By Laura Zweig
“We’ve got banners on the wall. This is how we ball. Talkin’
bout the hoo-hoo-hoosiers.”
Indiana
basketball is a time-honored tradition that has been memorialized in many a fan
song or critically-acclaimed film. Grantland’s article takes a look at this
year’s team, which is currently posed to take the championship as it is ranked
number one in the nation. The story profiles the team’s coach Tom Crean,
detailing his illustrious affair with basketball, culminating with his tenure
with the cream and crimson in Bloomington. The story encapsulates what it means
to be a Hoosier, whether it is a player on the court or a fan in the stands,
and the importance of tradition. He says, “"You can forget about the
tradition. You can lose track of the history. You can lose culture. We lost
culture. We never lost the tradition. If we'd lost the tradition, we wouldn't
have this. We did lose the culture and that's where the former players had to
come back and help us get that, and they did. But you can't lose the tradition.
It's always there."
Article can be found here: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8703897/tom-crean-indiana-basketball-tradition
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