IUJoe

If we had a player who caught the ball and put an elbow or shoulder into the chest or face of one of your players all game long, your fans, every last one of them, would be crying and bitching about it daily until the year 3206. Of course, they'd have to come up with a new "clever" name besides "Hall of calls" because I'd assume we'll have a different building by then.

I could be wrong, but I think Cleveland State is the only team eligible for the automatic NIT bid because they have clinched the #1 seed. But PFW is playing well enough that they certainly could win the Horizon tournament.

They can’t be the #1 seed though. So I don’t know if the NIT could take them or not.

Very little chance either one of them will be in the NIT. Virtually no chance for PFW.

Broke a 15-game home court winning streak for Detroit. PFW is legit.

I think the media has always had their opinion or editorial folks. The difference is, it used to be based more on facts and evidence, whereas now it’s based more on number of clicks or viewers it can generate.

I know it to the same degree people know recruits are coming/not coming here, and whether we will suck next year, in two years, or every year until we hire Brad Stevens with Chris Beard as his top assistant.

Would we have won less games with Miller this year? Well, TJD wouldn’t be here, so I’d say yes. Much, much less.

Maybe it’s time for some of the fan base to just go away. I mean, I get it. I’ve been around a long time and losing sucks. But anyone thinking a first-year coach is on the hot seat and is therefore rooting for losses should be spending their free time in a therapist’s office rather than watching basketball.

Especially not the ones who were fighting in the stands.

This is interesting. I knew they had a bad patch in their relationship after the Final Four game in 1992, but I thought they had gone on record many years ago saying it had been repaired and all was good. I know Coach K has been complimentary of Knight publicly, most recently when Duke came to Assembly Hall to play when Archie was coaching. It appears, according to this, they never got back on good terms at all. What a shame.

I’m not a big fan. In fact, too many clams down makes me feel like I want to boiler up.

Well yes, it can technically still happen. My point, though, is if it doesn’t (and it most likely won’t), it isn’t fair or realistic to call this season or these players a disappointment, or say that they failed to meet expectations, like some people are saying.

We lost the only guys we had who could even remotely shoot, and you thought we’d nearly double our wins, in total and in the Big 10?

I have read comments from fans on this board and other boards, and even from sportswriters, that people expected more out of Indiana this year. And my reaction to that continues to be: Really? Why? First, let me give my perspective. I’m 55 years old. I lived through and vividly remember Knight’s glory years and 3 national championships. I was an IU student when the Hoosiers won in 1987. I know what it feels like, and I know what we’ve been missing. I desperately want my kids to experience the same IU basketball I did. I’m sick and tired of almost 30 years (with the exception of maybe 5 or 6 years in there) of mediocre to bad basketball. But did people really expect us to be great this year? I mean, we won 12 games last year. We won 7 Big Ten games last year. We were one of the worst shooting teams I’ve ever seen, and the only three guys we had on that crappy-shooting team who could even make one three-pointer per game (Durham, Franklin, and Hunter) all transferred. So I’m not sure where the basis for these expectations Indiana is supposedly failing to meet came from. Yes, we brought in two guys we hoped could shoot. To replace three we lost. As a realist, I thought before the season, we have a better coach, players that stayed might develop now, and Bates might be pretty good. I thought our realistic expectation was probably 19-13, 9-11 in the Big Ten, and hopefully sneak into the tournament. I don’t really see how anybody could justify anything much better than that. Well, we are on track to be a little better than that. Yes, losing sucks. Yes, we are all tired of waiting for this program to get back where it should be. But I don’t think it’s fair to anybody involved with this program now to call this season a failure to meet expectations.

Another team getting hurt in the NET by pointspreads being given too much weight is Providence.

In my opinion, the pointspread regression is given a little too much weight in the NET. Gonzaga wins their games by a big margin and Auburn generally doesn’t.

Found out yesterday that Carroll-Fort Wayne has set up home-and-homes with Warren Central, Hamilton Southeastern, and Center Grove for 2023-2026. Will be interesting to watch Carroll attempt to elevate their program another level by doing this.

Exactly what I hoped they would do.

Some coaches, including Tom Crean, look at defensive plays other than actual deflections of the basketball and chart them as deflections.

Any other changes expected?

The playoff should be expanded to include every conference champion. Then Ball State would definitely have something to play for.

Louisiana Tech leading LSU 48-45 with 11:23 to play. Game is on the CBS Sports Network.

It was at Madison Square Garden, but as IUFLA said, Champagnie didn’t play.

I think the NET is a good formula to use. I am a mathematician, and I have been able to somewhat replicate it. It is basically a blending of least-squares regression analyses with part of it being based on pure tempo-based scores, and the other part based on wins and losses only (similar to Jeff Sagarin’s old ELO Chess Rating). My version had LSU and Purdue flip-flopped at #1 and #2, and IU at #58. The thing to remember about these ratings is that while it’s a pretty good representation of what’s happened so far, it’s very early in the season and teams can move up or down 30-40 positions in a week’s time.