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I would say no... I would say NOBODY is a legitimate threat to go undefeated ever again.... not that it can't happen, but I don't see that... With this specific Duke team they are too Freshman oriented and play a heck of a tough schedule. They will lose at least a couple.

Ahh gotcha, I thought you were just asking how it affected us, so was trying to give details. This early rankings are fluid, but I definitely think it is in the best interest of the program to be Ranked as often and as High as possible. It helps with fans, boosters, recruits, media coverage, etc. We gave away a prime opportunity and with the upcoming Duke game we may have a bit before we can recover and get in. BUT I wouldn't consider this a BAD LOSS in the grand scheme of the year.

They are even worse on Offense than Arlington... but Defense is tough and being shorthanded is hurting us IU 85 UC Davis 60 (REVISED)

Went from 131 points (23 away from #25) last week to 74 points this week (76 away from #25). So it isn't a good thing... 3 teams fell and we didn't get to move in.... instead 3 other BIG teams jumped in ahead of us and Nebraska jumped us to the first out! Combine that with Maryland being the 3rd out and the BIG has 9 teams in the Top 28. And hey at least Arkansas got 1 vote for 25th after beating us...

I must have watched a different game? Anderson only had 1 TO... he is faster with the ball than the others but he does seem to value it. A few passes to him he could have came towards harder but they were weak passes from the others causing them to get picked off. He has a nice shot (doesn't shoot often... 2nd fewest yesterday). He seems to be able to get where he wants to go and can finish. To me Fitzner was a bust yesterday, did he even play in the 2nd half? Sharpshooter who only attempts 1 3 and 1 other shot the whole game? He needs to be more in the rotation. 2nd lowest minutes and he wasn't in foul trouble or anything else. And Justin Smith needs to get MUCH stronger before he sees the floor. There is a reason he played the least minutes yesterday. He has the potential but isn't ready.

Completely shut them down. IU 94 UTA 56

Well that didn't turn out like most predicted (or anybody wanted). Only 3 correctly predicted an IU Loss! Results after game #4 are below (note lowest scores have not yet been removed - Will be after the next game) Congrats to @WayneFleekHoosier for taking over the Top Spot on the Leaderboard.... may be the 1st time ever somebody has held the top Spot on both the Football Predictions & Basketball Predictions Leaderboard con-currently. @IUsafety correctly predicted Arkansas final score and @killerbeezer correctly predicted IU's final score. CURRENT GAME - Arkansas OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 rcs29 123 1 WayneFleekHoosier 419 2 Class of '66 Old Fart 115 2 Class of '66 Old Fart 418 3 WayneFleekHoosier 111 3 rcs29 416 4 IUsafety 80 4 MemphisHoosier 380 5 killerbeezer 77 5 jbell833 377 6 Josh 69 6 incrediboy 376 7 IUfan_Charlie 69 7 LIHoosier 375 8 VO5 69 8 VO5 374 9 HoosierAloha 68 9 HoosierAloha 373 10 wirenuts 68 10 Count 372 11 DChoosier 68 11 Josh 372 12 LIHoosier 67 12 IUsafety 371 13 Old Friend 67 13 Naturalhoosier 368 14 johnsoniu 67 14 Old Friend 368 15 Red1 66 15 wirenuts 367 16 MemphisHoosier 66 16 HoosierCoop 366 17 LamarCheeks 66 17 fwgreenway 365 18 fwgreenway 65 18 KDB 363 19 cappymo14 65 19 IUfan_Charlie 363 20 jbell833 64 20 Red1 362 21 Naturalhoosier 64 21 jrvarner31 358 22 Str8Hoosiers 64 22 InArchWeTrust 357 23 Napleshoosier 63 23 patrickmorriso9 357 24 KDB 61 24 biteoftheapple 357 25 biteoftheapple 61 25 Str8Hoosiers 357 26 patrickmorriso9 61 26 Dalton26 356 27 thebigweave 61 27 muttcs66 355 28 Adillac 61 28 thebigweave 355 29 HoosierCoop 60 29 LamarCheeks 355 30 Dalton26 60 30 johnsoniu 355 31 MoyeNeeded 60 31 ALASKA HOOSIER 354 32 ThompsonHoosier 60 32 Stuhoo 353 33 Stuhoo 59 33 The Ola Depot 352 34 JHoosier914 59 34 cappymo14 351 35 muttcs66 59 35 mamasa 350 36 reconmkd 59 36 JHoosier914 350 37 mdn82 58 37 Napleshoosier 346 38 ALASKA HOOSIER 57 38 mdn82 345 39 mamasa 57 39 MoyeNeeded 345 40 incrediboy 56 40 NRT137 342 41 Count 56 41 reconmkd 341 42 NRT137 55 42 coonhounds 340 43 coonhounds 55 43 ThompsonHoosier 332 44 Woodson1980 53 44 killerbeezer 332 45 InArchWeTrust 53 45 IUc2016 310 46 jrvarner31 52 46 BtownBanner6 296 47 The Ola Depot 51 47 DChoosier 259 48 HoosierTrav 0 48 Nick_Bragg13 198 49 e_powe11 0 49 Ajwhitis 194 50 dyedinthewool 0 50 Me So Hornsby 193 51 IUc2016 0 51 Woodson1980 162 52 BtownBanner6 0 52 IU Hoosier41 123 53 Nick_Bragg13 0 53 HoosierTrav 112 54 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 54 e_powe11 109 55 tyappleg 0 55 Hoosier987 108 56 Ajwhitis 0 56 saffo937 107 57 Hooked 0 57 dyedinthewool 105 58 Me So Hornsby 0 58 cleeter 95 59 IU402 0 59 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 60 ellen.walden 0 60 tyappleg 91 61 IU Hoosier41 0 61 Hooked 82 62 Hoosier987 0 62 IU402 70 63 saffo937 0 63 ellen.walden 64 64 cleeter 0 64 Adillac 61

