How does Lou Henson want to be remembered?
"Just as a pretty good basketball coach and a nice guy," the 85-year-old Hall of Fame coach told longtime friend Loren Tate during a recent 30-minute conversation that kicks off a podcast project of ours.
Lou on ...
— The gumption it took to call Bob Knight a "classic bully" during a postgame run-in after the Illini beat Indiana: "I had two big policemen on both sides of me."
— Why he retired as UI coach in 1996: "We just couldn't recruit."
— His reception when he took the UI job in 1975: "The top coaches in the state, they wanted a high school coach to take this job.