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And a very big one

XJ had 23 and 7 in that game. Not sure we’d get that win right now.

Purdue may be the least athletic #1 ranked team since 1919

Reminds me of when Rick Carlisle was winning 50+ games per year in Dallas and there were reports he couldn’t get along with people in the office. Charles Barkley said, “who cares about the people in the office?”

He was 44-19-1 with SF, taking over an underachieving 5-10 team with some talent (sound familiar?). Specialty was building a physical offensive line and running game. I think that still works in the NFL.

Irsay needs to send a blank check to Harbaugh.

Oh, I get it. But is a GM more likely to draft a guy who opts out or a guy who suffers an ACL injury. The agents are just looking out for their interests.

It really goes back to Willis McGahee blowing out his knee in the Fiesta Bowl. I’m sure all of the agents are saying, unless you are a borderline draft pick, and you aren’t in the playoffs, there is only downside to playing.

For three days, the passengers on The Titanic had a really nice cruise.

They have no interior defense. If TJD, Race and Malik don’t score at will that will be a major failure

MI up 44-13 at the half. MD was pathetic

MI leads MD 23-4. MD shooting 1-16

Nice to see him have a good game in a big matchup. He'd been a non-factor this season.

Actually it is mostly a returning veteran team with the addition of transfer Souly Boum,

This is from an Athletic article that I posted on the National thread about KY No doubt they still walk into frenzied road atmospheres — evidenced at Missouri three days after Christmas — but the air of invincibility and inevitability that usually came with the sight of a Kentucky uniform is fading. “People don’t fear them,’’ one coach says. “I think they play hard for the most part. I do. But I also think Cal is trying to figure it out himself. Can he? Absolutely. Will he? That’s a different question.’’

Not unexpected. From 1997 to 2019, the state tournament total attendance is down 57% from 786k to 339k

Just a brutal, but accurate takedown of Cal. Now Big Blue Nation is near searching for pitchforks, and the ire is directed at Calipari. The man once considered the savant of college basketball — the coach who figured out how to work the one-and-done system — now tracks more towards the Jimbo Fisher of the sport. Does less with more. To wit, in his tenure, Calipari has recruited 63 top 50 players, coached 14 All-Americans, 10 SEC Rookies of the Year, six SEC Players of the Years and produced 45 NBA Draft picks, 22 who turned out to be lottery players. Yet he has one national championship to show for it. https://theathletic.com/4044709/2022/12/30/kentucky-john-calipari-college-basketball/

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No.1 - IU's 1981 title - I was on campus for that. Will never forget that. No. 2 - probably BNL's title with Damon Bailey in 1990 in front of 41,000 fans. It was both the peak and the beginning of the end of the mystique of IN HS basketball No. 3 - Any of the Pacers' ABA titles. I was a huge fan as a kid. They were so entertaining to watch and were the dynasty team of the ABA.

I get your thinking from a fan perspective, but probably isn't relevant prior to last season. That is the type of thing that is really reflective of preparation by the coaching staff. What Crean or Archie did doesn't really matter. Even among the players, most of the rotation, other than Race and Trayce really haven't been here more than two seasons. Last year the team had a holiday layoff from 12-22 until a game at Penn St on Jan. 2nd, a 61-58 loss. This season, there was a week prior to Xavier and Kansas.

Really Jace, you thought you could win a home game against a 4-8 team that was NET #292? Team captain Jace Howard spoke to the media after the game, saying the Wolverines beat themselves in this one. “This one is definitely the toughest, because we definitely thought we could have beat this team,” Howard said. “Obviously we shot ourselves in the foot a lot, I think, throughout the game and it’s been a trend now. Especially these home games, I feel like we’ve been shooting ourselves in the foot and we’ve been able to sneak out of them. Let’s call it what it is: we’re down in the last five minutes of each one I’m pretty sure, and now it bit us in the butt. There’s nowhere to go from here, it’s the lowest you can get.” “They came out in a zone and we weren’t expected much of a zone, but I still feel like we executed well aside from those two or three possessions we had down the stretch,” Howard said. “It’s defense, it’s rebounding, it’s the little that you think is simple. But when it gets down to it, it’s obviously something that we’re really bad at right now.” “Rebounding is simple — it’s technique, but it’s also wanting it more,” Howard said. “I feel like we’re not doing that, obviously, we’re doing it really badly. This is basketball. A lot of other sports, talent can separate the two (teams) but anybody can win on any game day, and today shows that. “They played better than us, they played harder, they out-rebounded us, they played better defensively, and they were a more connected team.”

That’s part of it, but to run motion a coach has to give up control and trust players to make the right decisions

Don’t disagree, but with the transfer portal and early exits, coaches don’t take the time to teach it.

B1G is really down this year