The Hoosiers enter on a three-game winning streak, which started on the road Jan. 27 with a 3-point victory at Washington and continued when they returned to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall and grabbed two more wins over Nebraska on Feb. 2 and Rutgers on Thursday.

IU women's basketball hit 15 3s in its win over Rutgers. That type of victory is crucial for IU's confidence heading into a difficult final stretch of the season.

Indiana did move up a seed line in Creme’s latest bracketology. Indiana was listed as a No. 9 seed, playing against No. 8 seed Mississippi State in the South Bend Regional. No. 1-seeded Notre Dame would play No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson in the other game in the projected field.