Str8Hoosiers

Seems we are getting VERY Predictable. Had 8 people correctly predict IU's Final Score & 9 people correctly predict Butler's final score. (not going to name everybody). Congrats to @HoosierAloha for the PERFECT PREDICTION & for taking over the Top Spot on the Leader Board. CURRENT GAME - Butler OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 HoosierAloha 145 1 HoosierAloha 1062 2 biteoftheapple 134 2 JHoosier914 1048 3 MemphisHoosier 134 3 muttcs66 1037 4 IUsafety 134 4 rcs29 1037 5 IUfan_Charlie 134 5 MemphisHoosier 1036 6 cappymo14 133 6 fwgreenway 1029 7 Napleshoosier 133 7 cappymo14 1021 8 Str8Hoosiers 133 8 IUc2016 1020 9 VO5 133 9 WayneFleekHoosier 1015 10 reconmkd 132 10 KDB 1014 11 The Ola Depot 132 11 IUsafety 1011 12 KDB 130 12 IUfan_Charlie 1010 13 JaybobHoosier 130 13 Stuhoo 1009 14 rcs29 129 14 incrediboy 1002 15 hper50 127 15 johnsoniu 1001 16 WayneFleekHoosier 123 16 The Ola Depot 1001 17 johnsoniu 123 17 Class of '66 Old Fart 999 18 JHoosier914 122 18 LamarCheeks 999 19 wirenuts 122 19 biteoftheapple 999 20 jbell833 122 20 BtownBanner6 997 21 ThompsonHoosier 122 21 LIHoosier 996 22 BtownBanner6 121 22 InArchWeTrust 994 23 LamarCheeks 121 23 VO5 994 24 Irish YJ 121 24 Str8Hoosiers 994 25 fwgreenway 120 25 mdn82 980 26 MoyeNeeded 119 26 Old Friend 976 27 InArchWeTrust 119 27 Count 974 28 incrediboy 119 28 MoyeNeeded 973 29 muttcs66 118 29 HoosierCoop 971 30 Naturalhoosier 118 30 ThompsonHoosier 961 31 mdn82 117 31 Naturalhoosier 960 32 Class of '66 Old Fart 117 32 Red1 955 33 coonhounds 116 33 killerbeezer 953 34 IUc2016 115 34 coonhounds 952 35 DChoosier 115 35 NRT137 950 36 thebigweave 114 36 jbell833 944 37 Red1 114 37 mamasa 939 38 Count 113 38 wirenuts 934 39 bigrod 112 39 reconmkd 930 40 LIHoosier 110 40 Napleshoosier 927 41 Stuhoo 109 41 Josh 922 42 Old Friend 108 42 thebigweave 914 43 mamasa 106 43 ALASKA HOOSIER 811 44 eladuke 102 44 DChoosier 797 45 HoosierCoop 99 45 Woodson1980 786 46 Woodson1980 95 46 Dalton26 579 47 ALASKA HOOSIER 89 47 eladuke 457 48 NRT137 80 48 Me So Hornsby 398 49 killerbeezer 69 49 jrvarner31 358 50 Adillac 0 50 patrickmorriso9 357 51 323SGrant 0 51 Bailey7878 351 52 HoosierTrav 0 52 HoosierTrav 340 53 schoosier 0 53 bigrod 335 54 yogisballin 0 54 yogisballin 229 55 Josh 0 55 schoosier 203 56 Joe DeLow 0 56 Nick_Bragg13 198 57 Bailey7878 0 57 Ajwhitis 194 58 Me So Hornsby 0 58 Adillac 184 59 monskisprodigy 0 59 JaybobHoosier 130 60 Honkyman 0 60 hper50 127 61 Dalton26 0 61 IU Hoosier41 123 62 patrickmorriso9 0 62 monskisprodigy 121 63 jrvarner31 0 63 Irish YJ 121 64 e_powe11 0 64 Honkyman 119 65 dyedinthewool 0 65 323SGrant 115 66 Nick_Bragg13 0 66 e_powe11 109 67 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 67 Hoosier987 108 68 tyappleg 0 68 saffo937 107 69 Ajwhitis 0 69 dyedinthewool 105 70 Hooked 0 70 cleeter 95 71 IU402 0 71 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 72 ellen.walden 0 72 tyappleg 91 73 IU Hoosier41 0 73 Hooked 82 74 Hoosier987 0 74 IU402 70 75 saffo937 0 75 ellen.walden 64 76 cleeter 0 76 Joe DeLow 47

Holy.... Ref was calling a foul on that too.... PHIN IS CLUTCH

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.

