These ISU games are great to see. Back then larry bird was not on tv on the east coast until the final four first game. Thanks for posting all these games.
13:40 Lol, not many people remember that Bird played the entire tourney with a broken thumb he suffered in conference tournament and still averaged 27 ppg and 13.5 rebounds in the tourney. Toughest player that ever played
Jay Randolph and Gary Thompson were announcers for the Big 8 game of the week for a number of years. It's nice to hear their voices again. It brings back a lot of memories of Big 8 games! Thanks for posting!
Not much out there from Bird in college. One regular season game from 1979 and the 1979 NCAA tournament are the only network games that were televised. There is one local broadcast from that season but I'm not aware of much else avaliable from his college career.
Man what memories this brings back. Dad use to work in Terre Haute during this time frame. I watched every ISU game that year on good ol wthi tv Bob Forbes use to do the games for them.
Rehwald67 I never knew wtf Terre Haute was. I remember when bird won his first nba championship he said he won’t if for Terre Haute and I thought he said Terry lol I was like who tf is Terry
What the hell?? Bird didn't travel at all?!!!?? Check out 8:35 - I have NO idea what the ref was lookin' at! OMG how sad is my life that I'm getting upset at a traveling call 40 years ago... LOL
This is the year that made the NCAA Tournament. You never heard anyone use the term "March Madness" before the 1979 tournament. Bird and Magic made it a national event.
He mainly played Forward, but some opponent's lineup dictated that Bird switched to Center. Usually, Alex "the High Jumper" Gilbert(Center) at 6'7" would jump Center, and do opening jump balls !
Again, he was a forward throughout the season, but they would move him to the center position according to the opponent's lineup, and for this game, he was listed at Center.
My dad, a teenager around this time in Indiana, recalled people early on in the season going, "Wow, heck of a season Indiana State is having, huh?" He would respond, "You mean Indiana, right?" Even until that season, folks in Indiana still said, "Who?" about Bird and Indiana State. Since then, we still never hear about Indiana State. Truly one of the greatest testament to Bird's greatness.
Jay Randolph was a great announcer. In the mid 70's to early 80's, Jay called alot of KC Chiefs games for the NFL on NBC. Big chief Jay. One of the best.
@@rendragmedia, sportscasting is both an art and a science. Sorry, you cannot comprehend that. And, when the pbyplay guy talks AT the audience instead of TO them, that is not doing their job. SEE J. RANDOLPH..
This is an NCAA Productions broadcast as NBC did not televise games in the sweet 16 in 1979. This means this game went to stations in the teams markets who decided to broadcast the game. No ESPN either because they had not signed on yet.
OU coach Dave Bliss had actually recruited Larry Bird while Bliss was an assistant for Bob Knight at IU. Wonder if Bliss was breaking NCAA rules as flagrantly as he did later in his coaching tenure at Baylor and allegedly SMU as well.
Interesting data John Paulson. I always thought that by 1979, the Regional Final Rounds (aka Sweet 16 and the so called Elite 8)would at least be shown in syndication across the country thru TVS on both then independent (Non-ABC/CBS/NBC) and a few select ABC/NBC/CBS affiliates. In a sense, similar to now how lower tier Sunday Afternoon NFL games are only shown in the markets/regions of the 2 teams playing. I guess viewers of the local stations in say OKC (Sooners) and the State of Indiana i.e Indianapolis and Terre Haute (ISU) were the only ones showing the game. Now in 2018, even so called Mid Major College Basketball games is now shown on at least RSN(Regional Sports channels) and of course some national games on say either ESPN, FS1, or CBS/TNT.
Regional Finals(Elite 8) were televised nationally as they were on the weekend. NCAA Production games COULD be purchased and televised in markets of the participating schools. Once ESPN came on the scene and started doing 1st round(and sweet 16 games through 1987) it was still the same as ESPN was doing NCAA Production games Also in 1979 cable had NOWHERE the penetration that it has today.Most people got the 3 major networks and MAYBE a PBS and an independent station.
