Indiana Men's Basketball: Relegated to the Dung Heap of College Championship History?

    Maybe. Maybe these Hoosiers never get the talent and the moxy that they need. Perhaps we have left them behind in the 1980s. Perhaps we will never return to any of those glory days.

    Year after year of futility. Now decades. The current coach and the program writ large are okay. Brand new. But they lack grit and talent, plus cohesion.

    DeVries and Devries. The coach might be big-time enough. The son is too slow, in my opinion. I wish he shot a little bit better. And would move better. Same with all the new Hoosier guys.

    They made a second half run at Michigan State tonight in East Lansing, as I write this, but then they folded and were crushed. A bit like the last game in Bloomington to undefeated Nebraska. Yes, top ranked Cornhusker nation. They are being picked by some as a number one seed.

    Nebraska. 

    Meanwhile, Indiana lingers as a bottom of the basketball cellar dweller, after being briefly ranked when winning a few games in the pre-conference months. Marquette looked like a great victory, but now they are little regarded as anything special.

    And now IU.

    Nothing special. No championship prospects again. 

    1990s. One Final Four. Duke stood in the way.

    2000s. One great run to the Final Game. Maryland had its way.

    2010s. Crean had one great team that choked in the Sweet Sixteen.

    2020s. Over halfway through and Indiana is not good enough.

    I am too old for this.

    Go, IU. Fight, fight, fight...

    For relevance.