BLOOMINGTON – Until further notice, they are a directional school. They are IU-Central or IU-Bloomington, just another satellite campus that plays basketball in a crowded state system full of them. Earlier this season the Hoosiers of IU-Central were embarrassed at home, blown out in the opener by the Indiana State University, and now they have done it again.

On Monday night IU-Central played Fort Wayne – a school once called IU-Fort Wayne, but one we might need to start calling IU-Daddy – and was blown out 92-72 by the Mastodons.

IU-Central is now 6-6 in Archie Miller’s first season as coach, not nearly as talented but every bit as befuddling as some of the teams coached by Miller’s predecessor, Tom Crean. The Hoosiers played on Monday night like they couldn’t be bothered, like Fort Wayne was somehow beneath them. They allowed Fort Wayne to shoot 51.7 percent from the floor and 56.7 percent on 3-pointers.

“They felt the pressure of our poise on offense,” is how Fort Wayne coach Jon Coffman described what his team of five-star recruits did to the overmatched little guys from Bloomington.

That pressure translated into 18 turnovers for the Hoosiers, including giving up 13 steals to a Fort Wayne team that doesn’t press.

Afterward I tried to ask Miller a question about his team’s lack of focus, saying the idea seemed like a cliché and yet I’d seen these turnovers with my own eyes and –

“They weren’t even turnovers that were forced,” Miller said. “That’s the thing that frustrates you. It’s out-letting the ball to the other team on a rebound, dribbling the ball way too much, dribbling into defense and letting them steal it off you.”

And that’s just Robert Johnson.

Look, let’s call it as we see it, OK? Johnson is a senior guard, has been getting major minutes since he arrived on campus, and he’s not any better than he was the day he got here. In this game Monday he came out fast, scoring 13 points in the first 15 minutes, but scored just four more the rest of the way. He did, however, continue to stuff the stat sheet – producing six turnovers. Well, he sort of stuffed the stat sheet. He had just one assist. And two rebounds.

Miller kept benching Johnson, but then Josh Newkirk would miss two consecutive layups or Devonte Green would pass it to the other team or be alone on a breakaway and somehow drop the ball, and Johnson would go back in the game.

They all stunk, is my point, but Johnson knows who can fix it: He can.

“It starts with the older guys,” Johnson said, and while he was ostensibly talking about the solution, I was hearing him identify the problem. The Hoosiers have no senior leadership at all, starting two senior guards only because they have no other options. The cupboard isn’t exactly bare after three underclassmen left for the NBA Draft, but it’s not an IU cupboard. It’s a directional school cupboard.

And the coach isn’t helping, either.

Look, nobody was higher on Archie Miller when he was hired than I was – seriously – and I still believe he can be the guy to get this program where it wants to go. But again, let’s call it as we see it. And here’s what anyone could have seen, entering this game: In a country with 351 schools playing Division I basketball, Fort Wayne was 11th in total 3-point field goal attempts (341 in 12 games) and 13th in 3-point field goals made (121).

Here’s an idea: Take away the 3s. But when the Mastodons started hitting from the outside, IU-Central didn’t have a Plan B.

Not sure IU-Bloomington had a Plan A.

Miller plays a pack-line defense that clogs the interior, but the math is clear: 3-pointers are worth more than 2-pointers. So defend the 3-point arc, you know? The Hoosiers allowed 6-11 Fort Wayne freshman Dylan Clark, who had made two 3-pointers all season, to go 4-for-5 from behind the arc. As a team, Fort Wayne went 17-for-30 on 3-pointers, and the Mastodons did it in someone else’s gym, and let’s be clear:

This is not a good road team.

Fort Wayne was 1-5 on the road before Monday, losing at places like Oakland (by 14) and Akron and Miami – the one in Ohio, not Miami – and East Tennessee State (by 10).

How good is Fort Wayne? In its last game, at home, the Mastodons won by four … against a Stetson team ranked 281st in the RPI.

So how bad is IU-Bloomington? It’s so hard to say. The Hoosiers are bad enough to have been crushed at home by Indiana State and now Fort Wayne, but good enough to have dominated Iowa on Dec. 4 and to have rallied just two days ago for its finest win of the season, 80-77 in overtime against No. 17 Notre Dame.

Clearly IU-Central is capable of playing well when it is fired up by its opponent, as it showed in losses to No. 1 Duke and Louisville, but can’t we say that of most directional schools? Look what Fort Wayne did Monday night. And remember that Fort Wayne did the same thing a year ago, beating the Hoosiers 71-68 in overtime at home, though “home” is a misnomer. That was an IU crowd that watched IU’s satellite campus in Bloomington go into Fort Wayne last season and lose.

That was the worst loss of the season for Tom Crean.

So what does that make this one for Archie Miller? To his credit, after savaging his team’s “selfishness” and “ineptness,” he savaged himself as well.

“You can tell we weren’t in sync, we weren’t very organized,” Miller said. “Put that on me. Clearly I didn’t have their attention.”

On the bright side, IU won’t have to see one of the Scott brothers again. Together they are 6-0 against IU-Central, with Bryson Scott going 3-0 against the Hoosiers with Purdue and then 2-0 after transferring to IU-Daddy. And Brenton Scott had 24 points on Nov. 10 to lift the Indiana State University past its satellite campus in Bloomington, a bunch of guys I’m calling the Whosiers.

Find IndyStar columnist Gregg Doyel on Twitter: @GreggDoyelStar or at facebook.com/gregg.doyel.