Back to the Garden...

News dropped yesterday that both Indiana and Butler would be participating in the 2009 Jimmy V Classic at the World's Most Famous Arena (that's Madison Square Garden to you).

Oddly enough, both programs have had tons of success playing the the mecca of basketball. Butler ran through IU and Notre Dame before routing Tennessee and Gonzaga at the Garden en route to the 2006 Preseason NIT Championship. The Hoosiers won a pair of preseason NIT titles, beating Seton Hall in 1992 and blowing out Duke in 1996. The below clip is a highlight of Andrae Patterson's ridiculous 39-point night against the Blue Devils.



It's funny because what I actually remember the most about that Tournament was the night before when IU needed Patterson's buzzer-beating jumper just to get by Evansville. If memory serves me correctly, that Hoosier team started the season 14-0 before falling to Kentucky by about 1,068,528 points (I looked it up and the score was actually 99-65). They eventually were rocked by #9 seed Chauncey Billups and Colorado in the first round of the NCAAs.