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Women's season came to an end last evening in a 9-7 loss to Virginia. But it's been a really enjoyable several months to follow this team. Hess started but couldn't make it out of the 1st inning. Faced 4 batters - a BB, a double, a HR and VA had a quick 3-0 lead. We got 3 of our own in our half the 1st; 2 on a Josie Bird HR. VA scored 4 in its 3rd; we got 3 right back in our 3rd and tied it at 4 apiece after 7 complete. But VA scored 2 more in the 5th and that was the ball game. VA had a total of 10 hits and we walked 6. We had 7 hits; Bird with 2 and Bird and Haberstroh each with 2 RBI.\ Thank you IU Softball and we'll see you next spring.

I would bank that Harris will have a better year just for the reason that indiana has a much better PF, C combo than they had last year, which is going to open up the floor. In theory anyways

Was explaining to a friend today who isn’t big into sports just how meaningful Mendoza will be to the university for the rest of the existence of the football team. She thought within 4 or 5 years nobody would remember him. It was mind boggling.

From a production standpoint, Harris isn’t likely to surpass Dorn from last year and you’re likely paying Harris 2-3x the amount you could have paid Dorn. When you’re operating on a budget and need to fill as many holes as IU did this offseason, every dollar counts. If Harris can average 10-11 off the bench and shoot from the perimeter at a clip similar to Dorn, I’ll shut up. But more likely than not, Harris is going to put up production numbers similar to Dorn but at a significantly higher cost.

Ok, we haven’t been relevant for sure, but DD could’ve transitioned here like Dusty, or Cig that has been mentioned bringing in assistant coaches and former players, etc., but for whatever reason he didn’t, and so our first year was what it was, but in this era, a great coach can turn around a program in the first year or two, which is the point no matter how miserable we have been we have resources that are far superior to Most.

2 things: 1) like that shirt a lot. Very simple, very cool, 2) What is up with dude’s toes? Those look absolutely painful.

Rico? suave.

Women stay alive with an 8-0 run-shorted win over Northern Kentucky. Re-match with Virginia scheduled to start at 8:15. Troutt pitched all 5 innings and allowed just 3 hits and didn't walk a batter. We had 11 hits scattered throughout the batting order and 6 different players had at least 1 RBI. 8:15 game will be televised on ESPNU

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This is never gonna look right

Have no thoughts on his actual game, but look at this kid’s frame, movements and stroke and tell that doesn’t look like Hood-Schifino.

Depends on how early he thinks he expects to see the field

And the fat lady has sung on the 2026 baseball season. Certainly not what anyone expected but at least the team did win the final weekend series beating Illinois 11-2 this afternoon. We pounded out 10 hits off 5 Illini pitchers. Cal Gates unloaded the first home run of his college career in the 4th and it will always be memorable for him as it was a grand slam. Lots of questions to be answered before next year. Good read from Ari Shifron at the link below. https://www.assemblycall.com/p/pro-development-or-program-decline?r=2xu6ia&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Any intel on this one where he’s leaning?

I would of used IUs stats dating back 16 years compared to those 2 but IU hadn’t been relevant enough for anyone to compare them to those 2 top of the B1G teams in that timeframe

My point was that the stats dating back 16 years between Michigan State and Michigan do not have any relevance pertaining to Indiana. Yes I understand that Michigan is usually good in sports and IU predominantly has a history of being good in basketball (until now) and yes, we’ve had a rocky road ever since Knight was fired. We are a program in the NIL era that, with a good coach should be able to rebound just as fast as any. I am not trying to cast shade on what DD is doing and I hope he succeeds like I stated, and I think most fans, though critical of things pertaining to the roster build are just pointing out weaknesses that they perceive based on past history.

I keep thinking this one isn’t really a thing and things keep popping up just enough to make it a maybe and now they watch him 1st weekend and IU gets an early mention from the kid. If Clark is doing work here I guess we’ll see.

You, too, boo boo? ;)

Schwarber last 18 games- .300/.402/.857 -- 12HR Last 8 games- .353/.421/1.147 --- 9HR

Let me see if I can tease this out for you in a way that’s clearer to understand. —Portal rank does not equal roster rank for next season (despite the coincidence that Torviks site has our total roster close to On3’s or wherever portal rank). —A teams portal ranking is going to be heavily influenced by two main factors: 1) the number of players you bring in and 2) the total spend. IU had those two things in spades vis a vis portal rankings. We had tons to spend and we had 12 players to bring in. It follows that most schools in that position will be at or near the top of the portal rankings. Louisville is in a similar spot. But very few people would take IU or Louisvilles roster over Dukes, Floridas, or Michigans even though we out-did them, by ranking, in the portal.

I guess I’m with @HoosierHoopster in that I’m happier with a dice roll shooter than with the known quantity of Dorn.

That's fine, I was just answering a question. I don't really have a take on the Dorn/Harris debate. Right now, neither impresses me much. In general, I'm not very excited about next basketball season. I am looking forward to football, though.

Hey gang, thoughts on getting him a bucket that fits?

Of course it’s relevant. Cig - football and completely different- brought like a third of his team with him and that includes his culture and team knowledge and experience in his system. you guys seem to be going out of your way to find fault and undercut what DeVries is doing right now. Not sure why you think that’s necessary? In any event whether what he’s doing now in landing what is actually a top 3 portal class to go with at least a decent 2026 class will pan out remains to be seen, but trying to cast a bad light on it by comparison to Cig or UM (worlds different) is pointless other than to see the IU program as all doom and gloom. Unlike UM etc. IU has been flat out awful to mediocre at best for about a decade, if DeV can turn that around in 2 seasons that would be pretty good in my book. If he fails and we were to somehow miss the tournament again with this roster? I’ll be the first to shout from the rooftops— but I’ll place a wager with you that won’t happen