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He could have easily said, "I will be coaching at Indiana next year". He didn't. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

How IU would it be to DOMINATE then BTT and win by a large margin, then get blown out in first round of NCAA lol Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

lol, must be old buddies. that's the only reason they'd be together.

Michigan Michigan State Indiana RUTGERS!! (Only cus Northwestern has to make it interesting) Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

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Know his uncle, main reason Guy went to Virginia was for Bennett. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

My uncle sent this to me in email, thought I'd throw it up here as it definitely makes you think... ------------------------------------ "As I’ve said before, I hope Indiana has a new coach next year. There are plenty of arguments in favor of this. For me, it’s simple. We need a great coach. I don’t think Crean, today, is a great coach. He’s still young and he could grow into a great coach - but that seems less likely than IU’s ability to hire a great coach (or to hire someone who will become a great coach). The national perception of Tom Crean is very, very different than how IU fans feel about him. That should give us all some pause. On the one hand, we could argue that no one else follows the program as closely as IU fans, so we’re in a better place to evaluate Crean than anyone else. But I don’t think that’s true. We’re so emotionally invested and biased that it’s really hard for us to be reasonable. I think the best example of this is: Syracuse - 61, Indiana - 50 That was the first genuine, national title contending team that IU has had in 25 years. Losing in the Sweet Sixteen to Syracuse was just awful... emotionally. IU fans still haven’t gotten over it. I loved that team. To have Oladipo, Zeller, Watford, and Hulls go out like that made me sick to my stomach. None of us were ready for that season to end. But from a basketball sense, a 1 seed losing to a 4 seed is so commonplace that it’s not even noteworthy. 1 in 3 one seeds do not make it past the Sweet Sixteen. It says nothing about Tom Crean’s coaching ability. It was one freaking game. Sure, other than the Final Four in 2003, Crean has not been past the S16 in all his other years, which isn’t encouraging. But that’s because his teams haven’t been high seeds. Indiana was a clear underdog in his other 3 tournament losses. In fact, you have to go all the way back to 2002 and his first trip to the NCAA tournament to find a real upset, when 5 seed Marquette lost to 12 seed Tulsa. Oh, and 12 seeds beat 5 seeds 64% of the time. So let’s imagine a world where we’re wrong about Crean. A world where Indiana’s best chance of success over the next 10 years is to keep Tom Crean. How could that be true? I think it’s pretty easy to imagine. 1. We need to acknowledge that winning outright B10 titles is hard. Doing it twice with two completely different rosters over a 4 year period is really hard. And both times Indiana did it, the top of the B10 was really strong. We didn’t just back into the title in an off year for the B10 (like Purdue does). That says a lot about Crean’s ability to build high performing teams. 2. One clear trend throughout Crean’s tenure is Indiana’s ability to beat the best teams. Even his first 3 seasons, IU often played best against the best teams (in losing efforts). We’ve also seen IU lose games they shouldn’t. Although this is a bit overblown (all teams get upset occasionally), it still seems too common to me. But I think that’s an easier problem to fix than an inability to beat the best teams. 3. In the last six years, Indiana has had strong teams 3 times. Those 3 teams are really, really close to being what IU fans want in our “up” seasons. A couple more NCAA wins is all that separates them from meeting our very high expectations. There’s really no reason to think that Crean can’t reach those expectations in the future. 4. In the last six years, Indiana has had weak teams three times. I know from reading a thousand posts on here that most people accept that IU will occasionally have down years. The issue is that our down years are more down than we expect. Missing the tournament completely twice is not acceptable. More than anything else, it’s this inconsistency that drive fans crazy. But even here, Indiana is not that far from being good enough in our down years. We made the tournament in 2015. And as frustrating as this season has been, I think we’re better than several teams that will get at-large bids. With the injuries, close losses, schedule, and youth, a reasonable person could look at this season and conclude that it’s an aberration, not a trend. And I think Crean made some notable recruiting mistakes, from a personality standpoint, that hurt the 2014 and 2015 teams - which has been corrected, from what I can tell. 5. “Turnovers and lack of fundamentals! They prove Crean can’t coach!!” Actually, this is easy to argue against. Here goes: IU fans don’t understand basketball. Even worse, they don’t understand basketball in ways that specifically prejudice them against Crean’s style. For example, a low turnover percentage simply isn’t all that important. I could write a whole post about this, but this is really a key point - your eyes might be lying to you. Tom Crean has had the #3, #9, and #11 ranked teams in the country - do you really think those teams did not have good fundamentals? If so, maybe you’re looking at the wrong things. “But wait,” you say, “Indiana has not had good fundamentals this year, and in 2014 and 2015, you moron!” I agree. You know why? Because those teams weren’t very good. There seems to be this weird belief among IU fans that’s it’s okay to have down seasons... as long as the team plays well in their losses. I’ll just leave it at that. 6. Bad defense. I admit, I’m grasping at straws on this one. It’s true that our defense has been pretty good (2013, 2014) or decent (2012, 2016) in 4 of the last six years. But I’ll never be able to forgive the Defensive Abomination of 2015. It was so bad I have to use capital letters. And each season I think our defense should be better than it is, given our personnel. So how to make the argument in favor of Crean here? I only see one way: He needs to let go of his ego, admit he needs help, and either listen to his assistants or bring in an assistant who can turn around the defense. This is big, because defense is the only thing preventing IU from being truly elite. 7. Last but not least - it’s possible that through back channel communication, Glass knows that he’s not going to be able to get any of his home run hires, and all the other candidates have quite a bit of risk with them. So Glass is not comparing Crean to Bennett or Donovan or Marshall.... he’s comparing Crean to Alford and Mack and Holtmann. I know plenty of IU fans would love one of those guys, but IMO it’s at best even probability that they’ll be better than Crean. To be clear, I’m imagining how we could be wrong, not advocating to keep Crean. I think Crean is closer to being good enough than most IU fans do, from what I can tell, but I’m still ready for a change.... I just think I could be wrong. " EDIT: It appears he just yanked this off Peegs from a guy named IUTerry... unless my uncle is IUTerry? lol Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

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Key games tonight to root against teams. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Cal is in a tight one in final 2 minutes. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

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20% chance of making the tournament! That's CRAZY Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Lol #97 Purdue falls behind Valpo, Southbend and TERRE haute within Indiana alone. Top cities Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Getting closer to march madness.... Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

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BIG UPDATE! ‪ESPN has Indiana listed as the 8th team out of March Madness. Iowa is 3rd, Illinois is 4th. Indiana could jump to 6th pretty quickly...‬ Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

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big and massive news will come out tonight.... ...only because I was out the door at 5am and am exhausted so i'm calling it a night. Mods- if anything seriously does happen, blow my damn phone up until i'm awake lol. YA'LL PLAY NICELY TONIGHT!

rutgers is on a longer winning streak than half the big ten!!!

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I'm 2 hours from D.C. I can get FIRST LEVEL tickets for $9. Debating if I go Thursday or hope we win and go Friday for a better more meaningful game Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I live in Richmond and am in C-Ville 3 times a week for work. It's a beautiful campus. Honestly think it's cooler than Bloomington. And I LOOOVE me some Bloomington. Tucked right into the mountains. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners