Indiana men\u2019s basketball (8-2, 1-1 Big Ten) is set to take on Chicago State (2-10 [oh no], 0-0 NEC) in its return to action this coming weekend after a week off from basketball.<\/p>\n
The Hoosiers\u2019 last outing was a 72-60 defeat at Kentucky that featured a second half scoring margin straight out of a nightmare. The 3-pointers weren\u2019t falling and Indiana wasn\u2019t strong enough in the frontcourt to get rebounds or decent looks at the rim.<\/p>\n
The Cougars are one of the very worst basketball outfits in the country. That didn\u2019t stop them from beating a decent Northwestern team a few years back or an (admittedly horrific) Loyola Chicago group this past Sunday. Chicago State has played a few other high-major games and gotten blown off the court in every one except for\u2026.<\/p>\n
\u2026 Minnesota. Good. Great, even.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what to know about the game:<\/p>\n
Indiana Hoosiers vs Chicago State Cougars<\/p>\n
Chicago State is, by some distance, the worst team Indiana will face this season.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s rather notoriously one of the worst programs in the country year in and year out. That\u2019s just kind of the way the wind blows. Didn\u2019t stop the Cougars from the aforementioned Northwestern upset or making things uncomfortable against Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Indiana should win. Indiana can, on paper, score at will. Indiana must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana men\u2019s basketball (8-2, 1-1 Big Ten) is set to take on Chicago State (2-10 [oh no], 0-0…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":459626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,71280],"class_list":{"0":"post-459625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-indiana-mens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115750915735590203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}