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Sparty winning at Purdue was the best outcome for IU moving forward. Since IU couldn’t find a way to get past Northwestern you would want Sparty coming in as high in the NET and B1G as possible. IU will have an opportunity to add a home win against a top 10 NET team

Or whenever Renn fouls someone. You would be drunk in the first 3 min. Kid fouls every other play

Drink

Jack Benter on PeeYew wants to change his last name to "Gohlke." A 26 foot guarded jumper by the freshman that is averaging 5ppg in the last minute with 15 seconds left on the shot clock. lol

Making it rain ... cream and crimson confetti.

@Uspshoosier I sincerely and truly applaud your undying optimism.

At least they still have their motion picture debut.

We have definite clout. Scott is very well respected AD

Pretty cool. Can’t wait to see his 40 time, but he won’t run until IU’s pro day (needs time to train since the season went so long).

Once you get passed the first 2 months of DDs tenure, I believe he's done quite well. I think we're in the process of rectifying shortcomings as we speak. He's probably going to win 20 games with this roster. Imagine what he will do next year with a well crafted roster. I would've preferred these things had been in place last March but now DD knows exactly what to go get and the people are being put in place to get the job done.

hes thinking "there aint enough crack in the world to forget about losing this one....."

Always nice to see this thread title pop up on a cool sunny morning.

Purdue's seniors have 4 home losses this year. They had 4 home losses in the previous 3 seasons combined.

Sparty party! Amish Boy played like Pavia on a snowy day with the Toronto Argonauts

Wonder if at a Purdue game, the refs say to the coaches pregame: "As you know each player gets five fouls. Except for No. 4 -- we're gonna give him 10."

I think he probably got hammered after he went home, and saying it was tough "on the verge of a big win" meant he was craving it as the game neared the end but knew he wouldn't get to drink. In any event, glad we're not dealing with this. IU basketball creates enough problems on its own.

Yep. Win a football title at Indiana and become bullet proof. I really want basketball to be better, but he could burn it to the ground and put out the ashes with raw sewage from West Lafayette and it wouldn’t matter.

Scott got an invite to this White House roundtable on college sports. It’s probably doesn’t matter much, but I guess it’s kinda interesting we were included. IU has some clout.

Lmao Cig is so damn awesome.

He was at the combine, and here is an interview with PFT. He grips the football like Favre

Crack can change crimson and cream confetti to orange and green easy (not personal experience). Carson Beck going from a frog...to an uglier frog can never change.

The more I look back on this game, it's amazing how devastating this actually was for Miami. The Mighty U was playing great. All their Hall of Fame former players and celeb fans were on the sideline. Playing Indiana -- who cares how good they're supposed to be, it's Indiana. The game is in their home stadium in their city. It was all coming together. Then IU fans take over with 2/3 the crowd -- that's emasculating. After zero points in the first half, Miami threw some decent counterpunches, but they got handled and lost. It was not in fact "About the U." It was All About the Hoo-Hoo-Hoosiers. Incredible. That really was a tough situation for us, and we played just "okay" and won.

tonight 8 pm on Fox Michigan goes to Illinois.....should be a great game.

Somewhere Jerry Palm is updating his bracketology with the caption "Purdue moves to a 1 seed following another impressive 2nd place finish against a top 10 team."

And Purdue's Big Ten title hopes officially hit 0.0%

The best they could do was a 30-footer from the Amish kid?

Boilers go down again.

Painter had to call a TO to prevent Hermey from doing something really, really stupid.

He’s the Diego Pavia of bball.

Michigan State up 8 with 4:05 remaining.

Drinking game: take a drink every time Robbie Hummel says 'roll and replace' when Purdue plays tonight.

I think the Purdue model is likely the ideal plan for Carr and DeVries. For that to work, you gotta scout, develop, and coach your @$$ off. Painter has proven proficient at all 3. I don’t hate it. I kinda like it. But DeVries isn’t Painter and we are Indiana and should be able to double the NIL of Purdue allowing us to build something a little different. Hopefully these smart basketball minds can come together and figure things out. You need 10. 8 Healthy and ready to go. Invest in 8-10 and fill with super low cost back end pieces. It’ll help in team chemistry as well with every player having a piece of the pie. Even though Carr has my dream job and has 25 years of experience I’m still auditioning for the part and convinced I can help. lol.

Duke fans just can't help but be pretentious. It's in their nature. To be (somewhat) fair, rumor is that Duke wanted him but only for '27. If he was 100% set on reclass it was us or Louisville. Either way, very excited to have him aboard!

On the bright side, the lack of winning is probably making it easier for Chris to avoid beer. One of my all time favorite CBB tweets

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-commit-and-national-top-30-2027-player-chase-branham-set-to-visit-indiana-again-this-weekend-275712669/ Visiting this weekend

Pretty incredible answer here.

Not optimism just math

I try not to follow recruiting too much until they make it to campus. But this kid looks really good, right? Like a potential day 1 starter?

Agree Reneau would be a huge help offensively, but he wouldn't do much for our defense / rebounding problems. Think about TJD or even Kel'el Ware under Devries on this roster... that would be a fun team.

Very fascinating. Huge money industry functioning like the Wild West. Curious to see what thoughts come out of this.

Here we are with IUs first must win game if they are not wanting to use Phase 3(Conference tourney) to build their resume to get selected. Inability to win home games against bottom of the bracket seeded team(Iowa ) and no tourney team(Northwestern) has made this game against (Sparty) a top of the bracket seeded team as a must have game. Also will need Minny and @Ohio St but need this first. Winning this would give them 4 wins against the projected field with 2 of those wins coming against protected seeds. Not sure how many bubble teams will be able to say that. Roll the dice and see how Sunday goes

Another former player joins the staff. These sort of moves probably solidify the new IUFB culture even further.

But I was told he was the closest thing to a slam dunk, sure thing hire IU could have made last year... lmao

Here's some good news for you - games that matter with IU get me super happy/excited now that I'm becoming an old sucker.[sorry Dave-you too :)] They used to stress me out to no end. Therefore, you are young.

For sure. I don't have any reason to think CDD doesn't want to succeed here. I think if Dolson feels this is a necessary action to move the program forward, I would venture to guess CDD is on board with it. I just think maybe he wasn't prepared for how big the job is here...how much pressure, maybe the landscape of the B1G, or even that it wouldnt be easier to recruit to IU. All guesses. Hopefully Carr is the answer, and the ship gets turned around.

It is encouraging that Dolson has immediately recognized a problem, and that 2/3 of the way through season one, he has taken a real step to change the narrative. Carr makes the salient point that this year's team has had basically the exact same roster building strategy that Woodson used, and that it is largely a losing strategy.