It was January 1983 and Indiana University had just defeated Illinois, 69-55, in Champaign. The Hoosiers had won in part because of a newfangled Big Ten Conference experimental rule.
If you sank a shot from behind a line 21 feet from the basket, you were awarded three points instead of two. Indiana’s coach was not a fan.
“The three-point rule is a horse (bleep) rule,” Bobby Knight said at the postgame news conference.
As those of us in the press room wondered, ‘Can we use horse (bleep) in the paper?,’ Knight added, “But if they (the Big Ten) are going to use it, we’ll use it.