Two WTTV news stories Duane Busick did with Don Benda and Steve Jenkins. Indiana University participated in the first Great Alaska Shootout in 1978 during Thanksgiving weekend. After the Hoosiers lost two of the three games there, Coach Bobby Knight suspended 3 players from the team, sophomores, Tommy Baker and Don Cox, and senior, Jim Roberson. Five additional players were placed on probation including the team’s leading scorer, Ray Tolbert, a sophomore center; Mike Woodson, junior forward and the No. 2 scorer, and reserves: Eric Kirchner and Phil Isenbarger, sophomores, and Landon Turner, freshman. The video in the first story is highlights of the 1978-79 team edited by Duane Busick.
The second story is the WTTV news story Duane Busick did with Sy Jenkins in November of 1978 that broke national news for getting confirmation from suspended Indiana University basketball players, Jim Roberson and Tommy Baker that Knight called them “potheads” when suspending them from the team after the 1978 Great Alaska Shootout.
In his 2002 autobiography “Knight: My Story,” Indiana coach Bobby Knight made these remarks:
“But in Alaska, somebody got some marijuana and one night seven of our players sat around a room smoking it.
In some cases, at least according to them, that was the only time it ever happened. And there were some awfully good kids involved, some of the best kids I ever had. There’s no player I’ve ever had that I liked or enjoyed more than Mike Woodson, and he was involved. That was very tough to handle.
Maybe the most difficult thing in that for me was personal. It was hard for me to believe that–as opposed to the whole drug situation as I was–I was a coach who had seven players involved in using marijuana…”
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