Maybe RU is more athletic and quicker.....
Maybe Indiana has guards that can play a pack-line defense but they don't have the size at guard to bother a Geo Baker.
Maybe if Indiana didn't shoot lights out from 3 in the 1st matchup, the 1st matchup would have looked like last night.
The silly stuff of one lineup being the solution tonight makes no sense.....RU controlled the game in Bloomington wire to wire and outside of a very erratic 1st 8 to 10 minutes tonight, controlled the tempo and dictated play.
And despite what matchup you want to equate this to, when Myles Johnson gets dunk after dunk and erases 5 shots in the 1st game and 7 tonight, it is the matchup with the opponent.
RU could have run any combination of lineups with Myles and Geo and Indiana does not offer an answer for either player.
Onto Nebraska and for those who ignored the results of around the rest of college basketball, the teams that needed to win, fell further off the proverbial bubble.
And for those that may have missed it.....RU is at Minnesota next Saturday at Noon, on a national broadcast on FOX.....it is the 1st national broadcast of RU basketball that has ever happened in recent memory.....that doesn't include ESPN, ESPN2, FS1, BTN, etc.
It is a big change of scenery to have RU in their final regular season B1G game, land on a national broadcast on FOX.....does that impact perception in the region.....YEP......does that mean it impacts recruiting (even in a small way.....)...?? YEP......does that mean the rebuild and job done over these last 3 years has been pretty much cemented a status that RU has arrived??? YEP......
Yea we matchup better against teams the teams that aren’t top 5/6 in conference for sure...