Last four college basketball season officially kicked off with four games in the 2K Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. Thank goodness, no more exhibition games to talk about. Wait, an exhbition game is still the main story the night after games that count are played? How is that even possible?
Well, that’s what happens when a ranked team like No. 20 Tennessee loses to DII Indianapolis. Bruce Pearl’s squad also lost an exhibition game three years ago to Pezinok BK in Slovakia.
Pearl has been under fire all summer after a news broke that he had hosted a barbecue for recruits, even though he knew it was against NCAA regulations.
Indianapolis had a 16-0 run that helped it build a 15 point lead in the second half in the 79-64 victory. The Greyhounds forced 25 turnovers under Stan Gouards full-court pressure attack. Gouard played on Pearl’s 1995 DII national title winning Southern Indiana team. He referred to beating Pearl like beating his dad.
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