Forty minutes. That was all Indiana needed Saturday afternoon — forty minutes of competitive, energetic basketball.
Would a win have been nice? Of course. But it felt like the Hoosiers might have needed a complete game even more than a win for no other reason than to prove to themselves and everyone else that they could do it.
Indiana couldn’t even put together one good 20-minute half. As a result, the Hoosiers lost their fourth straight game, falling to Penn State 83-74. The loss marked the first time Penn State has swept Indiana in the regular season since the 2008-09 season.