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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- OG Anunoby spent most of Wednesday night helping Indiana restore its national image.He wound up needing two staff members to assist him into the locker room with a bad ankle.Anunoby scored 16 points and grabbed five rebounds and James Blackmon Jr. added 14 points to help No. 13 Indiana shock No. 3 North Carolina 76-67 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.Now the questions are all about Anunoby.Hes getting evaluated in there. He couldnt have gone back in there, but it was high, coach Tom Crean said. His spirit is good so well see how that turns out.Clearly, the Hoosiers (5-1) are a different team when Anunoby plays well.When he missed most of last weeks game at little-known IPFW , Indiana was stunned. Since returning, the Hoosiers have won two games.And he was terrific Wednesday, going 6 of 8 from the field with two blocks, two steals and an outstanding defensive performance before landing awkwardly after a dunk with 1:36 to go. Anunoby, Blackmon and Robert Johnson combined for 41 points, 20 rebounds and seven assists.The way he played tonight is the way we expect him (Anunoby) to play on a consistent basis, Johnson said. The way he came out determined to get on the glass, that really got him going.The difference was that the Hoosiers moved the ball, sped up the pace, got the Tar Heels (7-1) uncomfortable and into early foul trouble. North Carolina never recovered.After trailing for a total of 16 seconds during its four-game trip to Hawaii, the Tar Heels never led and spent most of the game trailing by double digits. Justin Jackson scored 21 points and Kennedy Meeks finished with 10 points and eight rebounds on a night North Carolina had a season-low point total.One team really played right from the get-go and the other team did not, and that was us, coach Roy Williams said. We werent ready for the intensity, the enthusiasm, anything that you want to talk about in the first half.Indiana jumped to a 17-7 lead, extended the margin to 28-11 and never allowed the Tar Heels to get closer than 61-57 with 4:52 to play.BIG PICTURENorth Carolina: The curse of No. 3 continues. With Kansas losing on opening night, Indiana losing last week and now the Tar Heels falling, three of the four teams ranked No. 3 this season have lost in their first appearance in that spot.Indiana: Crean promised to fix the flaws from last weeks loss. He did, and the Hoosiers delivered one of the most notable wins of his Indiana tenure. Now the Hoosiers must prove they can keep playing this way over the long haul.FAMILIAR FACESThe magnitude of two of college basketballs blue blood programs brought out some familiar faces Wednesday. Indianas 1981 national championship team celebrated the 35th anniversary of the title they won by beating the Tar Heels on the night President Reagan was shot.Among the returnees were former NBA head coaches Isaiah Thomas, who called on former coach Bob Knight to come home, and Randy Wittman. The 1980-81 Big Ten player of the year Roy Tolbert also attended. Knight did not.Indiana alum James Cornelison, who sings the national anthem before Chicago Blackhawks games, returned to his alma mater and sang the national anthem. And Chicago Cubs outfielder Kyle Schwarber also visited his alma mater and was named Indianas honorary captain for the game.FORGETTABLE MILESTONEWilliams might have preferred the milestone of his 1,000th career game as a college head coach happened under different circumstances.Indiana won its fifth straight home game against a top three team and Indiana tied Duke for the most wins in the nation against the top three teams (six) since 2011-12.Williams, meanwhile, became the 10th active college coach to reach the 1,000-game mark. He is 671-165 in regular-season games, 70-24 in NCAA Tournament games and 4-1 in the NIT. North Carolina shot just 39.3 percent from the field was 13 of 22 from the free throw line.UP NEXTNorth Carolina: The Tar Heels host Radford on Sunday. After three straight games against Power-5 conference teams, the Tar Heels will try to rebound against a Big South foe.Indiana: The Hoosiers host SIU-Edwardsville on Friday. With two top-five wins on the resume, the Hoosiers begin a stretch of three straight games against lower level opponents.---More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25.Adidas NMD Schweiz . If ever they start actually putting pictures beside words in the dictionary, the Blue Jays left-handers mug will appear beside “Consistency. Adidas NMD Schweiz Discount . A big centre with all the tools to be an elite player, Johansen paced the Blue Jackets with a standout game Saturday night. He had a goal and two assists for a career-high three points as Columbus beat the New York Islanders 5-2 to snap a five-game losing streak. http://www.schweiznmd.ch/ .875,000, avoiding arbitration. Clippards deal Monday means all eight Nationals players who filed for arbitration wound up settling before a hearing. Adidas NMD Schweiz Shop . Nathan MacKinnon, Jamie McGinn and Jan Hejda also scored for the Avalanche, who won despite being outshot 38-23. MacKinnons goal, also on the power play, came with just over a minute remaining. Adidas NMD Schweiz Kaufen Online . Kozun faked to the forehand and beat