HOOP HISTORIANS NEWS Committed to promoting goodwill through basketball Volume # 140 – January, 2021

NEW DATE STRUCTURE FOR 2021 NCAA TOURNAMENT HOOP HISTORIANS ZOOM MARCH MADNESS 2021 DATES & LOCATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

(All games in Indianapolis unless noted) The NCAA has announced the new structure for this year’s NCAA First Four -- Thursday, March 18: Basketball Tournament, and the Assembly Hall (Bloomington); schedule will encounter a few Mackey Arena (West Lafayette) modifications from the traditional dates. The first round, for example, First Round Games -- Friday, will be played on a Friday-Monday March 19 & Saturday, March 20: schedule, rather than the typical Assembly Hall (Bloomington); Thursday-Sunday. The Sweet 16 Mackey Arena (West Lafayette); and the Elite Eight will be pushed Bankers Life Fieldhouse; Hinkle Twenty-three Hoop Historians and back two days, to a Saturday- Fieldhouse; Indiana Farmers Friends of the Hoop Historians Tuesday window. There’s also extra Coliseum; Lucas Oil Stadium. enjoyed the first ever Hoop time built into the front end, with the Second Round Games -- Sunday, Historians Round Table Discussion First Four games coming on March 21 & Monday, March 22: via a Zoom Conference Call. The Thursday of the tournament’s Bankers Life Fieldhouse; Hinkle participants represented eight opening week. That would allow the Fieldhouse; Indiana Farmers different states and discussed timely NCAA added time for team intake Coliseum; Lucas Oil Stadium. topics such as basketball during a and testing before games begin. pandemic; participated in a trivia The start and end dates will remain Sweet Sixteen -- Saturday, March contest; and viewed a short video of the same. Selection Sunday is still 27 & Sunday, March 28: Bankers pictures of Hoop Historians from March 14, and the national title will Life Fieldhouse; Hinkle Fieldhouse. yesteryear. The next Hoop be awarded April 5. The tournament Elite Eight -- Monday, March 29 & Historians Roundtable Discussion is will be played in four Indianapolis Tuesday, March 30: Lucas Oil scheduled for Sunday, January 31. locations: Lucas Oil Stadium, home Stadium. Members and Friends of the Hoop of the NFL Colts; Bankers Life Historians will receive information Fieldhouse, where the NBA Pacers Final Four -- Saturday, April 3: & regarding that Zoom session via play; Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler Monday, April 5: Lucas Oil email a couple of days before the University; and the Indiana Farmers Stadium. meeting. Coliseum, located on the State Fairgrounds. Mackey Arena at Purdue University and Assembly NEWS AND NOTES: Hoop Hall at Indiana University will also Historians Kevin McCann and serve as hosts for early round Ted Reineking were recently games. Bankers Life Fieldhouse A BLAST FROM THE PAST and Hinkle Fieldhouse will host the recognized by the Daily Herald Sweet 16. Lucas Oil Stadium, for their 93 combined years of already the host site for this year’s service working the scorer’s Final Four pre-COVID, will host the table at DePaul. Elite Eight, the national semifinals and final. College basketball will remain King in the Crossroads of America for its other division’s 2021 FINAL FOUR championships, as Evansville and Fort Wayne are expected to host the NCAA’s Division II and Division III men’s tournaments. Hoop Historian Dave DeGrace DID YOU KNOW? The Indiana recently uncovered his official Farmers Coliseum hosted The credential from the 1988-89 season Beatles’ only performance in the at Marquette University. Dave has state of Indiana in 1964? been the basketball statistician at the school since 1979. APRIL 3-5