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Borzello - Four-star senior Ladarius Givan has committed to UCF.

Selected seats this morning. Moved down 30 rows while staying in my ideal price tier and went to the opposite (East) side from where I had been for a few years. Overall happy with where I ended up. I'm not an upper-tier guy, but those seats have been just about picked clean for anyone that's at the end of the line for selection and is looking at tier 2.

Men's bball is not the only IU sports program taking an overseas trip. In 2 weeks.

Agreed. Teams will need to find wealthy NIL benefactors who are willing to fund specific teams. Otherwise programs will instead be dropped or left to dangle

In a nutshell this is where a lot of non-revenue sports are going to be across the college spectrum. I fully expect to see more non-revenue sports being dropped at all levels as ADs put their efforts into revenue producing sports.

I’m no Puredoo mathy guy, but yes. It makes 100% sense.

So a team that finishes with the second-worst record has the best chance of picking...fifth? Makes sense, I guess.

Top 8 now and slugging .597

I had many issues with Stern when he held the office, but at the very least, he had a hand in expansion and basketball becoming a true globally popular sport. I always thought Selig was the worst commish of that era. But I could definitely hear the argument for Stern.

The NBA doesn’t even try to hide the fact that the lottery is rigged. There has been example after example. I’m not even a Pacers fan, but with the way Silver targeted the Pacers this season, there was zero chance he was letting the organization keep its pick.

Whether people want to believe it the NBA is absolutely rigged from the playoffs down to the draft. Too many coincidences. Mavs trade Luka and magically get the first pick in the next draft. Cleveland and LeBron. And on and on the list can go. Combine that with suspicious officiating at best and it’s hard to see it any other way. Best to be viewed similar to professional wrestling as “sports entertainment”

This conspiracy of rigging the draft now has to stop simply because it doesn't benefit the local team (and yes I am a Pacers fan and wearing a shirt with their logo as I type this). I do believe the frozen envelope was rigged in 1985 but today you had dozens of reporters in there including Pacers own beat reporter Dustin Dopirak who saw everything from beginning to end and wrote about it. For there to be a conspiracy you would have to believe Dopirak and other reporters are paid off by NBA and risking their jobs to hide a conspiracy they viewed in real time but wrote about in detail afterwards as fair and square. Think about how ridiculous this sounds. Its also equally stupid to think the lottery was rigged to benefit the Wizards, Jazz, and Grizzles who are the ultimate non-glamor franchises while dropping the Nets who are in the biggest market below the Pacers. To criticize the process on how picks are earned is fair. To criticize Kevin Pritchard for making this trade in first place is fair and who the primary arrows should be aimed at if mad. However, to say the Pacers didn't draw the fifth pick fair and square under this system (even if flawed) when this outcome was nearly 48%, is just so beyond stupid. The NBA has plenty of issues and its fair to not like it as a whole, but they do NOT rig the draft lottery.

Would be fantastic… especially if he can be taught to defend. Apparently that was a notable weakness at Duke.

The league doesn’t want teams giving up if their best player goes down? That tracks. Am I now hearing that the league “rigged the draft” to place the Pacers at fifth? When the odds of them getting the fifth pick were quite literally higher than for any other slot? (The next highest chance was that they’d be sixth).

Not seeing many options left on the domestic front. Really wondering how they are going to finish out this roster. I would be satisfied with another rotational big to play the 4/5 with Aiden and Samet and then another practice player. Spend the money on someone who is going to contribute. Several Euro big men options out there but the problem is North Carolina, Kentucky, BYU, and LSU and others are chasing them too. Sorry Mr. Sokolov but would not be happy going into the season with just 3 playable bigs.

