The entire 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament is scheduled to be played in the state of Indiana, including six games inside Assembly Hall on the campus of Indiana University.
The Hoosiers, though, won’t be playing. They missed the tournament again. They haven’t been since 2015.
Perhaps the combination of the in-your-face, literally, in-your-gym nature of the tourney combined with the once-unfathomable March Madness drought for one of the sport's most successful programs (five national titles) was just too much to bear.
Or at least it was for one fan, who, IU athletic director Scott Dolson revealed, footed the $10 million bill to buy coach Archie Miller out of his contract.