We’re still two months from the start of the 2022-23 college basketball season, but ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has a fresh set of projections for the 2023 NCAA tournament bracket.
Lunardi has Indiana as his highest-seeded Big Ten team and also included this note about the Hoosiers:
The first national championship game I attended was in 1981, with Indiana and Bobby Knight getting past North Carolina and Dean Smith. It has been in my head ever since that Indiana is part of college basketball royalty. Sadly, in my years as a bracketologist, the Hoosiers have rarely lived up to that label.