Hoosiers’ rivalry with Illinois moving more towards Indiana’s Favor

Overshadowed this week by UNC-Duke, the best rivalry in college basketball and Syracuse-Georgetown, the greatest in the Big East, is Illini vs. Hoosiers, a great rivalry in itself. The all time series was tied at 83 entering tonight. However, Illinois was 5-1 in their last 6 versus IU. And that one loss in Bloomington last year was extremely fluky to say the least. After tonight, with Indiana winning 84-71, you can see the rivalry going more the way of #23 Indiana. “Indiana just kicked our butts tonight,” said Illini guard D.J. Richardson who led the Illini with 19 points. The Illini haven’t beaten a ranked team on the road since 2010. If you don’t know how fierce this rivalry is, you needed to hear the IU students yelling while they waited to enter the Assembly Hall student section. They reopened the Eric Gordon wound, and ripped Bruce Weber for his lack of job security. Inside, they taunted Weber with chants of “shut up Bruce!” Meyers Leonard ...