I have now watched ISU's tournament games through the DePaul game, and I am amazed at how many traveling calls there were! Maybe it seems odd because in today's game, like palming, they are almost nonexistent, especially in the nba. One of the many reasons I haven't watched an nba game in many years, not worth it.
Virgil Moody WOW dude thanks so much!!! What i really wanna see is a high school game of his cus he's my favorite player ever. His style never changed. He was doing the same thing in college as in the pros. So i wanna see how he looked in hs compared to bron bron
There were NO three point attempts in the entire game. Why? The NCAA didn’t adapt the three until the 1986 season. The line is there on the court in case NBA teams played in the arena. And as you can see it’s the NBA distance anyway.
@@michaelcavallacci2945There wouldn’t have been any three point attempts in an NBA game either as the NBA didn’t adopt the three point field goal till the 1979-80 season
@@paulsonj72. Some arenas still had the 3 point line remaining from the ABA. Or, it could have been a new floor and they anticipated the NBA adopting the three that coming season.
@56:06 “if you look around this arena you’ll see some familiar faces in the crowd like Bobby Knight, Pete Newell, Dave Cowens, (why is Dave Cowens here?) with Red Auerbach...
Bobby Knight was probably kicking himself for being a jerk to Bird. The greatest decision Bird ever made was getting the hell out of Bloomington. Four years of Knight would have absolutely ruined Larry Bird.
@PositiveEdge It was those two things and also Kent Benson was reportedly a huge a-hole to him....I've read he could be like that to anyone but he particularly liked riding/hazing new players...Bird never forgot it either and whenever the Celtics played a team with Benson on it Bird would look to humiliate him any way he could.
Terry Stotts must not have passed muster with General Knight. Probably nobody could have dreamed he'd be coaching in the NBA one day. Maybe Dave Bliss should have asked Barry Switzer if he could have borrowed Billy Sims and J.C. Watts.
@@irishgrl, no, it was probably used in the Metro Conference roundrobins' season, and only by Cincy on that floor. Some conferences adopted it years before the NCAA. I am not a fan of it, it eliminates a lot of teamwork and intelligent play, eschews the solving of the defensive puzzle with smart passing and quick passing and movement without the ball, too. The "smiley face" has helped clear out congestion under the driver's basket, but not calling three seconds in the lane enough on both offense without the ball, and on defense, has caused too many defense- free open shooters in the lane, or with defenders getting the benefits not enough offensive rebounders in the lane. Unfortunately, in the thin as tissue paper benches' =one, or two and done era, we don't have enough decent or good 10-12-15 foot shooters anymore to take advantage of those open lane looks. Another thing that drives me crazy is that just dribbling full speed down the court right into properly set defenders= nonsense, instead, of pulling the ball out, and resetting; or, 1 on 3, or 1 vs. 4 dribblers and drivers who shoot frequently with no one under the hoop. The team game has been replaced with too many one on one isos, and clearouts, and too many kickbacks for cheap 19-20 foot threebies. If they are going to give threes, do it for baskets where at least two passes are completed in the lane to a player closer to the basket than the defender at the time of the second pass. Otherwise, this one on one crap turns me off, as do the one and dones . The former is not teamhoops. The latter ruins the quality of the college game. Meanwhile, the NBA does not interest me in the slightest.
@@dennisfaust6607 NBA adopted the 3 pt line in the 1979-80 season. My understanding is that in the NCAA it was a few years later. "While certain college basketball conferences experimented with it in the early '80s, the NCAA didn't universally implement a 3-point line until 1986, with high school basketball following suit a year later."
Yes he was he BUSTED Michael Jordan's ASS 6-0 in playoffs..Won 3 NBA Titles and 3 straight MVPS, 3 Straight 3 pt contest..You could say he was a Bust...He BUSTED ASS....!!!!!!!!!
ISU was deep. Bird makes everyone better. What a passer. Bird = GOAT
These ISU games are great to see. Back then larry bird was not on tv on the east coast until the final four first game. Thanks for posting all these games.
