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Good times. IU bball wins on the road and tomorrow I head to Atlanta to watch a game I never, ever dreamed I would see!!!!

My 5 year old is asking me why the white team isn’t playing hard. Not sure it gets more damning than that.

Layover in Houston on my way to Atlanta. Almost 10 IU fans all yukking it up in our IU gear at the gate.

It was Hjelle. That's one hjelle of a pickup considering the competition.

An interesting bit. In the IU postgame locker room video, there’s a pretty good look at IU’s whiteboard with the Maryland scout on it:

Just keep reminding yourselves we have the #1 football team in the whole country. It will help keep bp levels under control.

"Must win game" is an overused phrase, but road wins will be few and far between and this was not a game we could afford to lose. Slow start, but they got the job done. Good win.

Reed Bailey to Btownbanners: stick it where the sun don’t shine :)

I know one thing for sure. The folks who comment on Facebook on the summer workout videos about free throws are ecstatic with this half.

We're on a 10-0 run over the last 3 hours, at least it feels like it.

Hat tip to @Hovadipo who caught that these no bias elite ball-knower Iowa guys were doing an IU-UO preview. Here it is. Best preview I've seen by quite a margin.

We continue to force Adidas to support IUFB lol. Had to make the semi-final to get Waffle House “welcomed” to the three stripes. Smh! Should have happened at the beginning of the year.

As opposed to…Message Board Insiders?

RANK US YOU COWARDS!

Great job taking care of business. Obviously not perfect, but I'm not going to nitpick after a comfortable Big Ten road win. Enright and Conerway were really good. And Wilkerson in the second half

Ask that question about midnight on Friday!

Really brutal watch thanks to the officiating. Big Ten trashketball at its finest. Luckily we’re not soft like in recent years and can play through it. Speaking of recent years, I feel like I’m watching a Woody team when I look at Maryland. That team sucks out loud.

Maryland is @$$ cheeks

His school choice for this year appears awful as well

Let’s hope Miles Rice doesn’t take over the game

Hope Ole Miss wins. 1) Don’t want Miami in their home field. 2) I want to go to the game and think Miami will drive the prices into the stratosphere

I think Long may be a Hoosier before long

Would much rather see Ole Miss. Among other things, I've absolutely had my fill of Michael Irvin.

I’ll mention this and it’s totally understandable because he’s gonna be 80 here shortly. I have listened to him for years as many others have…and I’ll say he seems to be struggling more than ever. I noticed it last year and it seems to have gotten worse this season as he stumbles his words quite a bit. I fear for the day he has to hang it up. He’s a legend.

Moved up two spots in Pom, currently #25.

He’s a bit chubby.

He moves like he’s playing in the 50 and up league

What’s wrong with Tucker? I mean outside of the Marquette game, he’s been pedestrian.

That's the most awkward and-one I've seen in a minute

Is it showing you bad basketball? Because mine is doing the same.

Of all the one-year Hoosiers, Wilkerson is one of the most entertaining for sure IMO

I don't know if Reed Bailey is a fish out of water or Bambi on ice

Not surprising, but more confirmatory data we should be most of the crowd: Griffin Gonzalez @grifgonzo Per, SeatGeek. 47% of tickets sold on SeatGeek for this year’s Peach Bowl came from Indiana. For reference, 24% of Rose Bowl ticket purchases were from Indiana.

It's become quite hilarious to see the pundits slobbering with their 5-star Bubba Booba is set to visit O$U/any SEC school/ND/etc. Or 5-star Booba Bubba has cut his list to - see same list above. Someone remind me again exactly how many 5-stars we have on the #1 ranked and undefeated team in the country. Interesting Cig quote from this morning: "I don't put up with BS. I'm a little bit old school. You've gotta meet the bar. And if you can't consistently meet the bar, you're in the wrong place."

Please, God tell me that’s how I’s pronounced Haines:

He is exactly ‘one Lamar’ tall. That tweet has a bunch of comments and he responds to each one like a gentleman and a true Hoosier. Almost Mendoza-like.

Pretty much the opposite. Played like 6.5 dudes. All 5 starters averaged over 30 min/game.

The kid’s legit 6’5”. Really good to see that because watching him this summer I thought he might not be.

Yay! If he brought his family we outnumbered Maryland fans.

Rupps Rafters just entered tonight’s entertainment options. Mizzou knocks off UK in Rupp

Great opportunity against Nebraska Saturday at noon. Another huge IU sports weekend. Could get used to that.

Myles Rice gave me one of my favorite moments last year in a season of mostly meh moments. Against the Toiletmakers in SSAH, we missed a shot and Braden Smith got the rebound. He started doing that dribbling between the legs sh-t he always does -- and Myles just took it right away from him and made a layup. Like he took candy from a baby.

Maybe Rice transferred here because he likes his coaching staff wearing business formal.

Ya I really thought he’d heat up when he made the 3 to start the game. His play is kind of shocking to be honest. I want him to do good so bad. He has time to improve but not much, our schedule about to get ugly

Refs are complete cheese. Our guys just gotta keep playing through it and pound out the road W

Bailey is a fish out of water. I love that we can shoot the 3. Can comeback and extend leads quickly if hitting. This team with Kel Ware, TJD or even Ballo would be a solid team.

In past years we would have missed at least 6 of those FT’s and been down by one or more points. So…..there is that

I think these two teams will meet again in the Final Four. You heard it here first.