Its time for a change if IU cares about this program. Mercer took 2010's first world problems of tough draws and bad rules after yearly postseason appearances, and lowered it to third world legit problems of being amongst the worst in the league the last few years. Fred Glass did some stuff well, but had absolutely no idea how to hire a baseball coach or what qualities to look for. When I heard Lemonis and Rich Maloney were the finalists after Tracy Smith was poached, I was very worried as Lemonis had no head coaching experience and Maloney failed at Michigan as soon as league got tougher. While Lemonis did OK and was clearly the better choice of those two and did a decent job, fans now seem to have a sanitized view of his tenure where player development was a real struggle. The man could recruit better than anyone but had no idea how to make the players better once they got here. Glass learned nothing when he hired Mercer who was from area, but babysat a Wright State program playing at a Bart Kaufman Field type facility while rest of league played at Sembower Field type places in a very easy conference. Furthermore, every Wright State coach who has gone on to higher jobs has failed given the built in advantages there. As I said on a previous page of this thread, Brian Smiley is also from the area, but actually has built the same school Smith did back into a mid-major power after years of struggle since Smith came here. When identifying a coach, whether its Smiley or someone else (and there are a few in that same boat who would work at IU but Smiley is the local one with this trait), it is imperative to make sure you hire someone with head coaching experience who actually built the lower level program they were at and Glass seemed to have zero concept of this when hiring coaches across the board. Given NIL and where college sports are at, I kind of understand letting baseball limp along to keep money funneling towards other more important sports. However, keeping Mercer beyond this season would be an admission by athletic department that the results are no longer important and they are OK going back to Sembower days as much as I would disagree with it.

Not really with IU's resume as a whole. I had them sixth or seventh from bottom, but safely in, and if committee had them fourth from bottom, they are looking at same objective data and have them in same stratosphere. Best win was Washington in Big Ten Tournament and other than that a series win at Michigan, who was the very last team in and is in an identity crisis with their current coach not living up to her legendary predecessor. Also got dominated by UCLA, Oregon, and Nebraska who were the cream of the league. 42-14 record looks great, but you beat up on bad teams and had a few bumps on the resume. None of this is fatal to not making it, but definitely puts you firmly at the back of the field with a mid 30's RPI. It was slightly closer than I thought, but only barely, and the fact we are debating if the team was a few spots to close to the bubble and a brutal draw, is the ultimate compliment to the program Shonda Stanton has built. These are first world problems for the culture Stanton has built as a yearly postseason squad based on offense with elite power and base stealing and a fun dugout atmosphere. No one has been close to this for IU since the 1980's, and what baseball was in 2010's and needs to get back to. As long as you are in the field in softball or baseball, getting in is all that matters. Getting upset over being a couple spots closer to bubble than thought is not worth it. Instead, lets celebrate the culture and identity that the program has built now which is actually what is important.

It's not about benefitting those teams. It's about punishing a team perceived to be cheating its way into a top 4 pick. In a given year, the bottom 4 NBA teams are epically bad. It takes years of bad drafting, misevaluations, unfortunate breaks and a ton of losing for any team to find itself there. In other words, not teams that are one year removed from a runner-up finish. The Pacers were a pretty extreme case. If the rest of their roster stayed healthy, they're probably just outside the playoffs. The league was so convinced they were tanking, they actually told them to medicate Aaron Nesmith and encourage him to play. To outsiders, I'm sure it looked suspect. The NBA doesn't want teams giving up if their best player goes down. NBA games are already a tough watch during the regular season.

This year they “rigged the draft” to benefit the Wizards, Utah, and Memphis? Gonna be hard to fit a tin foil hat on that.

David Stern was the worst before him as well. It’s been decades of crap leadership

They said on the selection show we were one of the last 4 in, which is an absolute crock of s**t.

Assuming good roster health 10 a game from Harris would absolutely work.

To Seton Hall. So with a good year will probably be back in the portal next spring.

Full tournament bracket at: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/print/softball/d1/2026

It cannot be overstated that Adam Silver is the worst commissioner in sports. I used to love the NBA, but he is driving thia product so far into the ground. Tanking is not the issue he thinks it is, and its my speculation that he uses tanking as a guise to hide the real problems of gambling, egregious officiating, and the Aspiration scandal (which he has yet to address, as his buddy Ballmer can't be touched). I'm not even a Pacers fan and know you guys got robbed.