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IU basketball embarrassed at Wisconsin: ‘Mentally we’re not tough’

The horrors of the Kohl Center continued for Indiana men’s basketball Tuesday night, and with it, any hope of improvement gleaned from the last two games was squashed.

With a 76-64 loss — a final score that underrepresented the lopsided nature of the contest — the Hoosiers’ losing streak in Madison, Wisconsin extended to 21 games. Their last win in the arena came on Jan. 25, 1998. For a team scraping to try and weasel its way back into NCAA tournament contention, Tuesday’s defeat felt like a massive gut punch in a season of struggles.

“We’re just not a tough team right now,” Mike Woodson said postgame.