Why Indiana basketball lost to Northwestern, per coach Darian DeVries IU coach Darian DeVries had a pointed answer for why the Hoosiers saw a game in which they led by 13 slip away in a bad loss to Northwestern. Indiana is a football school. It's not even a question. On the same day IU football sold out season tickets in just hours, the men's basketball team — once the school's golden goose — lost to Northwestern for the sixth straight time, while Assembly Hall's balcony seating remained empty. Over the past 20 years, Indiana fans have banked far more core memories from football than basketball. An entire generation has grown up without tasting any sense of sustained hoops success — in a...
