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That’s with a healthy team. JHS not playing this game is….brutal.

I get the whole mantra of “next man up.” But he’s a huge piece to our season. The more time he’s out the more impactful it will be. Make no mistake, this is a big loss for us. Is this something we’re going to have to be worried about every game?

Any word on JHS status for tomorrow?

Will be interesting to see the fan ratio. Obviously Arizona is close to Vegas.

I don’t like losing, but I think this loss will be good for us in the long run and it may have been needed. We will learn from this game. A couple points/questions that I want to make especially regarding the shooting and stretch 4 position especially since Rutgers and others have been packing the paint. 1) Does CMW shorten the leash on Geronimo and Race taking 3’s? Combined this season they are 4/27 or slightly under 15% from behind the arc. There’s no way to sugar coat it…that’s terrible. Our opponents are playing percentages and these two are not capable shooters. Each time they shoot it’s like a turnover. There are reasons Race and Geronimo are left wide open. For example, Travis Steele yelled to his players during the Miami game regarding Geronimo “He can’t shoot!” He’s not wrong and percentages and years worth of prior shooting stats prove this. 2) As others alluded to…is it time to start Malik? 3) Although we will be smaller, Is it time to start taking minutes away from Race and Geronimo in favor of CJ Gunn? That may mean playing Kopp/Bates/Gunn together. Again, we need shooters — or at least the threat — to run offense adequately through Trayce. Simply put, a defense has to respect Gunn’s shot making ability. Each possession Race and Geronimo are behind the arc taking 3s I feel as though we might as well be playing 4 on 5 on offense. To further this point, I’m almost certain Rutgers on multiple possessions was throwing 2 additional guys at TJD. As mentioned above, I don’t think our loss is necessarily a bad thing…need to learn and I think we will.

I’m so sick of losing to Rutgers in the prior years. Just play 40 mins of focused ball and beat the living hell out of them. It’s a tough place play…but if we’re focused…we should come away with a W.

Great win! Galloway played great off the bench.

Understand. However, UNC wants to be considered a great team. We’ll see what happens. We just need to be ready.

Great teams typically don’t lose 3 games in a row. UNC wants to be a great team. We need to be prepared to take their best punch.

Yikes. Unc lost again. That’s probably going to drop them out of the top 10. Hope the team is ready Wednesday. Have to think UnC comes in with a chip on their shoulder trying to avoid 3 straight Ls.

Gonazaga looks very questionable this year. 2nd blowout this season. Still a very good win for Purdue.

Also…wouldn’t be surprised if we were ranked higher than UNC come Monday.

Houston will be #1. Also, as mentioned above. Unc probably wasn’t going to maintain their #1 ranking due to marginal play so far.

Davis definitely battling some sort of spasms/soreness. Looks uncomfortable.

Galloway out again. He’s doing warm-ups. Looks fine…nothing would suggest he’s dealing with anything major…wish he would get some run-time before UNC.

Xavier just took down Florida

Yikes. This is ugly…better get their act together.

Not a big deal…but I would consider Little Rock a low-major. Mid-major would be like a team from the A-10.

There was no room for Rob on this year’s team and so far his stats at Cincinnati aren’t eye popping. I’m always surprised when I hear people say we have the same team that we did last year. That’s not the case at all. Talent has increased substantially this year. We had 4 guys transfer out…not one of them transferred to a power 5 school. We replaced those 4 guys with a top notch recruiting class of which is already paying major dividends.

Pretty meaningless this early but Lunardi does have us a 2 seed in his latest Bracketology and as the automatic qualifier out of the Big Ten.

Seems like some of these ranked vs ranked matchups on a neutral court are getting more attention.

They looked like a tourney team yesterday. Though it’s early, the big ten conference has impressed so far.

I do think we win…and by a lot. But there’s always that 1-2 percent chance we don’t. Rather play the game first and not overlook them. Not saying it will happen…but I could see it being a closer game than expected in the first half due to a “letdown” after the Xavier game. Old IU teams would allow that after a nice win…I’m hopeful that won’t happen here. I think this team is different.

Lets beat Miami first.

Should be a quad 1 win. TJD and X played great. Malik did as well. Tamar and Geronimo aren't there yet.