Bad Monday

I haven't been this excited about college basketball in...well, forever. The Indiana Hoosiers have not had a team this talented since the days of Calbert Chaney and Alan Henderson during their '92-'93 Final Four days.

The Hoosiers are 10-2 and have started the Big Ten season by beating Michigan and Ohio State at home (geeze imagine if this was football season!), and have demonstrated that they are definitely the team to beat in the probably the deepest league in the country (the Big East is very close).

Then, just as I'm about to eat my lunch, I throw up in the mouth when I read this:

The Indiana Hoosiers thought they had sophomore D.J. White slowly rounding back into top form from a broken foot he suffered in mid-November. Monday they learned that's not the case. The University has announced today that White has re-injured his broken left foot and will be out indefinitely as he waits for this latest injury to heal.

The injury apparently was suffered when White fell to the floor during Saturday's Ohio State contest and another player accidentally stepped on his left foot. The injury was not in the same place on the left foot bone that White's previous break occurred, but rather at a different spot on the same bone. Still, the injury is believed to be just as serious and that could have him out for at least the next six weeks, maybe even longer.

With this injury, Indiana went from a Final Four contender, to a dangerous, but probably not national threat. Having (last year's Big Ten Freshman of the Year) DJ White and Marco Killingsworth in the post, we have been able to exploit the double-team better than anyone. Now, we are going to have a freshman replacing DJ's minutes, and if Killingsworth gets into foul trouble, we are going to have to push a smaller line-up on the floor.

Someone needs to ask what Davis did to piss off the basketball gods, as he just can't seem to find a break.

At least it looks like Lewis Monroe is ready to step up at the point. This could give us a little more leverage with DJ going down...again.

Final Analysis: Bloody hell.