13:40 Lol, not many people remember that Bird played the entire tourney with a broken thumb he suffered in conference tournament and still averaged 27 ppg and 13.5 rebounds in the tourney. Toughest player that ever played
M.erkinMuffly
He was a tough guy. A washed up Larry Bird in 1992 was better than primed Paul Pierce
@@elchichosantana6410 Ditto
Was it his right or left thumb that was fractured?
@@cappy1920 left
Bird was such a great passer
Thank you for uploading these Indiana games. I’ve heard so much about Larry Birds college career & it’s awesome to actually see it!!
Jay Randolph and Gary Thompson were announcers for the Big 8 game of the week for a number of years. It's nice to hear their voices again. It brings back a lot of memories of Big 8 games! Thanks for posting!
And here in 2024 thankfully Jay is still around!
More travel calls in this game than in a whole season today.
Lol totally agree!! The games were called correctly and I also noticed that there wasn't much arguing with refs as much as there is today.
I had forgotten what a great player Carl Nicks was also. Dude could shoot and was a great passer.
He averaged 20 points and would go several rows into the bleachers to save a ball. Highly under rated player.
Exactly !!!
Nicks was a very good college player
A passer he wasn’t thought…..
Indiana State has not had another Carl Nicks. How they got him and Bird on the same team is anybody's guess.
Been looking for more Bird Indiana State games, this is great. Thanks
Not much out there from Bird in college. One regular season game from 1979 and the 1979 NCAA tournament are the only network games that were televised. There is one local broadcast from that season but I'm not aware of much else avaliable from his college career.
The National Semi Final vs DePaul is also available on TH-cam
I was lucky enough to be at this game at Riverfront Coliseum on my 25 birthday :)
Riverfront Coliseum is now US Bank Arena.
cool, larry in his prime prime
Look at Larry’s young physique. He was in great shape and had speed and athleticism. The idea he was slow and lumbering is bullshit.
When watching this game I was thinking that there were people who doubted that Larry Bird would be a great NBA player. What were they watching?
Man what memories this brings back. Dad use to work in Terre Haute during this time frame. I watched every ISU game that year on good ol wthi tv Bob Forbes use to do the games for them.
Rehwald67 I never knew wtf Terre Haute was. I remember when bird won his first nba championship he said he won’t if for Terre Haute and I thought he said Terry lol I was like who tf is Terry
"Sorry about the quality, it was a long time ago. :)" no thank you for this gem! It was indeed a long time ago.
The making of a GOAT named Larry Bird
What the hell?? Bird didn't travel at all?!!!?? Check out 8:35 - I have NO idea what the ref was lookin' at!
OMG how sad is my life that I'm getting upset at a traveling call 40 years ago... LOL
It's all part of the basketball fan experience, even watching a 40 year old re-run. I do the same thing, and I figure most do.
😄
And you're right he didn't.
That pisses me off!
This is the year that made the NCAA Tournament. You never heard anyone use the term "March Madness" before the 1979 tournament. Bird and Magic made it a national event.
Still the highest rated championship ever.
It's no arguing that the Bird/Magic rivalry in 1979, put the NCAA Basketball Tournament on the map by themselves.
@@americangiant1003 And saved the NBA. Only to be put in the toilet now.
@@73Trident
Agree !
No 3 point shots just pure basketball
Imagine Magic trying to carry this ISU team. Pretty hard, isn't it?
As a Sooners fan this hurts, but as a Thunder/Celtics fan and big Larry Bird fan, this is awesome.
Fun to watch😊
Yes kids, Larry Bird played Center in college.
He mainly played Forward, but some opponent's lineup dictated that Bird switched to Center. Usually, Alex "the High Jumper" Gilbert(Center) at 6'7" would jump Center, and do opening jump balls !
@@kevinswihart6867 he was listed as a center.
Again, he was a forward throughout the season, but they would move him to the center position according to the opponent's lineup, and for this game, he was listed at Center.
