There are certain ways that Mike Woodson goes about describing certain basketball terms. He often refers to his team as a “ball club.” He talks about getting his team “over the hump,” conceivably meaning to reach its full potential. On occasion, he’ll refer to himself in the third person.
All of this is to say that we’ve been around Woodson long enough to pick up on some of his tropes. It has been eight months since he was hired at Indiana. Whether that time has seemed fast or slow or somewhere in between, we are now nearing the new year and along with it the Big Ten gauntlet.