Hoosier987

That was a solid win. I think Minnesota is better than originally thought. Now, we must find a way to win on the road. We’ll find out this week with 2 winnable road games.

Here's the thing, we could very well win against OSU at home, I almost expect it. The problem with this program and specific group of players is consistency. Time and time again this program wins a game against a good team at home, only to lose to a lesser team away. When is the last time we actually put together a winning streak in conference? Somebody please help me out. I'll be cautiously optimistic once we stop having the constant let downs and show improvement, until then -- even if we do beat OSU -- I'm expecting more of the same...disappointment.

It may be 1 game but it’s the continuation of the same problems. Quite frankly it’s embarrassing that the broadcast kept pointing out we hadn’t won a road game in almost a full calendar year - and I will further add that this road drought is with many of the same players. If we can’t win on the road against maybe the worst team in the BIG ten where probably no more than 500 fans were present then we’re in trouble. Where does our next road win come? I said it before in this thread and I’ll say it again…we’re soft.

Yes….and it’s ok to come out and say it. We’re definitely soft. Izzo’s practices are brutal after they lose…this is definitely a big reason why why their program throughout the past 2 decades hasn’t lost much.

Agreed.

He has to develop a jump shot.

Fork in road came for the program back in ‘08. Only five years removed from a National Championship appearance there was still recent memory of the once great program we were…but “Oh NO! the phone calls… how awful.” What makes it worse is phone calls is legal now and seeing how other programs stuck by their winning coaches for FAR WORSE transgressions makes it even harder to watch. We stick by ours we probably have a couple FF and a title under our belt instead of going through this “endless pit of misery” that IuBB has become. I still like our coaching staff but man this loss and the past 20 years has me thinking deja vu.

You simply CANNOT lose to PSU. A complete disaster. Team looked awful. Where do we go from here? This looks like a 9-11 team and another year without making the tournament. We are quickly becoming Nebraska football. Just pitiful.

What we witnessed in the first half in no way resembles a tournament team. Hopefully some serious adjustments are made at half.

Yes, more often than not blowouts don’t occur for the road team in conference play, however, I think they do happen more than you’re aware…case in point, for the very early part of the season we’ve seen Michigan win at Nebraska by 35 points ( make no mistake, Nebraska has a better home court that PSU), Minnesota win at Michigan by 10 and OSU win at PSU by 12. I don’t have time to look at every BIG team, but there may be more. PSU is a perennial bad BIG team. I’m not saying a blowout will happen but it could happen, we also may lose. If we lose, make no mistake, it’s a bad loss regardless of venue. There’s no moral victory in losing at PSU. If we finally want to take that next step that we’ve failed to do in the last 20 years (minus the ‘02, ‘08, ‘13 teams) then this is a game we need to win.

I trust CMW…but I’m curious to see if he actually plays them together much. They were lost yesterday and Geronimo seems to be lost on the floor more often then not….He reminds me of Hanner.

I mentioned in the game thread that Durr and Geronimo cannot be playing together. Our 2nd unit was awful tonight. I hope someone on the first unit speaks to them about their careless play this evening. I think we need to shorten our bench to 8-9 players.

Great 1st half, bad second half. Should not being giving up 47 2nd half points.

Please DO NOT have Durr and Geronimo in there at the same time.

You bring up a very good point. This is the type of recruit who would go to UK/Duke/NC in season’s past. I think times are changing for our favor.

Heard the news he is visiting. This would be gigantic get for the program.

Western Michigan is truly an awful team. They are one of the worst teams in all of division 1. I would expect ND to look good against them. Now, ND vs Kentucky is a different story.

Frank Martin on this issue. Many coaches agree with CFM.

This is a good listen.

It was a good win. I was worried at at the beginning of the game but we made the adjustments. I think we have a favorable schedule coming up. I’m cautiously optimistic we can string some wins together.

Woodson has to stop sitting our best players for these long stretches. It kills us. This is what happened with wisconsin

Let me preface by saying that I really like our staff. I just don’t necessarily agree with this statement and I don’t think our players or coaches would agree either. They would’ve told you we should’ve won this game. Regarding other teams In similar situations…Iowa state has a new staff and have beaten quality opponents with players who have never won before, same with Cincinnati and Arizona. Hell…even Minnesota has. We were up by 22 points….this game shouldn’t have been lost. I hope we learn from this. Also, keep in mind…regardless of their ranking, this is one of the least quality Wisconsin teams we’ve seen in a long time. We were picked by virtually every preseason prediction with our “new staff and players that have never won before” to be better than Wisconsin. I hope that is the case at the end of the year.

In all fairness, this has been a learning process for the better part of 2 decades with the bball program.

We’re not very good.

There’s no way to sugar coat it. That was a BRUTAL loss.