Leaderboard

Ledlum and Timberlake. May hear some things over the next 36 hours on some movement and tracking of those two. Indiana is targeting a post player. One they like is in the portal. One has not yet entered. Other off-ball targets. Two haven't entered portal yet. I'm positive one will. Unsure on the other. PG- IU not looking at any in portal. Not sure Indiana will get serious about Battle. There's a number of people who think there are a host of concerns over him. Personally, I don't think he's good enough. A few others feel the same. Some like him a lot. Dual- Athletically he works. Defensively he works. But some other stuff to navigate in regards to personality, fit, etc.

All-timer. Just a special talent who gave it his all for 4 years and stayed through some rough times. Not to mention a class act and phenomenal representative for the university. 3rd in points, 1st in rebounds, 1st in blocks in program history. Legend.

Galloway becoming a 3 pt threat is so huge. He is so valuable to this team. Dude is just a winner. Always giving it everything he has.

Wife gonna get an extra minute tonight. Hell yeah!

Isiah Thomas still lost 17 games in his two seasons. Isiah Thomas never won at Mackey. Isiah Thomas lost to Texas-Pan American. Isiah Thomas started out both seasons ranked in the top five, then fell out of the polls entirely. They climbed back, but were only ranked in the mid-teens heading into the tournament. "Inconsistent" gets overused in college basketball. Only a small handful of teams in any season could be said to be consistent, and those are your top seeds. The last Indiana team that could be said to be consistent was maybe the '12-13 team, and people still love to tell you about every loss that team took along the way. Before that you probably have to go back to '92-93 to find a consistent Indiana team. It just doesn't happen often in this sport, and when it does it's special. Every season has its ups and downs, but those get lost to history. I don't remember Maui when I think of the '15-16 season, I think of Yogi's step back three at Iowa to secure a Big Ten championship. I think of Tom Crean shooting finger guns at John Calipari in the NCAA Tournament. We remember Zeke for winning a championship (and for his NBA career), and we forget all the missteps that happened along the way. We're a projected 4 seed this year. In the 30 years since Calbert Cheaney, only that '12-13 team had a higher seed. Only two other teams even matched this one on the 4-line. The '11-12 team was one, and is remembered fondly for their performances against Kentucky, but we forget some of the mind boggling losses in the middle of that season. This is what a 4 seed looks like: big wins and frustrating losses. I'd love to be a 1 seed and have aspirations at a national championship. Of course, the last time we played for a title it was as a five seed. So let's enjoy the season for what it is, and not make the perfect the enemy of the good. Still two tournaments left to go, that will define how we think about the season for years to come.

Jalen Hood-Schifino appreciation post. Thank you for choosing Indiana.

Thank you Hoosiers for giving us this tonight, I needed a win tonight... and... Thank you Hoosier Sports Nation for supporting me this week. much needed and appreciated

I watched all the post game comments this morning... But I thought the most interesting one was Matt Painter... About the halfway mark, he's asked about the rivalry. He said something to the effect that he's had opportunities to leave, but if he did, he'd never get to experience walking into Assembly Hall as the coach of Purdue, and as an Indiana kid, that was important to him... Very honest all the way through... I might despise the Boilermakers, but Painter is a great coach and a class act...

This program was DEAD 2 seasons ago. 2 seasons in to this team/staff we are a top 15 team, swept Purdue swept Michigan, swept Illinois, finished 2nd in the conference regula season. 2 years after basically starting from scratch, and losing our senior point guard! Yeah, we had up and downs. But I think this group has proven they at least fight. Odd take my man. Not sure I am following you here.

All credit to the players but that was an absolute coaching clinic put on by Woody.

Update: He has been futurecasted to IU

Love this!

Most brilliant game plan and coaching job since Bobby Knight.

Awesome, awesome win! Great performances from JHS, Galloway and Kopp, really great effort on the defensive end from Race, and have to give TJD credit for having a really strong second half. Also, what a phenomenally coached game by Mike Woodson!

Gratz on the win

I sure wish that Jam would have worked and put Eddy on a poster!

Who's going to start the "How many days since purdue beat Indiana in basketball" thread? 😂

I know there is already a Thank You thread for TJD, but I want to point out how lucky we are as fans to have had both TJD and Grace Berger leading their teams. They are similar in so many ways. Both had plenty of options to go other places, but both CHOSE IU. They have both stated that they came to Bloomington to help turn around the basketball fortunes, and they did. They are each the first person to record a triple double for IU. More importantly they are both tremendous human beings. When the coach of your biggest rival calls you out in a postgame press conference, after a loss no less, because you reached out to him to share condolences for a lost former player, that speaks a lot to your character. When your teammates are crying during postgame interviews, not so much because they lost, but because they feel they let you down, and won’t get to play with you anymore, that says a lot about your character. As an IU alum, I am proud to have had both of these players representing my University. I don’t really need a banner to look at to know that both of those individuals are champions through and through.

I know we are all having fun laughing at Purdue, but major props to @Stlboiler23 for being here to take his lumps. Dude gets a lot of flak around here, but you can’t compare him to that other Purdue troll.

