I still have a hard time believing what I saw on Saturday. Think about how many things have to go a certain way for a team to score 83 points. The Hoosiers have scored only 73 points in their last five Big Ten games -- all losses -- and 14 of those points game in garbage time.
Just think about that for a minute.
I don't think I'll ever see a game like that one for the rest of my life. I couldn't believe my eyes when Wisconsin was throwing 70-yard bombs in the fourth quarter when it was leading by 56 points.
I know the debate about whether Wisconsin should have run up the score as it did has been out there. I hard ESPN's Mike and Mike in Morning discuss it today. But that's really a non-issue. The Badgers had their second and third-string players in the game, so they should be allowed to run whatever play they want.
The bigger issue was that the IU defense couldn't once stop the Wisconsin offense, which scored on all 12 of its possessions.
One commenter on the IDS website after the game may have said it best when he or she suggested Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema may have put IU coach Bill Lynch out of his misery. That could end up being true because I think this game, unless the Hoosiers win the final two, will be the final straw in Lynch's firing.
The question that has to be asked now is where do the Hoosiers go from here? Can they really bounce back from an 83-20 loss?
I don't know about that one. The IU players seemed to quit in the second half on Saturday when the Badgers kept pouring it on. I began to wonder if the Hoosiers wouldn't have rather gotten on the bus at halftime and save themselves the humiliation.
