So remember just the other day, when the Blob was cracking wise about the utter lack of consistency of your Purdue Boilermakers and your Indiana Hoosiers, and the Blob said this about the latter?
And (Archie) Miller's Hoosiers?
Re-energized by their invigorating win (over Iowa), they'll go up to Ann Arbor and get run out of the joint by Michigan.
This just in: Michigan 89, Indiana 65.
This also just in: The Blob is not puffing out its chest on this one, because it was about as hard to predict as sunrise. Hasn't this been the Hoosiers to a fare-thee-well all season? How many times has this happened, a big, allegedly corner-turning win followed by a puzzling no-show, followed by another big, allegedly corner-turning win?
The Blob actually looked it up. It's happened at least four times this season to one degree or another.
Here's how it happened this time: In the win over Iowa, the Hoosiers shot 52.4 percent from the 3-point line (aka, the bane of their existence), outrebounded the Hawkeyes 39-28, forced 18 turnovers and harassed Iowa into 4-of-14 shooting from the arc. Devonte Green hit 7-of-11 from 3 and scored 27 points off the bench to lead Indiana.
And Sunday in Ann Arbor?
Devonte Green was 1-of-7 and scored three points. Indiana shot 25 percent (3-of-12) from the arc. The Hoosiers were outrebounded 37-21. Michigan shot 53 percent from the arc and 57 percent overall and turned it over just eight times.
Now it's on to Minnesota, a traditional black hole for Indiana. Prediction: The Hoosiers put up a vicious fight this time but still lose, because they're away from Assembly Hall. Or they actually win.
Stay tuned.
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