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.

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IU 24 Purdue 28

After a much closer game than anybody predicted here are the results after Week 11. Nobody got any predictions correct: CURRENT GAME - Michigan OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 WayneFleekHoosier 115 1 WayneFleekHoosier 1040 2 The Ola Depot 115 2 HoosierAloha 1013 3 fwgreenway 114 3 LamarCheeks 1013 4 jbell833 114 4 IUsafety 1002 5 LIHoosier 112 5 mdn82 998 6 ThompsonHoosier 111 6 jmsgws 987 7 MemphisHoosier 111 7 ThompsonHoosier 985 8 VO5 111 8 NaturalHoosier 982 9 rcs29 111 9 VPC 979 10 VPC 110 10 biteoftheapple 979 11 biteoftheapple 110 11 Josh 965 12 Josh 109 12 Class of '66 Old Fart 964 13 IUsafety 108 13 fwgreenway 956 14 LamarCheeks 108 14 johnsoniu 947 15 KDB 105 15 MemphisHoosier 947 16 Class of '66 Old Fart 104 16 Old Friend 946 17 Old Friend 102 17 The Ola Depot 940 18 jmsgws 101 18 VO5 936 19 NaturalHoosier 101 19 JHoosier914 920 20 JHoosier914 100 20 KDB 918 21 DChoosier 98 21 IUc2016 911 22 johnsoniu 63 22 jbell833 899 23 lucel15 61 23 rcs29 892 24 mamasa 60 24 LIHoosier 890 25 Alaska Hoosier 58 25 Str8Hoosiers 884 26 thebigweave 51 26 Napleshoosier 844 27 Napleshoosier 29 27 HoosierRobbie 841 28 IUc2016 0 28 CrossboneIU22 837 29 HoosierAloha 0 29 lucel15 832 30 323SGrant 0 30 thebigweave 808 31 CrossboneIU22 0 31 mamasa 802 32 Str8Hoosiers 0 32 Alaska Hoosier 620 33 mdn82 0 33 RBB89 480 34 HoosierRobbie 0 34 e_powe11 445 35 Chris007 0 35 323SGrant 283 36 e_powe11 0 36 DChoosier 209 37 BabyJandJDaddy 0 37 Chris007 192 38 thehoosiersound 0 38 HOOsier Thunder 184 39 Defenserocks28 0 39 BabyJandJDaddy 162 40 RBB89 0 40 Defenserocks28 150 41 HOOsier Thunder 0 41 Fkfootball1 117 42 Fkfootball1 0 42 Dalton26 114 43 Dalton26 0 43 thehoosiersound 109 44 coonhounds 0 44 coonhounds 107

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.

Monday: #9 Auburn vs. Xavier #1 Duke vs. San Diego State Chicago State @ East Tennessee State Arizona vs. Iowa State USC vs. Texas Tech #17 Mississippi State vs. Arizona State #3 Gonzaga vs. Illinois Tuesday: UT Arlington @ Indiana Wright State vs. Penn State Santa Clara vs. Minessota Texas A&M vs. Washington Wednesday: Wisconsin vs. Stanford Louisville vs. #5 Tennessee #24 Marquette vs. #2 Kansas Dayton vs. Butler Washington vs. Minnesota Thursday: #11 Michigan State vs. #20 UCLA Friday: UC Davis @ Indiana Saturday: Houston @ BYU Colorado @ Air Force

IU 80 Ar(e we in )Kansas 70

Could be correct, I guess I took it as being directed towards him... I think it was right after he drove to the basket and it didn't go so well for him... I honestly can't remember if he missed, or got blocked, or was just out of control or what. To chant that at a team that early adds on to the bad judgment (self depreciating) of that chant....