Monsters starter, Calvin Pickard, pad side in the second round for the winner. Spencer Abbott also scored in the shootout for the Marlies (25-13-4).At our first editorial meeting to discuss ideas for Indias 500th Test, inevitably the thought strayed to the future and temporarily the mood turned sombre. It had taken just over eight decades for India to reach 500, but how many more to the 1,000th? Will there be a 1,000th?But it was apparent in a moment how absurd and incongruous that thought was. It was an occasion not for foreboding, but for gratitude. For as long as it has existed, Test cricket has been a reminder that higher and lasting pleasure can be derived from engagement and absorption, from anticipation and waiting, and from enjoying the journey as much as the destination.And it is more relevant and resonant than ever before in a world that is prone to living in moments. Few other sports are as sharply defined by singular moments as cricket, but its the sum of those moments that makes Test cricket the grandest, the deepest and the most profound of sporting experiences. Once you make the connection, it usually lasts for life.Mine started nearly four decades ago, with a small transistor radio clutched to my ear in the early winter mornings. India were playing the Bobby Simpson-led, Kerry Packer-depleted Australia, and the series, swinging one way and the other, ended in an epic six-day Test, with India falling short of a 493-run target by only 47 runs to concede the series 3-2.I was yet to hold a bat, and beyond the short Films Division news reels that played in movie theatres, I had seen no other cricket. I read up a short book by Vijay Merchant on the basics of the game, and it might have been an aunt who filled me up with some background, but the rest the mind imagined. I can swear I had a fairly graphic image of Sunil Gavaskars forward-defensive shot even before I watched him play.The colour of the game has changed immeasurably in the last four decades. The World Cup arrived in the 80s; Sachin Tendulkar ruled the heart in the 90s when India only won at home; the Test team truly arrived in the first decade of the new century; and in the last 10 years, the IPL has rewritten the rules of the game, both of how it is played and watched. But even more significantly, from the transistor radio in the 70s, Indians have at their command home-entertainment options that are no longer limited to even to the 1,700-odd television channels available.For Test cricket, this challenge also brings an opportunity. There is no doubt that the base has shrunk and will shrink further. But a niche is not necessarily an obscure corner. It can be distinct, high-profile and aspirational. It can be clutter-breaking, the rarer pleasure requiring fans to spend the commodity considered thee most scarce: time.dddddddddddd The faithful will be rewarded, and they will enlist more. In many ways, it is already a miracle that a sport lasting 40 hours a game has lasted 140 years. It will endure.It is perhaps no more than a coincidence, but what can be a bigger celebration of Indias 500th Test than the fact that it marks the beginning of Indias biggest home Test season in memory. Fault them for whatever else, BCCI officials, current and those just out of office, have shown a remarkable commitment to Test cricket. Thirteen is a significant number. With 103 Tests, the previous decade was Indias most prolific, and this decade, with 66 Tests already, is well on its way to match or exceed it. And if India stay the course, the 1,000th could come in double-quick time. Institutionalising a home season would be a progressive use of the BCCIs clout.It is also pertinent that Test cricket is going to smaller towns, with as many as six new Test venues being added. Players occasionally grumble about smaller venues that lack the attractions of the big cities, but arousing fan interest is a greater imperative. Test cricket needs spectators in the grounds, and it is worth taking the chance on smaller venues, which now have excellent playing facilities. It is now incumbent on the state associations to make fans feel welcome. They could start by making daily tickets easily available instead of the take-it-or-leave-it season tickets. Clean toilets and drinking water would be nice too. Love cant forever be one-sided, and it can no longer be taken for granted.?But it matters as much, if not more, that the players care. And in Virat Kohli, India have at the helm a cricketer not merely of considerable skills but with a passion to match. Kohli is a man of the times, a hero and an icon that the fans of his generation identify with. And he brings to Test cricket both the edge of his personality and the syntax of the shorter formats, in which he first earned his fame. He respects the challenges of Test cricket, but plays it on his own terms. His rage not only fuels the engine of his young team, it also fires public imagination.The 500th is a good reason for celebrating the past, and we will do so on these pages through the course of this Test. But there is much to look forward to too. The best way to celebrate this season would be to turn up at the grounds, tune in to the action on TV, or simply log on to our sites. We will be doing our bit, ball by ball. If you think Test cricket is worthy, its time to show it. ' ' '