In college basketball, royalty seldom vacates the throne for very long. Year after year, the same familiar names tend to hold a vise grip on the top spots in the national rankings.

Which makes it so hard to believe that Indiana, one of the marquee programs in the sport, has not appeared in the AP top 25 poll since March 10, 2008—a dry spell of 1,372 days, the longest in school history. That streak will almost certainly end Monday, with the 9-0 Hoosiers coming off a stunning, buzzer-beating victory over No. 1 Kentucky on Saturday....