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Indiana Basketball: End of season buy or sell for Hoosiers

By Adam Childs

BLOOMINGTON, IN - JANUARY 28: Indiana Hoosiers fans are seen during a game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Assembly Hall on January 28, 2018 in Bloomington, Indiana. Purdue won 74-67. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) *** Local Caption ***
BLOOMINGTON, IN - JANUARY 28: Indiana Hoosiers fans are seen during a game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Assembly Hall on January 28, 2018 in Bloomington, Indiana. Purdue won 74-67. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** /
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UNIVERSITY PARK, PA – JANUARY 29: De’Ron Davis #20 of the Indiana Hoosiers celebrates a shot during a college basketball game against the Penn State Nittany Lions at the Bryce Joyce Center on January 29, 2020 in University Park, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA – JANUARY 29: De’Ron Davis #20 of the Indiana Hoosiers celebrates a shot during a college basketball game against the Penn State Nittany Lions at the Bryce Joyce Center on January 29, 2020 in University Park, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /

Indiana will make the NCAA tournament

BUY

We have written a few times about the Hoosiers being on the bubble as they are one of the last four teams in on Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology. They are dangerously close to being on the wrong side of the bubble and if they continue to lose the rest of the season the NIT will be calling instead of the NCAA tournament.

The Hoosiers, like has been mentioned so many times, don’t have any statistically bad losses. They have blowout losses, but none of them would be considered bad. Their only losses to teams on the bubble would be against Purdue and Arkansas. Their other losses are all against teams either ranked or firmly in the field.

The bigger reason why Indiana will still make the tournament is the lack of a good resume from the other teams on the bubble. The bubble is extremely soft this year and that should benefit the Hoosiers. The teams that they are fighting with for the last spot, aren’t exactly great teams.

The strength of the Big Ten is another plus for the Hoosiers resume. While the conference is beating up on each other, the amount of good wins the Big Ten has vaulted it to the top of the conference rankings. The Big Ten is in line to possibly have a record 12 teams in the tournament and that overall strength will only help the Hoosiers.

Some will say they don’t deserve to be in the tournament and they can’t win, and that may be true. But once you are in anything can happen. All you need is a chance and that is what the Hoosiers are looking for.

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