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This was his 353rd career HR. He is tied for 101st place on the all-time MLB Home Run list and is 9th among Active players. Oh, and he's a HOOSIER!

Todd’s a smart guy. If I didn’t know better, I’d say he was reading this board as I made that point about a dozen times during the Woodson-era as everyone pined for a small ball, 3pt launching, uptempo squad. :{ The pros have an 82 game season and 7 game playoff series to smooth out the variance in a way college teams cannot. With that said there’s a lot of real estate between what we did last year and the Mike Woodson/Matt Painter “play two bigs and play everything through the paint” style. One of the more popular and successful styles has been essentially one athletic big with some athletic wings and guards who can shoot. But Villanova definitely rode some stone-cold small ball lineups to tons of success. Devries has to do what he thinks is prudent even if that’s loading up on beef in the paint at the expense of 3’s. Michigan is the undisputed top dog on the block and they definitely play big, so it’s not a surprise to see teams adjust to them.

Probably because Tucker was too fat to guard the opponent's 3.

Last night the perfect example of how this season has gone. We led 8-2 after 4 complete. It's 9-2 after 6 complete and Neubeck had pitched 6 innings of 4-hit ball and thrown 97 pitches. We go to the bullpen; PUke scores 2 in its 7th and then just crushes us with 7 more in the 8th. Final score PUke wins 11-9. Bitterly disappointing.

Interesting info. We'll see how things translate. For as much as people knock Dorn's shooting outside of his hot streak, he was 38% from 3 on the year, good for 2 makes a game out there on 5.3 attempts. I think we need Harris to be at least as good of a shooter as Dorn was. Harris really didn't play enough at Duke to read much into his stats. I'm not feeling super great about that but I applaud the staff's conviction in locking up a guy they clearly wanted. Suppose they see something that makes them confident they can get production from him. I feel better about Mustaf's role than Harris. IMO Sisley will be a pretty low volume 3 point shooter regardless of how efficient he is. And I don't think he's going to be much better than 35% or so from out there but would love to be surprised. Sisley and Sherrell may shoot a couple 3s a game trailing in transition or taking advantage of the defense getting lost. I like a lot of the sets we ran this year on offense... but outside of Lindsay, right now we don't have a ton of options to knock them down consistently IMO. We will create open looks, which will help. But if we take ~28 3s per game like we did this year we won't really be playing to our strengths IMO with Burton and Mustaf on the court as often as they will be

It starts with prioritizing the right players and adding the right amount of depth behind them to be on the Duke/Michigan level and it seems we are comparable in funds. We have started out on the right foot this off season and then just fell off a cliff it seems. Like has been stated… this particular year needs to be the cornerstone of what we build off of for the future and it has to be done all the way imo. If no quality depth is added at least in the post then we will be dragging a$$ yet again down the stretch. I just see no reason to spend 20 mil on this roster and not pull in the finishing touches, which will pay big dividends down the road in so many ways. Hope there is a surprise or two waiting in the wings.

I’d still rather suffer through the last 25 years of being an Indiana basketball fan than have to claim Mr. Tapout t-shirt.

Just as FYI -- I took the career three point shooting rates and percentages for the seven non-freshman on IU's roster's and figured if they each ate up an equal number of minutes then IU would take 25.5 threes per game and make 33.5% as a team. 25.5 threes/game is somewhere near average I believe, 33.5% would be a little below average. I think the two biggest pieces where we could see an increase to that total are with Harris and Sisley.....IMO Sisley isn't going to shoot 27% again and Harris will be north of 31.

Tonight has to be the final straw. No shot Mercer is back. Time to move on and get literally anyone.

Lost at Purdue tonight after being up 9-2 in the 7th inning. Mercer can't be gone soon enough.

Coach talk. Love it! I really want CDD to succeed. He was brave/dumb enough to take on this dysfunctional program, when others wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Saw quite a bit of really good sets ran last year, with below average quickness and athleticism to execute them. We've upgraded our size, quickness, and talent. This year should tell us everything we need to know about our coach.

With the stipulation that we still need to be able to hit 3s and there's not much proven volume shooting on this roster

To me, it feels less like an overcorrection and more like an adaptation to what has consistently worked in the B1G and the NCAA Tournament. It reminds me of comments Todd Golden made recently (discussing the value of shooting fewer 3s and more at the rim 2s): That volatility has hurt DeVries too. He’s 1–3 in the NCAA Tournament, and his teams held second-half leads in all three losses. That’s part of why this shift feels less like a philosophical overreaction and more like an attempt to build a style that travels better in March.

The difference is now they know just how much cash these schools are pumping through their programs. There's money to be made from offenders and repeat offenders. The "governing body" could actually be motivated to give a crap. But probably not. *Edit And looking further into it, if it is a true endowment investment (which it would almost have to be at 20 million), I'm not sure they can throw 25% of the return at NIL. A lot to sort out. Oh, and Elon is suing OpenAI because they took his 38 million investment dollars as a non-profit and flipped into a for-profit now worth 86 billion. So...brakes pumped. For now.

If you cap it schools will just go back to cheating. Ie not capped

Too lazy to find the/an NIL-focused thread. But here's this. They're going to have to cap NIL roster spending.

Got a feeling he'll be wearing No. 9 -- even if by accident. Manager: "Hey Clemens, you got a preference for your jersey number?" Sokolov: "Nein." Manager: "You got it!"

He’s 18 but likely super super raw for this year. So yes; Carr can earn his keep by finding a kid that is a big, athletic, and under the radar.

Ryan Carr was hired for a reason and he's good. I think you can do more than hope in this case. He looks to be a "piece" at least, and looks at least as good as Bailey was and stronger.

I like that contact around the rim doesn't seem to completely blow him up. For a kid who won't be counted on to play a ton yet, first glance is positive for sure.

Until you see the foreign player on the court, always go by who has the better name. Which do you prefer: Clemens Sokolov or Vuk Lazerevic?

Nebraska wins 5-0. After leading just 1-0 after 3, Nebraska scored 3 in its 4th and another in the 5th. In our 7th, Cooper walked and a Josie Bird double put runners on 2nd and 3rd with just 1 out. But Strader and Goins strikeouts ended our last hopes. We managed just 2 hits off Nebraska's ace.

A longer highlight package from Mike. Obviously a long term play, but the 1st 3 things I look at with young project bigs are can he move his feet, can he fluidly change direction and does he fight the ball. In this kid’s case the answers look to be yes, yes and no. That’s a good jumping off point.