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And their schedule will no longer include double plays against the entire bottom half of the conference. And it is unlikely that will go a second straight season without losing one minute to injuries.. F ‘em.

And somewhere between 10-15 to end the year.

Two-time-loser-to-Indiana is running it back? I’m shaking in my boots.

Here are a couple pro-Sharavjamts morsels for thought: 1. Torvik’s got a player statistical similarity tool. Many, many of his top freshman year comps turned in to really good college players. One of the top comps: frosh Armaan Franklin. They’re different — see @Demo‘s comments on the vision, not really a Franklin strength — but I find that sort of instructive. A guy who wasn’t great in year one, but showed some things that might not jump off the page in his cumulative stats. 2. Torvik also categorizes player position based on size, stats, who he shares the floor with. It tabs Sharavjamts as a PG. Obviously when you’ve got a 6’8” one, you have some lineup flexibility, but speaks to the vision. 3. I know there was some grumbling about why he declared…even if you don’t watch much NBA, surely you can understand why a prospect with his size and skill would still get invited to some workouts. Figure out the shot, add 20 lbs, continue developing, and you can envision at least a productive college player, and maybe at least a chance to play at a higher level than that.

It's getting harder and harder to say that the Purdue loss last year was a fluke after continual losses to poorly seeded teams, though. As long as Edey is there, Purdue will put up a good record. But as long as they remain as unathletic as they are, teams are going to exploit that in the tourney. They didn't fix that issue.

Clearly you haven't held your nose and checked out their boards. They insist Heide and Colvin will revolutionize college basketball with their pure, dazzling athleticism. :) Also, their new 7'2" stiff Berg is a Ginger. I thought that needed to be stated.

I like listening to Woody talk in these things. Lots of coach speak, but he gets his point across. He has a real old school cadence to his media speak which I enjoy.

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We're going to have 2 five star recruits in our starting lineup, with a sixth-year senior running the point. We'll absolutely be preseason top 25.

Mongolian Mike. Seems like the ideal tag team partner for the Iron Shiek. lol

Ouch!

Sometimes it’s not just about getting drafted but starting the professional career - whether G League, Europe, etc. Coming back adds no value for him.

It's Purdue, they'll Purdue it.

And a far, far easier conference schedule than last year.

I think 1 thing to keep in mind on this piece is that the NBA combine and draft process aren’t solely consumed by NBA decision makers. International scouts are scoping things as well. In Sharavjamts, we’re talking about a foreign-born player who, while of course the NBA is option 1, may well have a more expansive view of professional options that he would be happy to embrace. He might be happy to play in the ABL or Europe or China or wherever the best immediate opportunity presents itself. If so, putting himself in front of scouts at every opportunity makes perfect sense. It’s also why I feel pretty comfortable looking at him as strictly a 1-year guy, which seems ideal.

Of note, since I've used the Torvik rostercast tool quite a bit: Basically the rostercast tool orders players from 1 to 10 in expected minutes and puts them in a model and tweaks from there. There seems to be a default in terms of minutes that is slightly adjusted: player #1 in minutes is around 32; #2 is around 30; #3 is 28; #4 is 26; #5 is 24; #6 is 22; #7 is 15; #8 is 12; #9 is 8; and #10 is 4. They get slightly tweaked, but the patterns are always very similar. Currently, Torvik puts IU's minutes per game for their top ten at 32, 30.8, 27.6, 26, 24.8, 20.8, 14.8, 12.4, 7.2, and 4.0. Minutes calculated are based upon: 1. For incoming freshman or redshirt freshman, player ranking as a recruit; 2. For sophomores or greater, playing time for their teams in the past, heavily weighted to the previous year and 3. Player overall efficiency rating (note that this is adjusted for level of play, so Peyton Sparks actually sees a predicted efficiency drop of 2% for next year as he moves from the MAC to the Big 10. ---------------- From what I have gathered so far, there are areas where player's minutes got over and under predicted. Previous minutes do seem to get a higher weight than projected efficiency does. For instance, Malik Reneau has a projected efficiency of 108.8 and Peyton Sparks checks in at 107.7. Despite this, Torvik projects Sparks at 24.8 minutes per game and Reneau at 20.8 minutes per game. I think this is largely in part to the number of minutes that Sparks has played in his first two years Where this does produce some issues is that players transferring from a mid to low major at a higher number of minutes/game than will probably occur. I would expect that Reneau will be at 25 or more minutes per game in reality and Sparks will be under 15. I bring this up because of how minutes are distributed on Torvik, the overall team ratings are effected. If you add Mike Sharajamts to IU's current roster, it predicts that he would get 25.2 minutes per game and have the fifth most minutes and has IU as a team drop two spots in the rating. But because of how it figures ratings and simply orders players in minutes regardless of position, the two players losing minutes in their model are not players at the 2 or 3 positions -- rather it's the players that were fifth and sixth in minutes previous, which are Sparks and Reneau. What's closer to reality is that he would be competing for minutes against other 1, 2, or 3's on Indiana's team. Torvik is a nice little tool, just can't take it as gospel. It's basically built to build interest and have some fun, but don't get too hung up in the rankings.

Hate to see that. Normally I like seeing kids come back to school but not in the big ten except for our players.

Will this team become the M & Ms?

I assume MM is Mongolian Mike here and not McKenzie Mgbanko.

I’ll trust Woodson to make that assessment of his team.

I hope Udeh tears it up and Dickinson sucks

Duke and Kentucky aren't on the front of the jersey... But we've been so bad the last 20 years that we aren't going to get that kind of respect going in until we prove we belong again. I think we've only been ranked in the preseason like 6 times over the past 20 years.

Not highlight videos. Game videos.

I've been sitting on this one for a while. So happy it is finally announced. Welcome home, Calbert.