Thoughts on a 93-62 win against the Knights: I. For two years running, Devonte Green’s lit up Hoosier Hysteria. Last year, he followed it up with an uneven rookie campaign, drawing the ire of his former coach for freshman mistakes. ...
Thoughts on a 75-63 loss to Georgia Tech: All those months ago, coming back from Hawaii on a high from the Kansas win, the Hoosiers stopped in Phoenix en route back to Bloomington. “We wouldn’t mind coming back here sometime,” ...
Thoughts on a 70-60 loss to the Badgers: After back-to-back 3-pointers by Zak Showalter and D’Mitrik Trice put the Badgers up 15 with 8:14 to go, this one looked just about done. The Hoosiers had scored 90-plus points in their ...
Thoughts on a 95-73 win over the Hawkeyes: Don’t look now, but the Hoosiers are in the midst of a mini-run. Who knows where this team was during the doldrums of the Big Ten season. But for the here and ...
Thoughts on a 96-92 win against the Buckeyes: In a season the Hoosiers have regressed from an elite 3-point shooting squad to merely a pretty good one, the 3s were dropping like crazy early and often at Value City Arena. ...
Thoughts on an 86-75 loss to Purdue: In front of a raucous Paint Crew on senior night with Purdue going for a share of the Big Ten title, the Hoosiers put up a fight and keep it somewhat interesting for a ...
Thoughts on a 63-62 win over Northwestern: Indiana looked finished. And the Assembly Hall faithful headed for the exits. The Hoosiers trailed Northwestern 62-55 with 1:33 to play. A sixth straight loss looked like a near certainty. But Indiana kept plugging ...
Thoughts on a 96-90 loss to the Hawkeyes: Another game the Hoosiers seemingly had in control down the stretch on the road, and yet another one they threw away. Against Minnesota, some failed box outs from the Hoosiers — and ...
Thoughts on a 75-74 loss to Minnesota: Tom Crean tried a new starting lineup, inserting De’Ron Davis for Juwan Morgan and Devonte Green for Robert Johnson. He had a quicker hook for players committing bad turnovers. He stomped the sidelines with a ...
Thoughts on a 75-63 loss to the Wolverines: Indiana entered Big Ten play riding high on a 26-game home winning streak — one of the longest in the country. No matter the ranking of the opponent that entered Assembly Hall, ...
Thoughts on a 69-64 loss to Purdue: The Hoosiers came to play. They competed. They hustled. But despite the strong effort, the high energy, the collective will to win, it simply wasn’t enough. The reality twelve games into conference play? ...
Thoughts on a 65-60 loss to the Badgers: Wisconsin shut down Indiana’s perimeter weave. The Hoosiers couldn’t drop in a 3-pointer. Turnovers were rampant. It was the kind of start that should have absolutely doomed the Hoosiers at the Kohl Center. ...
Thoughts on a 110-102 win over the Nittany Lions: It was at times a hot mess, a dark comedy full of schadenfreude and calamity. But after three overtimes, the first ever for Indiana in Bloomington, it’s now finally … officially ...
Thoughts on a 68-55 loss to Northwestern: EVANSTON, Ill. — After its embarrassing loss to Michigan earlier in the week, Indiana started this one much better. The Hoosiers locked in on both ends and jumped out to a 10-1 advantage. But ...
Thoughts on a 90-60 loss to the Wolverines: For as much good will as the Hoosiers built up over their three-game winning streak leading into this one, the reality remained clear: This team is still prone to wide variances in ...
Thoughts on a 82-75 win against the Spartans: Without OG Anunoby and Juwan Morgan, the Hoosiers stepped onto Branch McCracken Court with a sense of purpose this afternoon. The defense, spurned on by first-time starter Zach McRoberts, was stout. James ...