6-Banner Sunday: Indiana claims sole possession of second place in Big Ten standings - Inside the Hall

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Welcome to a different version of 6-Banner Sunday, a joint manufacturing between The Meeting Name and Contained in the Corridor, and introduced by our associates at Trueblood Actual Property, the place we spotlight the 5 most important IU basketball tales of the previous week, plus check out how the opposite IU sports activities packages are doing.

4 extra video games and 4 extra wins for the Indiana Hoosiers males’s and ladies’s basketball groups. The outcomes ranged from a last-second victory for the boys on Saturday over Michigan, to a blowout for the ladies of arch-rival Purdue, and two, much more, essential leads to between. Since Jan. 11, the 2 squads are a mixed 17-1 because the packages have taken profitable to a brand new degree.

Away from the courtroom, one more bracketology replace brings excellent news, and Meeting Name and Contained in the Corridor had new exhibits this week. We’ll as typical conclude with a take a look at how different IU sports activities are doing led by softball opening its season.

Briefly information, IU coach Mike Woodson had his regular weekly radio present final Monday.

• IU defeats Michigan on the Crisler Middle• Hoosiers lastly resolve Rutgers for victory• Ladies’s basketball wins two extra video games• Up to date Andy Bottoms bracketology• Meeting Name and Podcast on the Brink• Hoosier Roundup

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Banner #1 – IU defeats Michigan on the Crisler Middle

On Saturday, the Hoosiers pulled out a gutsy win towards the Wolverines 62-61. Indiana trailed for a lot of the sport however got here again each time Michigan regarded like they could draw back. IU took the lead for good on two Jalen Hood-Schifino free throws with just below three minutes left after which neither facet scored once more because the cream and crimson obtained a number of key stops down the stretch. Hood-Schifino had 21 factors whereas Trayce Jackson-Davis led the squad with 28 factors. Nobody else did a lot, however the heroics of this dynamic duo was sufficient to flee Ann Arbor on the profitable finish for the primary time in seven years.

The workforce improves to 18-7 total and 9-5 within the league and is now in sole possession of second place behind Purdue. They face Northwestern away from residence on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET on BTN as they appear to get a tenth convention win for the primary time since they received the Huge Ten in 2015-2016.

Afterward, Woodson spoke, Ryan Corazza had his Minute After., Alex Bozich penned 5 Takeaways, whereas Amanda Foster wrote a column.

Banner #2 – Hoosiers lastly resolve Rutgers for victory

On Tuesday, IU stopped a protracted dropping streak to Rutgers by grinding out a 66-60 win with a troublesome gritty victory. Jackson-Davis (who was named to one more award watch listing) led the Hoosiers with 20 factors and 18 rebounds as they lastly defeated the Scarlet Knights for the primary time in his profession (Rutgers was the one Huge Ten faculty TJD had but to defeat throughout his time at Indiana). Jackson-Davis additionally surpassed 2,000 factors and 1,000 rebounds throughout the contest. As well as, Miller Kopp had an enormous night time as nicely with 18 factors together with 4 three-pointers.

Afterward, Woodson and Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell spoke, Contained in the Corridor had a photograph gallery, Corazza wrote his Minute After and Movie Session, Bozich penned 5 Takeaways, whereas Foster and William McDermott put collectively columns.

Banner #3 – Ladies’s basketball wins two extra video games

It was one other big week for the ladies’s workforce as they knocked off arch-rival Purdue after which beat an Iowa squad that’s combating tooth and nail with them for the convention championship.

The second-ranked Hoosiers simply beat a a lot improved Boilers squad in entrance of a sold-out raucous environment at Mackey Area 69-46. IU pulled away with a terrific third quarter by holding the Boilermakers to simply two factors for these 10 minutes, and obtained contributions all day from surprising sources together with Chloe Moore McNeil and Sara Scalia as 4 Hoosiers completed in double figures. Contained in the Corridor had a free article recapping the sport, whereas Meeting Name had a column for subscribers of its neighborhood as each websites had been in West Lafayette with protection.

The victory on Sunday arrange a Thursday showdown with the Hawkeyes the place Indiana picked up probably their greatest win in program historical past 87-78. A report crowd of 13,046 got here out as a number of hundred followers needed to sit within the balcony for simply the second time ever at a girls’s contest in Bloomington. Iowa’s Caitlyn Clark had 35 factors, however each different Hawks participant was shut down because the Hoosiers’ two stars Grace Berger and Mackenzie Holmes (who acquired extra nationwide honors) had 26 and 24 factors respectively. As soon as once more, Contained in the Corridor and Meeting Name had been on web site and had free and paid recaps respectively.

The Hoosiers at the moment are 23-1 total and 13-1 within the league and have the within observe to the Huge Ten title with a 1.5-game lead over the Hawkeyes with simply 4 contests left. IU faces Ohio State on Monday at 7 p.m. ET on BTN in Columbus earlier than internet hosting Michigan this coming Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET on BTN. If Indiana wins each of those contests, they are going to face Purdue once more per week from immediately for an opportunity to clinch their first convention title in 30 years on senior day. Both means, it’s already offered out (it is a first for a girls’s basketball contest at Meeting Corridor) and can set one more attendance report.

Banner #4- Up to date Andy Bottoms bracketology

With each the boys’s and ladies’s unprecedented sizzling streaks, they’ve put themselves in a terrific place for March Insanity in keeping with bracketology projections.

Meeting Name and Contained in the Corridor’s personal bracketologist Andy Bottoms had the boys’s workforce as a 5 seed earlier than each victories this week. In his projection, the Hoosiers would face 12-seed Liberty in New Albany, the place the winner would then tackle both four-seed Virginia or 13-seed Akron within the second spherical. The highest seed in Bottoms’ projected Midwest Area that features IU could be Alabama.

On the ladies’s facet, there isn’t a have to guess the place Indiana sits as the choice committee put out their high 16 groups thus far they usually have them because the second primary seed behind solely South Carolina. NCAA.com’s autumn Autumn Johnson took a stab on the bracket after being armed with this data. What is understood, is that so long as the Hoosiers inevitably keep within the top-16, they are going to host the primary two rounds in Meeting Corridor earlier than touring to both Greenville S.C. or Seattle for the Candy 16 and Elite 8.

Banner #5 – Meeting Name and Podcast on the Brink

Each Meeting Name and Contained in the Corridor had a number of new exhibits. Podcast on the Brink had two episodes this week each final Sunday and Friday. In the meantime, Meeting Name was on air following all 4 video games for each the boys’s and ladies’s groups. In addition they had a particular free version of Banner Friday with Mike DeCourcy.