My dad, a teenager around this time in Indiana, recalled people early on in the season going, "Wow, heck of a season Indiana State is having, huh?" He would respond, "You mean Indiana, right?" Even until that season, folks in Indiana still said, "Who?" about Bird and Indiana State. Since then, we still never hear about Indiana State. Truly one of the greatest testament to Bird's greatness.
Jay Randolph was a great announcer. In the mid 70's to early 80's, Jay called alot of KC Chiefs games for the NFL on NBC. Big chief Jay. One of the best.
Randolph was too one note, more of a mechanic than an artist, when the job calls for both.
@@robertsprouse9282 Funny, I thought he was a sportscaster.
@@rendragmedia, sportscasting is both an art and a science.
Sorry, you cannot comprehend that.
And, when the pbyplay guy talks AT the audience instead of TO them, that is not doing their job.
SEE J. RANDOLPH..
Bird had a fractured thumb this whole tournament?
Yes. Fractured in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament
Yes. His left thumb.
Thanks for posting. Very cool!
This is an NCAA Productions broadcast as NBC did not televise games in the sweet 16 in 1979. This means this game went to stations in the teams markets who decided to broadcast the game. No ESPN either because they had not signed on yet.
OU coach Dave Bliss had actually recruited Larry Bird while Bliss was an assistant for Bob Knight at IU. Wonder if Bliss was breaking NCAA rules as flagrantly as he did later in his coaching tenure at Baylor and allegedly SMU as well.
Dave Bliss and ethical do not belong in the same sentence.
Interesting data John Paulson. I always thought that by 1979, the Regional Final Rounds (aka Sweet 16 and the so called Elite 8)would at least be shown in syndication across the country thru TVS on both then independent (Non-ABC/CBS/NBC) and a few select ABC/NBC/CBS affiliates. In a sense, similar to now how lower tier Sunday Afternoon NFL games are only shown in the markets/regions of the 2 teams playing.
I guess viewers of the local stations in say OKC (Sooners) and the State of Indiana i.e Indianapolis and Terre Haute (ISU) were the only ones showing the game. Now in 2018, even so called Mid Major College Basketball games is now shown on at least RSN(Regional Sports channels) and of course some national games on say either ESPN, FS1, or CBS/TNT.
Regional Finals(Elite 8) were televised nationally as they were on the weekend. NCAA Production games COULD be purchased and televised in markets of the participating schools. Once ESPN came on the scene and started doing 1st round(and sweet 16 games through 1987) it was still the same as ESPN was doing NCAA Production games Also in 1979 cable had NOWHERE the penetration that it has today.Most people got the 3 major networks and MAYBE a PBS and an independent station.
@@paulsonj72 From what I've heard, Knight didn't allow those shenanigans like some college coaches did.
I have now watched ISU's tournament games through the DePaul game, and I am amazed at how many traveling calls there were! Maybe it seems odd because in today's game, like palming, they are almost nonexistent, especially in the nba. One of the many reasons I haven't watched an nba game in many years, not worth it.
The had a white guy on Bird. Come on man.
They tried everyone on him it didn't matter.
Lol disrespectful!!! 😂😂😂😂
This is awesome...thank you!!!
this is rare as fuck
Virgil Moody how u got hold of this
Virgil Moody WOW dude thanks so much!!! What i really wanna see is a high school game of his cus he's my favorite player ever. His style never changed. He was doing the same thing in college as in the pros. So i wanna see how he looked in hs compared to bron bron
see you in october in dallas for the texas-ou game...HOOK EM HORNS!
Man it's actually refreshing to see not one 3 point attempt in the first half.
There were NO three point attempts in the entire game. Why? The NCAA didn’t adapt the three until the 1986 season.
The line is there on the court in case NBA teams played in the arena. And as you can see it’s the NBA distance anyway.
@@michaelcavallacci2945There wouldn’t have been any three point attempts in an NBA game either as the NBA didn’t adopt the three point field goal till the 1979-80 season
@@paulsonj72. Some arenas still had the 3 point line remaining from the ABA. Or, it could have been a new floor and they anticipated the NBA adopting the three that coming season.
The rarest sights are Nicks passing the ball.
