For years, college sports leaders marched into Congress carrying the same message.
Bruce Thornton scored 25 points and had seven assists, John Mobley Jr. and Amare Bynum each added 18 points, and Ohio State defeated Indiana 91-78 in a Big Ten regular-season finale on Saturday night.
Freshman Trent Sisley made the first of two free throws with less than a second remaining in a second overtime and Indiana outlasted UCLA 98-97.
Bennett Stirtz scored 27 points, Tavion Banks added a career-high 26, and Iowa defeated Indiana 74-57.
The turf burn wouldn't let him sleep.
Lamar Wilkerson didn’t just break out of a slump. He ripped off his warm-up, tucked in his cape and torched the Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall nets like they were made out of silk and second-thoughts.
Cade Tyson had 17 points and eight rebounds to help Minnesota upset No. 22 Indiana 73-64 in the Big Ten debut for both head coaches, the Gophers’ Niko Medved and the Hoosiers’ Darian DeVries.
In any historic season, you need a little magic. Indiana worked some on Saturday in Happy Valley.
Reed Bailey opened his Indiana career by scoring 21 points and Lamar Wilkerson added 19 points and four 3-pointers to lead the Hoosiers past Alabama A&M 98-51 in the first game under new coach Darian DeVries.
Every time Indiana lined up across from Penn State, it saw what it wasn’t. Bigger program, deeper pockets, fuller stadium, top 10 ranking. The Nittany Lions didn’t just dominate the series, they embodied a kind of football Indiana could only aspire to.