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Man this is incredible. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

It’s so hard to squint this year and say any team should get there with any level of certainty. Odd season. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Kentucky survives Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Ha Papa John sitting behind the Kentucky bench. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Man Keion looks rough. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

OT. Keion missed the tip in (it was halfway down) to win it. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

UK vs UL tied with 10 seconds to go. Brooks just got beat off of the dribble for a layup to tie it. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Duke pulled away. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Duke up 8 over 5-5 Brown in the 2nd. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

What does a top 25 team look like this year? Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Yep I didn’t see that one when I went through it. I was wrong there. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Oh how times have changed since Alan was here. I 100% agree with him and have said as much. I am not saying Archie should pick our next AD. Just the fact you have nobody from either basketball or football on this committee is asinine. Any committee at Indiana University that has a say on the direction of the athletic department, with input from peers has to include them. It’s ridiculous it was not set up with them included. Like he said, put someone on there. Doesn’t have to be Archie. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Sure sounds like IU is going to the next level huh... Be careful what you wish for when their boss thinks they are doing a great job.... Hell here is his bio. What screams Athletic Director? Sounds more like a marketing director or project manager. Scott Dolson has served as Deputy Director of Athletics since 2009, after spending seven years as the Director of the Varsity Club. He oversees all internal and external operations within the department including marketing, media relations, ticketing, game management, broadcast services, strategic partnerships and fundraising. Dolson also supervises facilities and business operations, academics, compliance and is the sport administrator for Men’s Basketball. Under Dolson’s stewardship, Indiana Athletics renegotiated a new 10-year multimedia rights agreement with Learfield Sports, and dramatically increased student and general attendance at both Football and Men’s Basketball games. New football attendance records were set in 2012 and due to his leadership, Indiana has seen an almost 9% increase in public season tickets sold since the 2014 season. In men’s basketball, IU has sold more student season tickets (15,500) than any other program in the country in 2013-14 and has enjoyed five consecutive season of top ten attendance in the country. Since 2008, Dolson has also ushered in an era of expansion with the construction of new state-of-the-art facilities. Most recently – the renovation of Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in 2016, the construction of the Excellence Academy South Endzone of Memorial Stadium in 2018 and the addition of Wilkinson Hall, the new multi-purpose indoor arena that will serve as the home for the volleyball and wrestling teams, in 2018. Prior facility upgrades include the transformation of Memorial Stadium into a horseshoe layout; a 25,000-square foot strength and conditioning center (Jay and Nancy Wilkinson Performance Center); a 25,800-square foot academic center (D. Ames Shuel Academic Center); the Henke Hall of Champions, a banquet and entertaining space celebrating achievements in IU Athletics; a new basketball practice facility with museum space to celebrate the tradition of basketball (Cook Hall and Pfau-Shine Legacy Court); and new baseball (Bart Kaufman Field) and softball (Andy Mohr Field) stadiums highlighted with indoor hitting cages, locker rooms, suites and clubhouses. In addition to his role as Deputy Director of Athletics, Dolson has maintained his leadership as the fourth director of the Varsity Club managing the athletic department’s overall fundraising program for scholarships, annual giving, endowments and athletic facilities. Dolson leads the capital campaign efforts for the department. Currently, IU Athletics is aggressively fundraising as part of the university’s For All: The Indiana University Bicentennial Campaign to raise $2.5 billion. The current bicentennial campaign has an aggressive fundraising goal of $170 million to benefit capital projects and student-athlete scholarships. The campaign concludes December 31, 2019 and building projects in the current effort include Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, Excellence Academy in the South Endzone of Memorial Stadium, Indoor Arena, IU Golf Course redesign, Armstrong Stadium and IU Football renovations. Dolson also led the department’s first comprehensive campaign. The five-year, “For the Glory of Old IU” campaign, which was completed in 2011, raised $93 million against an $80 million development goal. He also helped secure the two largest gifts in the history of IU Athletics, a $40 million gift from Cindy Simon Skjodt and a $15 million gift from Bill and Gayle Cook. Dolson was also instrumental in securing two $10 million gifts from Larry and Lucie Glaubinger in support of the Glaubinger Athletic Endowment Fund. Under his leadership, the IU Varsity Club set a new annual giving record in 2016-2017, raising $12.6 million for student-athlete scholarships. The Michigan City, Indiana, native graduated from Indiana with a bachelor’s degree in Management from the School of Public & Environmental Affairs. While doing his undergraduate work, Dolson was a student manager for the Indiana Basketball program for four seasons, serving as the program’s head manager in 1988. Following graduation in 1988, he worked for Tim Knight Enterprises before joining the joining the Varsity Club staff in December of 1989. Dolson and his wife, Heidi, who works as a Special Events Manager at the IU Alumni Association, have five children: Luke, Sam and Zach Wisen, and Kristen and Nick Dolson. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Yep. What Alaska said. I think they may be the only ones in America where the Christmas weather is actually like Christmas. Merry Christmas all! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Right now I think most bracketologists would have us in that 5 or 6 seed range based on what others have done. I still think there is room to move way up or down depending on conference. I feel there are a lot of teams of equal talent. There are really only one or two teams that stand above the rest. If anyone would have told me we would have only one loss going into the Arkansas game I would have been pretty happy with that. Hopefully it continues. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Going to Breslin was on me. That was just dumb. But I have seen them in Bloomington, Indy, and Chicago. Never a good experience. With UL I saw a couple of fights in a couple different instances. I always thought UK was loud but not abusive. Illinois fans can be bad. Purdue fans are loud but they really have nothing. Duke fans remind me of Notre Dame football fans. Michigan fans can be annoying. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Completely agree. UofL or MSU fans for me. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Ha, can’t disagree with that at all. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

