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Hope springs eternal in my Hoosier heart! There is also absolutely a chance that he is Devonte Green reincarnated as our full-time point guard. Yikes!

1. Lets win 24+ games and at least 1 tournament game. That will mean DD can pull off the two big line-up. 2. Retain 8 players. One being either Sherrell or Yigitoglu. 3. Add two more s player to the 27 high school group. One a big 4. Be in a position to land the two best players at positions of need when the portal opens. Already have them locked up. That's how I see this playing put. Unless we have Momcilovic on the team them that will change my expectations.

Maybe I’ll have to relisten but I thought he specifically said his move is to get into the midrange, look for a shot and if it isn’t there look to pass. And that’s a pretty good self assessment! Lol.. Don’t get me wrong, I like Burton. He sounded like a solid kid in the interview too. I think he’ll do a ton a great things for us. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him put career assist numbers with Sherrell and Yigi rim-running. Not sure if he’ll ever look like FVV tho…

About 40 players from the championship team attended.

For anyone who cares about such things Jonathan Givony’s Twitter feed is the go to spot for NBA Combine measurements. Wildest thing so far is Aday Mara measuring with a 9’9” standing reach barefoot. Absolutely nuts.

Implied (if not outright stated) in the interview was that Burton needs to score less and faciliate better than he has with this IU team.

He wasn’t even good enough to start for Notre Dame a team that almost made the CFP. Shame he had to settle for going 16-0 and being the offensive player of the game of the Rose Bowl. Good thing Notre Dame didn’t settle for him

I can’t really see that comp. Two different style players. VanVleet was/is a strong often physical defender who was a pass-1st floor general type. I think Burton is a smaller, quicker scoring type PG who is also a solid passer and defender. If he’s trying to be more like FVV then that’s great but I can’t personally say I’d expect to get a FVV type player with Burton.

Scope Scouting: Earned All-Session I First Team honors at 17U 3SSB Session I. Parker covered a lot of ground at 6’3, protected the paint, and ran the floor hard in transition. She also showed the ability to stretch the floor and score in different ways. 13.8 PPG | 3.3 REB | 51.5% TS

I like what I heard. He's got a pretty clear case on why IU and what he wants to do. Hopefully IU can upgrade the career of another ND transfer. ;-)

7'2 Dorin Buca to Rutgers from Kansas State / Italy

Going to be a bunch of 7 footers in the B1G

Cites Fred Van Vleet as a player role model...Yes! That is some serious elf-awareness and can be his comp if (IF) everything goes really well. -- "What are you looking forward to most this year?" MB: "Playing in Assembly Hall." Lots of spot-on answers. Almost a Cignetti-player-like relaxed but on-point set of answers.

Goodman interview with Burton. Haven’t watched it yet but am looking forward to hearing what our new PG has to say.

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