Countless college basketball teams across the country go through bad seasons each and every year. This is especially true of those who lost an all-time talent finding their way without that anchor. It’s normal, all part of the process with programs. Most programs.
Indiana men’s basketball is not most programs.
This isn’t about history, the banners on the wall and a winning tradition. Some point of pride that Indiana shouldn’t be losing to the kinds of teams its lost to. That’s a different conversation entirely.
But it is about what that past success begats: resources. The Hoosiers have access to the kinds of things coaches and administrators around the country would go out of their way for.