Tales from the Indiana Hoosiers Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Indiana Basketball Stories Ever Told

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In this action-packed collection of stories, Hoosier alum John Laskowski and veteran sportswriter Stan Sutton take readers onto the court and up to the basket with some of the greatest IU players to ever grace the hardwood. Fans will relive all the excitement, the disappointment, the laughter, and the celebration that has turned IU basketball into a statewide religion. The history of the Indiana program is revealed through the memories of the schools hundreds of lettermenfrom the days of the two-handed set shot and low-scoring games through World War II, to Bobby Knights perfect 1976 season, to the Cinderella Hoosiers of 2002, who advanced to the NCAA Finals under Mike Davis, and the winning season of 20122013, when the Hoosiers spent an incredible ten weeks ranked #1 in the nation. Tales from the Indiana Hoosiers Locker Room delivers the passion that has carried the program to five NCAA championships and beyond and is a must-have for any Hoosier fan.

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John Laskowski helped lead the Hoosiers to three Big Ten championships and was a stalwart on a 1975 team that, with a 31-1 record, was ranked #1 nationally. Laskowski was a member of Bob Knights first recruiting class at Indiana and played two seasons with the Chicago Bulls. He has spent more than three decades covering Indiana University basketball on TV and works for the Big Ten Network. Laskowski lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Stan Sutton is a longtime writer on the national sports beat. He became an Indiana fan in 1953 and has covered the Hoosiers regularly since 1984. In 2004, he was inducted into the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. Sutton lives in Bloomington, Indiana.