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Trilly Donovan on the discord logged a prediction for IU!

Yep, he's going to be a Hoosier

CDD and Kenny visited him again today, right before his Houston visit. Rabby said we matter now. We’ll see how it goes going against Houston and Arkansas. Gotta assume we have some money to spare with AT going else where.

Exhibition at the half: UK:38, Puredoo: 30 Let’s not lose context; people act like Pudoo was in some way a special team last year; they were good but not special at all.

mmmm ok... Go play on an island all game against Sarratt... we'll see how that defensive strategy works!

Putting aside any NIL advantage IU might have, if you’re a 6’7” elite athlete, and Karvala is a Troy Williams-level athlete, and you see that Marian game with that pace of play that’s what you’re looking for.

I am excited for Indiana basketball. We have a lot to look forward to in a short period of time. Baylor on Sunday at 1pm. In 8 days on Nov 1: Karvala decision (reportedly IU lean) On Nov 9: Diane decision date... and Marquette in Chicago Rabby apparently thinks we're now in the mix with Diane. He's taken all his officials except for Houston this weekend, and rumor has it we are outbidding Houston. CDD and Kenny were in to see him right before his Houston trip and on the heels of his OV with us. Who knows if he can create a bidding war in the next two weeks and how that will go. BUT... putting on my cream and crimson glasses for a moment If the fall HS class ends up as PAM (108 overall / #15 CG), Karvala (47 overall / #19 SF) and Diane (17 overall / #1 C) that would be a hell of a class. And without overpaying for Thompson, Allmond, or Taylor who they prioritized. That would be an excellent job by the staff. And they'd likely have plenty of cash ready for the portal. IMO this season is going to be fun. Eager to see where things stand a year from now.

Womp womp Trilly Donovan just logged a prediction for IU :-)

....that's how you get those type of high caliber guys, right there!!!! ....both coaches going out of their way showing love and interest and leaving NO DOUBT in his mind that we REALLY want him.

Not Anthony Thompson but this will be a nice recruiting win, people gotta give DeVries time.

@HoosierDevils and @Hardwood83 - This came up in a couple of college basketball podcasts in the last month or two. I don't know the ins and outs, but essentially Big Ten schools (and the like) will be giving 80-ish percent of revenue share to football and slightly less than 20 percent to basketball (in most cases). However, even though the Big East won't have the same total dollars as the Big Ten, because they can give 80-some percent of their total revenue share to basketball it will equate to more basketball dollars. Essentially, 80-some perent of the small pie is more money than the not quite 20 prrcent of the larger pie.

IU fans are so happy and confident in the team we don't even have to talk about the game. We all know we're going to win by 2+ TDs, so why talk about it? For basketball, we have to sort of talk ourselves into (or out of if you're a pessimist) the team, games, expectations. With IUFB it is known that we are dominant

No idea if it's accurate, but saw a rumor posted that Houston is offering 1M, up to 1.5M, and IU is currently at just under 2M. Haven't seen anything about what Arkansas or others are offering.

His Instagram follows point to us. Again just followed though

Xavier’s insider doesn’t expect him to end up at Xavier and said strong IU vibes

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.

Enough of this uncertainty, wariness, anxiety, dubitation, incertitude. We're listed in his final 3 and he's making an announcement on Nov. 1. So he announces on the 1st for IU. But wait, upon further review, he didn't have a formal IU offer? Bull excrement. I'm starting a thread for him regardless of the tremor, misdoubt, qualm, skepticism as to does he or doesn't he. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/class-of-2026-wing-vaughn-karvala-announces-finalists-and-announcement-date/ 247 On3 https://www.hudl.com/profile/18787117/Vaughn-Karvala https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/10/23/class-of-2026-four-star-wing-vaughn-karvala-to-announce-college-decision-on-saturday-november-1/ https://www.on3.com/rivals/news/vaughn-karvala-down-to-5-schools-cal-indiana-xavier/ https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-basketball-recruiting-national-top-50-class-of-2026-prospect-vaughn-karvala-sets-announcement-for-nov-1-258248409/ https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/class-of-2026-wing-vaughn-karvala-announces-finalists-and-announcement-date/ Vaughn Karvala '26 - Team Herro Date Gms Pts FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Ast TO Stl Blk 4/25 L 19 7 17 0 1 5 6 9 0 2 1 0 4/26 W 17 6 10 5 7 0 0 6 0 0 0 2 4/27 W 9 4 10 0 4 1 3 4 0 4 0 1 5/16 W 14 5 15 4 12 0 0 8 2 3 2 2 5/17 W 14 5 8 1 3 3 5 3 0 1 1 1 5/17 W 12 4 11 2 9 2 2 3 3 1 0 1 5/18 L 18 6 10 4 7 2 4 6 0 1 2 2 5/23 W 16 6 14 4 9 0 0 3 1 3 0 2 5/24 L 14 5 14 3 11 1 1 1 0 3 1 1 5/26 W 24 7 14 4 10 6 6 4 1 1 1 1 7/10 L 5 2 11 0 7 1 2 3 1 6 0 1 7/11 L 10 2 7 1 4 5 8 3 0 2 2 0 7/12 L 28 9 20 5 12 5 8 1 1 3 2 1 7/13 W 16 4 10 2 5 6 7 7 2 3 0 3 7/14 L 18 4 14 2 10 8 9 4 2 3 1 4 7/15 W 14 5 10 2 5 2 2 4 0 1 0 1 7/15 L 0 0 7 0 3 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 Count/Avg 18 14.0 39% 33% 74% 4.1 0.8 2.3 0.8 1.6

