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Hoosiers Beat Bulldogs at their own game
BY JIMMY CAVANAUGH
Indiana took the Assembly Hall floor on Sunday night for the most important game of the season and one of the more meaningful games of the Tom Crean era.
This year’s Butler team is not the squad that has reached back-to-back National Title games – Gordon Hayward, Shelvin Mack and Matt Howard are all gone, and the Bulldogs are now trying to raise a young stable of talent in their place. Regardless, Butler has clearly been the best team in the state the past two years, something that irks hopeful Hoosier fans to no end. The Bulldogs’ young coach Brad Stevens has been widely speculated to be a prospective candidate for the Indiana coaching job if Crean’s great rebuild fails.
In a less macro sense, Butler was the first perceived test for the Hoosiers. A home setback against a team that failed to beat Evansville and struggled to beat teams that IU blew out would have been a major setback for both fan perception and team confidence.
For all reasons mentioned above, there was plenty of pressure on the team to perform well on Sunday night and for a while, it didn’t look like that was going to happen. Indiana’s offense was dismal in the first half, as IU shot 32% from the floor – making only three shots inside the arc – turned the ball over eight times and didn’t have a single player reach double figures. But during that first half, there were positives to glean as well.
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11/26/2011
Hoosier - Boiler Bucket Preview
BY JIMMY CAVANAUGH
In their final test of the season, Indiana returns home to Bloomington on Thanksgiving weekend to play their biggest rival for right to keep the Old Oaken Bucket. Last season ended in a difficult upset win for the Hoosiers, and it won’t be any easier this time around.
The Opponent: Purdue Boilermakers
While Indiana has traditionally struggled more than Purdue as a football program, the Boilers haven’t been great recently either. In Joe Tiller’s final season and in Danny Hope’s first two, Purdue has failed to qualify for postseason play. After a loss to Iowa last weekend, the Boilermakers are behind the eight ball again and need a win in Memorial Stadium in order to qualify for a bowl game. There have been rumblings that Hope needs a win on Saturday to save his job, and even though he claims not to be thinking about it, that fact may give his players a little extra motivation.
Purdue is relatively balanced as an offensive unit, and focuses on running to set up the pass. First-year starter Caleb TerBush got the chance to start after Rob Henry tore his ACL before the season and has done a serviceable job as a caretaker. Miami transfer Robert Marve has also seen the field and though he hasn’t been quite as effective, he was the man who keyed Purdue’s win over Ohio State two weeks ago, so it’s hard to blame Hope for giving him opportunities.
