Hoosierdave

Sadly even simpler: 1) what do you think your teams’ identity is? 2) what do you think your team is good at? What do you think they are bad at? 4) How do you plan to turn the season around and keep fans optimistic about next season? 5) Do you think you’ve done a good job coaching this team?

I’ve been half watching the last 10 minutes but did we really wait until 2 minutes left in the game down by double digits to apply a press?!

The only silver lining in this game is that it’s one step closer to not having to see Purdue or Illinois win the conference

Idk if anyone else saw but with like 15 minutes left in the second half, the camera cut to Ware and 3 other guys on the bench were giggling about something. Not sure what’s so amusing about getting your ass kicked…

Elbow a kid in the face and then tackle the ball handler after the free throws LOL

You know it’s bad when a guy from our rival school is upset with how we’ve performed this year.

Nice run only to follow it up with doubling the ball to give open a wide open 3, take a bad contested 3, and 3 consecutive fouls.

Has it ever been pretty this season lol?

It’s clear we need to upgrade guard play but wtf is our staff gonna do in terms of film to entice them to come here?!

Literally 7 seconds left, X picks up his third foul. Wisco goes to the line. Then go down the court and don’t even get a shot up. Pretty much sums up the season.

X with an Oscar worthy flop there lmao

Because evidently they’re too busy bricking long 2s lmao

Wisconsin player firmly planted on the ground with the ball on the floor *Our player defending

Between our fans and literally every single commentator I listen to call our games seeing it, idk why our players and staff don’t see the pure insanity in it.

Watched not one but two guys jump in the air just to get embrassed with a shot fake. Good stuff boys

I can’t wait for the post game presser and hear Woody say he doesn’t need to explain himself to anyone.

I’ll just say it, I don’t see how Queen fits in with either Maryland or IU. Both teams returning Power Forwards score most of their points in the paint and will clog the lane for him (Reneau, Reese). From highlight videos, Queen doesn’t seem like an immediate stretch 5. Both teams will need to drastically improve their guard play as their freshman and bench aren’t producing at all. Would need to wait until the summer to have more clarity if either team upgraded. If he wasn’t a 5 star, from Montverde, and close friends with Liam, I probably wouldn’t want our staff to land him. He’s a great player but I would rather move Reneau to the 5 and have Mac come back and play the 4. My opinion would change if I knew for a fact Queen would be willing to split time with Reneau at the 5 spot.

If Wisco didn’t lose last game I think we’d have a chance. My gut says IU comes out and plays hard early, but only shows “quality basketball” for like 10-20 of the 40 minutes. Purdue showed last game how easy it is to beat us- double either Ware or Reneau and force our guards to beat them. Gallo only plays well at home and X has been bi-polar this year. We either take bad shots or are incapable of making easy ones. Only way I see us winning is if we win the rebound, foul, and turnover battle and Wisco has an off shooting night.

Totally agree. If we hire a proven coach and he fails then we’re just cursed and should leave the Big Ten lol. Archie and Woody were high risk/high reward scenarios. Give me low risk/high reward. I think we can hire a proven coach because the SEC and Big Ten are deep moving forward and with the transfer portal and our NIL $, a good coach can come in and turn it around quickly. I made a list of coaches I thought IU could go after post Kansas game because I’m a masochist lol. I’ve said before I don’t think you can get rid of Woody this year because he did some impressive things last year and I don’t think letting him go after 3 years will help land who we would want with that short of a leash. But if I were Dolson, I’m making a list, getting a feeler out there with alums about how they feel about Woody currently and trying to gain a sense of who people would be into as a replacement so when the time comes, everyone is on the same page.

These were pregame replies, btw. Just thought I would drop them in because I laughed at how badly our coach does not practice what he’s preaching.

Maybe, Coach Cig hasn’t coached a single game yet haha. Didn’t some people think Archie Miller was a “home run” too? Also, not sure if it was him or Glass but they went full moron and gave Tom Allen a big raise or extension after the Covid year. I know Dolson went full moron recently by giving Woody an extra million each year. Going to continue to be the laughing stock of the (expanding) Big Ten with reckless decision making like that.

Soul searching should have happened after: UConn, Louisville, Auburn, Kansas, Morehead St, Nebraska, Rutgers.

I’m sure he would but as much as I like Dusty May, im sure plenty of us wouldn’t be excited if he didn’t have that connection to IU and Knight. IMO, we need a proven P5 coach and not another experiment/risk (ex-Archie, Woody). I think IU could land one, but Dolson being our AD gives me little to no hope he’s capable of accomplishing that. IU basketball feels on life support tbh.

Giving it until the end of the month but if this is how they play then I will for the first time ever stop sitting down to watch games. Exhausted from all the extreme highs and lows with this program. You can’t get 20 pieced at home to your rival in a do or die game. It’s one thing to lose, it’s another thing to watch a lifeless JV team get DOMINATED regularly against any decent team. i can’t think of another school that has more fandom, resources, NIL $ at their disposal and puts out such a shit product. We objectively deserve better.