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This what really makes it hard to watch: the first half officiating really wasn’t bad at all, but it’s been absolute bs this half

That key “screen” was the most egregious missed call in a half full of swallowed whistles

Am I missing something with the Ohio State love fest on this Fox broadcast? I don’t get it

They’ve made three more than we’ve TAKEN

They gotta know who their viewer base is by sport. Football - feature OSU every day, but not basketball. I guarantee the basketball viewership for this game is at least, AT LEAST 2:1 in favor of IU.

I’m not saying he’s wrong in this instance, but you couldn’t pay me to give two seconds of my time to listen to anything he says. Guy has had an axe to grind since Archie got fired.

Horns Down! Rooting for Penix

Big Ten is 5-4. I think SEC is the same.

Notre Dame lost at home to The Citadel 65-45 on Tuesday. So…at least we won our game.

I've been watching solely through the respective apps for years. You don't have to watch the end of some blowout eating into 5 minutes of the first half. ESPN, Fox Sports, Peacock apps and you're pretty much set. You can sign into all of them (except for Peacock) with your cable subscription account info (or a family member's lol).

Yeah, they've been really bad about playing to perceived level of competition. It's ridiculous that they can get up on Kansas by double digits for nearly the whole game, but also get down double digits to Morehead State for most of the game.

My point I guess is that even though they removed the formal scoring margin factor, there’s even more incentive to beat the other team by as much as possible, because in this current iteration of the metric that seems to correlate to the biggest boost in net rankings. Hence, schedule a bunch of cupcakes and beat them by 30, and you’re sitting pretty. I’m not necessarily saying IU is a lot better than their net (they are at least somewhat better, though), but there’s teams in the top 50 that have no business being there, even ~12 games into the season.

I'll say it; we shouldn't ever play MR and KW together. They are our two best players and both worthy of being starters, but we are much better defensively and offensively when only one is on the floor. Sub them in for each other and give them the same number of minutes. MR really plays like a center; having two centers in together creates floor spacing issues on offense.

The issue for me is this: Just a couple years ago, blowing out a ~300 ranked team by 40 did nothing to help you in this metric; in fact, if you weren't playing your cupcakes in the 100-200 range, it significantly hurt your sos, and at the end of the season, it hurt your NET ranking along with the perception that you purposely played a significantly easier schedule than teams that beat better mid-majors by 10. Now, we have a fair number of those better mid-majors scheduled to play that game, and it turns out we should have been scheduling the 200-300 teams this season so we could mercilessly beat them into the ground to artificially inflate our NET ranking. Even by the end of the year, whatever changes they've made to it for this season are proving to render the NET nearly meaningless.

I'd put money on it that's the plan for the next 3-4 years

This team lives it’s life a quarter mile at a time

It doesn’t matter whether you win by a quarter inch or a mile; winning’s winning. Or something like that lol

We will be lucky not to lose by double digits at this rate

He did…..on the combover and gel helmet

I'll also add that Carsen Edwards is the type of player you really need to make a deep run. Edey will likely (and deservedly) win player of the year, but guard play is what wins the tournament. I remember watching that game against UVA and thinking, "how the hell does he keep making this s**t!? He's just launching from near half court, and it just keeps going in."

I thought it was clear but can see how it wasn’t; I was only talking about the Edey era so to speak.

First, I meant never improves within the season. They just don’t. They’re always playing their best in November. Again, they’ll need to prove it in March this year. They’re the kings of November, but other teams surpass Purdue as they improve throughout the season and Purdue doesn’t.

Purdue's going to have to prove they've got it in the late season first. Over the last few seasons, they've played their best basketball in Nov-Dec, but always slide at the end of the season. Purdue never improves, and sometimes regresses in Feb-March, while other teams spend the whole season getting better.

I think we will be better; however, it’s a massive change, and CCC has a much different style. Just trying to keep expectations in check because it could take a few years before we see a really good team.

I think he’s a lot like Rondale Moore. We really underutilized him imo. There were a lot more ways we could have used him on offense. I’d love for him to come back, but his timing on entering the portal suggests he won’t.