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Honestly, neither would matter. We’re likely looking at 14-15 new players on the team next year. This was a one year project. It didn’t work. We didn’t build momentum for next year or develop a couple guys for a sophomore jump. This season of Indiana basketball was just this season of Indiana basketball. And now it’s over. Really never felt a connection to this team in any way. It was mediocre basketball played by players who I barely got to know, and will not remember in six months That part hurts to admit. It hurt seeing balconies empty all year. Hurt that we didn’t have a brand of basketball that was interesting. Probably watched the fewest games in a season in my 35 years as an IU fan. I just hope they can get my attention back somehow next year. Because losing interest in one of the things that has been a part of your identity and a source of hope and sometimes joy, feels weird. I just want them to make me care. We’re at a point where that would be an achievement.

Kansas has plenty of money. And Self can coach. But he’s really struggling (relatively speaking) to adjust to the NIL era. Lots of poor fits he hasn’t been able to coach up. Annoying center from UM, Storr, and the malcontent superstar frosh, etc… What Dusty and Underwood are doing goes way beyond money. Guys like Mara, Cadeau, and Johnson weren’t exactly portal darlings. They’re nice players who Michigan is getting more out of than their last coaches did. Perfect example of “fit.” Self has been the opposite—every year he has a malcontent or high priced guy producing less than at his last stop. That’s what Carr has to help with. And quite frankly Devries needs to be able to do when they get here. The roster this year wasn’t as bad as our record but most of the pieces didn’t fit together and I don’t particularly think the coaching really took for some of them either.

Who woulda thunk that playing on glass would be slippery?

Floor didn’t even make it a full year. Switching to a normal floor for the semifinals

This Big 12 floor is just horrendous. I don’t give the slightest of $hits about cool graphics on the floor. I do care about kids slipping all over that ridiculous thing.

Someone must a told Beard free beer if you win the SEC tourney ole Miss up 13 over Georgia

My friends. Amidst all of this gloom and doom, I feel the need to off topic-ally remind Hoosier Nation that in just 178 days, the extraordinarily lovable Tyrique Tucker will be sacking and dancing for the glory of Old IU:

Y’all talking about the Big12 floor, I can’t see anything except the OnlyFans chick in the black dress sitting behind Self. 5-1 odds on a wardrobe malfunction before the night is done.

Genius

It sucks watching other mediocre teams like FSU playing Duke tough and we couldn't even beat NW 1x to likely punch our ticket for the dance.

NW sucks. IU losing to them is ridiculous

‘26 top 100 PG Trey Beamer decommits from Boston College. Good player. Better than BC. Played for Team United on the EYBL circuit and he straight lit up Team Final in 1 of the Sammy Jackson games I watched. Posting this not because I have any thought that this is a thing so much as the fit makes sense to me. They’ve clearly wanted a PG in this class. If we assume that the starting ‘26 PG is currently playing in college or overseas somewhere, bringing in a multiyear kid to take some rotation minutes and groom to take the keys in ‘27 certainly seems like a plan. Kid’s really good but he’s not super projectable. He doesn’t win by being the best athlete on the floor. He wins by being really, really clever, reading the game at a high level and getting to his spots. Probably nothing but I kind of like it.

Not sure why we need a thread to bash/hate on players who wore the IU jersey. We sit on our ***** at home and ***** about college kids (I don't give a flying frig if they're getting paid, they're still kids) who chose to represent IU. Pathetic

And therefore on top of college athletics. CFB is king.

More #1 seeds getting thrown into the early bird gauntlet, St Louis down 12 to GW in the first 10 minutes.

2026 Indiana Miss Basketball Gracyn Gilliard from Center Grove HS. Take it FWIW but there's been some internet chatter that she might ask for her release from Davidson and that IU would be interested. Purely internet chatter. https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2026/03/13/ihsaa-girls-basketball-gracyn-gilliard-voted-indiana-miss-basketball-davidson-wildcats-all-stars/89081507007/ MaxPreps stats 40% 3-point shooter.

Just a joke lol

Kirby Smart is no longer college football's No. 1 head coach Power ranking college football’s top 25 coaches in 2026: Cristobal rises, Sarkisian stumbles - The Athletic Cig is taking over college football.

Miami Ohio only fell to 37 in WAB.

3 girls have entered the portal, Z out with an injury, Fenn hasn't played a second due to injury. Roster's a little thin.

He should be able to develop a consistent and repeatable process to identify players who can help the program succeed. That’s what Cig has — production over potential, certain athletic attributes, character traits, etc. It’s not about finding the best players, but finding the right players.

Probably because he spent two decades scouting college players as an NBA executive.

I've never despised Gatorade more in my life.

Yes agree but most of those mid players besides Stirtz were picked to fill a hole in the roster. They had other high major players surrounding them. IU had a whole team of mid major players. Big difference in my opinion.

And it doesn't help that Myles Brand was in charge of the NCAA at the time which further pushes the Curse of Myles Brand even further.

