Go figure

Or, you know, not.

Door No. 2 would be the one to choose these days, as the Indiana Hoosiers slog through their first season under Archie Miller. Hardly ever does a team not rise and fall in exciting ways during the first year of a new regime, but Miller Era Year One has been particularly erratic, with Indiana losing big at home to its smaller state fry (Indiana State and IPFW), while giving No, 1 Duke a decent run in the Hall.

And so, on to this week.

In which the Hoosiers went up to Wisconsin and looked like a bunch of goofs, particularly in the second half, in losing to a Badgers team that isn't exactly the Frank Kaminski Badgers. A couple of days later, unaccountably, they won at Minnesota, a notoriously difficult place from which to wring Ws.

That one was especially puzzling, given that Minny was 13-3 coming in and Indiana was without the services of its big man, DeRon Davis, and one of its prime shooters, Collin Hartman. That offset the fact the Gophers were playing shorthanded as well, which meant that any reasonable individual should have been banking on another Indiana loss.

Instead, the Hoosiers up and won. Which will no doubt get the optimists aroused ("Look, they're finally getting it! Coach Miller does know what he's doing!"), at least until the Hoosiers play like goofs again and lose to someone the faithful think they have no business losing to.

That this will happen is a virtual certainty. Likewise that this will not be a season to remember. There are simply too many bad habits still to be erased with this bunch, and bad habits tend to be notoriously stubborn. And so, patience, Hoosier Nation and attendant observers.

You want to judge what sort of legacy Miller's going to weave in Bloomington, you're gonna have to wait until next winter. This winter will be what it is.

Which is, Hoosiers win!

And also, Hoosiers lose!