HONOLULU, Hawai'i -- For the second time in the last nine days, the Indiana State Sycamores met Texas Christian on the hard wood -- this time in the Championship Game of the 2018 Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic. TCU -- ranked well within the Top 50 of the NCAA's N.E.T. rankings captured the tournament title with an 83-69 victory inside the Stan Sheriff Center on the campus of the University of Hawaii.
ISU wraps non-conference play with an impressive 8-4 record while TCU won their seventh straight to improve to 11-1.
Indiana State's second place finish in the 2018 Diamond Head Classic is the best for the program since becoming the only program not named Indiana to win the Indiana Classic with wins over North Texas and the Hoosiers in 1999.