BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Michigan State under Tom Izzo has, for the past quarter-century or so, become something akin to what Indiana was under Bob Knight.
Not just one of the Big Ten's basketball standard-bearers.
The primary standard-bearer.
Indiana fully intends to regain that status. That will take time.
But a season-sweep of the vaunted Spartans, last pulled off by IU's 2013 Big Ten champs, would seem a step in the right direction.
Coach Archie Miller's host Hoosiers will enter Saturday's 12 p.m. tipoff against No. 6-ranked MSU as underdogs, which was also their status heading into their 79-75 overtime win Feb.