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Gotta love dress code legal IU gear!!! Crossroad Classic tickets an early gift? Or for next years event? We are thinking about going next year but wasn't aware tickets would already be available?

IU 76 Illinois 66

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL. I always can't wait to see/hear what my fellow Hoosiers got for Christmas that is IU... so lets here it! IU is a great Christmas gift all the time!!! This year for me I got IU Coasters, an IU T-shirt, 2 IU Pullovers, & tickets to 3 IU games (Michigan, Ohio St, & Rutgers). A very Merry Christmas!

Another Breathe Easy game to take us into the Christmas Break. I wish I wouldn't have revised my score... Congrats to @bigrod for correctly Predicting IU's Final Score. Congrats to @fwgreenway, @jbell833, @johnsoniu, @NRT137, & @thebigweave for Correctly Predicting Jacksonville's Final Score. CURRENT GAME - Jacksonville OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 fwgreenway 131 1 HoosierAloha 1293 2 NRT137 130 2 fwgreenway 1275 3 thebigweave 129 3 JHoosier914 1273 4 johnsoniu 127 4 cappymo14 1266 5 bigrod 126 5 MemphisHoosier 1266 6 WayneFleekHoosier 121 6 muttcs66 1264 7 jbell833 121 7 rcs29 1262 8 mdn82 121 8 WayneFleekHoosier 1261 9 DChoosier 120 9 Stuhoo 1242 10 eladuke 119 10 johnsoniu 1238 11 Hutch89 119 11 IUfan_Charlie 1237 12 LIHoosier 117 12 LIHoosier 1229 13 Stuhoo 117 13 incrediboy 1227 14 MemphisHoosier 117 14 Class of '66 Old Fart 1226 15 Naturalhoosier 117 15 LamarCheeks 1225 16 InArchWeTrust 117 16 The Ola Depot 1224 17 cappymo14 116 17 InArchWeTrust 1220 18 killerbeezer 116 18 biteoftheapple 1219 19 HoosierAloha 116 19 VO5 1218 20 ThompsonHoosier 115 20 BtownBanner6 1216 21 JHoosier914 115 21 Str8Hoosiers 1216 22 Count 115 22 IUsafety 1211 23 reconmkd 114 23 mdn82 1207 24 IUfan_Charlie 114 24 MoyeNeeded 1201 25 muttcs66 114 25 Count 1194 26 incrediboy 114 26 HoosierCoop 1192 27 mamasa 114 27 killerbeezer 1191 28 Red1 113 28 Naturalhoosier 1190 29 LamarCheeks 112 29 ThompsonHoosier 1188 30 rcs29 112 30 NRT137 1182 31 HoosierCoop 112 31 jbell833 1179 32 Josh 111 32 Old Friend 1174 33 MoyeNeeded 110 33 coonhounds 1173 34 coonhounds 110 34 Red1 1172 35 IUsafety 110 35 KDB 1162 36 The Ola Depot 109 36 reconmkd 1160 37 biteoftheapple 109 37 wirenuts 1154 38 Napleshoosier 109 38 mamasa 1154 39 Str8Hoosiers 108 39 thebigweave 1151 40 ALASKA HOOSIER 108 40 Napleshoosier 1146 41 Class of '66 Old Fart 107 41 Josh 1143 42 VO5 107 42 IUc2016 1109 43 wirenuts 107 43 DChoosier 1027 44 ellen.walden 105 44 ALASKA HOOSIER 1008 45 BtownBanner6 104 45 Woodson1980 786 46 Old Friend 0 46 eladuke 697 47 yogisballin 0 47 Dalton26 579 48 KDB 0 48 bigrod 461 49 JaybobHoosier 0 49 Me So Hornsby 398 50 hper50 0 50 jrvarner31 358 51 Irish YJ 0 51 patrickmorriso9 357 52 IUc2016 0 52 Bailey7878 351 53 Woodson1980 0 53 HoosierTrav 340 54 Adillac 0 54 yogisballin 334 55 323SGrant 0 55 ellen.walden 291 56 HoosierTrav 0 56 Hutch89 227 57 schoosier 0 57 schoosier 203 58 Joe DeLow 0 58 Nick_Bragg13 198 59 Bailey7878 0 59 Ajwhitis 194 60 Me So Hornsby 0 60 Adillac 184 61 monskisprodigy 0 61 JaybobHoosier 130 62 Honkyman 0 62 hper50 127 63 Dalton26 0 63 IU Hoosier41 123 64 patrickmorriso9 0 64 monskisprodigy 121 65 jrvarner31 0 65 Irish YJ 121 66 e_powe11 0 66 Honkyman 119 67 dyedinthewool 0 67 323SGrant 115 68 Nick_Bragg13 0 68 e_powe11 109 69 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 69 Hoosier987 108 70 tyappleg 0 70 saffo937 107 71 Ajwhitis 0 71 dyedinthewool 105 72 Hooked 0 72 cleeter 95 73 IU402 0 73 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 74 IU Hoosier41 0 74 tyappleg 91 75 Hoosier987 0 75 Hooked 82 76 saffo937 0 76 IU402 70 77 cleeter 0 77 Joe DeLow 47

