The Sky is Falling? Yes, It Seems So

I grew up a couple miles from Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and I like to write about , talk, watch, blog, dream, sweat, agonize and blather about the Indiana University men's basketball team.

Here's this:

Text of release sent out Tuesday afternoon by Indiana University Media Relations:

TONIGHT'S IOWA VS. INDIANA MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME POSTPONED

Indiana University Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass has announced that tonight's Big Ten men's basketball game between Iowa and Indiana will be postponed as a result of a piece of metal falling from the ceiling into seats in the lower bowl.
Roughly 6 1/2 hours before gametime, a metal facing (roughly eight feet long by 14 inches wide), fell and damaged seats in the lower part of Section F, which is located in the northwest corner of the building.

"Safety is our No.1 priority," noted Glass. Our University engineers have advised us to postpone events in Assembly Hall until it can be determined what caused the facing to fall and ensure the safety of everyone attending an event in the facility."

The rescheduling of the Iowa contest and the status of tomorrow night's women's game with Michigan will be determined as soon as possible.

Yes, the sky fell. Good thing no one got hurt.

My Hoosiers have been tanking of late and now things look weird, to say the least. 

They blow a late sizable lead to Penn State at home. OUCH!

They blow it late to a better Minnesota team on the road. (Like losses to Nebraska and even Michigan State.)

And then they lose again--by blow out-- to Purdue. OUCH!

Redemption was possible tonight against the ranked Hawkeyes.

We had beaten then undefeated Wisconsin at home, and undefeated in the Big10 Michigan, so things were looking possible.

But oh yes, the back up sophomore center Hanner Mosquera-Perea? Arrested at 3:15 AM after the Penn State game. OUCH!

And freshman center Luke Fischer that had taken a while to get healed in the pre-conference season decided to transfer out...Right when he was getting his feet under him.

OUCH!

The Hoosiers are looking for help.

Did it come from the roof?

A couple of months ago a huge IU philanthropist announced a gigantic donation to renovate the 1971 built stadium, so maybe now they will simply close it down for the rest of the season and get a jump on the renovation.

So would they have to close out their remaining home games in Indianapolis? It is doable.

They play a game or so at Lucas Oil Field (Indy Colts NFL Stadium), Conseco Field (Pacers floor from NBA), or even IUPUI or somewhere smaller like that. Butler Fieldhouse, Hinkle?

We shall see. Depends on some engineers' assessment, most likely.

And the players and coaches?

That also remains to be seen.

We need to beat Iowa, no matter when or where we play.

Go Hoosiers. Don't worry about the sky, just worry about the grounds you can control.

Blog it, EMC.