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This defense is absolutely horrible. Wide open layups and 3s every possession. And this is against the worst offense in the conference.

1. The fact that Fran was not t’d up for trying to fight our bench is an embarrassment. 2. I think our defense officially is not very good. 3. If Race is out for a significant amount of time, we need to adjust expectations. If we came into the year without X and Race, we would not have been big ten contenders.

Well, that was brutal. Lost a game we were up by 20. Lost one last of our best players to injury. And at this point, I think it’s fair to say our defense is just not that good.

How is that not a tech on Fran? I guess I just don’t understand what is and isn’t a tech. Sheesh

He did

Our defense is really bad. It has been for several weeks now

Worst call of the year. Wow

Was about to say the same exact thing. That and losing Zed Key hurt them.

Northwestern is starting to pull away a bit from Illinois. Their defense looks very tough and physical, won’t be an easy game for IU on Sunday.

Or you could just take the winners of each class tournament and have them play for an all-class championship. 4A champ vs 1A champ, 3A champ vs 2A champ, then winners of that play each other for overall champ. Won’t happen, but seems to be a decent middle ground.

The Def Reb % said in a better way is the opponents offensive rebound %, so that is actually worse. So we went from a net positive in turnover margin and rebound margin last year (though they were both relatively small positives) to negative in both. Again, just 6 games, and we’ve had a couple stinkers in there that skew the numbers a bit. But I still found it interesting.

Right, not really saying you can make any conclusions yet when comparing to a full season. Was just messing around on bart torvik's site and those numbers stood out because of how different they were, despite our team being similar. Could definitely change quite a bit as we play the meat of our schedule. I'm just too impatient to wait this long between games haha.

Only looking at top 100 games for both years

I was looking back at IU's 6 games against top 100 opponents thus far, and wanted to see how we compared statistically vs last year. Last year, it felt like a lot of games simply came down to IU's ability to make shots, where this year we have seemed to shoot the ball better, but have struggled in other areas. Looking at the 4 factors - Effective field goal %, Turnover %, rebounding %, and free throw rate, here's how we compare so far this year vs last against top 100 opponents: 2021: Off EFG% vs Def EFG%: 47.8% | 49.7% Off TO% vs Def TO%: 16.2% | 17.2% Off Reb% vs Def Reb%: 26.4% | 26.1% Off FTR vs Def FTR: 32.1% | 34.4% 2022: Off EFG% vs Def EFG%: 50.0% | 48.8% Off TO% vs Def TO%: 19.1% | 17.0% Off Reb% vs Def Reb%: 28.0% | 32.1% Off FTR vs Def FTR: 26.5% | 30.8% It's only 6 games, so don't want to draw any conclusions, but so far IU has improved on the weakness from last year (EFG%), but have regressed in the other areas. Also when you look at our three losses, we got dominated on the boards in two of them (Rutgers and Arizona) and dominated in the turnover battle in the other (Kansas). Will be interesting to see if this changes going forward.

I could be wrong, but I thought NIL deals could not have any sort of playing time or performance stipulations.

Sounds like Bates is starting with Galloway coming off the bench vs Iowa: https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/mike-woodson-says-tamar-bates-will-start-against-iowa/. I like the move, should improve the starting units offensive punch. Also like that Coach Woodson is willing to switch up the starting lineup since we’ve been horrible at the start of several games.

Yeah, live I just saw him hit his head. After the replay it definitely wasn’t a flagrant. Still thought it was more of an offensive foul instead of defensive. Thought changing it to a double tech was probably the right call.

man, these refs are giving Purdue every call. Smith should’ve had a flagrant, instead foul on Rutgers plus a tech

Definitely agree with this. But if we aren’t able to get up against top 10 teams and come out ready to play, we’ve got big problems. I can understand sluggish play against bad teams or after a big win - and it’s still not acceptable in those instances.

I’m officially worried about our defense, and the team as a whole. In our 4 big non-conference games, our defense has been either bad or very bad. The only game it looked good was against UNC, and they were in a tailspin. Without a good defense, this team doesn’t have an identity, which is a problem.

The two articles below talking about revenue and profit clearly outline the issue to me. Green Bay makes roughly $580M in revenue and $80M in profit, or around a 10% profit margin. Ohio State makes around $132M in revenue and $75M in profit, or around a 55% profit margin. Vastly different revenues, but very similar profits. Article about Green Bay Packers financials: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-nfl-revenue-stat-shows-why-billionaires-buy-sports-teams-191055562.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB9St3y7KtO8yLEh4HYqSK3H3aSOgGiweu30ZUHo78W73-10cDyOUmQDvBNJlCyN3zkdg8IKVUXt4SBsi1r70KdVM_0twu-zpc0i15M_fpd_iVMaPiaIOfTyWrV9oTCZZkO5UDUx2PCnI4e69dLIvQUBX84ZGkI5CKF_iXJv7uA9 Article about college football financials: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2019/09/12/college-football-most-valuable-clemson-texas-am/?sh=804a795a2e7e

Doesn't that already happen? Players get kicked off for legal issues all the time and back in the Tom Crean days, "Creaning" was a common phrase of players being over-recruited and pushed to transfer. Heck, even this last year we had more players committed for this year than we had scholarships available before several of IU's lower end players on the team transferred out.

Agreed, schools still indirectly spend a lot of money on athletes, but that's because it's still extremely profitable to do so and the existing rules prevent them from paying players directly, or they absolutely would pay them. There's a reason a lot of the top college football programs have nicer facilities than the NFL. It's because they make a ton of money and don't have to pay the players who are generating that revenue, so over the top facilities are how schools gain a competitive advantage vs other schools. I just can't see how this doesn't end up with schools directly paying players now that the TV deals alone are bringing in $100M per school per year.

Incredible goal, no idea how he scored from that angle. Pitt’s goalie seemed like he fell asleep on that shot

A little sloppy on offense early. But good to see race and trey each knock down a three