Bumping this thread is less fun on days when the Cats play poorly, but we're still waiting for Selection Sunday to be one of the Top 16 seeds.
Time for a year-end review and summary after another horrible Hoosier season. Why? Because some of us were around when IU was the most arrogant, obnoxious, Kentucky-reviling and ridiculing fan base on earth. So, why not?
Indiana is saddled with a terrible coach for at least one more year, has NO recruiting class —zero —after being dissed by their highly ranked and only commit, will lose a giant percent of their team this year through graduation and transfers, and will be lucky to win ten games counting cupcakes next year.
Some stats that sum up the program:
* By next March, it will be 23 years since Indiana advanced past the Sweet 16. Kids in IU’s last two graduating classes were not alive when the Hoosiers won a Sweet 16 game.
* Indiana will have now missed NINE of the last 15 tournaments. Yes, in a span stretching back to when Billy Clyde Gillispie was still coaching Kentucky (and making the tournament) the Hoosiers have only been in six tournaments.
* Indiana has NEVER won the Big 10 post-season tournament which has now been going on for more than a quarter-century.
* Both Pitino and Calipari won more NCAA tournament games in the first two years coaching (in Pitino's case, the first two years eligible) - SEVEN - as IU has won since 2007 - 18 years by the time another tournament rolls around.
* One appearance past the Sweet 16 since 1993 - and it isn't happening this year, so that's nearly a third of a century with one trip as far as the Elite Eight.
* No post-season championship of any kind since 1987. Nobody under 40 has a memory of seeing the Hoosiers win -- anything.
And it looks like a total collapse ahead next year, a new coach and a rebuild before any of that changes.