it. If you were a good coach, you had a chance against Knight, but just a slim one, if you were a bad coach, by the time the game ended, you knew it.