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

"Tales From the Hoosier Locker Room" covers over a century of Indiana University basketball. Current and former Hoosiers talk of 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 school's hundreds of lettermen - from the days of the two-handed set shot and low-scoring games through World War II, when Hoosier players traded their sneakers for Army boots and fought as hard on the battlefield as they had on the hardwood, to Bobby Knight's perfect season of 1976 and the Cinderella Hoosiers of 2002, who advanced to the NCAA Final under Mike Davis, and beyond. "Tales From the Hoosier Locker Room" delivers the passion that has carried the program to five NCAA championships.

Author Biography

John Laskowski, a former Hoosier from the 1975 team, has been an Indianda sports broadcaster for over thirty years. As a player he was among Bobby Knight's first recruiting class and was ranked #1 nationally on his championship team. From 1975 until 1977 he played with the Chicago Bulls. In 1999 he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.Stan Sutton is a longtime writer on the national sports beat. He has contributed to numerous publications including the Indiana Courier-Journal and the Bloomington Herald-Times. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana