A 9-0 Miami run midway through the second half put the Hurricanes up 63-51, and the Hoosiers never recovered. I am neither exaggerating nor trying to hoodwink you when I say Jackson-Davis literally dunked on Miami’s entire team.īoth teams traded blows for the next 10 minutes, but only one had the gas to finish the race to the Sweet 16. With 18:27 remaining in the second half, he grabbed an offensive rebound, then dunked over five Hurricane defenders to put the Hoosiers up 42-40. It was too much even for Jackson-Davis, who logged 23 points, eight rebounds and five blocks in his last outing as a Hoosier. But the Hoosiers are not built to win track meets, and the Hurricanes came ready to sprint. To its credit, Indiana battled back to enter halftime trailing 40-35, and even led briefly in the second half. True to their name, the Hurricanes whipped around the floor like a gale-force wind, tearing through the Hoosiers’ typically stout defense. Maybe it’s just because my 22-year-old geriatric brain can’t process anything at normal speed past 8 p.m., but it felt like this game unfolded at a thousand miles per hour. Guess who shot four 3-pointers in the span of one minute and 13 seconds Sunday night? 21, then 13 in a 90-68 loss to Iowa one week later. It allowed 10 in an 80-65 loss to Michigan State on Feb.
Sure enough, the Hurricanes led by as many as 13 points in the first half, creating shots out of nothing and burying them with ease.Īside from stymying star senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis, the formula for beating Indiana is pretty clear: make your 3-pointers. If you’ve watched an appreciable number of Indiana games, you’ve probably seen the Hoosiers fall down to an early double-digit deficit.
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