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I mean you'd Cleary go with C based on results alone. C gotta be Shaka. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Coach C Shaka? Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Not near enough info to make a decision on that lol. Conference is a tad important consideration Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Don't leave me hanging! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Not saying he has a clue, just showing the poll results how Crean would be a home run hire for mizzou. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Crean staying busy Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Well done sir. Well done. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Some perspective Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Careful messing with this masterpiece! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Here it is. 5:40 mark Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Lol... that thread already exists :) Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Janitor and Crean ain't BFFs. Will be around Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Run a search for basketball4iu on here. You'll see it all. Only missed on one thing, and believe that situation changed which therefore made him wrong. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Lol there is a 0% chance you would guess it Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

fixed it for ya

Outside of winning the entire Big Ten Tournament and getting the automatic qualifier, I think there is another way for Indiana to stumble into the big dance. This year's bubble is WEAK. That being said, with Indiana's big wins this season, coupled with a 20 win season, I could see Indiana getting the nod to the First 4. (I think this is not likely we win these games, just showing the outcome). If we are going for the 20 wins, we really want Michigan to LOSE to Nebraska on Sunday. This would allow Indiana to open up the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday vs Rutgers and then have a MUCH easier path to get to 20 wins. Again, this isn't at all likely, but here is the potential paths. I went ahead and filled in Indiana's record assuming they won each of their future matchups. 3 wins away... Rutgers, Northwestern & Maryland is very doable in my opinion. Indiana can also beat themselves and lose in the first game to Rutgers lol.

Being realistic. He is a double in my book. Better than average success, most coaches would love to have his last 5 years.

whoops.. will add it above. good catch.

Grand Slam Hires (Every #IUBB Fans Wet Dream): Donovan or Stevens Home Run Hires (Proven): Sean Miller, Tony Bennett Triples (Up and comers, not proven): Archie Miller, Chris Collins Doubles: Tom Crean, Steve Alford Singles: 70% of coaches live here. Walk: Dane Fife

I thought it would be interesting to take a little deeper dive into Indiana’s season. Obviously it hasn’t been good, but has it really been as bad as the 17-14 record indicates? I decided to go through the schedule and analyze the last 5 minutes of every game to see how the games played out. It’s actually crazy looking at how close so many of these games were down the stretch. We REALLY missed some senior leadership in these games. Have to think Hartman would have helped us pull out a couple of these. Close Games we won: 1. Kansas: Hit 16/18 free throws down the stretch. Key here is we went to the line 18 times as we were aggressive and didn’t sit back and rely on threes. 2. Penn State Gm 1: Horiffic melt down leading by 8 with 1:18 to go. Shot 2/7 and 4 turnovers before JBJ bailed us out with a late 3 to win. 3. Penn State Gm 2: Missed so many free throws down the stretch of game and first 2 overtimes. Shot 4/10 from the stripe before going 10/10 in 3OT to run away with the game. Also had a boatload of dumb late turnovers. 4. Northwestern – Shot well from the field and stripe, only 1 turnover. NW imploded. Close Games we Lost: 1. Fort Wayne – didn’t score in final 4:13 of overtime, shot 2/11 and had 4 costly turnovers. We beat ourselves. 2. Butler – Cut the lead to 2, shot 33% and had a really rough out of bounds call on us. 3. Nebraska – Missed front end of 2 one and ones. 4. Wisconsin – late turnovers after we cut the game to 3. 5. Maryland – 3/7 shooting in final minutes, missed front end of a one and one. 6. Iowa – Obviously the worst collapse we had (while not winning). Led by 2 with 3:31 to go and committed 6 turnovers while missing front end of a one and one while shooting 42%. Free throw discrepancy here was ridiculous. Also Iowa capitalized by making damn near every free throw. d7. Minnesota - Horrible break here by a horrendous last second shot bailed out by lack of JBJ boxout and put back win. Conclusion: We beat ourselves a ton. Most of the time it wasn’t the other team outperforming us, it was us not closing games. Senior leadership was really missed on this team in crunch time. We’ve lost 9 games this season where we were right there down the stretch within the final 2 minutes. Let’s just say the ball bounces the other way in a couple of those games. 4 game swing would have us sitting at 21-10 going into the Big Ten Tournament. Not where we want to be, but a much different feeling for Hoosier nation than we currently feel. Only 5 of our 14 losses have been definitive losses where the other team beat us. 9 losses we beat ourselves down the stretch. Will be interesting to watch the Big Ten Tournament if our offense is clicking like it was today. I actually hope we play on Wednesday to pick up another win and gain some confidence to make a potential run. This applies more this season than most… Indiana is our most dangerous opponent. We can beat anybody... including ourselves. PS I want us to win out and make the tournament. I think our coach decision won’t be impacted by the rest of this season so let’s get behind the boys and win some damn games!

Hell of a lot of points. Just tuned in, no defense or are we hitting shots? Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I personally don't think you bail on Crean if you don't have a replacement ready. I'd rather have Crean for another year than a so so coach locked into a 6 year contract. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Janitor graduated :) Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

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