The dude had 16 points on 7-for-10 shooting, to go with 10 boards and 4 steals. He was a monster today. God forbid he's happy after winning a hard fought, OT game on Senior Night!

One thing that really bothers me. Unless I missed it, the FOX broadcast never mentioned X being out even though they showed him multiple times on the bench. If Duke's 7th guy in the rotation was out the networks would make it sound as if any Blue Devil victory was overcoming enormous odds. We've played most of our season without our starting point guard, and it's crickets on almost every broadcast.

Coach Woodson. Outcoached Painter. JHS outplayed Smith and Loyer by himself. Pro operation right now. This secures a 3/4 seed worse. Best yet. Sweep the best allegedly Purdue team in years. Thanks for coming Purdue. New Sheriff in town and his name is Coach Woodson.

We have a new Hoosier in the family... Clementine watched the women's victory last night and is ready for ours tonight... The Dawg House is back baby!!!!

Top of the world ma. VBG!!! Smellermakers suck!!! Pee yew can’t hold our jock straps! VBG!!!!

I get frustrated when people try to tie a legacy to team success. Basketball is not an individual sport like tennis or golf. It takes, at a minimum, 6 or 7 guys to help a team win a championship. TJD was a better player than most Hoosiers that were fortunate enough to win one. And, he represented the candy stripes just as well as a person as he did has a player. One of my all-time favorites, and I've been a fan for over 50 years.

Suck it Bilas!

Congratulations to a great player and a great kid...Thank you, Trayce!

Rare photo of Fletcher Loyer with Rudolph...

Kudos to Race. Battling fouls and Edey, he played with a lot of effort. No idea how he knocked that rebound out of Edeys hands with a minute or two to go.

Galloway played his best game as a Hoosier. Let’s make a run while we have Trayce and JHS!

I hope Trayce has a terrific pro career, then returns to IU in some capacity. He's smart, articulate, and a great ambassador to the school. This is one of my favorite pictures. TJD had just dropped 25 points to help defeat then #1 Purdue on national TV. Fans storm the court. Amid all the noise and cheers and celebration, Trayce immediately seeks out top recruit 6'10" Flory Bidunga and shakes hands. Gabe Cupps standing right next to Flory, as usual, also recruiting. Trayce did not have to do this. But he did. In this moment of victory, he thought of someone other than himself. Just amazing.

This was an effort loss. That makes it disappointing.

Congrats to First-Round Fran!

I think about 8:32 CST my wife texted my 3 girls and said, "if there's anything you want, ask him now because they just beat Purdue." 🙂

Between IU men’s and women’s teams 4-0 v PU😂😂😂

Most satisfying IU win in a long time!

No one cares

IU has been having some back channel discussions with guys. There will be more name’s entering the portal.

I'm just going to preemptively say that we're all frustrated, very frustrated. But let's keep thss thread clean and help us mods out tonight...please 🤣

The only Big Ten team I root for is IU. I hope the rest of them lose. We compete with them for the conference and recruits, I have no interest in seeing them advance in the tournament. I dont really have that much interest in the conference prestige thing either. Kansas dominating a underperforming Big 12 for like 15 years didn't impact what the rest of the country thought of them. I also don't care about the "Big Ten hasn't won a title in X years thing." Really only cares about IU's streak.

When Bates hit that 3 to put us up by double digits the first time I was thrilled and extremely happy for the dude but honestly I was more happy with the defense he played.

I’d like to have a revote for POY. No way does Edey influence a game in as many ways as TJD.

Yeah, I mean, I've had my own moments of "WTF is going on with this team?" One was yesterday when I thought I was going to sit back and watch a nice easy W, and next thing I know we're down double digits. But, hey, that's a far cry from the double digit minutes of time when we wouldn't score a FG with the former coach, or getting run out of the gym by a team whose school name has more letters than Coach K has in his name. Let's remember that this team was once 1-4 and could have easily packed it in, that this is Woody's second year, and another year of checking off some important benchmarks - not sweating out a tourney bid is a nice change, ending more losing streaks, sweeping Purdue, and winning tough, close games are all important hurdles to getting the program back to where we want it.

Don’t know what standards you are using to evaluate what makes great men, but… I just listened to the senior speeches, and to a man, first and foremost they thanked God for the opportunity to play at IU and for this coaching staff. Regardless of what they achieve on the floor, I believe that they have all been set on the path to being winners in life.

Trayce. Can’t say enough good things about this kid on senior night. An absolute all timer. Race played great D in OT and Miller hit a big jumper. Nice to see the seniors go out with a win. But a precocious freshman hit a monster three late in regulation. We absolutely needed that.

I never understood how people could question CMW's coaching ability. He has coached at the highest level and he played at IU for a legendary coach. Not many people have the background he has. That said, I have seen him grow so much from last year to this one. I believe we are in good hands going forward.

Galloway missed jam will now forever retire Oladipos now. It didn’t go down but that mind set was what won the game for us tonight.