Hoosier Morning

Indiana guard Jeremiah Rivers remained on the bench for a moment as the teams shook hands after the Northwestern-Indiana game. Chris Howell | Herald-Times

AT HOOSIERSHQ.COM

• Dustin Dopirak has noticed a pattern with this basketball team: two steps forward, one step back.
• When he arrived at Indiana, Tracy Porter was introverted and very raw. But he developed a personality and football instincts along the way, Chris Korman writes.

IT’S INDIANA

• Jeremiah Rivers said he is ready to take on Evan Turner, the Indy Star’s Terry Hutchens writes.
• Since he last faced Indiana, Turner has re-emerged as a national player of the year candidate, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette’s LaMond Pope writes.
• Indiana’s next three opponents are all in the top 15, the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel’s Pete DiPrimio writes.
• Matt Roth is ready for a second chance, the Indiana Daily Student’s Zina Kumok writes.

AROUND THE BIG TEN

• Tonight’s game at Indiana is the start of a stretch where four out of five games are on the road, the Columbus Dispatch’s Bob Baptist writes.
• Purdue’s juniors had a sensational first half as the Boilermakers knocked off Michigan State by 12, the Lafayette Journal & Courier’s Jeff Washburn writes.
• Kailin Lucas played slow and so did the Spartans, the Lansing State Journal’s Joe Rexrode writes.
• Demetri McCamey turned the Big Ten’s toughest venue into his playground, leading the Illini to an upset of Wisconsin, the Champaign News-Gazette’s Paul Klee writes.
• It was the first time an unranked opponent beat Wisconsin at home during Bo Ryan’s tenure, Madison.com’s Rob Schultz writes.
• Northwestern’s weak strength of schedule ranking means the Wildcats are a long shot to go to the NCAA Tournament, the Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein writes.
• Iowa freshman Cully Payne wears a plastic brace on his back to protect him — he has a hairline fracture on one of his vertebrae and another is defective, the Des Moines Register’s Rick Brown writes.

TAKE A LOOK

This is totally the venue. The Beatles’ “Long and Winding Road.”