ButlerHoosier

It's not that hard yet! If Sawatchhoosier keeps getting spanked though....following now? Haha. In other news anything else on who else we might be after or are we putting our eggs in the baskets of who we have been talking about already?

Isle over from sh*ts given! Haha.

Seriously how does Michigan just keep pulling stuff out of their butts? O well for me that is fine. It is enough to keep Howard around which is fine with me.

Look what the cat dragged in. Nice to see you!

Yalls the whole point of foreplay is to at some point allow us all a release! This whole teasing thing is about to become too much! Haha.

There's two players that might be interesting under the radar guys Jamarion Sharp a 7'3" center and Dalton Knecht a 6'6" SF.

I was thinking this as well. Like does it only happen after they are there or can they offer it in the perks speech of coming to IU with incentives to earn more?

Looks like Timberlake has picks for going to North Carolina.

Caleb Love from UNC is in the portal!

Let me get my magnifying glass out! Haha. 🙂

Are there any rumors of any of our guys going into the portal?

Ouch! Thank you for that! I looked on 24/7 sports and he is rated one of the best in the portal. Just really wondering what they see.

Someone that just popped up on the portal is Taran Armstrong. He seems like a possible good get. 6-5 PG.

I really hope that he goes on to have an absolute stellar career in the NBA. His talents here were just absolutely special and such a privilege to see!

Just putting that question up to get discussion going vs railing about our less than stellar game against Miami.

This team was absolutely Jekyll and Hyde this year. Woody did the best he could. You saw when our team was firing on all cylinders we were one of the best teams but that happened once or twice. Then it's like we went brain neutral and lost all focus. Just no killers. This is a culture thing Woody I think is trying to establish. Just sucks we are losing our All American and first round guard. Also we had major untimely injuries that derailed our progress and season. Well time to see what we are going to get from the portal and see how Woody handles the off-season.

So...disappointing season?

Wow there we go. It seems like bad IU has shown up so far.

Supposedly they are trying to get investors to contribute enough money through the NIL to make him stay another year. It would be hilarious if we could offer him alot more NIL and get him to come here. Haha.

If I had my picks Fardaws Aimaq or Eddie Lampkin would be one. I think a pickup of Josh Cohen would be cool. That would give us immediate size up front. Jameer Nelson Jr while small can fill it up and I think can translate to this level. Now if only we could figure out an athletic forward.

If we play up to our potential so that's meaning TJD in All American mode JHS not playing hero ball Race going back to ultimate glue guy before the concussion and knee injury Kopp actually being able and willing to shoot conrested yet shoot able 3s Galloway shooting threes and our bench actually showing up like Geronimo Reneu Bates playing to his actual potential and us playing hard smart d like we have especially against Purdue then I can see and expect Final Four and would be pleasantly surprised with a national title. If we played like we just are trying to barely squeak by or in survival mode like it seems we have been, get down early to make a valiant comeback late and hope to win, I can see us being bounced against Kent State. So my expectations range from both. I honestly think though this has been a good season not great season because Woodson is actually setting up a winning culture again. He has taken us to the tournament in both years. We have to remember the culture we came from and the roster we came from. Erasing all of those bad habits is hard to do. Getting to the tournament 2 times in the first 2 years is a huge accomplishment in itself. Now is the time to pick up the recruiting to establish better players and create a better culture. So while I want to say banner or bust I have to temper my expectations right now. On a side note it would be neat if Purdue actually didn't choke and made it to the championship on their side of the bracket and we played up to our potential on our side and met them in the championship game. Then we could have a final sweeping of Purdue to hang banner number 6. While unlikely would absolutely be a hilarious way to ultimately put Purdue as little brother status for a very long time.

I guess the silver lining is we are getting an extra day of rest for the big tourney.

There was one announcer that was literally pointing it out every time Kopp caught the ball on the wing and didn't shoot it but drove it into traffic for a more contested harder shot.

Honestly we beat ourselves and our role players look absolutely lost on offense. Kopp Galloway Bates. Woodson seriously took Malik out and put Race in. No joke the momentum absolutely switched in favor of PSU and we could not overcome that again. Just really wish our guys could not be Jekyl and Hyde. Shrewsbury was great. Literally made like difficult on JHS and TJD by doubling. Literally forced our other guys to try and beat us. Just such a letdown. I guess we can try next year.

Glad to know they met their quota. In the second half if I was Holtman if they don't call a 3 second call I would lose it and either force them to finally call it or get ejected. Maybe that would be the push to get my guys over the line.