Indiana Declines the NIT, Compounding their Problems

    The way you get better is playing together, developing chemistry, and becoming better individually and as a group. Mike Woodson of all people should know this. He played for Bobby Knight on an IU NIT champion in 1979, right? In between NCAA championship teams. The players on the 1979 team assuredly gelled more, developed better strengths

    Ugh. We cannot even repeat success as a pattern, let alone on the court. IU is pretty dumb! I hate that. I wish the coaches, players, and everyone related to Indiana University men's basketball could be smarter. Me, too.

    But no. The program seems to be in shambles upon further review. Can Jakai Newton hang around and be part of the answer? Is Gabe Cupps part of the answer? Will Malik Reneau come back 

as a junior, or Ke'lel Ware, or... We do have Leal and Galloway, but they may not be the answers.

    Our best and only commit for next year de-commited. What is going on?

    I have lost my faith in this system, after Mike Davis, Kelvin Sampson, Tom Crean, and Charlie Miller.

    Can Woodson right the ship?

    I have my serious doubts; I and the rest of Hoosier nation are growing older and grey as we wait for a resurgence of what happened under the General, Robert Montgomery Knight.

    He died last fall, but his great players and teams have been gone a lot longer.

    Wisconsin beat Purdue today. They are smart.

    IU, not even competing in the National Invitational Tournament?

    Yikes.

    We are kind of cursed, and we bring a lot of it on ourselves.

    I did not send after Friday night when I wrote this... No Saturday. In any regard, Indiana has been a loser for too long.

    Indiana has to be better. Please.