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Friday flashback | |
 Photo courtesy of IU Archives Fifty years ago today, March Madness Hoosier-style found IU basketball coach Branch McCracken (second from right) gesturing the 41 points just scored by IU player Don Schlundt (center) during the second game of the first round of the NCAA tournament at Chicago Stadium against Notre Dame. Schlundt’s 41 points broke the stadium’s record for points scored by a single player during a game, a record that had been set at 37 points by DePaul’s George Mikan in 1944. Interestingly, the IU team had beat DePaul the night before, Friday, March 13, 1953, in order to play Notre Dame. Later that month, it was déjà vu for IU and McCracken, as the team beat Kansas in the finals of the NCAA, achieving a second NCAA championship. The first NCAA triumph had come for the coach and the IU team 13 years earlier in a win against Kansas. That’s Ernie Andres (far right), McCracken’s assistant coach.
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