Indiana Hoosiers

One of the biggest stories of the year has been the rise of the Indiana Hoosiers. After suffering a road loss to Nebraska this evening let's take a longer look at the early season darlings. Crean's team vaulted out to a 12-0 start including handing Kentucky their only loss of the season on a last second three pointer. After dropping a road game at Michigan State the Hoosiers rebounded with 3 straight wins including one over Ohio State. However, since then they've dropped 3 games to Minnesota, Ohio State, and now Nebraska. Considering the hot start 3-4 is not where Indiana wanted to be 7 games into the conference season. Their schedule doesn't get much easier with road games at Wisconsin, Michigan, Purdue, Iowa, and Minnesota while Michigan State, Purdue, and Illinois visit them. It is not outside the realm of possibility that they finish below .500 in conference. As of the last bracket Indiana is listed as a 4 seed. When all is said and done I'm projecting them as a very vunerable 6 or 7 seed.