As the top seed with a double bye into Friday’s quarterfinals in the 2016 Big Ten tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indiana won’t have much time to focus on its next opponent.
The Hoosiers will meet the winner of Michigan-Northwestern on Friday at 12 p.m. ET, but won’t know which team they’ll face until roughly 2 p.m. on Thursday afternoon.
Tom Crean said Wednesday that his team is prepared for either outcome and cited the maturity of his team as a major reason why.
“These guys are really mature. We do it (prepare) on one end and then we go on the other,” Crean said.