Karen Sinn began attending Indiana University basketball games in the late 1940s, an era of greatness under legendary Hoosier Coach Branch McCracken.
At the time, McCracken's Hurryin' Hoosiers were playing in the old IU Fieldhouse, located in the heart of campus across the street from the IU Memorial Union. Prior to each Hoosier home game, Karen would settle into her seat on the stadium's wooden bleachers, nestled up alongside her mother to watch legendary figures such as Bill Garrett (after whom that same building is now named), Don Schlundt and Bobby Leonard during their Hoosier heydays.