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Hitler Berates IU Coach Crean in Latest Video Meme

IU basketball fans haven’t exactly moved past this dismal, frustrating season that couldn’t even get the team invited to the NIT. That’s because they’re still stuck on last year’s loss to Syracuse in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. The Tom Crean backlash just got immortalized in one of the Internet’s most popular memes—Hitler quivering with fury in a war room—and the tirade against the coach blessed with talent this year and last quickly turned back the clock one year, to the day IU’s team with two future top-four NBA draft picks looked totally flummoxed by Syracuse’s zone.

Maybe it’s a good thing no bar in Bloomington serves this IU-centric Irish beer:

 

By the by, this isn’t the first time that IU has come under that faux-Fuhrer’s fire. Witness this clip after the team’s victory over Kentucky in 2011 on a last-second Christian Watford three-pointer:

(A hat tip to Sports Illustrated‘s Jon Wertheim, a Bloomington native, for relaying this clip to us.)

Fernandez began writing for Indianapolis Monthly in 1995 while studying journalism at Indiana University. One of her freelance assignments required her to join a women's full-tackle football team for a season. She joined the staff in 2005 to edit IM's ancillary publications, including Indianapolis Monthly Home. In 2011, she became a senior editor responsible for the Circle City section as well as coverage of shopping, homes, and design-related topics. Now a contributing editor for Indianapolis Monthly, she lives in Garfield Park.
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