One of my favorite classic movies is Cool Hand Luke. At one point in the movie, the exasperated prison warden, sick of Luke’s antics says “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” It’s the most famous line of the movie, and recently, I’ve been thinking about it in connection to Indiana basketball.
The reason that Fred Glass gave for Indiana not hosting an NIT game yesterday was that the event would “devalue” Assembly Hall. This was the third excuse in less than 24 hours for not hosting an NIT game. The first never came from the school, but was mentioned on the ESPNU NIT Selection Show - that Assembly Hall was undergoing renovations and would not be available.