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Up to #20 on KenPom, defense is 15th!

Men's hoops: 6-0 Women's hoops: 6-0 Football: 11-0

Never too early to talk bracketology. You can’t make the tourney this early in the season with your on court results but you can sure help your case by taking care of business. IU has won their first 3 games by 23 points or more with one of those teams being a power 5 team that will be competing for a tourney spot. Never a bad thing to start out your journey for a bid with a little cushion instead of playing catch up. IU is no longer bringing a knife to a gun fight with the metrics part of the equation. Glad this staff plays the game. This doesn’t guarantee anything but from my point of view following the metrics this is a breath of fresh air seeing IU enter the chat in playing the metrics game. Keep taking care of business and IUs first NET number should be a good one to start from

Seems to me we've seen positive half time adjustments in virtually every game we've played thus far.

Two huge victories tonight ... IU 101, Milwaukee 70 and ... BTB didn't crash!

Coach had a good game plan on Haggerty. It’s nice to see a plan and follow through. How refreshing.

And there it is. Good summary from The Hoosier Huddle on the whole process: https://hoosierhuddle.com/2025/11/16/hoosiers-flip-2026-wide-receiver-lavar-keys-from-penn-state/

14 of 28 from 3……name the last time we’ve hit that many 3s???? oh ya last game against Marquette!!!

This group of guys have yet to lose together - not a game or a preseason exhibition. Feels great having a men's basketball team that's about winning in Bloomington again.

Per Cig tonight - "(Elijah) Sarratt has been practicing and looks fine." "Drew Evans is getting closer." Coach Cignetti on Purdue: "They are aggressive on both offense and defense. They are competitive at home." "I realize their record is not great, but they are much improved than the Purdue team we played last year." Curt Cignetti said they will try to keep Thanksgiving Thursday "as normal as possible" with the Purdue game being on a Friday. "We will probably have a meal at the hotel, and it will be a good meal."

Move up to 18 on Kenpom.

You might say he’s Tuckered Out? /rimshot

The IU shot chart against K State is another gawddddamnn thing of beauty:

Despite the 2 bad games in a row iu is viewed as a ncaa tourney team by the national media. From my own perspective even though it’s early and from what I’ve seen from the rest of college basketball IU is around 6 to 7 seed. Outside of Purdue, Sparty and Illinois no other B1G team has stood out and separated themselves from IU. Before the season there were some on here that pointed out IU wasn’t even in the Rothstein 45 and would be a border line tourney team or on the outside looking in. Going to have ups and downs but despite 2 clunker games against low level competition you could argue IU is in a better position then most thought. Still being top 25 kenpom team after a couple of down games is encouraging. IU wasn’t going to have 30 games that were going to be a net positive in the efficiency category. Bad games happen

Committed to IU. It's great that IU is now able to flip players from other P4 schools, rather than how it usually went the other way in the past. They also beat out some really good programs. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-football-flips-class-of-2026-safety-dmontae-tims-from-colorado/ https://247sports.com/article/colorado-three-star-safety-commit-dmontae-tims-flips-to-indiana-im-home-now-go-hoosiers-262439914/

11 - 0

Trying to get into BTB today ...

There's a rumor out there that Fox wanted to move the Michigan-O$U football game to 3:30 p.m. so it wouldn't have to compete against IU-BCU hoops. (Of course, I created that rumor ...)

I can't wait for him to annoy the amish boy

I LOVE MODERN OFFENSE!! All of those open basket cuts by our bigs are a direct reflection of KState desperately trying to deny the three. Get used to it y’all; the Archie/Woody slog of an offense is GONE. We just had a five minute scoring drought and still scored 39 that half. THANK GOODNESS THE SUFFERING IS OVER

I’ve got something pretty excellent for you guys. Someone just posted a YouTube video from inside Happy Valley Stadium and about 40 rows up during the catch and the subsequent review. The up to now unseen camera screenshots: First; the Hoosier staff and players gather as the replay official analyzes at the review camera: Next, the head official walks away from the camera to announce and the other official walks over to tell Cig: AND FINALLY… Cig finds out the news from the secondary official before any crowd announcement is made or any of us know for sure. Look at Curt Cignetti’s reaction—coach got hops!:

San Diego St lost in 2OT to Troy, Arkansas and Washington both should have lost last night. No matter the amount of money paid for a roster college basketball still finds a way for the small schools to compete and I’m here for it all. There will always be kids overlooked. Something special about teams with less talent going into a place a competing their butt off. Delivering. Wish it was a little easier in the night so I could of watched some of them live however the next day replay will do

https://x.com/joejacksonCBB/status/1988289519968493932 Did not see these in real time. Outstanding.