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At very least, 5 teams from multi-bid conferences. Teams from single bid conferences will be replaced by another team from that conference so that wouldn't help IU. Realistically, it's way more than 5.

Well, they were mentioned*, but no. *The mention was IU's 1976 team being the last undefeated with Gonzaga having a chance to be the next.

The 3 games they didn't make up are PSU, IU, and Northwestern. Do you think they lose any of those games? The only thing we're seeing now is that it was agreed upon before the season. You seem to think that wasn't the case. If it wasn't, why wouldn't your AD be saying so?

Last year we tied for 10th but lost the tiebreaker so had the 11th seed in the BTT. This year it will be 10th seed. As the Miller supporters tell us, we're improving. That's improvement!

To me it's at the bottom. But it does have a Day 1 bye in the BTT... so maybe bottom of the middle? 🤷‍♂️

I think the 1st tiebreaker is head-to-head and we beat them in the only game this season. So even if PSU wins today (doubtful), IU should have the 10th seed and PSU 11th. Kind of like IU and PU last season except IU winning the tiebreaker. Minnesota is done playing so they can't get to 7 wins. Even if they had, IU was 1-0 against them, as well. I think 10th place and 10th seed are locked up.

I've been told you shouldn't expect wins.

I saw he was 12-19 overall in that game so the worst possible 3 point shooting for this game would've been 9-16 (56%) if he was 3-3 inside the arc.

That's what you'll get when you have players who never unpack their bags on the way to the NBA and then have a bad season. There's really no reason for someone that isn't emotionally bought in to continue to risk injury that could effect future earnings. I'll be surprised if this is the last player from Duke and UK that quits before the season ends.

Players IU recruits can be overhyped and it remains to be seen how well Kaufman will play at the college level but he should fall into the "pretty good" to "great" college player range. He's similarly ranked (247 composite) to TJD coming out of HS (TJD 30 rating 0.9890, Kaufman 32 rating 0.9872). A bit smaller than TJD coming out of HS but he does have a more versatile offensive game. I haven't seen Kaufman play so I don't know about other aspects such as quickness compared to TJD. He should be a good player, though, and losing him hurt. Particularly losing him to Purdue.

Bloomington South must've dropped off quite a bit in football the last 15 years. When I was in HS (Bloomington North) in the 90s they were a very good team, pretty much ranked in the top 5 or 10 seemingly every year. I think that continued into the 00s.

1.7 more shots per game to score 0.9 ppg more. This against a much weaker SOS. Shows it wasn't Miller holding him back. I'm happy he moved on and I suspect you're correct that he's also happy.

He shoots them straight but usually long. He seems like he's just a a bit too hyped up when he gets to the line and if he just calms a bit he'll start hitting. That's my impression of his FT shooting, at least.

Who's talking about the selection committee? kyhoosier said they've improved every year in every possible statistical category. Posters like that try to make it seem that any criticism is unwarranted. Not true. Also, conference play is 2/3 of the season so it very much matters. The worse you do there the better your OOC record will have to be. It's also the same teams so comparing that season to season would give a better idea of a team than OOC.

Except in conference. As you yourself pointed out, it's hard to compare OOC between seasons so the logical conclusion would be that conference record would be the best indicator since that would be closest season to season. Season 1: 9-9 (0.500) Season 2: 8-12 (0.400) Season 3: 9-11 (0.450) Once again, they're not improving in every possible statistical category as you claimed.

Wins and losses make up at least one statistical category. So, no, not in "EVERY possible statistical category" have they improved. Through 9 B1G games last season IU was 5-4. This season they're 4-5. In the regular season last season IU had a record of 15-12 if you remove the 4 extra cupcakes. They're currently 9-7 so they'd need to go 6-5 the rest of the way just to match that. Can they do that? It remains to be seen. The bottom line in basketball is wins and losses. Eventually the improvements need to show up in that statistical category. You've obviously made up your mind but it's not misleading to look at the most important statistic and point out that a positive change there is lacking.

If that tweet is correct, it's not just location or team he's unsure of. It sounds as if he's unsure if he wants to even play sports and which sport he wants to play if so.

Sounds like an confused kid who isn't sure what he wants.

I'm getting Matt Carlino vibes. He eventually stayed in one place for 3 seasons so maybe the next stop will stick for this Matt.

I really hope we get to make up the game against MSU. That should be a W.

A "Help is on the way" thread?

I know I'm rooting for them! Rooting for them to finish under 0.500, that is.

So what did you mean when you said "he's a solid recruiter" in the quote above? That implies that the recruiting has been just fine so I must've not seen your other post. Apologies if I misunderstood that statement. I personally wouldn't say that someone is a solid recruiter if I doubted how well they've recruited. The backcourt and the thinness up front are reasons for doubt in my opinion.

Apparently, you're one of these people. You come right out and say it's not coaching and not recruiting/talent yet the players still can't execute. Good coaches can get players to execute within a 3.5 years timespan. Unless, of course, those players just aren't talented enough.

Yes, there are plenty of those threads. Notice that I didn't say "everyone." In these threads are the same people defending both coaching and recruiting (i.e. talent level), saying they're both fine. Then when specific incidents are brought up, these same posters then say it was just that the players didn't execute. It's like a broken record.