Indiana heads to Seattle tonight to square off with the Washington Huskies in a Big Ten conference game. This is the world we live in now.
Washington has struggled in its first season in Big Ten play, going 4-13 in conference play to this point and sitting dead last in the standings. I’m not good enough at math to know if they are mathematically eliminated from Big Ten Tournament contention, but probably?
That means Indiana is the team with more to play for here, alternately comforting and horrifying. The Hoosiers had a chance to make a statement against Penn State to put fans at ease about what lies ahead, but were without Malik Reneau and trailed late in the second half.