Indiana didn’t merely lose its second game at the Maui Invitational. The Hoosiers completely imploded.
Which — if you’ve watched any number of games during the Archie Miller era — is not a new concept. Play well one game, play a middling, mind-numbing brand of basketball for two games, play joyless, hapless ball for another game. Rinse, repeat.
It’s pretty tiring to watch such a cycle play out year after year, game after game, without any interruption. So let’s just jump in and jump out this stuff today.
Here are Three Things:
Archieball is back
On Monday, we noted how IU’s first-half performance was one of the best of the Archie Miller era.