Indiana Basketball fans are exhausted by the seemingly endless malaise surrounding the program. Day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year, the same questions are asked. Is IU about to make the turn toward consistent quality basketball? Is (insert coach’s name here) the right guy to get the program back […]
Indiana Basketball fans are probably as tired of being painted as dopes as they are of the way their favorite team fails to compete. Twitter can be an echo chamber of idiocy, reducing people and groups to their lowest common denominator. Stereotypes are embraced and proffered as absolute truths. This has happened to IU alums […]
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“What’s the worst that can happen?” is a question kids ask themselves all the time as they assess the risk and reward scenarios for behavior. If I make everyone in class laugh, I might get a detention. Is that worth it? Within the Indiana Basketball program, it appears the harshest discipline Archie Miller is willing to wield is […]
Indiana won last night. In 49 other states, that would be enough. But this is Indiana. Throughout last night’s 89-77 win against #19 Iowa, Indiana fans were thrilled or frustrated by each possession regardless of the score because that’s what we do. For years we were taught that basketball is a possession by possession quest for […]
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Indiana Basketball needs a leader. Tonight, the Hoosiers will play for their NCAA Tournament dreams against Iowa. With a win, they are still in the conversation. A loss would drop IU into the nether regions of the Big 10 standings and likely land them outside the bubble for the fourth straight year. Someone on Indiana’s roster needs […]
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“At some point, you have to draw the line. If you don’t want to be a part of winning, you’re not going to be a part of what we’re doing,” Archie Miller on his radio show, Monday, February 10, 2020. That line needed to be drawn in December when Indiana’s flaws and disconnectedness were obvious […]
