February 25, 1985
"Maybe we should start with the chair itself, four metal legs riveted to a piece of molded plastic, which was red, in keeping with the school’s color scheme. The “bench” for the Indiana basketball team was no bench at all. It was an assemblage of these plastic chairs. And this particular chair had the misfortune of belonging to the team’s combustible coach."
"It started off on a linear path that afternoon, sliding across the floor of the Assembly Hall court. But then, like a stone skipped on an Indiana creek, it darted abruptly and began curling toward the section underneath the basket, occupied by fans with physical disabilities."
"Indiana would go on to lose the game to Purdue that day, 72-63. It was one of 14 defeats the Hoosiers would have that season. But no one, of course, recalls the score or the game’s impact on the Big Ten standings—the conference being both “big” and “ten” back then."
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