• basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach?

Facts on topics related to Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana

• 9 of Indiana's 12 native bat species have been observed in the National Natural Landmark Wyandotte Caves?
• abolitionist George Bradburn was with Frederick Douglass on an 1843 anti-slavery lecture tour in Indiana, when they were attacked?
• Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?
• Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
• Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
• Indiana's Eel River once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
• Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning?
• Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
• Tin Pan Alley song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" by Paul Dresser, Indiana's state song, became its first official state symbol in 1913?
• chocolataires, popular around the late 19th century, were thrown as a novel alternative to tea parties—once even for a kindergarten fundraiser in Indiana, USA?

Big Ten Conference

• Big Ten MVP Willis Glassgow was called the "Dancing Master" for his shiftiness on the gridiron and because he managed the most popular ballroom in Iowa City?
• Big Ten champion Chet Murphy defeated America's top-ranked woman tennis player Alice Marble in a 1939 exhibition match played in front of a "throng" of spectators?
• catcher Alicia Seegert set Big Ten Conference records for batting average, hits, total bases and RBIs while playing softball for the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1987?
• Greek professor Albert Pattengill played on Michigan's 1867 baseball team, nominated "azure-blue and maize" as the university's colors, and was one of the founders of the Big Ten Conference?
• college basketball point guard Demetri McCamey and Big Ten Conference foe Evan Turner were once teammates at Isiah Thomas' former high school?
• college basketball player Evan Turner was the only unanimous first-team All-Big Ten Conference choice by both the coaches and the media for the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season?
• East Chicago native Art Murakowski survived a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa and was named the most valuable football player in the Big Ten Conference in 1948?
• gymnastics coach Bev Plocki led Michigan to 15 Big Ten championships and 18 NCAA championship tournaments after taking over a last-place program in 1990?
• Indiana halfback Chuck Bennett built his physique working in coal mines and was selected as the MVP of the Big Ten Conference despite playing for the ninth place team?
• Major League Baseball pitcher Stan Baumgartner was named to the All-Big Ten Conference teams for baseball, basketball, and football in 1914?