In what was an energy filled Assembly Hall Thursday night, that has been absent for weeks, the Hoosiers’ win last Saturday against Michigan State gave fans the idea that there was still hope left for a late season tournament push. However, after Iowa got off to a 9-2 lead in the opening two minutes of the game, it seemed that they were just going to return to the same behaviors that earned them a seven game losing streak.
Even though it maintained the same pattern of poor starts, this game ended up far differently than did those on the losing streak.