After slapping UK silly a week ago, the Hoosiers had a week off to either study for finals or dissect Western Carolina's Three-Stooges-offense. It would seem they spent their late-night cram sessions of finals week huddled closely in the library, passing around brain-food, taking shifts on coffee runs-- with bloodshot eyes and scrambled brains....while memorizing all 4 pages of the Catamounts' playbook. Overkill, if you ask me. The Hoosiers might not know the West Carolina state flower, but they sure can play some basketball.
The Catamounts' first possession led to a turnover, and the game went downhill for them from there. After a no-look pass from center Arnold Gore landed flush on the face of a nameless Caucasian gentleman, Eric Gordon started circling the wagons around a dizzy mess of purple jerseys-- putting on a mix-tape of NBA-range threes.
When Gordon wasn't chucking, D.J. and co. were sloppily bulldozing the under-sized Catamounts into submission. JUCO transfer DeAndre Thomas, who is built like David Wells, greedily snatched rebounds like a hungry hungry hippo. I wish there were a creative way to describe the slaughtering that happened this evening on Branch McCracken court-- but I just can't find the words to describe how ugly this basketball game was.
The Catamounts did, however, outplay IU in certain statistical categories, such as: Fouls, Turnovers, Headers, Shot Clock Violations, White People, and Letters on Jerseys.
Hoosiers 100, Western Carolina 52.
IU’s next game is an equally as disinteresting match-up against Coppin State on Saturday, 12/22 at noon in Bloomington. Plenty of tickets are still available for Coppin State as well as Chicago State on Dec 29; the remainder of the season is sold out.
