Sunday’s game against Marquette could have gotten away from Indiana quickly.

It was a Hoosiers team with 15 new players, taking the court in a regular-season game for just the second time together, facing a Golden Eagles team with zero transfers that has been built for years under coach Shaka Smart on creating havoc on defense and using turnovers to create offense.

It’s the type of a game that exposes a brand-new roster’s lack of familiarity and chemistry at this early juncture, right?

Not for these Hoosiers.

Indiana flipped that potential narrative on its head at the United Center, rolling to a 100-77 victory to improve to 2-0 and playing throughout like a team that has bent the learning curve, supposedly so steep for transfer-heavy rosters, to its will.

As the Hoosiers get set to fa

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