The Minute After: Northwestern

Darian DeVries on the sidelines.Thoughts on a 74-61 loss to the Wildcats:

If this is the end — and it’s probably the end? — it finishes like so many other seasons for this program over the last decade.

Hoping for a Big Ten tournament run to make a last-minute dash to the NCAA tournament, only to get stopped before things even got started.

This one felt all too familiar to Indiana’s loss to Northwestern on February 24. The Hoosiers looked crisp offensively to start and were holding Nick Martinelli in check. The latter was in part due to Darian DeVries starting Sam Alexis and Reed Bailey together for the first time this season. They blitzed Martinelli on double teams to get the ball out of his…