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I did a little digging around on the website you linked and found some pretty interesting stuff. Not sure how this website calculates it’s ratings or how credible it is, but thought it was worth the share. Not surprisingly, their ratings have us as the best defensively, but we do have the 4th best net rating. Interesting to see OSU, MSU, and Wisconsin below us. Also, I know several people on here were criticizing TJD for how offense last night. Personally, I agree to some extent with those complaints. However,I don’t think he (and Race) get enough praise for their defensive work… it kinda goes unnoticed. I don’t want to make this post too long, so I’ll only add a bit more. TJD leads the conference in several defensive categories: blocks, blocks/game, block percentage, defensive rating, and defensive win shares. Who’s second in those last two categories? His running mate Race.

I agree with most of this. I wish Kopp would contribute more but I feel the same way about him as you. At this point, I think Galloway has earned the start considering Stewart’s performance and “extracurriculars”. I know Woodson seems pretty set on his starting 5, but after last night I’m hoping we see a permanent change.

Thanks. And yep that’s correct

No official news yet. They obviously won’t give details on what happened and during the post game Woodson mentioned having to make a decision on the way home about what he was going to do.

I might be the youngest person on this board. Literally the only good teams I have been old enough to watch were coached by Tom Crean. Think about that. But to assume that I “don’t understand” what IU basketball is or how important it is like what @btownqb said.. complete bogus. I appreciate the history of this program despite not being alive for 95% of the success. I guarantee there are thousands of other fans my age just as passionate as I am. But to say we don’t understand IU basketball because we’re not 35+ is ridiculous.

As if this story needed to be “spiced up” any more lol

Well part of that is because of who he is behind at his position. We don’t want 4 post players on the court at the same time. But yes you’re correct it doesn’t seem that he has developed as quickly as some of us would have liked.

That’s understandable, but I don’t that’s likely. I could be wrong, but at this point I’m not worried about that.

Never did I mention that. But losing this game does not mean our season is over or we are NIT bound as some posts have indicated.

If we lose this one can we please not overreact when we have half our rotation guys out?

Maybe a solution would be selling jerseys with names on the back and keeping the in game jersey without names on the back?

Anyone else wish we had gotten Wesley? Ever time I’ve seen him play this season he has impressed me. He’s the type of athletic guard that I think would thrive under Woodson

We didn’t really double a whole lot… but part of that was due to their ability to really space the floor with shooters. I could be wrong but it felt like a lot of their 3’s at the end of the game came from kick outs from the post when we started to get desperate and more aggressive for steals.

I’m pretty sure this has been mentioned previously, but I think it would have been hard for him to live up to expectations had he came to IU. I mean most IU fans have unrealistic hopes/expectations.. could you imagine what those expectations would have been like if a coach with Stevens’ reputation became coach? I certainly wouldn’t want to be in that position if I were him.

This will be a close game, win or lose. I’d be shocked if it were a blowout either way. Looking at their conference games, the only double digit differences have been a loss @ Purdue and a win @ Nebraska. Don’t let their record fool you, this is a decent team.

I’d like to see TJD be more of a passer/playmaker out of the post. He’s got a good drive when he faces up from the short corner/wing. But when he’s going up against the Cockburns and Edey’s of the B1G he has to realize he’s not going to be able to bully them down all the way to the block. Instead, he settles for 8ft fading/leaning hooks that are really tough shots to make. If he can’t get lower in the post I’d like to see him pass it out and look for a better shot. In fact, that may be a key in getting Stewart and Kopp more shots.

Tough game to lose… had a good time up until about the 10:00 mark lol

Honestly it probably has to do more with admitting they’re wrong and that NET isn’t any good than anything else. Knowing the NCAA, they’ll probably be too stubborn to make a change to it for the foreseeable future.

Yep, can’t really complain about them shooting as well as they did when about 3/4 of their attempts were wide open.

Personally, I think the only true rivalry we have within the conference is Purdue. I think “rivalries” need to have some sort of fan-driven aspect. Outside of Purdue, what schools would our fans not get along with? That’s how I look at it. To consider something a rivalry it has to go beyond just how good the teams are.

CMW doing his best Knight impersonation with the red sweater underneath

Yeah no doubt he is in good hands. I just hope he can recover and play a role heading into the end of the season

I specifically remember CMW getting a little upset about a question(s) on the schedule early on in the season and him basically saying he’s not in charge of the schedule and he just plays who is in front of him. That being said I’m sure he’ll have more of a say in future schedules now that he is here and established.

I somehow missed the entire first page… thanks for keeping me in line guys lol