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Kind of funny that the UNC announcement I read mentions what Warren did at Georgia and Florida but nothing about his latest job at IU…LOL

PSU only down 4 to PU with 8 to go.

Of course PSU is only 3-12 from the three today vs 11-22 against us

On 1/7/2022 at 12:34 PM, 5fouls said:

"Your point?"

To quote Justice Stewart:

I might not be able to define basketball pornography but I know basketball pornography when I see it.

23 hours ago, 5fouls said:

From a 'collegiate' standpoint, academic fraud is infinitely worse than strippers/prostitutes.  Take the sleaze factor out of it and I can't see how anyone would think that stripper-gate provides a greater advantage to an athletic program than the widespread academic fraud that went on at UNC.  UL getting their title stripped while UNC didn't even go on probation is hypocrisy at its worst by the NCAA.   

Add in the fact that Pitino is still allowed to coach in the NCAA and the NCAA vacating the championship is even more ridiculous.  if you're going to pinish, punish, but make it consistent.   

UNC should have received the death penalty. Instead they went to the final game of the tourney. NCAA “enforcement” is an inconsistent joke.

5 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

Didn't Purdue retire all the Baby Boilers' jerseys awhile back? 

I heard they also retired the Helms “Championship” jerseys. Won’t impact current jersey numbers as the Helms uniforms all had Roman Numerals.

1 hour ago, btownqb said:

This might sound odd, but Trey might be our 2nd most skilled offensively player 😂

He passes well, cuts well, consistently breaks his man down off the dribble, finishes reasonably well, will offensive rebound well with time(maybe does now, not sure)... again.. and overall won't hurt you, often. 

🤷‍♂️

Idk. But tonight felt good for the team, I'm sure. 

Agree he is skilled in a variety of ways. Watch out if he can add being a threat from 12’ to the three point line. As someone else mentioned, other teams will scout him and and sag off so to round out his offense he needs to be able to make them pay from 12’ out.

The BT refs SUCK.  MCCaffery’s son goes up perfectly vertical, defending Wiscy’s Davison shooting a 3, but Davison wildly kicks out his right leg and McCaffery gets called for a foul. 3 shots for Davison. Complete and utter BS.

1 minute ago, IUFLA said:

Before the game, Lavin unveiled his Top 5 frontcourt players...

5 TJD 

4 Tshiebwe UK

3 Banchero Duke 

2 Liddell 

1 Cockburn 

Wonder if that list shifted any...

 

The high energy, engaged version of TJD is a beautiful thing to see.

1 minute ago, Seeking6 said:

Amazing how a few days energizes the tribe.

This was a HUGE win. The difference between being 1-3 or 2-2 in the conference can’t be overstated. It would have been a tough road to be 1-3 and need 2 wins just to get back to .500.  Let’s get at least 2 of the next 3.

4 minutes ago, OGIUAndy said:

Xavier played just ok regardless of his +/-. He's got to make more shots. He was at his best dishing. 

He was best dishing. Had a spurt early in the second half when he was shooting, and missing, too early in the clock. Woody sat him and he came back in and played a much more controlled game.

Lots of positives…Trey, TJD, Rob, second half ball movement, NINE (9!!!) turnovers, won the boards 41-33 and the D was great.

Couple of “wish it had been better” items. Three point shooting was terrible. I’ve been wanting Bates to get more minutes but he looked very out of sync. Lost on D and took a couple of wacky shots.

This win was two firsts for IU this year:

1) first win vs a ranked team

2) first win without x number of “why isn’t KL playing” posts.
 

3 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

People bashing CMW are so off target it's not even funny.  

Maybe we should give him 18 games…..LOL

Mr. Galloway has earned future playing time.

1 minute ago, KDB said:

That is not OSU ball

It shouldn’t be.

This is the turning point when we have not increased leads. Up 7 with 7 to go. Next 3 minutes are big.

Refs..I’m glad TJD has the plus 1 coming after the timeout but that guy just ran by him without any contact that I could see. With all the $$$$ the league makes they should have good, full-time refs. Just being consistent would be a good first step.

Just now, BobSaccamanno said:

Extremely ticky tack call on Parker. 

The inconsistency of calls in this league is maddening.

5/20 in the first 10 minutes of the second half

Time to abuse Brunk

Kopp and Stewart aren’t doing squat from the three but both have created their own shots taking it down the lane. Go figure.

1 minute ago, btownqb said:

Ok lol 👍

Thanks 

LOL

Just now, btownqb said:

Meh, if he's shooting, the two bigs get to Oreb... which they are very good at. 

Meh,

I don’t like him shooting early in the clock unless it’s a layup.

We have a tough time getting everything clicking at the same time. If we were hitting our season average, from the 3, we’d be up 10.

Just now, btownqb said:

I think all but one have been really, really good looks. 

I agree with that, ie they were not wild/forced shots, but don’t like him shooting early in the clock. He’s just not that good of a jump shooter.