{"id":97444,"date":"2026-03-05T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=97444"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:44:55","slug":"throwback-thursday-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_05_2026\/throwback-thursday-48","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>For this Throwback Thursday, we are revisiting Dec. 1, 1976, when the Toledo men&#8217;s basketball team christened Centennial Hall (since renamed Savage Arena) with one of the greatest upsets in program history. The Rockets welcomed Bobby Knight&#8217;s Indiana University Hoosiers \u2014 the defending national champions who were riding a massive 33-game winning streak \u2014 and stunned them with a thrilling 59-57 victory. As our 2026 Rockets prepare to make some noise at the MAC basketball tournament next week, we remember the historic magic on our home court from a half-century ago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97448\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ROCKETS-IU-1976-THROWBACK.jpg\" alt=\"The UT men's basketball team hosted Indiana University in the first-ever game in the brand new Centennial Hall, December 1976.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ROCKETS-IU-1976-THROWBACK.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ROCKETS-IU-1976-THROWBACK-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec. 1, 1976, the Toledo men&#8217;s basketball team christened Centennial Hall (since renamed Savage Arena) with one of the greatest upsets in program history: a thrilling 59-57 victory over the Indiana University Hoosiers \u2014 the defending national champions who were riding a massive 33-game winning streak. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":97448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,298,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97459,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97444\/revisions\/97459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}