I like Devries, and he seems like the type of guy who is gonna be more than willing to change and adapt however necessary to be successful here. This years shortcomings gave him a blueprint of what he needs to get from a roster standpoint moving forward that competes in the Big Ten. Obviously we wanted to make the tournament, and probably should have, but I think you could flip the coin over and say it was impressive for Devries to get this team to win 18 games. It was a roster full of mid majors that were not big enough, athletic enough, talented enough, etc to go up against elite type of players that most teams have in this conference. Is it on Devries that this roster was built the way it was? Absolutely. But I think he did a pretty good job with the limitations this roster had. Winning 18 games with this roster shows me he can win big if given the right roster full of actual studs who belong in the Big Ten. The system works. A lot of times we jump out and take leads on teams, but just get wore out too quick to keep up with better athletes and crap the bed because we just can’t keep up. We need the horses. Let Carr build him a good roster to have at his disposal before we start thinking he can’t get the job done.

We'll know fairly soon what we can expect next season by who we target and who we land in the portal and was what we heard from DDV and Dolson the past week or so merely lip service.

Added another honor today.

My hope with Carr/this years portal haul is two land a couple big fish (hypothetically Bidunga/Haralson/etc) by throwing large bags at them and then having Carr's experience of player evaluation at the highest level bring us a few hidden gems. IU isn't going to completely by their way to the top, but finding the right guys within a budget is what Carr has been paid to do at the highest level for two decades. Hopefully it translates.

I was pretty annoyed that we didn't accept WNIT, but, completely did not think about the coaches/team already knew the transfers were coming. Maybe we could get into a 3 v 3 tourney lol? Appreciate the voice of reason!!!

All we have is hope as fans of IUBB. No confidence. No proof concept. No recruiting momentum. Solid NIL which will land guys, but not enough to overcome others schools inherent advantages. We are gonna lose a lot of ‘like’ recruting battles. The next hope is 2 things, and maybe some overlay. 1. Scout significantly improves. (However, lots of great staffs out there with proven records-we aren’t gonna turn over several overlooked stones) 2. Increase budget enough to target a team with the qualities it takes to win big ten basketball games. Target, identify, and land that level of talent whatever the cost might be. With momentum and proof of concept, and winning, players will be begging to play here. Self recruting. It’s what Michigan has going now. UConn to a degree. Part 2 should have been our strategy out of the gate. Wouldn’t be in the position we are in now if it was.

St. Louis/George Washington start the day out at 11:30 and New Mexico/San Diego St end the day at midnight

Of course it would be great given where we just finished! Start with 2 and then we’re cooking. He’s got to have two guards who can create and score. Then a 3 who can hit it from outside and guard most positions. The 4 can pick and pop and the 5 can scoop up the rest. Wilkerson said “get it hot” and with that sort of roster you can see it Now, can they defend? Serious question You would think…

My one gripe with Moren over the years has been that we always seem to have a lot of dead weight on every roster. Nobody uses every scholarship player of course, but it would be nice if we could go 8-9 deep instead of 6-7 deep with 3 or 4 players who aren't playable.

No WNIT? Isn't that a little high & mighty? This team/program needs to earn its way back to respect. At the moment, it doesn't have much room to say "that is beneath me". The consensus on this board seemed to be that CTM has done good things, and deserves another chance, after a whole bunch of recruiting misses. She is going to have to go in the portal and make some surprising catches to assure that IU is viable. And no more Ciezki next year.

I’m here at the United Center. Harun Zrno has three 3’s.

Ole Miss hold on

The under glow when a kid moves across the mid court logo is so strange.

Yeah

The exact opposite of us! Didn't we finish losing 7 of 8 games?

Florida St had been playing its best basketball at the end of the year and have won 7 or 8 heading into this game. Their trajectory was pointing up. 2 starters out for Duke is showing

Boiler DOWN! POTMFB!

I won't miss anything about this season. It's basically already forgotten.

EYBL Scholastic Tournament started today.

IMO, the bold/underline is a fair counter-point the late to the portal narrative. It worries me a bit. As for a Carr-like person to bridge the gap last year, that would have been good, however that seems like it would have been a tricky hire. You want the head coach as part of that hiring decision, but the head coach hasn't been hired yet. And the Carr-like person would want to know who the head coach was before joining. Plus Woody was a combative @$$ that made IU unappealing until he left. I don't know -- just thinking out loud. Maybe I'm wrong. On the topic of Carr, I am kinda worried CDD struggled with his scouting and we're really pinning our hopes on Carr. Not sure we're gonna make it if CDD struggles with player selection, though to be clear it's still TBD if it's an issue. With IUFB, the staff does a lot recruiting work, but Cig is very involved with player selection and at the end of the day he more or less handpicks the whole roster. Anyways, a clusterhump (good term) indeed.

IU rosters high school composite ranking coming out of high school Sisley-65 DeVries-101 Bailey-188 Alexis-unranked Wilkerson-unranked Conerway-unranked Enright - unranked Dorn-unranked Miles-unranked Harris-unranked Drake-unranked

Can't build a B1G roster with mid-major players and expect better results than what we experienced. You can plug holes here and there, but it will only work if you've got major top 150 talent to surround them with. I still believe in Devries' ability to coach but it's clear he's not a Cignetti that can win with anyone. And that's ok, Cig is a generational coach.

Hey cheer up, only 2 more years and we can do it all over again

Oh my God. When people that went to the Peach Bowl tried to describe the sonic boom when Ponds had the pick 6, I didn't believe it due to the lack of quality audio from TV or the radio call. Now I get it.