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Indiana Celebrates Loss To Ohio State By Cutting Down Nets And Hoisting Big 10 Championship Trophy They Didn’t Win Yet

Dagger – Had Indiana clinched its first outright league title since 1993 by beating Ohio State, the Hoosiers could have celebrated in front of a sellout crowd by donning championship hats, cutting down the nets at Assembly Hall and hoisting a Big Ten trophy. Instead Indiana staggered to a surprising 67-58 loss Tuesday night … and still did all the rest of that stuff anyway. In a coronation that felt anticlimactic and ill-timed, Indiana president Michael McRobbie awarded the team with a silver Big Ten championship trophy at the end of senior night festivities even though the Hoosiers still have one more conference game to play. They’ve known they’ll have at least a share of the league title since Michigan State and Wisconsin both lost this past weekend, but they’ll only earn it outright by winning at Michigan on Sunday.

It’s unclear whose idea it was to celebrate the Big Ten title win or lose Tuesday night, but the impression many viewers were left with was that Indiana had no contingency plan for a home loss. “This is the epitome of bittersweet,” Indiana coach Tom Crean told reporters after the net-cutting was complete.

Too funny. Almost like Indiana is hell bent on getting everyone to hate them or something? Blatantly flopping. Being coached to flop in huddles. Cutting down nets after losing. Hoisting a Big 10 trophy that you didn’t win yet and might not even win outright. While wearing Big 10 championship hats that you didn’t earn. What the fuck. Bro I told you guys. You have a great team. I like your players. Oladipo’s the man. College hoops is better off with a good Indiana team. Why do you keep trying to ruin it?

PS- This block was something worth cutting the nets down about though:

By kmarko posted March 6th, 2013 at 1:20 PM

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by notippinpippen on March 6, 2013 at 1:24 pm

Oladipo is playing like a man possessed. i dont even like indiana but he is the best player in the nation for sure
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by horns on March 6, 2013 at 1:30 pm

Crean is a scumbag. He had a guy commit there last year, Crean took too many people so he told him he didn't have a scholarship anymore then just left him hanging and told the media he didn't have the grades and couldn't qualify. Lucky for the kid he'll be playing at Syracuse next year after a year at Brewster prep. Then between him telling his players to flop at the end of games, constantly tweeting about how good his team and players are even tho this is the first time they've been relevant since hes been there, and him acting like a little bitch everytime his team I hope Indiana loses to a 16 seed.
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by turschel on March 6, 2013 at 1:39 pm

Possessed??? He had 0 pts and 2 fouls in the first half last night. He's the reason they lost.
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by notippinpippen on March 6, 2013 at 1:44 pm

the day players are judged by one half of their respective sport, pigs will fly
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by turschel on March 6, 2013 at 1:53 pm

I'm not the fuckin idiot who said a guy who added literally nothing to his team the entire first 20 minutes of a game was "playing possessed". And you're right, the whopping the 7 pts in he added in the 2nd half was just mind bottling.
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by notippinpippen on March 6, 2013 at 2:03 pm

dude, my statement wasnt based off of 20 minutes of basketball. i can go back to multiple games he was a key reason they won. he has been a bigger story than zeller this year--he is the most balanced player on the team and the biggest all around contributor. period.
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by mfoles16 on March 6, 2013 at 2:56 pm

Hey, Horns: you just described every big time college basketball coach. spare us the sob story about some kid who gets to play at Cuse next year. Indiana was probably sneaking the mut in with his grades anyway.
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by dab on March 6, 2013 at 3:09 pm

crean looks like a dyke
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by horns on March 6, 2013 at 3:10 pm

mfoles - usually when coaches walk around like they're hall of famers and run the best program in basketball they've won a road game in their conference before this year. Creans an asshole and pretty much everybody in the basketball community knows it. It's kinda funny because they have the best team they'll have for a long long time this year against the worst field of teams in recent memory and they still wont win the whole thing and probably be upset early.
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by beezy on March 6, 2013 at 3:26 pm

Horns: No one cares about your high school boyfriend from Brewster prep. Are you honestly naive enough to believe that Crean is in the minority when it comes to coaches recruiting too many players? Or the only coach to teach flopping? Tweeted about having confidence in his team/players? His team was irrelevant when he got to Indiana because everyone Sampson recruited either left, graduated or got kicked off the team. Crean went from having no scholarship players to being ranked #1 in the NCAA five years later. Not to mention being named National Coach of the Year. Not saying you have to support the guy, or the team, but at least know your shit before you spew irrelevant comments.
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by peter_brosnan on March 6, 2013 at 4:45 pm

Otto Porter > Oladipo
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by sirchunts on March 6, 2013 at 5:03 pm

alright girls, this is the internet, dont get worked up
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