Crazy, but ultimately a likely scenario when you go and allow big time sports betting. Chauncey Billups, currently HC of the Trail Blazers (ironically formerly often called the Jail Blazers), and player Terry Rozier, have been arrested in an FBI probe of sports gambling and rigged poker games, along with members of organized crime groups. Reportedly at least 30 people have been arrested. Billups apparently is named only in the poker operation. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-nba-chauncey-billups-terry-rozier-arrested-gambling-rcna239312 and re the NCAA/college: The NCAA has been engaging in its own long-term gambling investigation, noting last month that it is seeking violations for 13 unnamed former men's basketball players, with the athletes coming from six different schools. Three players at Fresno State and San Jose State were permanently banned from the NCAA last month as part of the gambling probe. The NCAA has pushed states for more than a year to ban prop bets on college sports, mostly citing harassment of student-athletes, but is now pointing to the potential for athletes to manipulate stats. However, after previously cracking down on all betting, the association recently opened the door for students to bet on pro sports. https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/live/terry-rozier-chauncey-billups-arrested-as-part-of-sports-gambling-probe-live-updates-as-fbi-announces-details-134022201.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKYfCYUOaUx2QEKNfuGBZMvGrAQvWF7383nqvLJpH_6rOaP6YPQTHDlQ-iu6eCdDV4LLG1ifIND9uy4wDouE7SPHit_eRNU3mRnIhOekeacoj5cAAt-adoHL8UybPn28qZF6iqnkwQqOBfUxUKxxcWJEPESvvTShysmbx64vmDMI I'm sorry, it's freaking stupid to permit gambling/betting on college games, it spurs point shaving and other illegal gambling / betting activity. This from today's NYT: A pair of indictments unsealed in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday cast a pall over professional basketball, describing separate schemes in which three current and former N.B.A. players and coaches worked with other defendants to defraud gamblers and online betting firms out of millions of dollars. One case accused an N.B.A. player and a former coach of trading inside information on a series of games to win hundreds of thousands of dollars of bets with sports betting companies. The other charged a well-known head coach, Chauncey Billups, with participating in a series of rigged poker games organized by Mafia families that cheated unwitting victims out of at least $7 million. Taken together, the two indictments, involving more than 30 defendants, will compel the league to confront questions about how far the misconduct has spread, and whether those accused of financial crimes affected the outcomes of games. The first indictment accused six defendants, including Terry Rozier, a guard for the Miami Heat, and Damon Jones, a former player and coach, of trading on inside information available to players and coaches to allow a network of conspirators to place winning bets on their games. Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, called it the “insider trading saga for the N.B.A.” https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-illegal-gambling-arrests

I'm in the yes and no camp. See our exhibition against Tenn last season.... I'm looking forward to seeing how we play, on both ends, against what looks to be a pretty strong (and well coached) Baylor team, but not going to read too much into it either way on the outcome.

Rob Dauster - UConn just announced that Braylon Mullins will be out for about six weeks with an ankle injury suffered in practice this week. That likely holds him out of the BYU, Arizona, Illinois and Kansas games. Six weeks from today is Dec. 5th, so hopefully he'll be back for Jimmy V.