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

More injuries.... McRoberts out today. In street clothes with Rob, Race, and Rome

Rob not gonna play... Revised Prediction IU 80 Jacksonville 61

Understand, and like I said I wasn't trying to call you out or anything, I just thought is was interesting and you are the one that got me thinking about it. You said 221 minutes though and he currently has only 170 so I wasn't sure of the source of data. (Or my data could be wrong). My question though is with his athletic ability you believe he should ball hawk better specifically on the offensive glass? He is #2 in steals and #1 in steals per minute played so that confirms his ball hawk ability to me, I would assume especially by looking at the other PGs offensive rebounding numbers that they are told specifically to get back on defense and not go for the offensive rebound... would it be better if he had 1 offensive rebound per game but the opponent got even 1 additional fastbreak bucket per game because our PGs weren't getting back on defense? He is still averaging just under 5 Turnovers per 40 minutes but his shooting appears to have gone up to 40%

@Old Friend I would like to hear your thoughts on some of these numbers.... Not trying to call you out or anything, but your comments in the Watford recruiting thread are what started my journey here... and I didn't want to take that thread off the rails... Your specific grievance appeared to be the fact that Green has 0 Offense Rebounds this season... (I admit I originally read your post as 0 rebounds and I knew there was no way that was true so I went and researched for myself). But looking at these stats Green has 0 but Durham only has 1 & Phinisee only has 2 while both have played considerably more minutes that Green. I believe this is the outcome of design... the PG's job per Archie (I am assuming not quoting him) is to get back to the defensive end of the floor, not crash the offensive glass.

Now you're just trollin!

Jacksonville St is a decent team... with a better than average Defense.... luckily we are not playing them... :)

Not good at all... I fully expect(ed) him back for Jacksonville... go through the protocol, get cleared, no big deal.. be safe and not let him play Central Arkansas but not a long term issue... Hopefully they just don't know the details yet...

I don't think he had much of a choice... he could either try the behind the back or pull it back out... either way the fast break is over... we didn't lose the possession. It was bad floor spacing by both of them but the pass itself wasn't bad, it got deflected... sometimes that happens. I am absolutely THRILLED when he tries to make those passes because they work many times, and I know there isn't anybody else on our team willing and able to make them. Maybe I am a bit biased as that is my playing style as well, I love to pass and specifically love to make the pass nobody on the court sees coming (except the recipient of course). So I guess we shouldn't shoot 3's, shouldn't dunk the ball, no floaters, no crossovers... everything should just be a layup or a short jumper because highlight plays are meaningless and there is no reason to be cute. Except every highlight play brings more spotlight to the team and more visibility for fans, future recruits, etc. Give me Green all game every game.

IU 88 Jacksonville 60 Hopefully we have Rob and keep our offense clicking.

64-55 is your sick idea of total domination

He dove head first into a knee (going for a loose ball rebound)... didn't get up immediately and never got back on Defense... however was back up and received the outlet pass on the offensive end. At the dead ball he came out of the game. Then reluctantly was taken back to the locker room and never returned to the bench.

