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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Indiana will play 20 Big Ten basketball games over the course of the next three months, so making too big a deal out of just one game is a bit of a stretch. But make no bones about it, the Hoosiers’ 73-64 loss at Minnesota on Wednesday was wildly disappointing.
No. 22-ranked Indiana had started the season so well under first-year coach Darian DeVries, winning its first seven games — albeit against a soft schedule. Minnesota, meanwhile, is the consensus worst team in the 18-team Big Ten. The Gophers have already lost four games — two by double digits to mid-majors San Francisco and Santa Clara — and have lost point guard Chansey Willis Jr. for the season.
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But none of that seemed to matter on Wednesday night in the conference opener for both teams. Indiana blew an early 7-point lead, got outrebounded 40-25 and shot just 29 percent from three-point range. It was a complete recipe for disaster, with the exclamation point being the tough loss to the locker room while jubilant Gophers fans stormed the court after the win.
Sure, it was Indiana’s first loss, but it was also very tough for the Hoosiers to swallow.
“I thought overall it was a little disappointing,” Indiana coach Darian DeVries told reporters after the game. “I thought defensively we’d been pretty good all year, but I thought we just gave up a lot of clean opportunities for them tonight, some layups and some open threes.
“And then offensively we just kind of let their physicality bog us down a little bit, and we didn’t get the type of quality shots we’d been getting and were accustomed to getting. … We just weren’t able to get it going again in that second half. They kept fighting, kept competing, but we came up short.”
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Indiana was just 8-for-27 from three-point range, just 29.6 percent on the night. They also were just 12-of-20 from the free throw line. Leading scorer Tucker DeVries scored only nine points, the second time in three games he’s failed to reach…
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