I just think the game is going to be close. The sample size to scout is small. I hope I'm completely wrong. I'm actually more worried about this game than I was against Illinois. But I was also worried about last week against MSU as well. So, there's that.

Do me a favor and say we won't land Arafan Diane next please :)

i'll keep my negative stance if it brings us recruits, so.........haha

That is definitely true for schools like UConn versus basically anybody, and perhaps for comparing Villanova to Northwestern but not true for a comparison of Xavier to IU. There's a massive within conference variation as well. Don't get me wrong, I agree that a middle of the pack Big East school (or bball first and no football) is in better position than a middle of the pack power conference (esp. ACC) school but don't think that's the case for mid-tier Big East to top-tier Big 10. Certainly the difference there is small enough that is easily offset by difference in NIL resources...even if the Big 10 school's NIL isn't earth shattering.

Did you guys know Tucker’s middle name is Dale? That rips.

FWIW IU’s athletic dept revenue was around $150M (that number excludes loans from IU). That was latest reported number, which was for the fiscal year ended June 2024, so pre-FB improvement. I think IU is around $4M rev share + $6M NIL = $10M for MBB. Just the ballpark number thrown around. So the Big East schools not focused on FB getting $6-8M+ of the rev share to MBB is getting kinda close to what a lot of P4 FB schools like us are doing. This is driving up player cost quite a bit. Edit: @HoosierDevils I see your update and what you meant with the $105M number. Makes sense.

Why in the holy blue hell is this thread not on the recently discussed topics list? We are a football school now, we need to start acting like it dadgummit.

NBA is beyond rigged. They don’t even hide it.

Back in June he scheduled an official visit for Oct 17 to Iowa. I have seen nothing about him actually taking it.

A buddy of mine who used to coach over in Kentucky just texted me about him. He said he thinks he is better than Noah Washington from New Albany.

Some in the business think his ranking will only get better after his senior year

Bella previously attended St. Mary's HS in Lynn, MA. She's since transferred to Tilton School in Tilton, NH for the upcoming year. She's #30 in ESPN"s most recent ranking and #38 in the most recent On3/Rivals ranking. https://itemlive.com/2025/06/10/owumi-norton-transfer-from-st-marys-to-tilton-school/ She was named MaxPreps 24-25 POY and this is the writeup: Bella Owumi of St. Mary's (Lynn) is the 2024-25 Massachusetts MaxPreps Player of the Year. The 6-foot sophomore guard led the Spartans to a 25-3 record and third Division 3 state championship in four years. with a 46-38 win over Norwell. In the finals, Owumi scored 19 to win her third championship in four season. For the season, Owumi averaged averaged 17.1 points, 13.7 rebounds, 4.5 steals and 3.8 assists on the season. She scored 19 points in a 46-38 win over Norwell in the title game. Owumi was the Catholic Central League most valuable player and surpassed 1,000 career points this season. Hudl https://www.basketballjournal.com/2025/03/15/bella-owumi-powers-st-marys-girls-to-third-div-3-title-in-four-years/

Mendoza: “So, Vaughn, congrats on that Cal offer. Berkeley’s awesome. And just wait for that 1st time you take that 5 hr flight and get back there at 2am on a Wednesday morning after getting your a$$ whooped in Raleigh, NC on the late ESPN game. Sounds killer, huh?” Karvala: “Uhhh”

^^Complaining about people that "like to complain just to complain"^^

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

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’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 were tied for 4th through 6th in the B1G last year.

Your boss maaaay not be the healthiest lifestyle guy it seems.

For anyone interested in going but didn’t like the high ticket face values, I’m seeing some $13 to $16 per ticket (includes fees) for the bottom two rows of the top deck hit the secondary market on SeatGeek. And really, the crowd for this will be so sparse I’m sure you’ll be able to move around. Not sure how long they’ll last, but that’s a better deal than the current $44 cheapest on Ticketmaster, who is primary ticket seller for this event.

Horrible, no good, garbage ball.

This is crazy. I get that with conference consolidation it’s not entirely an apples to apples comparison, but still… The SEC bias is nauseating.

I have teams I like and teams I dislike. But I root for two schools: Indiana. And whoever is playing Purdue on that particular day.

lol

I was going to say...The MD game was hardly impressive for either team. With that said, 4 weeks ago, we could've slept walked into this game and won. That's not the case anymore. The boys will need to be ready.