BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Baller and the Court are back, in a manner of speaking, seventy-plus years after their last basketball adventure, and family has gathered to celebrate.
Picture a once-forgotten Indiana University court, a nearly century old wooden testament to Cream 'n Crimson championship heritage.
Connect it to a fiercely competitive ex-Hoosier, Irish by heritage, Logansport Berry by birth, Marine by training, who once told Branch McCracken, Indiana's former Hall of Fame coach, a man intimidating enough to have earned the names The Sheriff and The Bear decades before Bob Knight raged across the Big Ten landscape to, in so many words, shove it.