Finally a game to breathe easy for most of the game... Many predicted it would turn out like this but Congrats to @cappymo14 & @WayneFleekHoosier for correctly predicting IU's Final Score CURRENT GAME - Central Arkansas OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 cappymo14 129 1 HoosierAloha 1177 2 WayneFleekHoosier 125 2 JHoosier914 1158 3 killerbeezer 122 3 muttcs66 1150 4 ellen.walden 122 4 rcs29 1150 5 eladuke 121 5 cappymo14 1150 6 Class of '66 Old Fart 120 6 MemphisHoosier 1149 7 MoyeNeeded 118 7 fwgreenway 1144 8 VO5 117 8 WayneFleekHoosier 1140 9 reconmkd 116 9 Stuhoo 1125 10 LIHoosier 116 10 IUfan_Charlie 1123 11 Stuhoo 116 11 Class of '66 Old Fart 1119 12 HoosierAloha 115 12 The Ola Depot 1115 13 BtownBanner6 115 13 incrediboy 1113 14 fwgreenway 115 14 LamarCheeks 1113 15 Str8Hoosiers 114 15 BtownBanner6 1112 16 The Ola Depot 114 16 LIHoosier 1112 17 jbell833 114 17 johnsoniu 1111 18 LamarCheeks 114 18 VO5 1111 19 MemphisHoosier 113 19 biteoftheapple 1110 20 IUfan_Charlie 113 20 IUc2016 1109 21 rcs29 113 21 Str8Hoosiers 1108 22 wirenuts 113 22 InArchWeTrust 1103 23 muttcs66 113 23 KDB 1101 24 Naturalhoosier 113 24 IUsafety 1101 25 ThompsonHoosier 112 25 MoyeNeeded 1091 26 biteoftheapple 111 26 mdn82 1086 27 incrediboy 111 27 Old Friend 1085 28 coonhounds 111 28 HoosierCoop 1080 29 Napleshoosier 110 29 Count 1079 30 johnsoniu 110 30 killerbeezer 1075 31 JHoosier914 110 31 ThompsonHoosier 1073 32 DChoosier 110 32 Naturalhoosier 1073 33 Josh 110 33 coonhounds 1063 34 InArchWeTrust 109 34 Red1 1059 35 Old Friend 109 35 jbell833 1058 36 HoosierCoop 109 36 NRT137 1052 37 thebigweave 108 37 wirenuts 1047 38 Hutch89 108 38 reconmkd 1046 39 mdn82 106 39 mamasa 1040 40 Count 105 40 Napleshoosier 1037 41 yogisballin 105 41 Josh 1032 42 Red1 104 42 thebigweave 1022 43 NRT137 102 43 DChoosier 907 44 mamasa 101 44 ALASKA HOOSIER 900 45 ALASKA HOOSIER 89 45 Woodson1980 786 46 IUsafety 0 46 Dalton26 579 47 KDB 0 47 eladuke 578 48 JaybobHoosier 0 48 Me So Hornsby 398 49 hper50 0 49 jrvarner31 358 50 Irish YJ 0 50 patrickmorriso9 357 51 IUc2016 0 51 Bailey7878 351 52 bigrod 0 52 HoosierTrav 340 53 Woodson1980 0 53 bigrod 335 54 Adillac 0 54 yogisballin 334 55 323SGrant 0 55 schoosier 203 56 HoosierTrav 0 56 Nick_Bragg13 198 57 schoosier 0 57 Ajwhitis 194 58 Joe DeLow 0 58 ellen.walden 186 59 Bailey7878 0 59 Adillac 184 60 Me So Hornsby 0 60 JaybobHoosier 130 61 monskisprodigy 0 61 hper50 127 62 Honkyman 0 62 IU Hoosier41 123 63 Dalton26 0 63 monskisprodigy 121 64 patrickmorriso9 0 64 Irish YJ 121 65 jrvarner31 0 65 Honkyman 119 66 e_powe11 0 66 323SGrant 115 67 dyedinthewool 0 67 e_powe11 109 68 Nick_Bragg13 0 68 Hoosier987 108 69 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 69 Hutch89 108 70 tyappleg 0 70 saffo937 107 71 Ajwhitis 0 71 dyedinthewool 105 72 Hooked 0 72 cleeter 95 73 IU402 0 73 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 74 IU Hoosier41 0 74 tyappleg 91 75 Hoosier987 0 75 Hooked 82 76 saffo937 0 76 IU402 70 77 cleeter 0 77 Joe DeLow 47

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

IDK, it is kind of exciting and exhilarating to go to the last possession... stay focused in.... literally JUMP off the couch and go ballistic at the end.... I will take those all season long as long as we continue to come out on the good side!

You are still in... you have actually only missed making a prediction 1 game (Butler) and you drop the 2 lowest scores anyway... However you are in 41st so might want to do better LOL (just kidding).

No he is in the Locker Room... sitting back at his locker in the background not participating in the celebration... Still may not be anything but....

IU 81 Central Ark 59

Celebration is cool but anybody notice Damezi not part of it (I know comments on Twitter noticed it, did anybody here?) Thoughts?

Isn't this the best... I love to go back and re-read the entire Game Thread after the outcome is known... always some god nuggets in there as you have pulled.

KenPom ratings are still weighted in Preseason info until Mid-January... that is why Purdue is still up there as high as they are. Keep losing and they will fall!!!! :)