March 2, 2021
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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 […]
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, […]
Do you watch Indiana Basketball and wonder why it is on a never-slowing treadmill of mediocrity? Here is the answer – Indiana University is punishing its Basketball program and its fans for the success it reaped during the Bob Knight era. Three national championships, five Final Fours, 11 Big 10 titles, and a 659-242 record […]
What did you think was going to happen? Indiana got waxed 78-59 today in Columbus by a top five Ohio State team. That’s the way it goes in the Big 10. The better team, and the Buckeyes were obviously the better team, won today. If Indiana and Ohio State played in Columbus 10 times, Ohio […]
“The reward for hard work is more work.” Every adult drawing breath figures out the wonder of hard work eventually. Most children adopt that wisdom through failures that come because of a lack of effort. Many adults migrate to that understanding as they become responsible for a spouse and children. Some sad souls never get […]
Indiana has been a vexing basketball program for the two decades since Bob Knight was fired, and this year’s team might be the most baffling of that bunch. There have been exceptions like the 2002 and 2013 teams that won the Big 10 and had the glint of a potential national champion, but for the most […]