Villanova lost twice this week Syracuse lost once If we win we should be at least #24 :)

Oh I definitely added an hour at the end (always do).... I don't know that I ever realized before that you could also add time to the beginning.

Thank you. I didn't think about the fact I can tell my DVR to start early... so I just set it at 4pm & "Start 15 Minutes Early" so I will have it DVRd regardless if it starts on time or not so I won't miss the beginning of the game.

HAHAHA YES I didn't even think about that part of it.... DUH my bad.

I get the feeling IU is in there as an ode to big bro.... and the increase in anticipation

Why don't we have to worry about that? What time is tipoff? Schedule says 3:45 but TV listing starts at 4... don't want to miss the beginning of the game on DVR... Should I record the early game too just to make sure?

#17 Villanova @ #1 Kansas #3 Tennessee @ Memphis SMU @ Georgetown Notre Dame vs. Purdue Rutgers @ Seton Hall NC State @ Penn State Butler vs. #25 Indiana Kent State @Louisville Utah @ #19 Kentucky #20 Arizona State @ Georgita #4 Gonzaga @ #13 North Carolina #13 Virginia Tech vs. Washington #22 Iowa vs. Northern Iowa Georgia State @ #25 Kansas State Cincinnati @ #18 Mississippi State USC @ Oklahoma LSU vs. Saint Mary's Rhode Island vs. West Virginia Indiana State @ TCU Nebraska vs. Oklahoma State Any specific time you would like this Thread to Lock?

I don't know the connections here, but I was impressed that he said he knows the issue with Hunter but that it isn't his place to publicly say it. Could be because he really doesn't know or could be a very respectful gesture (And good move legally). Regardless this is the only report mentioning Redshirt...

WHY? I went rushing to twitter etc to see if there were breadcrumbs of him announcing today.... saw nothing... (I am not good at Twitter LOL). Is this just a true "I wonder" or something behind it?

Haven't followed them much this year... what happened to the other 3 scholly players? More transfers? Injuries? Red-shirts? DOWN WITH THE CATS!!! I hope every team in the SEC beats them! & UofL too!

Understand derailments happen from time to time, but I have already moved a full conversation about Butler to the game thread.... Lets please try to keep the Recruiting Threads player specific! Thanks for cooperation.

Moved all the Butler talk here from the Keion thread.

Going ok @HoosierAloha? Just checking on Week 6

I am happy he did this, otherwise we wouldn't be ranked... and for those of us who care about that I say thank you to Mr Couch!

Very interesting... Also interesting we are #24 on his ballot without those 8 teams most have ranked ahead of us... I mean we have won a game on the road... how come his standards don't like us?

Yep OG started the trend at IU (or was very early on)... last year many/most of the guys rolled the shorts... so this year they are all shorter so they don't have to roll them. Times always seem to repeat, shorts used to be short, then big and baggy was the trend... now function coming back and ease of movement outweighs the fashion look....

Some high score predictions... we haven't eclipsed 70 in 4 games and we have not show well historically at BLF.... IU 69 Butler 68 Can we really win another nailbiter?