What a SCHLACKING! Everybody correctly predicted an IU Victory but nobody predicted that! Results after game #3 are below (note lowest scores have not yet been removed) Congrats to @WayneFleekHoosier, @Josh, & @LIHoosier for correctly predicting Marquette's Final Score. CURRENT GAME - Marquette OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 WayneFleekHoosier 121 1 incrediboy 320 2 Josh 120 2 Count 316 3 LIHoosier 118 3 MemphisHoosier 314 4 ALASKA HOOSIER 116 4 jbell833 313 5 mamasa 113 5 IUc2016 310 6 HoosierTrav 112 6 LIHoosier 308 7 NRT137 111 7 WayneFleekHoosier 308 8 incrediboy 110 8 jrvarner31 306 9 Stuhoo 110 9 HoosierCoop 306 10 Old Friend 109 10 VO5 305 11 jbell833 109 11 HoosierAloha 305 12 e_powe11 109 12 InArchWeTrust 304 13 Woodson1980 109 13 Naturalhoosier 304 14 Red1 108 14 Class of '66 Old Fart 303 15 HoosierCoop 108 15 Josh 303 16 MemphisHoosier 108 16 KDB 302 17 JHoosier914 108 17 The Ola Depot 301 18 coonhounds 108 18 Old Friend 301 19 Count 107 19 fwgreenway 300 20 IUfan_Charlie 107 20 wirenuts 299 21 KDB 107 21 ALASKA HOOSIER 297 22 The Ola Depot 107 22 Dalton26 296 23 Naturalhoosier 107 23 patrickmorriso9 296 24 johnsoniu 107 24 BtownBanner6 296 25 Class of '66 Old Fart 106 25 biteoftheapple 296 26 jrvarner31 106 26 muttcs66 296 27 fwgreenway 106 27 Red1 296 28 muttcs66 106 28 thebigweave 294 29 Napleshoosier 106 29 IUfan_Charlie 294 30 HoosierAloha 105 30 Stuhoo 294 31 LamarCheeks 105 31 rcs29 293 32 dyedinthewool 105 32 Str8Hoosiers 293 33 wirenuts 103 33 mamasa 293 34 biteoftheapple 102 34 IUsafety 291 35 IUc2016 102 35 JHoosier914 291 36 VO5 102 36 LamarCheeks 289 37 BtownBanner6 102 37 johnsoniu 288 38 IUsafety 101 38 mdn82 287 39 patrickmorriso9 100 39 NRT137 287 40 Dalton26 100 40 cappymo14 286 41 cappymo14 99 41 MoyeNeeded 285 42 Str8Hoosiers 98 42 coonhounds 285 43 thebigweave 98 43 Napleshoosier 283 44 mdn82 95 44 reconmkd 282 45 InArchWeTrust 94 45 ThompsonHoosier 272 46 MoyeNeeded 93 46 killerbeezer 255 47 rcs29 92 47 Nick_Bragg13 198 48 ThompsonHoosier 90 48 Ajwhitis 194 49 reconmkd 89 49 Me So Hornsby 193 50 killerbeezer 87 50 DChoosier 191 51 Nick_Bragg13 0 51 IU Hoosier41 123 52 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 52 HoosierTrav 112 53 tyappleg 0 53 e_powe11 109 54 DChoosier 0 54 Woodson1980 109 55 Ajwhitis 0 55 Hoosier987 108 56 Hooked 0 56 saffo937 107 57 Me So Hornsby 0 57 dyedinthewool 105 58 IU402 0 58 cleeter 95 59 ellen.walden 0 59 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 60 IU Hoosier41 0 60 tyappleg 91 61 Hoosier987 0 61 Hooked 82 62 saffo937 0 62 IU402 70 63 cleeter 0 63 ellen.walden 64

I was there and I think the chant was actually directed at Howard not the team... but I could be mistaken

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.

Went to the UofL game last night... and holy heck the refs need to swallow the whistle on some of these calls.... 65 fouls called... 35 in the first half... Southern had 2 players with 4 fouls in the 1st half. I would venture to say 20-30 were Offensive Player Control fouls so it wasn't even a Free Throw shooting clinic. It was ugly from start to finish. That being said UofL has some talent and are under the radar. I am glad we get them at home this season... should be a very competitive game as Mack gets them clicking.

Definitely a NEW post. I don't go back and look for edits.

If she was from Kentucky she wouldn't have had enough teeth to break the skin!

Oh I forgot you had a specific format to the Ballot that you setup. I just emailed you a list. Maybe that is why this never really took off as I am sure it is very hard/time consuming to compile the results.

Same email address as 2016? gwoodsii@indiana.edu If so I will submit a ballot and hopefully others will get involved too.

I saw a chart of every teams 1st true road game and Duke sticks out like a sore thumb.... This is really going to hurt them in my opinion... those first 2 in that same week I can see them not handling it well and losing both of them...

They may be... and I agree it will look good at the end of the year... I actually think WV is better than they are being seen right now and will be back in the Top 25 eventually (soon)... I just have a hard time believing Buffalo is better than IU.... Polls this early in the season are based on snap judgments and history plays a part because there hasn't been enough this season to base it on.... because of this we should be 25 they should be 26... I could see S. Illinois beating them and opening up our spot in the top 25... not that we will need an opening if we win both this week. We will pull the LeapFrog regardless.