NCAA Basketball: Top 10 teams Bob Knight has ever coached
By Joey Loose
4. 1992 Indiana (27-7)
At this point in time, Indiana had established themselves as a solid force in the nation for nearly two decades. They were winning Big Ten titles every other year and had a group of very potent juniors coming back in Calbert Cheaney and Greg Graham (who we’ve mentioned twice already today). Throw in young pieces like Alan Henderson in the frontcourt and Damon Bailey and you had a pretty talented Hoosiers squad in 1992.
Though they lost their opening game against a strong UCLA squad, Indiana would play great basketball for the next two months, losing only to Kentucky in Indianapolis a few weeks later. They were 15-2 as January ended, having little issue early on in conference play. They would drop a few tough road contests in Big Ten play and actually found themselves finishing in second place, just a game behind a strong Ohio State team that they actually swept.
Eager for a fourth national title, this was Knight’s final team that reached the Final Four, winning each of those four games by double digits. They made easy work of 15-seed Eastern Illinois and survived any challenges from 7-seed LSU and 3-seed Florida State. In the Elite Eight, the Hoosiers pulled quite the upset over the top seed, getting revenge on UCLA with a 106-79 victory (Cheaney with 23 points). The season would end in the Final Four against eventual champion Duke, as the Hoosiers were knocked off 81-78.