I agree with this 100%. I didn't watch many games and I didn't expect us to win as many games as we did. To me the players really didn't care and had no connection to Indiana or Indiana basketball. All they cared about was that NIL check. The only player I cared about was Sisley, because he was an Indiana kid.
You can say what you want about Purdue and Painter but he has Indiana kids playing tough hard nosed basketball and representing the university. I so miss tradition, culture, hard nosed players and players that are fundamentally sound.
Indiana basketball sucks and we have become the modern day Northwestern and Wisconsin. Other teams can count on us to be guaranteed wins and our home court doesn't mean squat to other teams.