To be fair the one breastfeeding her 6 week old besides me most of Elite 8 game against Michigan at Lucas Oil a few years back was pretty reasonable. I think that’s the longest I ever stared a woman in her eyes with my wife sitting next to me. She did put headphones over that kids ear but it didn’t work. Thank god she could take that pain as I wouldn’t have sat next to a screaming infant a whole game. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Again, we have already tried exactly that since the series was suspended TWICE and nothing has changed. Sounds like they are scared... Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

For sure. It will change a little as teams will fluctuate based on their play. I imagine we will end up close to 40-50 in the nation. Northwestern and us will be very close. They may end up behind us. Maybe Nebraska? But I wouldn’t think anyone other than that. Like if we ended up with 5 losses overall our SOS will not hurt us from getting a top seed if that’s what we are worried about. We won’t get 5 losses but I just wanted to illustrate our SOS will not hamper us for things that will matter. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Actually we have the toughest road in the B1G. Not all schedules are created equal. We actually have the toughest schedule in America from here on out. Sure, anybody is allowed to complain about it. I don’t know if that was rhetorical but I have never said anything about this. But I did respond to your first question where you quoted me. I wasn’t sure if you were asking me the rest of this or if it was rhetorical. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Yep. Soon after Cal is gone it will happen again. I am honestly not that worried about it. We did our part. They kept shifting the goal posts to make it so it didn’t happen. His “non-traditional” schedule didn’t have IU on it. I am fine with that because their current one at times has backfired. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Texas Tech has 164 SOS with 3 losses. We are 134 with 1 loss. They have 3 losses against top 60 teams using RPI while beating Louisville. 5 of the 7 wins beyond UL were RPi 269 or worse. They have 2 wins in the 125-140 range. We have 6 wins from 169 to 215. Win against 8 and 85 while losing to 63. Just using RPI because I am lazy and it was right there. Ranking wise others may have them different but not that much. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

You are a troll. Plus I don’t know what the prophet Joe believes so I literally have zero clue what you are talking about here. This was started by you responding to me on something that wasn’t at you or anything. You said I sound scared. So I said you sound like a jackass. So I have zero clue what you are babbling about. I wasn’t arguing anything against you. I didn’t quote you. I have no clue what you are on today. You are just literally a troll looking for a reaction. You got one. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app