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Never too early to talk bracketology. You can’t make the tourney this early in the season with your on court results but you can sure help your case by taking care of business. IU has won their first 3 games by 23 points or more with one of those teams being a power 5 team that will be competing for a tourney spot. Never a bad thing to start out your journey for a bid with a little cushion instead of playing catch up. IU is no longer bringing a knife to a gun fight with the metrics part of the equation. Glad this staff plays the game. This doesn’t guarantee anything but from my point of view following the metrics this is a breath of fresh air seeing IU enter the chat in playing the metrics game. Keep taking care of business and IUs first NET number should be a good one to start from

Two huge victories tonight ... IU 101, Milwaukee 70 and ... BTB didn't crash!

We are shooting 90% as a team from the FT line. Made 36 of 40 in our two games. Don't necessarily expect to continue at that pace, but wow -- what a difference from years past. HATE leaving free points out there ...

And there it is. Good summary from The Hoosier Huddle on the whole process: https://hoosierhuddle.com/2025/11/16/hoosiers-flip-2026-wide-receiver-lavar-keys-from-penn-state/

14 of 28 from 3……name the last time we’ve hit that many 3s???? oh ya last game against Marquette!!!

Per Cig tonight - "(Elijah) Sarratt has been practicing and looks fine." "Drew Evans is getting closer." Coach Cignetti on Purdue: "They are aggressive on both offense and defense. They are competitive at home." "I realize their record is not great, but they are much improved than the Purdue team we played last year." Curt Cignetti said they will try to keep Thanksgiving Thursday "as normal as possible" with the Purdue game being on a Friday. "We will probably have a meal at the hotel, and it will be a good meal."

Kyle Taber - Idk how many people outside the #iubb circle realize how much the fans needed to see a game like this. A neutral court high major opponent early in the season and a team that’s doing all the things previous ones weren’t. So so pleasing to see.

Move up to 18 on Kenpom.

You might say he’s Tuckered Out? /rimshot

Despite the 2 bad games in a row iu is viewed as a ncaa tourney team by the national media. From my own perspective even though it’s early and from what I’ve seen from the rest of college basketball IU is around 6 to 7 seed. Outside of Purdue, Sparty and Illinois no other B1G team has stood out and separated themselves from IU. Before the season there were some on here that pointed out IU wasn’t even in the Rothstein 45 and would be a border line tourney team or on the outside looking in. Going to have ups and downs but despite 2 clunker games against low level competition you could argue IU is in a better position then most thought. Still being top 25 kenpom team after a couple of down games is encouraging. IU wasn’t going to have 30 games that were going to be a net positive in the efficiency category. Bad games happen

Committed to IU. It's great that IU is now able to flip players from other P4 schools, rather than how it usually went the other way in the past. They also beat out some really good programs. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-football-flips-class-of-2026-safety-dmontae-tims-from-colorado/ https://247sports.com/article/colorado-three-star-safety-commit-dmontae-tims-flips-to-indiana-im-home-now-go-hoosiers-262439914/

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Trying to get into BTB today ...

I’ve got something pretty excellent for you guys. Someone just posted a YouTube video from inside Happy Valley Stadium and about 40 rows up during the catch and the subsequent review. The up to now unseen camera screenshots: First; the Hoosier staff and players gather as the replay official analyzes at the review camera: Next, the head official walks away from the camera to announce and the other official walks over to tell Cig: AND FINALLY… Cig finds out the news from the secondary official before any crowd announcement is made or any of us know for sure. Look at Curt Cignetti’s reaction—coach got hops!:

San Diego St lost in 2OT to Troy, Arkansas and Washington both should have lost last night. No matter the amount of money paid for a roster college basketball still finds a way for the small schools to compete and I’m here for it all. There will always be kids overlooked. Something special about teams with less talent going into a place a competing their butt off. Delivering. Wish it was a little easier in the night so I could of watched some of them live however the next day replay will do

https://x.com/joejacksonCBB/status/1988289519968493932 Did not see these in real time. Outstanding.

There were some signs from Jasai Miles today that intrigued me. He really moved his feet well on defense—seems like even though he came here as a scorer, he’s tentative on that end; looking to avoid mistakes. But he showed signs of athleticism and effort today and he could be reinvented as a multi-positional swing man. Until today the game has looked way too fast for him; today it appeared to slow down just a little.

Waffle House, Kamara appear good to go ... Update on Sarratt and Kamara

A whole extra week for Cig to sit in his office and grind tape while stewing over the dumb s**t Odom said about our schedule. I’d consider feeling sorry for their fans having to sit around that cow pasture and suffer through watching their beloved goat humping football team get dog walked, but there’s going to be 30-40,000 Indiana fans in their seats. We’re about to cap off an undefeated motherfrickin’ season in Ross Ade Stadium. That genuinely might be better than doing it in Bloomington. If you really want to get demented, now imagine Indiana Football winning a national title before Purdue Basketball. I need new shorts.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but in my opinion, Trent Sisley is off to a freshman year start that greatly, greatly exceeds any expectations for a kid ranked 65th out of high school. His per 40 stats are fantastic for any player, but especially for an 18 year old: 4:1 assist to turnover rate, low foul rate, and 45% from three on volume? He's already so much better than some high-priced players (cough... Mgbako) were last year. For context, sucky Mgbako was our three last year and could have been a returnee for about $2 million. Sisley is currently better than Mgbako last year at: assist rate, turnover rate, rebounding rate, fg %, 3pt fg %, foul rate, and attitude. And Sisley is just getting warmed up.

We're ranked! But only in the coaches poll -- No. 25. We're No. 27 (two spots out of Top 25) in AP. That Incarnate Word triumph musta opened some eyes! Coaches poll AP poll

Sisley is going to be such a joy to watch for the entirety of his career here.

Its wonderful winning these types of games by 30 instead of beating Army by 8.