Indiana went to Iowa City and claimed the signature win it has been looking for, toppling No. 4 Iowa 81-69.
Let’s talk about it. Here are Three Things:
They couldn’t finish at Florida State or Wisconsin. But they finished at Iowa. Go figure!
A 23-3 (!) run late in the second half redirected Indiana from the kind of maddeningly close loss the Hoosiers know well to a … runaway victory against the most efficient offense in the country. Huh. Well then. In truth, it turned out the most efficient offense in the country was anything but during Thursday’s second half, with Iowa going 11 minutes without a field goal and seeing a nine-point lead collapse into a 12-point deficit.