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Jeremy Stephens at FW should be fantastic!!!  Dude doesn't know how to put on a bad fight.  

  Too late.  

WSOF is also going on right now for all of you fight fans.  As I say that Jon Fitch just got taken down and got his back taken.  My how the times have changed.  

That was messed up.  

I can't drink too much during an IU basketball game, but our defense causes me to drink.

We are terrible on 3rd down defensively.  

93-74 IU.

If Dickie is calling it, don't you mean RMK Hall?

The season is officially here!!!  A lot of what you would expect for a first game, which is actually good considering how a lot of other teams had more issues than expected.  It is starting to look like 90 might be the new 70 under the new rules which always bodes well for a Tom Crean coached team.  Words that could describe this IU team are long, athletic, quick, and young.  This young team is going to make that head-scratching play and turn around making a play that gets you out of your seat.     I don't think there were many people who would say a 100-72 score would result in anyone saying it was a decent defensive game, but I think it really was.  Defensively we were active with block after block.  We were active on the boards as a team (62!!!-36).  The reason I say 90 is the new 70 is because we just went 45-55 from the line on a night I couldn't really see the home cooking calls you could normally see in a game like that.  Turnovers were again a big problem with the good guys getting 19 and only forcing 10.  We did force them to shoot 25.9% from the field however.     Individually, I was thrilled with how Noah came out.  He scored the first 5 and hit his first free throw!  Then offensively he seemed to disappear for long stretches.  The boards however, he was a beast.  This kid ended up with 11 pts and 14 rebounds.  10 coming in the first 15 minutes!!!  Beyond that we had 6 Hoosiers in double figures scoring, led by Jeremy Hollowell with 16.  In a game with this many points you would expect that.  Things that won't show up in the box score and probably were more important were the energy minutes that Hanner Perea, Stan Robinson, and Devin Davis all provided.  These kids are going to get a lot of minutes for the energy they bring on every possession.  I can honestly say I have never seen a kid improve as much in one offseason as I have with Hanner Perea, and I think that says something after having witnessed Victor Oladopo's rise.     All in all it is really what you would expect for a first game.  I think this gives us a better feel how the new rules will effect the outcome of games.  I believe this also shows why players that are ultra-athletic are even more valuable in this environment.  That 300 pound plodder that can't move his feet won't do very well in this new environment.  More important than that, the season is underway folks!  Sit back and if the site is new to you, kick your feet up and enjoy.  Its going to be one hell of a season!

Me neither.  I will be with about 20 Boilermaker fans watching that game.  Not even joking.  I hope they let me take a dejected picture of them all flipping me off I can post lol.

Did they storm the court?

Defense and rebounding.  That is going to be us this year.  Love the fact that we finally have some protection around the rim.  So much athleticism on this team. 

I can't even drink watching this game.  Afraid as bad as it looks, I will try hooking up with my computer like its my last call option.  

Not sure thats a good thing.  

Sloppy...

My family who is all die-hard PU fans truly feel they are sweeping us this year due to who all we lost.  Nevermind their hope is pinned on Freshman who don't come close to ours.  Not even joking.  I get to watch the first game with them this year.  I am assuming there won't be a second one.  The only thing I could really say after showing them the rankings (because they feel Crean isn't that good of a coach that is why their freshman are better....) is lets watch the game together.  Hope they don't play like trash out of the gate and ruin it for me.  

  Yeah, you have to get a feel for who works well with certain players.  Some players that don't practice well just play themselves into the rotation.  Its understandable, its just hard for players to get into a good flow against teams like this.  

  I am going to say what I have been saying all summer and louder recently.  Dude is going to be top 3 in the B1G in rebounds.  I think he could lead the league.  The ball just finds him.  

In all honesty, I don't think we really see what we got until we tighten the rotation.  Kind of like when Noah scored those quick 5, he was taken out right after like 2:30 into the game for a quick breather.  That threw him off his game it seems.  Getting a lot of rebounds, but he isn't being as aggressive offensively now.  

Sloppy, but you expect that in the first game.  

  I didn't get to do it in college, but I got to do games for HS for our radio.  Funnest school function I had outside of sports I played.  

Even for a free online viewing, this camera crew blows.  Sorry, someone had to.  

Listen to this announcer saying he would hit the shot Will just missed....  OOOOOKKKKK

Hanner!!!

I have seen better 3am women at bars than that last possession.  I am from Huntington.  To those that aren't watching the game, that might be the worst possession all season where we don't turn it over.