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Field of 68 guesstimates from yesterday: Potential top ten in the country offense Buzzing on Dorn and Reed Bailey Big questions about Bailey's ability to defend the five 8/9 tournament game is center mass of predictions; 4-ish seed if they become pretty good defensively and a Fran McCaffery Iowa team if they don't Very fun team to watch

The disconnect with fans and IUs high school recruiting in my opinion comes from the fact the basically the last time we had a coach that put in effort on the high school avenue was back with Archie over 4 years ago. Sure Woody had some success with landing highly rated high school kids but none of them were long term recruiting wins. IUs footprint in high school recruiting has been non existent. DeVries seems to get it and has made himself visible in the recruiting world. He seems to have no problem grinding and doing the work even if the results hasn’t shown up in the first cycle. Establish connections on the recruiting trail again for your program and maybe down the road you get IU back in the game that they have sorely been absent from. Looking back at high school recruiting that IU as a program has had since Archie’s last year through this year will make you not feel well. The number of those kids that were only here 1 year to help or left before they could contribute to the program and it’s no wonder the program is where it’s at today. Results might not be there yet but the fact they have a coach willing to roll his sleeves up and actually recruit like the job demands is nice to see in my opinion.

Feels like it’s a matter of time until college teams start trying to trot out 23-28 year old pros with “eligibility.” CBB needs to be careful. If the sport gets away from college age players I think people will lose interest in a meaningful way (much more than anything NIL or the portal did — which was not much imo). Good job by Izzo to speak out as one of the statesman of CBB (and yea I know he isn’t a saint).

Somebody needs to. For Chrissake, we have full blown European pros, now we have American pros, we have college players who graduated from HS in 2018, 8 figure rosters and when private equity inevitably gets it’s foot in the door uniforms are gonna look like NASCAR. It’s beyond gross and the NCAA is worried about nothing but getting sued and clearly doesn’t even have the concept of a plan.

https://x.com/BenShockley_/status/1980835813534626049 Izzo on the London Johnson situation. Of course he!’s right.

Got to laugh at UCLA fans posting, "And David pulled a stone from his bag and slung it . . . " not realizing this is not only a scripture but it is also a memorable line from the locker room scene in the movie HOOSIERS !!! LOL

I like it. Dorn is something of a wild card imo. From the Marion game, the defensive rotations, switches and extensions to perimeter looked pretty good. Marion isn’t good, but at one point it was something like 31-4. That was a result of energetic D. And the shooting was without our best shooter finding his touch. Wilkerson is going to light up teams. it is absolutely going to be fun to watch, and based on the effort and communication I saw I expect our D to improve and adjust during the season. Imagine that, actual adjustments. So looking forward to watching this team grow

The Daily Hoosier - Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (analyst), and Jenny Taft (sideline) will call the UCLA at IU game on Saturday for FOX.

Looks like the replay of Marian vs IU tonight on BTN @ 10pm

I like IUFB being compared to Goliath. That’s a new experience.

https://www.on3.com/news/how-g-league-players-can-now-play-college-basketball/ Some explanation of the NCAA’s thinking on the G-League situation. If I’m reading this correctly it sounds like any undrafted G-League players still within their 5 year post-HS window will be eligible to make the London Johnson move. Sounds a little murky as far as whether they were in the draft but undrafted vs a kid like Johnson who hasn’t gone through the draft process. The old days of the Fab 5 getting envelopes from Ed Martin seem positively cute now.

Recruiting has seemingly been fixed with the switch of recruiting coaches. Three top 60 recruits including the two highest ranked players in program history directly out of high school for 2026 both in top 30. Also 2025 has two top-40 recruits. These classes (especially 2026 which is likely to be top-five in country) are in line with other top programs of last few years and is what should have been happening the last few seasons when winning. It was all about switching lead recruiting coaches. The job under the previous recruiter was not commensurate to the results on court. This new one in last year very much is. Glad Moren recognized it and made the change. It shows she expects winning and strong recruiting as much as fans and recognized job was not getting done under previous person.

I agree. Although I strongly believe we will beat UCLA, at Maryland and at Penn State none of them are “sure things”. Who knows how PSU will respond to their new coach, add in their talent and 100k fans and the game could be a challenge. The bummer about PSU is that it has turned into a “ho hum win” or “bad loss”. Cant wait for Saturday and watching our D take care of Nico.

4-1 final. Hoosiers 16 shots, 9 on goal and 5 corners. Wisky 7-3-4.

Full game is up on YouTube

People just continue to underestimate Moren. Personally, I find it comical. She’s an outstanding coach. Her team is now faster and more athletic. There’s going to be some growing pains as she and the team adjust, and then the team will rise under her coaching. Let the Debbie Doubters keep at it. That’s all just fuel

I wonder if Jenny's # is 867-5309?

Private equity makes everything it touches worse. Hope it stays far away from the Big Ten.

