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39 minutes ago, FKIM01 said:

...and you know this...how?

I swear...a bunch of coaching staff members must post in this forum...🙄

Trust me, if some of these dudes were on our coaching staff we'd never win a game.

My computer rankings, updated through April 16 games, features a new #1 and Indiana continuing to move up.  Indiana is 0-2 versus my Top 25 but a very respectable 4-5 versus my Top 50.  The Big 10 ranks as the 6th best conference behind the SEC, ACC, Pac 12, Big 12, and Big West.

National:

Big 10:

Indiana's opponents this week: Louisville (#18), Cincinnati (#206), and Ohio (#156).

1 hour ago, IU Scott said:

These kind of post on social media was what bothers me. Anyone can just post anything without any proof of being true. Until it is from a reliable college basketball media outlet I wouldn't believe a thing. 

Is there a reliable college basketball media outlet?  Maybe I'm getting old, but it seems like most of it is just clickbait, anymore.

2 minutes ago, iuswingman said:

Ware is this coming from?   I can't seem to be Knecht the dots on this one.  Seems like it is Ledlem out there.

Bravo!

Assembly Call tweeted a couple happy Mike Woodson videos in the past 20 minutes.

5 minutes ago, Proud2BAHoosier said:

Looking at the Top 25 and I see several teams with 10 losses, and TCU with 12! Is IU getting a "sniff" of the rankings???

It appears that in last week's USA/Today Coaches poll they would have factored out to #31.  I don't know about the other polls, and this week's USA Today poll isn't out yet as far as I can tell.  So yes, they are getting noticed by poll voters, it appears.

2 minutes ago, btownqb said:

https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2023/schedule/Indiana

17th here! haha

17 in the RPI is awesome!  My result-based metric has them #21, so very close.  You know much more than I do as to what the selection committee considers when picking tournament teams.  Is there a heavy emphasis on the RPI?  Obviously, IU's predictive or score-based metric is not quite as good, but it's not bad, either.

Missed last week because I was on spring break with my family, but these are my national and Big 10 computer rankings through April 9 games.  Again, the formula is very similar to the basketball NET rankings:

Big 10:

31 minutes ago, iuswingman said:

 

That's when you break out the big news that you are the recruit and they want you as a preferred walk-on

Well, I'm 57 with white hair, so all hell would have broken loose, hahaha.

2 hours ago, Artesian_86 said:

I really am surprised that no one was able to snap/post some actual pics of Ware and Ledlum out and about during their on campus visit at IU over Easter weekend. All that seem to be posted was the golf cart at Cook Hall. Did anyone see them on campus or out eating with coaches? Asking for a friend...lol

We were in Bloomington Saturday on the way back from spring break.  We ate lunch at BuffaLouie’s, told my family we might see a basketball recruit, but we did not, lol.

20 minutes ago, MoyeCowbell said:

Any updates on Ledlum’s OV? Hopefully it’s going well.

He has committed to IU but will still take his Tennessee visit.

Too soon?  

By the way, I spent most of the day today in Alabama and will be in Bloomington tomorrow, so if this all turns out the way we hope, I believe it’s because I spread some good luck in both places, lol

3 hours ago, Indykev said:

420 ? ok.

If that’s when he’s announcing, I’m guessing MSU.  

2 minutes ago, Between2Halls said:

I looked at the original post, and didn’t see the name Keshon Gilbert. Have we been in contact with him? I know he had been discussed in this ever winding thread. 

I asked an “insider” on another site about him….said we had contacted him but Iowa State probably leads for him because of a prior connection.

12 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Rumor on the street, God is an excellent shooter, you know what to do Woody

Yes, but can He rebound?

1 hour ago, Mike said:

Hard to believe Indiana can't recruit a guard who can score.No guard play winning becomes almost impossible!!We are toast.

I just though of Heywood Banks singing this post and then yelling, “yeah, toast!”

2 hours ago, IUFLA said:

"I'd like to get 20-25 shots a game, Coach."

"Well, like I said, it is what it is. Mike Woodson isn't gonna let anybody get 20-25 shots a game, because at the end of the day, shit, it's a team game."  

I’d be willing to bet it went very much like that, with a “son” thrown in there somewhere.

1 hour ago, Mike said:

Can't get any guards in portal we are done!Can't compete without elite guards.Case closed!!

Not only that, the world will end.

4 hours ago, Hoosierfan1215 said:

They wouldn’t have won that either…

Maybe a December national championship and they’d have a chance.

7 minutes ago, btownqb said:

Woodson coached JR Smith. 

Caleb Love fits really well with XJ, TG, Sparks, Cupps, and (Shedrick 🙏)

Great point.  Woodson seems to get the best out of certain guys that other coaches had trouble coaching.  Smith, X, Carmelo Anthony…

18 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said:

 

I don't see it either. The kid was ignored pretty much by the in-state schools while in high school. I also heard on one of the broadcasts that Michigan was his dream school.

I think this one is a non-starter.

Makes sense.  Michigan is the dream school of many kids in this part of the state.  Makes me want to vomit.

38 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said:

@bluegrassIU

@HoosierFaithful

@BGleas

@Inequality

And any other mods I missed.

Anyway to create a function, I don’t know, a bell, an emoji of some sorts, so that when a player commits it acts as an alarm or notification that actual news is being posted v the banter that one must wade through? For those who want real information, it would be a great service 

How about a thread just devoted only to news updates about portal players tied to IU?  

Big move for IU this week in my computer ratings, through 3/26 games:

Big 10 rankings:

Conference rankings:

8 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

I was either 6 or 7 during the 2002 championship run. I’m sure I watched it, but nothing to remember of it. Only thing I remember for IU’s postseason successes is Tom Cream’s Sweet 16s

Funny the different perspectives we have on IU basketball just with our age differences.  I was 10 when we won it all in 1976, and an IU student when we won it in ‘87.  From my perspective, I find it kind of comical when people try to claim we’re not a blue blood program, but if you only remember the past 20 years or so, I guess it wouldn’t seem like we are.

2 hours ago, Steubenhoosier said:

Lack of attention. Painter is up here every year for alumni club functions. I cannot remember the last time a basketball head coach came up here. It’s not just PU and MSU. Essegian went to UW. There were 2 kids who went to Louisville within the last few years. DeShauhn Thomas to Ohio State. Warsaw had a point guard-Nick Moore maybe, that played at SMU but somewhere else I think. 
 

I never have inside information up here, but I do know someone who was very connected to the Blackhawk Christian program when Furst was there. Caleb was ours for the taking until Archie stopped paying attention to him. CAM assumed he was coming to IU and didn’t need to continue recruiting him. Lost a recruit that could have helped out immensely with Race’s injury and to spell TJD a few minutes 

I’ve been told we could have had Goode as well.