In a season chock full of twists and turns, Saturday’s home finale provided the most unbelievable chapter yet.
And unlike most of the recent chapters of the 2016-17 IU basketball season, it had a happy ending.
The game had all of the same ingredients we’ve come to expect from the Hoosiers. Spurts of brilliance and spectacular individual feats were often canceled out by extended sequences of mind-boggling mistakes and turnovers, poor communication and missed defensive rotations.
As a result, the Hoosiers found their backs to the wall. But this time, they delivered. In fact, they did so twice.