Wisconsin can’t even get any love with insults

No such thing as an easy win in the Big Ten. Except for Turdue :)

I’m really scratching my head over all the angst regarding this game. Cig has proven that he’ll have his team ready to go. We’re playing at home. UCLA will be playing a game when they are normally just getting out of bed. Too many are buying into the media loving the Bruins’ turnaround. Trust in Cig. Trust in Fisher, Monds, Kamara and the rest of the lads. Watch with the quiet confidence that comes with being the superior team. I know, this is new for us. Gotta start thinking and acting like the programs that have been there before.

They should be out shortly, but are not out yet.

Not sure how good Fisher is but the word is that Cig played once, complained that it took too much time but, he shot an 18 as one would expect.

I don't like these changes, but at least these are stated rules. Ed and boosters like him are still the seedy underbelly of college athletics because that was bald-faced cheating. Nothing about it is romantic, quant, or cute.

(Getting way ahead of myself), if we do play OSU this season I think it would be to our benefit to wear these and psych them out.

The 7' Ratliff twins both commit to Southern Cal.

A little fun with the nation's best linebacker ... https://x.com/B1Gfootball/status/1981007690794222066

Vaughn Karvala, Come on down You're the next contestant on the Price is Right.

He's right, and he knows that he has the influence and the cache to speak out when a lot of other coaches will not. I have been saying for a couple of years now that the NCAA needs to get their sh!t straightened out or these power leagues will start their own governing body.

Next Friday night, men are on the road to face Maryland (9-0-3) (5-0-2) who has not lost at home this year. Match will be televised on BTN at 8:00. 7 min. left in tonight's match with Hoosiers maintaining a 4-0 lead.

In my perspective, mostly because of who we targeted, this is the least impressive recruiting window I can remember. Went hard after 2 PGs, 2 or 3 wings, and 3 or more centers only to land 1 100+ recruit. I wanted the portal anyhow so it’s kinda whatever. But from a program momentum perspective this looks bad. No juice.

Hold your horses. We gotta let this play out so that we can see how big it needs to be.

Wowsie wowsie woo woo

I think that thing is end of life at 60 years old. I’m pretty sure a new one is coming.

And opportunity often equates with tangible successes as freshmen. Both will have plenty of opportunity on this IU squad. WOuldn't be surprised if both start, either early or eventally this season.

I have a couple...

As someone employed at a company who’s owned by PE, please no.

Thats a good summary. Nobody really knows. Lots of belief in Devries but question the roster type stuff. I've been the same way. This addresses most of my thoughts. I'd like to be better. But if we make the tournament as an 8 seed in year one I'm ok with that.

Focus on soccer but also discusses success in other IU fall sports. https://www.assemblycall.com/p/three-takeaways-from-ius-top-notch

I have taken the summer off from following the women closely during the off season. Now I feel refreshed and excited to see how the team comes together before the B10 schedule kicks in. The women are being underestimated which might just be for the better.

Half the team could have scored this goal https://x.com/i/status/1980793542894047465

Even if he has a huge drop off and starts to only win 6-7 games a year he will be our all time winningest coach most likely

I actually think it makes a lot of sense. The wrong coach with more resources is still the wrong coach. We had to hit a home run before just spending money. Nobody knew we would essentially hit two grand slams in one inning with Cig though.

The swim teams don't have recruiting problems. The women add a very good sprinter to their 2027 class. https://swimswam.com/botr-sprinter-addy-gebhart-hands-verbal-commitment-to-hoosiers-for-2027/

Over the last three conference games these are UCLA's numbers that Coach Cig talked about in his presser. Rushing for 233 yards a game. AVG TOP: 36:30 minutes Starting fast much like 2024 IUFB. Outscored opponents in the 1st half 58-17 Completely ignore their win loss record, up to the Northwestern loss. They are a different team and 3-0 in the conference since then. Let's hope the 3 game sample size is large enough on film for our beloved Hoosiers to shut down their offense. Everything is new with this team.

Expect a tough year. WIll win a few they shouldn't when hot, but looks like an average Fran Iowa team from first look.

We are going to be tested. This game will probably be close.

We ventured into this highly scientific exercise last year, and it projected an IUFB victory over Purdud of 168-3. While the estimator was slightly off on margin of victory, it also underestimated IU's percentage of total points in the 66-0 victory. So with that in mind, I bring you the 2025 transitive IU/Purdoo score estimator: Indiana 63-10 over Illinois. Therefore? Indiana is 53 points better than Illinois. Illinois over Duke 45-19. Therefore? Indiana should currently be favored by 79 points over Duke. Duke 45-21 over Cal. Therefore? Indiana should currently be favored by 103 points over Cal. Cal over Minnesota 27-14. Therefore? Indiana should currently be favored by 116 points over Minnesota. Minnesota 27-20 over Puredoo. So kudos to Purdud!! They are clearly an improved team, as evidenced by the BtownBanners Transitive Score Estimator (BTSE). This year's IU /Purdue BTSE: Indiana will beat Purdud by 123 points. Due to Purdue's improved offense, I'll go with: IU: 130 Purdump: 7

This game averaged 5.6M viewers. CBS’ most watched game of the year so far. Sweet.

I wish my dad gave me this look……..sniff………lol