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The Rivalry: Indiana vs. Purdue Best Moments

Forget Duke-North Carolina. Indiana-Purdue is the best rivalry in college basketball. While that rivalry often has a ton of bandwagon fans all over the country with no connection to either university, Purdue-Indiana is different. It has grown in a basketball-mad state where even high school games have an edge to them because of the schools. The 1991 High School State Championship wasn't about Gary Roosevelt against Brebeuf. It was Purdue's Glenn Robinson against Indiana's Alan Henderson. 1990 was an introduction and coronation for the next great Indiana star in Damon Bailey, just as Chad Austin leading Richmond to a state title in 1992 and Jaraan Cornell taking South Bend Clay to the 1994 title was for Purdue.