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Tropical leaves tattoo? He walked into a tattoo parlor and said hey I’m looking to get a fern on my arm. Lol.

What a career... knock the avg all you want. But he's still top 25 in the MLB in OPS... and slugging .545

FWIW, and it's just my useless opinion, I think Duke is on another level. They're the highest funding in CBB, with deep recruiting ties including with Nike, a sterling brand with big exposure, and a track record of being really good every year. UM we're closer to, but they outspent us pretty good last year and this year we're closer, but still short. After a natty they'll get whatever they ask for. I think CDD made a huge mistake with the lack of multi-year guys in season one. We had all these one year dudes and the multi-year guys were not developed/retained (Trent a little). So we had another total rebuild, which personally I found very disappointing. Okay, our W/L in season one was not great, but at least develop some pieces for season two! C'mon, think long term here. I don't think it's possible to build a conf title winner/F4 team entirely scratch in one portal. Even if we had $25M. With no roster continuity, it's so hard to get 10 new guys to gel such that they can win really big. Just my opinion. I agree with pretty much all the concerns people voice on this board. We need more front court depth. We have question mark players CDD/Carr/staff better be right on... though this pretty normal every year. Best case I can see is we hit on almost all the new guys, they improve as the year goes on, and we get like a 5 seed or better and make the S16. Then return most of the roster, which is possible with all our multi-year guys (nice work!), and go into a portal needing only a few players. We'd be selling an attractive situation -- a S16 team on the rise. IUBB is back baby! Bring in a few high end portal players and then season three of CDD we're thinking conference title and F4. Is this likely? It's IUBB. Be optimistic at your own peril. I could type out a downside scenario, but we all know what that would look like... I've got to say I'm surprised we spent so much money. The thinking was $13-14M, now it's closer to $20M. This rachets up the expectations this season... which is good. Big pressure on CDD this year. This season is now much more interesting than I thought it was going to be. I'm looking forward to games in Peru now.

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.