#IUMS @ Maryland @ 7 ET on BTN

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GAMEDAY! Big test tonight against the #2 Terps. Set the DVR. Go Hoosiers!

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[KB0 827]

Big early season match. Time to see if the wins we racked up against "lesser" competition will stand up. Maryland usually has a fairly large student section, so it should be a nice atmosphere and a big test for the freshmen. Hope I'm able to watch tonight, but not sure I'll be around. 

Would be nice to win the Big Ten again for the first time in a little while. A result against Maryland would be a step in the right direction.

[mamasa 14,818]

1 hour ago, KB0 said:

Big early season match. Time to see if the wins we racked up against "lesser" competition will stand up. Maryland usually has a fairly large student section, so it should be a nice atmosphere and a big test for the freshmen. Hope I'm able to watch tonight, but not sure I'll be around. 

Would be nice to win the Big Ten again for the first time in a little while. A result against Maryland would be a step in the right direction.

I think this is also being streamed on btn2go, if you're not going to be by a tv

[ccgeneral 38,084]

Let's get it on! Toye up top with Dorsey and Swartz.

 

 

[ccgeneral 38,084]

Expecting largest crowd ever to be around 7500 tonight. Time to work boys!

[LIHoosier 24,997]

Damn that was everything but the goal.

[ccgeneral 38,084]

Scoreless @ half.

Shots: IU 5-2

SOG - IU 3-0

[Aaron 4,147]

One of the few teams we play that's as talented as us and we have more than held our own. We had 2 excellent chances to their none and were just slightly better but no goals. I will say having Toye up there at forward who is so much faster than Hyacinth gives you so many more scoring opportunities. With that said Hyacinth has improved a ton over the summer to not hurt us and to play pretty well but still has some limitations with his speed and skills. Its fun watching an elite offense vs. an elite defense for both teams.

No matter what happens tonight I can finally say for the first time since we won the title in 2012 we have elite players in all 4 aspects of the game. This freshman class looks to me like the first set of true "ambien players" (as former colts coach Rick Venturi would say) since the Freitag days. Yeagley had been recruiting well but not up to the level of Freitag and his dad. Freitag just couldn't develop his players. Yeagley has always developed talent well but his recruiting while solid lacked the elite players of the past. This class with Dorsey and Rennicks who are his first 5* recruits in a while plus several other 4* top 100 players (Toye, Warr and several others who have not seen the field) finally has the talent from our glory days. If he can recruit like this every year we will be back where his dad had us soon.      

[Aaron 4,147]

OT. Both defenses are immovable. Pretty even 2nd half. 

[mamasa 14,818]

I'm exhausted just watching this

[rebelhoosier848891 9,588]

Go Hoosiers!


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[Aaron 4,147]

We had better of play in that OT including a near goal on a deflection. Their goalie is something though. Every trick that has worked in the first few games to score they have had an answer for. 10 more min to score for either team or we tie.

[Aaron 4,147]

Well deserved tie and I don't say that often. We have tied Maryland every game almost since they joined the Big Ten which is not a bad result.

The problem the last few years has been our inability to beat the other Big Ten teams we should who are far less talented than either of the teams tonight. Most nights if we bring it like that we put 2-3 goals home but Maryland's D is elite as is their goalie. Just bring that effort every night and we will win almost every game this year.  Our D is maybe the best in the country (1 goal given up in 5 games now) and completely shut down maybe the best attack in the country and most nights we will get goals doing the same thing against most teams but this one. Our ranking of 4 is about right. We are elite in every aspect. This team appears to be the first one since the early Freitag days that doesn't have a glaring weakness in either scoring or defense.

[ccgeneral 38,084]

Scoreless draw. We host Michigan on Wednesday @ 730 pm ET on BTN.

Shots: IU 14-7

SOG: IU 6-0

[rebelhoosier848891 9,588]

Dominant defensive effort. We are a legit national championship contender this year. Proud of my Hoooooosiers!


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[Brass Cannon 24,064]

2 minutes ago, rebelhoosier848891 said:

Dominant defensive effort. We are a legit national championship contender this year. Proud of my Hoooooosiers!


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I think we tied Maryland last year to be fair

[WayneFleekHoosier 46,731]

We played excellent. Deserved the W. This team is good. Real good.


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[Aaron 4,147]

1 hour ago, Brass Cannon said:

I think we tied Maryland last year to be fair

We did tie Maryland last year but this team appears to better than last year by a lot. The problem last year was not tying Maryland but tying other inferior Big Ten opponents which I think will happen a lot less this year. 

First of all this team can score goals well unlike last year (tonight not withstanding which was nothing but the unfortunate fact we faced an elite D and goalie) and the defense is even better it looks like. As I said in an earlier post (and I know its early) this appears to be the best IU team since the early Freitag days. For the first time in the Todd Yeagley area this team does not have the glaring weakness on D of his early years or the scoring issues of recent years.

We will now for sure in the next few games when we play inferior teams but if the results are what I think they will be we are in for a special season and trust me I have not said that since the mid 2000's.

[Aaron 4,147]

1 hour ago, rebelhoosier848891 said:

Dominant defensive effort. We are a legit national championship contender this year. Proud of my Hoooooosiers!


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19 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

We played excellent. Deserved the W. This team is good. Real good.


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Completely Agree!