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Indiana adds to celebration as football champs take victory lap and basketball team beats Purdue
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Hoosiers fans got their dream doubleheader Tuesday night. First, they watched college football's new national champions take one more victory lap. Then they saw Indiana's basketball team take its cue by keeping the momentum rolling and holding off its top rival,
Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter credited Indiana for earning its win over the Boilermakers. He also felt his team did not play up to its standard.
In two years, coach Curt Cignetti has taken a program known for failure to the doorstep of euphoria. Monday, Indiana faces Miami in the College Football Playoff national championship, a sentence that doesn’t seem real, no matter how many times it is written, read or screamed at such volume that it startles the neighbors.
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Indiana (13-7, 4-5 Big Ten) will have its hands full against No. 12 Purdue (17-3, 7-2) that comes to Bloomington averaging 84.0 points per game on 51.3% shooting (No. 8 in the country). The Boilermakers are averaging 20.5 assists (No. 3) while only turning it over 9.3 times per game (No. 10).
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