Yep, he’s a gloryhound all right. I hate that style of play.
Nicks was a short-term, mediocre NBA player with Denver, Utah, and Cleveland; mostly playing in Europe.
When they give the scores it says Marquette beat DePaul. That's wrong because Bird played DePaul in the Final Four
ah, I see they fixed it
@@MrDuncanquasar, yep, they corrected it.
@56:06 “if you look around this arena you’ll see some familiar faces in the crowd like Bobby Knight, Pete Newell, Dave Cowens, (why is Dave Cowens here?) with Red Auerbach...
Dave was coaching as well as playing.
Bobby Knight was probably kicking himself for being a jerk to Bird.
The greatest decision Bird ever made was getting the hell out of Bloomington. Four years of Knight would have absolutely ruined Larry Bird.
@PositiveEdge It was those two things and also Kent Benson was reportedly a huge a-hole to him....I've read he could be like that to anyone but he particularly liked riding/hazing new players...Bird never forgot it either and whenever the Celtics played a team with Benson on it Bird would look to humiliate him any way he could.
@@broaddusmarines Bird left IU before practices even started.
Terry Stotts must not have passed muster with General Knight. Probably nobody could have dreamed he'd be coaching in the NBA one day.
Maybe Dave Bliss should have asked Barry Switzer if he could have borrowed Billy Sims and J.C. Watts.
Bliss was murder on ethics; see: Baylor.
Man Oklahoma did not have one player from Oklahoma or Texas playing on that team
A three point line, see it?
Isnt that the first year they used it?
@@irishgrl, no, it was probably used in the Metro Conference roundrobins' season, and only by Cincy on that floor.
Some conferences adopted it years before the NCAA.
I am not a fan of it, it eliminates a lot of teamwork and intelligent play, eschews the solving of the defensive puzzle with smart passing and quick passing and movement without the ball, too.
The "smiley face" has helped clear out congestion under the driver's basket, but not calling three seconds in the lane enough on both offense without the ball, and on defense, has caused too many defense- free open shooters in the lane, or with defenders getting the benefits not enough offensive rebounders in the lane. Unfortunately, in the thin as tissue paper benches' =one, or two and done era, we don't have enough decent or good 10-12-15 foot shooters anymore to take advantage of those open lane looks.
Another thing that drives me crazy is that just dribbling full speed down the court right into properly set defenders= nonsense, instead, of pulling the ball out, and resetting; or, 1 on 3, or 1 vs. 4 dribblers and drivers who shoot frequently with no one under the hoop.
The team game has been replaced with too many one on one isos, and clearouts, and too many kickbacks for cheap 19-20 foot threebies.
If they are going to give threes, do it for baskets where at least two passes are completed in the lane to a player closer to the basket than the defender at the time of the second pass.
Otherwise, this one on one crap turns me off, as do the one and dones .
The former is not teamhoops.
The latter ruins the quality of the college game.
Meanwhile, the NBA does not interest me in the slightest.
An NBA three point line?
@@dennisfaust6607 NBA adopted the 3 pt line in the 1979-80 season. My understanding is that in the NCAA it was a few years later.
"While certain college basketball conferences experimented with it in the early '80s, the NCAA didn't universally implement a 3-point line until 1986, with high school basketball following suit a year later."
Why does this court have a 3 point line? The NBA did not yet have the 3 pointer, and neither did the NCAA
12:13 Foul on Oklahoma? C'mon
If I was Oklahoma I would have fouled Indiana’s big guy every time late,
Quite the sportsman, aren't you?
Just a minor correction
DePaul won
God lord
This Larry Bird was a bust in NBA. 😂😂😂
Yeah, no hops.
@@Draydon_Longfellow, just rings..
Yes he was he BUSTED Michael Jordan's ASS 6-0 in playoffs..Won 3 NBA Titles and 3 straight MVPS, 3 Straight 3 pt contest..You could say he was a Bust...He BUSTED ASS....!!!!!!!!!
Great upload. Awesome seeing Larry Bird in college.