Game 10 was yet another close 1... and yet again we pulled it out. Congrats to @BtownBanner6 & @mamasa for correctly Predicting IU's Final Score. Congrats to @JHoosier914, @mdn82, @MoyeNeeded, @NRT137, & @rcs29 for correctly predicting UofL's Final Score AND Congrats to @JHoosier914 for taking over the Top Spot on the leader board. CURRENT GAME - Louisville OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 NRT137 133 1 JHoosier914 926 2 JHoosier914 132 2 muttcs66 919 3 mamasa 132 3 HoosierAloha 917 4 MoyeNeeded 132 4 fwgreenway 909 5 rcs29 132 5 rcs29 908 6 BtownBanner6 130 6 IUc2016 905 7 mdn82 129 7 MemphisHoosier 902 8 Adillac 123 8 Stuhoo 900 9 biteoftheapple 122 9 WayneFleekHoosier 892 10 LamarCheeks 122 10 cappymo14 888 11 muttcs66 121 11 LIHoosier 886 12 LIHoosier 121 12 KDB 884 13 InArchWeTrust 120 13 incrediboy 883 14 HoosierAloha 119 14 Class of '66 Old Fart 882 15 IUc2016 117 15 johnsoniu 878 16 cappymo14 117 16 LamarCheeks 878 17 bigrod 116 17 IUsafety 877 18 thebigweave 115 18 IUfan_Charlie 876 19 fwgreenway 115 19 killerbeezer 876 20 Old Friend 115 20 BtownBanner6 876 21 323SGrant 115 21 InArchWeTrust 875 22 HoosierTrav 114 22 HoosierCoop 872 23 reconmkd 113 23 The Ola Depot 869 24 Napleshoosier 113 24 Old Friend 868 25 HoosierCoop 113 25 biteoftheapple 865 26 MemphisHoosier 112 26 NRT137 865 27 wirenuts 112 27 mdn82 863 28 DChoosier 112 28 VO5 861 29 killerbeezer 111 29 Count 861 30 IUsafety 111 30 Str8Hoosiers 861 31 IUfan_Charlie 111 31 MoyeNeeded 854 32 jbell833 110 32 Josh 853 33 WayneFleekHoosier 110 33 Naturalhoosier 842 34 KDB 109 34 Red1 841 35 incrediboy 108 35 ThompsonHoosier 839 36 johnsoniu 108 36 coonhounds 836 37 Str8Hoosiers 106 37 mamasa 833 38 Stuhoo 105 38 jbell833 822 39 coonhounds 105 39 wirenuts 812 40 Woodson1980 105 40 thebigweave 800 41 Red1 105 41 reconmkd 798 42 The Ola Depot 104 42 Napleshoosier 794 43 Naturalhoosier 100 43 ALASKA HOOSIER 722 44 schoosier 95 44 Woodson1980 691 45 Count 86 45 DChoosier 682 46 ALASKA HOOSIER 85 46 Dalton26 579 47 yogisballin 69 47 Me So Hornsby 398 48 Josh 68 48 jrvarner31 358 49 Class of '66 Old Fart 63 49 patrickmorriso9 357 50 Joe DeLow 47 50 eladuke 355 51 eladuke 0 51 Bailey7878 351 52 ThompsonHoosier 0 52 HoosierTrav 340 53 Bailey7878 0 53 yogisballin 229 54 VO5 0 54 bigrod 223 55 Me So Hornsby 0 55 schoosier 203 56 monskisprodigy 0 56 Nick_Bragg13 198 57 Honkyman 0 57 Ajwhitis 194 58 Dalton26 0 58 Adillac 184 59 patrickmorriso9 0 59 IU Hoosier41 123 60 jrvarner31 0 60 monskisprodigy 121 61 e_powe11 0 61 Honkyman 119 62 dyedinthewool 0 62 323SGrant 115 63 Nick_Bragg13 0 63 e_powe11 109 64 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 64 Hoosier987 108 65 tyappleg 0 65 saffo937 107 66 Ajwhitis 0 66 dyedinthewool 105 67 Hooked 0 67 cleeter 95 68 IU402 0 68 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 69 ellen.walden 0 69 tyappleg 91 70 IU Hoosier41 0 70 Hooked 82 71 Hoosier987 0 71 IU402 70 72 saffo937 0 72 ellen.walden 64 73 cleeter 0 73 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.

I hope you are right, although how often has a team pulled out 3 in a row of that type.... I feel like either IU runs away with it (ala Marquette game - Although not as early or as lopsided) or we are in trouble. I am not confident that we can win a close one against them....

I can't believe I am predicting this... I usually go with anayltics and will do so here, but I don't think it will be this easy.... IU 82 UofL 72

Seems everyone wants to crown Rob and bury Green.... I feel the opposite. All these comments about how Rob won us the game, but to me if it wasn't for Green we are way out of it and can never make the comeback in the first half. Rob didn't look good at all to me until a few HUGE plays at the end. But as much as our offense stalled in the final 4 minutes was because he stood at the half court circle and dribbled for 20 seconds every possession.... then started the weave at the top of the key and then we turned it over or had to take forced/rushed shots. Rob still isn't seeing the open guys in time... and he made some incredibly acrobatic shots that could have been easy passes to open guys. Fitzner has to be ready to shoot when he catches the ball... he is not good off the dribble or the step back, he is all catch and shoot so that is what he needs to do. Romeo on the other hand needs to continue to be aggressive with the ball in his hands and not necessarily take the catch and shoot shot, it doesn't look right when he shoots off the catch as if he doesn't have the rhythm. Morgan needs to keep doing what he is doing except the fouls. Smith just needs to be planted on the bench... his rebounds were big this game but I scream at him everytime he touches the ball it seems. I really feel like the only reason Clifton played was because he is from PA and maybe possibly had family at the game? He showed some potential though so it would be good to see more of him and Jake. Durham can be added to our "Dawg" list! McRoberts missed his only shot so badly I immediately commented to my wife that he won't take another shot for 3 games... then he passed up some open shots later in the game... he has absolutely NO CONFIDENCE in his shot.