Whatever is left of IU basketball under fourth-year coach Mike Woodson, and it’s not much, evaporated in the final moments of 94-69 loss to Illinois.
It was ugly inside Assembly Hall on Tuesday night as the Hoosiers suffered an embarrassing loss to Illinois, nearly matching IU's worst home loss ever
At this point, most of the Indiana basketball fanbase wants Mike Woodson gone. He was on thin ice coming into the Illinois game, and his team put on a thoroughly uninspiring performance. To make matters worse, Woodson skipped his postgame radio interview.
Indiana basketball is searching for answers after a second straight blowout loss and changes to the starting lineup could be on the way:
After 25-point losses to Iowa and Illinois, the heat turned up significantly on the Indiana men’s basketball program. During Indiana’s 94-69 lo
Luke Goode’s hard block out on Illinois’ Tomislav Ivisic ignited a baseline confrontation between the two teams late in Indiana's 94-69 loss that resulted in an ejection for Indiana’s Oumar Ballo.
Chants of “Fire Woodson” reverberated throughout Alumni Hall on Tuesday while coach Mike Woodson’s Hoosiers squad suffered an “embarrassing” 94-69 home loss to No. 19 Illinois. The Hoosiers (13-5, 4-3 Big Ten) trailed by as much as 31 points and faced a 28-point deficit at halftime while dropping a second straight conference game by 25 points.
Mike Woodson and Indiana basketball have seemingly entered the end of an era through some terrible performances.
Woodson and the Hoosiers head to Evanston for a 7 p.m. ET tipoff against Northwestern Wednesday at Welsh-Ryan Arena, airing on the Big Ten Network. Indiana’s season hit a low point with a pair of 25-point losses to Iowa and Illinois, but it bounced back with a 77-76 overtime win at Ohio State to improve to 14-5 overall and 5-3 in Big Ten play.
Two marquee matchups headlined the week: Michigan State vs. Illinois (Jan. 19) and Purdue vs. Oregon (Jan. 18). The Spartans and Boilermakers’ respective victories firmly establish them as the Big Ten’s top two teams at this stage of the season.
Some big-time clashes in the Big Ten have shaken the power rankings over the last several weeks. It’s sometimes hard to keep up with such great action almost every night in the Big Ten.