Well, that one hurt. It’s still too early to completely write off the postseason, but the path there certainly gets harder with a double-digit loss to a mediocre Penn State team missing its leading scorer.
Some of it came down to bad luck. Penn State is not a good shooting team and they hit some circus shots today, as teams tend to do when upsetting Indiana at home. The defense wasn’t great, but a lot of those shots were contested as well as they could have been.
They just happened to go in.
Things really fell apart for Indiana when Rhoades dialed in on Indiana’s biggest weakness, its guard play, with a full-court press that seemed to surprise even the more experienced guards on Indiana’s roster.