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I'd like to see how the portal shakes out,  but it's looking like we may have the most talented team in the conference and one of the more talented teams in the country.  I'd like to have results consistent with our talent. 

We'll bring this thread out of its 2-year hibernation.  What a day for the IU women's golf program.  Not only did they clinch an outright win of the Governor's Cup but they won the whole darn Big Ten Championship tournament!
Women as a team shot -8 at the Bulle Rock course in Havre de Grace, MD to take the win over second place Michigan State who finished the tournament at -7.  In today's final round, the IU women were -5.
Individually, Caroline Craig finished at -7 for the tournament to finish in 3-way tie for 1st place and Caroline Smith finished at -5 to finish tied for 4th.               
Oh, PUke as a team finished at even par to tie for 4th place.  

Style of play and lack of 3 point shooting is probably well talked about through the state over the last several years. Other than bigs and an occasional point guard, we really haven’t excelled . We have an Indiana high school disconnect, and I’m hoping it changes with Mullins and Sisney.

If Woodson ends up with Rice, Carlyle, Essegian, Tucker, Malone, and Ballo in the spring, I saw we let him have a few days to golf.

Between Edey leaving, new schools joining, and all the transfer portal turnover (especially with the Pac 12 being raided more or less) I am hopeful we see the start of a new play style trend in the B10. Conference will certainly look very different next year. 

I absolutely hope we can get a dynamic, scoring guard and a quality post player. Just two of the more top tier portal players. If we can do those two things we can keep right on trucking, because I think Lemondola and Beaumont can contribute. They need a longer leash play terrified they will be benched. Moren has us on the cusp of rising a level and being one of those consistent final 4 teams, but needs better and more ready recruits to contribute early. With the lack of media attention they get, it makes it more difficult to get the 5 stars. I find it embarrassing how little the regional media in the state promotes iuwbb. National media completely ignores it. They report on every single transfer portal player Woodson even speaks to, and he will probably lose all of them. Moren needs to bring in just a little and reload. Love going to iuwbb games. I’m scared that as soon as there’s a down year, the little attention they get local, regional, and nationally along with attendance at the games, and just fall to obscurity 

We have a thread with over a 1,000 pages criticizing Woody so deflecting criticism is laughable.  Unfortunately, we have a number of posters who just can't resist piling on him in almost every thread.  Contrary to what you or others may believe, we do have some followers that want the thread content to match the title of the thread.  They're interested in information on portal targets.  

Maybe but the UConn player gave them an easy call right in front of the ref.

Georgia Amoore (G) from VA Tech; 1 year left  Short for CTM's standards but knows how to get the ball into the hands of the scorers.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/georgia-amoore-1.html
 

No matter what, the worst day as a Hoosier is better than the best day as a Boilermaker.

I looked this up and see that Edey has NEVER fouled out in any of his 134 games he’s played (started over 100) and has more games with zero fouls, that he has with 4 fouls. I don’t see how that’s possible


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Thanks.  You’ll find I tend to delve into stats a good deal.  I co-host a pod on the Back Home Network called X’s and Joes where we share our research on college basketball trends.  
 
I do think IU could really put together a pretty decent roster for next year, but it will take hitting on some upper tier dudes during a time where the staff is facing some headwinds.  Guess we’ll see if they can pull it off.

Concur with the sentiments but I think you (unintentionally) overstated how IU operates these days, so I fixed it for you. :)

Concur with the sentiments but I think you (unintentionally) overstated how IU operates these days, so I fixed it for you. :)

Concur with the sentiments but I think you (unintentionally) overstated how IU operates these days, so I fixed it for you. :)

UL seemingly getting further down their list of wants is really concerning, particularly when we let Dusty slip away in conference. There is also a very real chance next year is Cal's last at Kentucky. I really do not want our job open at the same time as UK. 

This is exactly where I'm at. Even if he fails who are we going to get to coach? Louisville let it go on too long and I'm afraid we are doing the same season. 

This 100%. I’ve rarely posted, but have been here for 9 years or so. IU wise it’s been a difficult decade, but I’ve gotten so much joy and comfort coming here to read others echoing my feelings over that time. I would have lost my mind during basketball season without BTB.
Thank you to all of you guys who make BTB possible. You are greatly appreciated.

Skyy Clark and others like him that bounce around from program to program aren't appealing to me.  IMO they have a far higher opinion of their game than what they can actually provide and if they don't get what they want, they move on.  And again IMO that can't be good for the locker room.

My portal wish list...
1) Point Guard. Throw $$$$$$$$ at them. Get the best one possible. Enough said. 
2) Shooters, Shooters, and more shooters. Would be awesome to have multiple guys who shoot high volume 40% from 3. 
3) Center. I personally would like to start Mgbako at the 4 and Malik at the 5. However, have a Center that can come off the bench and play 20-25 minutes a game. Mgbako/Malik at 4.. I'm okay with Mgako-Malik-Portal Center at the 3-4-5 at some times in the game.
4) Forward that can play the 3/4 spot off the bench. Maybe a good version on Anthony Walker?..not a jab at Anthony. He had some good moments this year. 
Staff can't go into the next season with the same mentality they had going into this one. They gave Xavier, CJ, Kaleb, and Sparks way too much credit. If Galloway has to be our 6th man because we have two sharp shooting guards, fine. If Cupps/Newton/Leal barely play because of upgrades, fine. Make them all earn it.
Does any of this really matter with this coaching staff? Who knows. 

I came here to post the article, then saw you already had. Great read! A lot of nostalgia for me, having played at EG. I’m still going through the grieving process that Dusty will be at UL. I wouldn’t do this for anyone else, but I’ll be pulling for them because of him. Mark my words: IU will live to regret it.

Side note, but I thought I would be over Woodson coming back by now, but I’m not. I refuse to enter the acceptance part of grief and am stuck in the anger stage. First time I can remember feeling this negative towards IU basketball. I’ve never just transferred my fandom away, even through so many thin years. But I’m right there right now.

I guess what I’m saying is…Fire Woodson!!!


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https://x.com/thefieldof68/status/1768156739378061741?s=46
 
i feel asleep at half so enjoy.   Delivering after 2 am 

Based on her clips, she is a real "find": great athlete, quick, tenacious defense, can take it to the basket, shooting over 40% from 3 (?). And from an outstanding high school program. What's not to like here?

That is a great draw for IU. We avoid all of the teams with quick little guards that have created perimeter blow-by problems for us and do well at getting out to shooters.; MSU, Illinois, even Purdud, and we match up much better with Iowa than OSU. 
Love a healthy IU team (fingers crossed) in this bracket.