What Bob Knight told Quinn Buckner following undefeated national title BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) — The undefeated 1975-76 national champion IU team is being honored at halftime of the IU-Oregon basketball game on Monday, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the team. Former IU guard Quinn Buc kner reflected on the impact that the ’76 team’s success had on the state of Indiana, and shared what former IU head coach Bob Knight told him after the national championship game. “After we won, he said something to me that I didn’t fully grasp,” Buckner said. “He said you’ve done something for the people of the state of Indiana you’ll never understand what you did for them. We just had it happen again in football, because the ethos of Indiana is about sports, and we were able to bring it on the basketball side and people have lived with that for 50 years. You now have it in football which is just incredibly humbling for someone like me who was involved in the sport to have watched that kind of success. What it does, is it brings people together. That’s really what he was telling me. Again, I’m 22 years old and I’m getting ready to go to the Olympics, the pros, I was not paying attention. For the people in the state of Indiana, what we were able to accomplish, we didn’t fully understand. We understand it now.” “For many people, that makes them stand taller, put their shoulders back, and for that, we can all be proud here 50 years later,” Buckner added. The ’76 Hoosiers finished the season 32-0 and won IU’s third national championship. PHOTOS | IU basketball honoring undefeated ’76 team ...read more read less