It was billed as a basketball game, but Tuesday’s Indiana-Illinois game instead presented itself as a three-hour fart.
And after 54 combined fouls, three periods and a series of painfully long scoring droughts, the same general theme emerged for this IU basketball team: it’s just not very good. No. 12 Illinois came to Bloomington and kindly tried to give IU its second ranked win of the season, but the Hoosiers refused to accept it, settling instead for a 75-71 overtime loss at Assembly Hall.
Here are Three Things:
Once again, Indiana can’t finish
That’s just kind of what these Hoosiers do.