Big Ten Diaries: Indiana Rolls

The Big Ten Diaries recaps the previous night's action in Big Ten Basketball, but of course, you're probably smart enough to figure that out on your own.

Indiana Hoosiers 78 Michigan Wolverines 64

If D.J. White and Eric Gordon play like they did in Ann Arbor on Tuesday night all season, I don't know that there's anybody in this country that can beat the Hoosiers. Of course, it will probably be a bit tougher to do against North Carolina than Michigan, but it's not the Hoosiers' fault the Big Ten is very top heavy this year.

White scored 21 points and also grabbed 22 boards to become the first Hoosier to have a 20/20 game since Alan Henderson in 1995. D.J. was already scary enough in his first three years on campus, now that he's gotten into much better shape physically, he's an absolute beast.

Eric Gordon matched his number with 23 points, including 4 three-pointers, just another ho-hum night for the youngster. He just makes everything he does look so easy, which you just don't see freshman do very often. At least not the kind that stick around longer than a year.

For Michigan, Manny Harris-speaking of freshman-led the team with 19 points. There's hope on the horizon, Wolverines fans!


Michigan State Spartans 78 Purdue Boilermakers 75

Michigan State improved to 14-1 on the season Tuesday night with a victory over Purdue, but Tom Izzo was not pleased with his team's play at all. Of course, Tom isn't happy after they win by 40 points, so why would he be pleased with a 3 point victory?

"Players play, tough players win," Izzo said, repeating one of his favorite sayings. "The toughest team lost by a couple of points tonight, and that wasn't us."

"The stats were very misleading," Izzo said. "It was probably the strangest game I've ever seen that way. But I've been telling you for a couple of weeks that I wasn't pleased. Tonight, you got an eyeful of why."

The Spartans did look sloppy at times, and they did get beat up, but they still pulled off the victory thanks to Travis Walton. Travis hit only one basket in the game, but it was a big one with 20 seconds left in the game. He also grabbed a rebound on the ensuing Purdue possession, and sank two free throws to finish the game.

Purdue was led by Chris Kramer with 19 points, and Nemanja Calasan with 18.