It’s hard to believe there are less than seven weeks until Selection Sunday, but here we are.
I got a number of questions last week related to why I seeded IU as low as I did, so I wanted to take a closer look at the Hoosiers’ profile. Following Sunday’s blowout loss to Michigan, Indiana now ranks 40th in the NET. The good news is that the Hoosiers sit at 2-2 in Quad 1 with wins over Purdue and Ohio State at home, and while victories over Notre Dame and Minnesota are solid as well, only one of them falls in Q2. The Hoosiers also have no losses outside the top two quadrants.
However, IU is just 3-5 in Q1/Q2 games, and eight of IU’s 14 wins fall in Quad 4 thanks to a horrible non-conference strength of schedule that ranks 339th out of 358 teams. A 1-4 mark in true road games doesn’t help, nor does the fact that three of IU’s losses have come against teams not currently in the at-large picture (Syracuse, Penn State, Michigan). Historically the committee has…