HoosierDom

There big man looks slow footed and not exactly Cockburn strong - I think TJD is going to have a field day.

As much as we shouldn't be playing Tuesday, we outclass Wyoming and St Mary's. Put them in the BIG and they won't make the NIT. I'm not sure I'm too scared of UCLA either. They're not a bad team, but if MSU closes them out in last year's play-in game, and MSU had them beat, then the level of respect they have been getting all year never materializes and they aren't seeded where they are now. If I get too optimistic, I'm sure Wyoming will hit 17 3's and we will air-ball free throws, but I'm pretty optimistic.

OSU, UM, MSU all have slightly favorable seedings. Hopefully that's a good trend for us.

Nothing more obvious than Michigan State being lined up with Duke.

I agree. Trevion Williams, and Eddy to a lesser extent, love to just slam into their defenders, I think they are going to find that won't fly starting next week.

Is it ESPN or CBS that gets the bracket first?

It's a little better than that seems, too. While the matrix was updated this morning, the individual components that make up the matrix weren't all updated this morning, so a lot of those have not priced in the Illinois win. Those that were updated today have a noticeably better seed for us. 11 still sounds right, but a comfortable 11.

Looks like an 11 seed, I would consider us a favorite against anyone being listed as a 6 and I'm not scared of any of the 3 seeds. A blessing in disguise that we're not likely to move up to a 10 or a 9.

Didn't we learn our lesson the first time we played them? Race should not be a main press breaker.

Geronimo is up on his feet cheering, so seems it isn't too bad.

Letting big men go at each other is pretty standard and has gone both ways - the push Kofi got away with was pretty egregious, though. The lack of calls on Curbello is not the way games are usually called and we are not getting away with the same garbage... as I am typing this they call a ticky-tack foul on Rob that they would not call on them.

It was a good no-call. He got the ball before some after the fact incidental contact.

You're allowed to take 5 steps when the ball is behind your back?

Somebody explain to me how the conventional wisdom still seems to be Michigan is in while we are right on the bubble? They are now one game ahead of us in conference, but have absolutely zero quality out of conference wins and some pretty questionable loses.

How does TJD not have enough awareness to just throw the ball off the guys foot?

TJD just has no touch. I guess it's not his fault, I don't know if you can learn it, he just doesn't have it.

If we just take the last 12 games (an admittedly arbitrary period of time specifically chosen because it supports my point) he is shooting 40% on 25 attempts. That's a number opposing teams have to respect.

That's where we are now. If you get rid of our worst loss (maybe 2nd worst) and replace it with a win, that changes things significantly. If you want to say it wouldn't have been an overly impressive win, then you have to acknowledge it was a bad loss.

I think he's done after this one. He didn't actually play last year, but that still counts as his covid year. He has had 4 full years of college basketball, plus his freshman year that counted as a medical redshirt despite him playing some and plus last year he didn't play at all.

He's not a guy that can create off the dribble (or off of anything, really), and I have a hard time seeing that change by next year, but I don't think it needs to for him to be an effective starter. If he can defend and rebound, he's already a likely starter. I'm assuming we won't have both Trace and Race back, so we are going to need guys that can do those two things. Add to that his energy on the offensive glass and if he can consistently knock down an open 3, which he has shown hints of, he is a very valuable role player. With any luck we will have more guys who can create their own shot next year (X, Hood-Shfino, Bates, Galloway (sort of), maybe even Banks) so Geronimo's shortcomings will be less needed and his strengths will be more valuable.

2 wins and we're almost definitely in unless there are a lot of bid thieves. One win and we have a lot of rooting to do but a reasonable chance.

Sure, if mini-TJD plays, but what if regular TJD plays?

I haven't come across a definitive answer as to whether he is still eligible for a redshirt, but if he isn't, the issue is he isn't even getting the mop-up minutes. He's played a total of 6 minutes in conference play. If he is in line to be a regular contributor next year, it seems like you have to find a way to get him some time, somehow. When Durr was suspended, Duncomb still didn't see action. It sure seemed to me that coach had some lingering issues with Durr, still no Duncomb.

If he wants to play in the NBA, he should stay in the US. Hopefully we have our NIL situation figure out so that Trayce will make more money at IU than the D-League. If he wants to go to Europe, I would assume he could get into one of the top leagues and be comfortably into 6-figures. We probably won't be able to beat that, but if he goes, I think there's very little chance he ever puts on an NBA uniform. So, it's a question if he's willing to give up that dream.

How do the transfer rules work now? For guys who used their one free transfer, can they transfer again without sitting out under the old grad-transfer rules? If not, Durr, Stewart, Kopp and X would all seem heavily incentivized to stay.