Hoosier Favorite No. 21? Picking Favorite Indiana Basketball Players, One Number At a Time

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Welcome again to our summer season collection the place Hoosier basketball followers can vote on their favourite Indiana gamers to ever put on every quantity. Right now, we resume with all one of the best to put on No. 21.

Hoosier favourite?

Daily we will offer you 4 decisions together with a brief participant bio to select your favourite Hoosier who wore a sure quantity.

Listed here are your 4 No. 21 jersey decisions in alphabetical order in order that we’re not exhibiting bias. Remember to take the ballot under by way of Twitter.

(Editor’s Word: We’ll take outcomes for 48 hours on the ballot after which share outcomes on this story the following day, so hold coming again to see the outcomes.)

Quinn Buckner (1972-76)

Guard Quinn Buckner from Phoenix, Ailing. ranks as Indiana’s fortieth all-time main scorer with 1,195 whole factors capturing 43.2 p.c from the sector. 

Buckner was a member of the Hoosiers crew that superior to the 1973 Closing 4, former head coach Bob Knight’s first Closing 4 look in his second 12 months of teaching the Hoosiers.

Indiana fell 70-59 to UCLA however defeated Windfall 97-79 within the Nationwide Third Place Recreation. 

Quick ahead three years, and Buckner helped lead the Hoosiers to the 1976 NCAA title defeating Michigan 86-68 for Indiana’s third championship and Knight’s first with the crew.

All through his Hoosiers profession, Buckner was crew captain in 1974 and 1976 and was a key position in main the Hoosiers to 4 Huge Ten common season championships all through his time on the roster.

Buckner went on to be a starter and captain of the 1976 Olympic crew, which one a gold medal. 

Bobby Leonard (1952-54)

Bobby “Slick” Leonard from Terre Haute, Ind. is probably greatest identified for hitting the successful free throw within the Hoosiers’ 1953 NCAA championship win over Kansas, Indiana and former head coach Department McCracken’s second NCAA title.

Leonard was named a 3rd crew All-American in 1953 and obtained bumped as much as second crew the next season. He completed his Hoosiers profession with 779 factors averaging 15.9 factors per sport.

Following his Hoosiers profession, Leonard was chosen by the Baltimore Bullets because the tenth general decide within the 1954 NBA draft. He spent nearly all of his skilled profession with the Lakers. He wasn’t carried out but as he later moved on to educate the ABA’s Indiana Pacers for practically 12 years earlier than changing into a colour commentator for the Pacers in 1985.

Winston Morgan (1981-86)

Guard/ahead Winston Morgan began in 50 out of 107 video games performed for the Hoosiers ending with 478 factors and 300 assists. Though he solely shot one three-pointer, he did certainly make it for an ideal one hundred pc. Extra spectacular, Morgan shot 51.5 p.c from the sector.

Below Coach Bob Knight, Morgan helped lead the Hoosiers to 4 NCAA Match appearances upon the Anderson Ind. native’s arrival following Indiana’s NCAA championship win over North Carolina in 1981.

Chris Reynolds (1989-93)

Guard Chris Reynolds made the NCAA Match with the Hoosiers in every of his seasons below Coach Bob Knight.

The most effective of these appearances was within the 1992 event when Indiana knocked off No. 1 seed UCLA to advance to the Closing 4 versus Duke who gained 81-78.

Reynolds scored 480 whole factors at Indiana capturing 50 p.c from the sector and 61.1 p.c from the free throw line. 

A pair many years later, Reynolds turned Bradley College’s tenth director of athletics in 2015 and was promoted to vp for intercollegiate athletics in 2018, a place he nonetheless holds.

All-time No. 21’s at Indiana

Listed here are the entire gamers who’ve worn No. 21 at Indiana:

• Jerome Hunter — (2018-21)
• Freddie McSwain Jr. — (2016-18)
• Joe Fagan — (2013-14)
• Ben Allen — (2005-07)
• Mark Johnson — (2001-05)
• Richard Mandeville — (1993-98)
• Chris Reynolds — (1989-93)
• Mike D’Aloisio — (1988-89)
• Winston Morgan — (1981-86)
• Quinn Buckner — (1972-76)
• John Hickey — (1969-70)
• Harold Curdy — (1966-67)
• Dave Holland — (1961-62)
• Leroy Johnson — (1958-60)
• Hallie Bryant — (1954-57)
• Bobby Leonard — (1952-54)
• Otto Case — (1950-51)
• Sheldon Turner — (1949-50)
• Tyrie Robbins — (1948-51)
• Dean Daniels — (1944-45)
• Dick Wittenbraker — (1941-43, 1945-46)
• Max Hasler — (1939-41)
• Bob Dro — (1938-41)
• Taylor Hoffar — (1930-33) 
• Maurice Massy — (1929-31)

Vote on your favourite No. 21 on Twitter

You can vote on Twitter on your favourite participant with every quantity. Here is the hyperlink to at present’s ballot for No. 21. 

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