After losing the last two games in heartbreaking fashion, Indiana men’s basketball has found itself in one of the least enviable positions in all of sports: being Bad in a way that is not interesting.
College sports, especially football and basketball, with postseasons featuring large bracketed events, have plenty of room for teams that are mediocre or even just kind of bad.
A good example might be Mike Woodson’s firstteam at Indiana, which squeaked into the First Four to beat a Graham Ike-led Wyoming team before getting blown out by St. Mary’s two days later.
However fun that team was to watch for points that year, it was not the most impressive season, statistically.