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Final Standings - Congrats hoosierfarmboy82 for first, Rico on 2nd and CrossboneIU22 for 3rd place! Group Leaders Rank Owner/Bracket/Champ Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Round of 8 Round of 4 Championship Pts/Poss Pts 1st Clint hoosierfarmboy82 Michigan 29 18 20 16 16 32 131/131 2nd Rico Rico Michigan 25 22 20 16 16 32 131/131 3rd Nick CrossboneIU22 Michigan 28 24 20 8 16 32 128/128 4th Tundra Wookies ALASKAHOOSIER Michigan 27 20 16 16 16 32 127/127 5th BB BannerVille Michigan 23 16 16 24 16 32 127/127 6th J RaceToTheTop Arizona 26 26 20 24 16 0 112/112 7th CHRIS GeeperGibson Michigan 24 20 12 8 16 32 112/112 8th Natty's Nards Bracket Duke 25 20 16 24 16 0 101/101 9th Pappy Pappy's Bracket Houston 24 20 16 24 16 0 100/100 10th BeerBQ BeerBQ Duke 27 20 20 16 16 0 99/99 11th Michael RoadRage Illinois 26 20 24 24 0 0 94/94 12th Mark kottke Arizona 24 26 20 24 0 0 94/94 13th Brian LIHoosier Arizona 25 16 12 24 16 0 93/93 14th Jerm Cub Fan JermHoosierFan KickAss Bracket Duke 26 22 12 16 16 0 92/92 15th jwrobiso jwrobiso's Official Bracket Arizona 27 26 20 16 0 0 89/89 16th Tyler Crimson and Cream Arizona 23 22 16 24 0 0 85/85 17th timothy USPSHoosier Arizona 27 24 16 16 0 0 83/83 18th shane shane's Mind-Blowing Bracket Arizona 25 24 16 16 0 0 81/81 19th Garrett Gnet550 Duke 25 22 16 16 0 0 79/79 20th Larry Home Jersey Arizona 28 22 12 16 0 0 78/78 21st Jason HoosierCoop Arizona 27 22 20 8 0 0 77/77 22nd Mike mjeze106 Arizona 24 24 20 8 0 0 76/76 23rd JJ Johnsoniu Arizona 25 22 12 16 0 0 75/75 24th Andrew TheWatShot Arizona 27 26 12 8 0 0 73/73 25th Ronald ronzo44 Duke 24 22 16 8 0 0 70/70 26th RHONDA RHONDA's Expert Bracket Arizona 24 22 16 8 0 0 70/70 27th David TadQueasy Arizona 26 22 12 8 0 0 68/68 28th Josh Josh Arizona 24 20 16 8 0 0 68/68 29th Tom Benson Tom Benson's Tip-Top Bracket Arizona 27 24 8 8 0 0 67/67 30th Raor raorIU Iowa St. 26 20 12 8 0 0 66/66 31st adam adam's Bold Bracket Arizona 27 18 8 8 0 0 61/61 32nd Joe Joe's Boss Bracket Florida 25 22 12 0 0 0 59/59

Would love to see a Nick Zeisloft type added with one of those spots.

That trade is just plain weird. Very similar players from very similar teams, though Petrie had better numbers.

Sherrell 30 Samet 30 Sisley 15 Harris 26 Lindsay 26 Burton 32 Mustaf 26 15 mins left.... 5 mins at the 4/5, 10 mins at the 1-3. We have very little left to sell in terms of minutes, realistically speaking. And that's with knowing nothing about Moody, Karvala.

I like this approach. The back-up PG & C don't need to win games, just need to not lose games. Competent is fine. For center I envision someone like Langdon Hatton from a couple yrs ago. Big body, not flashy, but affordable! For that 3rd spot I would LOVE to get a dynamic Wing scorer. Probably tapped out the budget already, but adding an above average SF would make this line-up pop. But if they are comfortable with the committee approach I would be fine with the 4/5 option you described instead.

smh

Guess it was a trade: Noyan for Petrie.

We noticed in past years... these spots aren't filled with nearly as good of players as fans think they will be. Hatton is probably who we're getting as our last big. And we wouldn't get nearly as good of a player as Enright as that 12th/13th guy as a guard. I'm not seeing the minutes you're seeing for the 11th guy at the 4/5. I fully expect Sisley to play 12-18 mins per night.

We don't have 4 spots available.

Based off nothing but hoping for the best, I bet we sign the 12th and 13th roster spots before the 11th roster spot. Two cheap seniors. A big body Center that probably won't play much unless there's an injury. And a pure PG who does the same. And for the 11th spot... we go to Europe over the summer for a 4/5 that can play rotation minutes as the third big.

Right. It would actually be worse than last season. MUCH worse. They did the best they could in the circumstances last year, this time they were apparently prepared and got several of their top targets. To intentionaly leave a roster as incomplete as this would be mind-bogglinlgy stupid. I don't think the staff is stupid.

They still need at least 2 bigs that can be help if injuries or foul trouble happen. You don't want to go into the season with only 2 bigs + Sisley They also need a shooter and a ball handler if/when injuries happen.

12th and 13th roster spots are basically always break-the-glass-in-case-of-emergency practice players IMO. If those guys play in real games it usually means you're in some kind of trouble.

so very thankful they've done so. Both programs have needed it. It feels like basketball's only chance. Its most schools only chance. I think the sport probably met its near max this offseason on what teams will pay. I don't see it jumping significantly from here. My gut told me Whitten and Dolson were going to do everything they could to set DeVries up. Last year didn't go the way I expected, so that was odd. But thankfully we are committed.

Hysterics with Rabby said the budget for the roster this year was about $20M. I don’t know how much of that was spent, but I would assume once all is said and done, it will be most of it, like high-teens. That’s insane. IU is funding FB and MBB at levels I didn’t think were possible.

When a rb is a fearless 220 lb cement block it's a whole lot easier to pass pro than when a rb is ... Jaylin Lucas.

Hysterics said today it was high 4’s. And roster could near 20 in total although probably short of that.

Agree with this. I like 8 or 9 man rotations. Hated when would woody would platoon or try to run 10. However, an open competition for those spots from 13 capable members will yield a better team than intentionally filling spots 11-13 with intentionally lesser talent. Try to find the Juco kid that might pop, or a Foriegn kind with attributes or something because you never know. Wagler from Illinois is a good example of ‘you never know’. Find players and fill the spots let practice figure out your best.

pretty logical stuff when you look at the rest of the roster. I don't think he/anyone would need inside info to throw poop at a wall here and get that right.

Rabjohns doubled down today on Hoosier Hysterics. Said the 11th spot is a backup big and spots 12 and 13 are practice players that they expect to be better than Walk ons. I guess we find out how locked in Rabjohns is.

Watched a minute-long cutup the other day of what I thought was, without reading the caption, some of our explosive pass plays of the year. Hole shot vs. Iowa, Becker TD in the Rose Bowl, and a few others. It was a Kaelon Black pass pro cutup.

Did some research on that rivalry one time. I think it was after visiting Lawrence and noticing that, while their eyes were on playing us, it was still pretty apparent that Mizzou was public enemy #1 there. That one goes a lotttt deeper than “our campuses aren’t too far apart, hate u lol!!!”

I might've been baked through several long nights in Bloomington, but that's another story...

Playing Sherrell at the 4 will come with some defensive issues against teams with stretch bigs. Plenty of tape on him in drop coverage and slow to shooters. Think Race Thompson trying to cover the perimeter…May see Sisley more in those games and AS more in the 5 role Offensive arsenal and rim protection though are upper level and much needed in the front court.

Cole Cloer (NC State) transfers to Bama.