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Each week, CollegeHoops.net's Greg Mengelt presents a different College Basketball List. This week, Greg takes a look at the top candidates for Coach of the Year:

In back-to-back late November wins over two-time national runner-up Butler and on the road at North Carolina State, Indiana showed that – unlike the last three years – it is no longer going to be a pushover.

Overall Rank: #109

Conference Rank: #10 Big Ten

We all know by now how Indiana was ravaged in the off-season due to NBA departures (Gordon), graduation (White), and the mess left by Captain Crooked (Sampson).  Thus everyone expected Indiana to struggle.. but the Hoosiers might actually be even worse than originally thought. They’re not just bad, they’re on the verge of being all-time, Oregon State, NJIT, Savannah State, Washington Generals, bad..

Today's BIG PICTURE