March 9, 2021
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Barring a Hail Mary run through the Big 10 Tournament next week, the Indiana Hoosiers will fail to be invited to the NCAA Tournament for a fifth consecutive year. That hasn’t happened since 1972. At 7-11 with one game remaining, the Hoosiers are guaranteed to finish with a non-winning Big 10 record for the fifth straight year. […]
Will Archie Miler be back for a fifth season as Indiana’s basketball coach? Social media is filled with terse messages from angry IU fans who have had enough. Last night, they wanted athletic director Scott Dolson to fire Archie as the team plane landed in Bloomington. That did not happen, even after his program’s latest […]
Indiana was outscored 57-22 during roughly the middle half of last night’s 74-63 loss to Rutgers. That stretch of putrid basketball may have doomed IU to its fifth straight season without an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. Facing a test that would either put Indiana inside the bubble for the NCAA Tournament or exclude them […]
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Over and over since Indiana’s bizarre and thoroughly disappointing loss to Michigan State, I have tried to write a reasonable and sober defense of Archie Miller and his Hoosiers. I mention the team’s youth, the need to avoid a death spiral for Miller’s job as he will lose the ability to recruit prior to finally being canned, […]