Big Ten Basketball: Way-too-early power rankings for 2021-22 season

By Adam Childs | Apr 24, 2021

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 17: Matt McQuaid #20 of the Michigan State Spartans cuts down the net after beating the Michigan Wolverines 65-60 in the championship game of the Big Ten Basketball Tournament at United Center on March 17, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images) /

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Big Ten Basketball Trayce Jackson-Davis Indiana Hoosiers (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images) /

. . Hoosiers . 8. team. 482.

After a very disappointing 2020 season in which the Hoosiers missed out on the NCAA tournament yet again, Indiana fired its coach and had almost everybody enter the transfer portal.

But then the Hoosiers went out and hired Mike Woodson and some of the players started to trickle back. Trayce Jackson-Davis decided to stay instead of entering the NBA draft. Khristian Lander came back after entering the portal. And most recently Miller Kopp, arguably Northwestern’s best player last year, committed to play at Indiana as a transfer.

What once looked like a mess is starting to come together. They still have big question marks, but not as many as they once had. They still need to figure out how to shoot from the outside to give Jackson-Davis some help but they might not be as far off as we thought.

The Hoosiers aren’t going to be a great team, but if Woodson can keep some of them together and hit on the transfer market, something Archie Miller did none of, then Indiana will be able to compete with the top teams.

They are still a middle-of-the-pack team, but their ceiling is a lot higher than it looked just two weeks ago.

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