Indiana basketball coach Darian DeVries needed no introduction to the Hoosiers' rivalry with Purdue. He's ready for his first experience within the rivalry Tuesday night.

In two years, coach Curt Cignetti has taken a program known for failure to the doorstep of euphoria. Monday, Indiana faces Miami in the College Football Playoff national championship, a sentence that doesn’t seem real, no matter how many times it is written, read or screamed at such volume that it startles the neighbors.

HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – Indiana might be known for basketball and being known as the “Crossroads of America”, but one might be surprised to know the list of some alumni that graduated from Indiana University.

As the buzzer sounded, ending the first half of Indiana men’s basketball’s matchup with Iowa, boos filled Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Yet the ‘boos’ were not directed towards the Hawkeyes. Rather, their chants were aimed at the home team’s product on the court.

Indiana University was long considered a basketball school for sports, but head coach Curt Cignetti has the Hoosiers on the map in the football world. If you ask school officials, though, they'd likely tell you that IU has long been on the national map of prominent universities.

The Hoosiers have plenty of opportunities to make the NCAA tournament. Here's how they're approaching the stretch run.

Indiana (13-7, 4-5 Big Ten) will have its hands full against No. 12 Purdue (17-3, 7-2) that comes to Bloomington averaging 84.0 points per game on 51.3% shooting (No. 8 in the country). The Boilermakers are averaging 20.5 assists (No. 3) while only turning it over 9.3 times per game (No. 10).