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Indiana tried to run up the score on Rutgers, failed, and Tom Crean was furious

Indiana, as most teams do these days, scored an easy win over Rutgers Sunday. For Tom Crean, whose Hoosiers had lost four of their previous five and started Big Ten play 1-3, it should have been a welcome reprieve from the frustration of the first two weeks of conference play.

It was not.

Because with Indiana up 76-57 and six seconds left in the game, rather than run out the clock, freshman guard Devonte Green took an outlet pass, pushed the ball up the court, and threw a lob to a streaking Freddie McSwain:

Even before the clock hit triple zeros, while Green and McSwain were oblivious to their coach’s ire and foolishly fighting for the loose ball, Crean was storming out towards the middle of the court to scream at Green.

Crean then hurried over to Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell and, still heated, seemed to apologize. Fortunately, Pikiell didn’t seem too peeved about it.

Crean won’t even care that Green and McSwain didn’t connect on the alley-oop, but that makes the play all the more embarrassing for the little-used reserves.

(BTN Broadcast)