Indiana Basketball 2018-19: Improves a Bit

Indiana Basketball 2018-19: Improves a Bit

Miller's Second Year, they Need More Eye of the Tiger--Winning.

Now to Win the NIT! Five in a row like last year's women.

Please! THAT is an order.

If Archie Miller is the champion that many of us thought he was supposed to be, he needs to get these Hoosiers to win, in his second full season with a seeming one-and-done talent Romeo Langford. Even if only in the second best competition, the National Invitational Tournament that culminates in New York. IU has not been to the final since NIT final since 1986, and not won it entirely since 1979. However: remnants of both those teams won the national championship! (1981, 1987).

Correlation? Yes!

Last year at 16-15, not invited to even the second best national college basketball competition NIT, they declined the CBI and the CIT. Bad move, Hoosiers. No young man, or team, is too good for any post season tourney. Fred Glass, maybe this decision was as much your fault as anyone's. Too good to play competitive basketball?

Hogwash!

THEY LEARN! Young men ages 18-22 learn how to play! In games! Tourneys!

WOW!  What a revelation!

 In his first year, IU was run out of the building by the likes of Purdue-Fort Wayne and Indiana State, among other embarrassments. Too good for the College Basketball Invitational??

Not good enough. And that lack of teamwork and knowledge was reflected in coming up short this year.

Josh Smith chief among them, and Devonte Green. Even Aljami Durham would have benefitted so much!

OKAY, so win now.

5-0, build your team and your culture.

Do it! All games and tourneys mean something.

Ask Ray Tolbert, Ted Kitchell, Steve Alford, and Daryl Thomas.

Heard of them? Younger IU players who won a lot of NIT games and brought home banners.

The NIT matters for IU. Games do. All of them.