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Traffic cones have a slight edge on JBJ in regards to defense.

Kobe's been around a loooooong time...
http://kotaku.com/kobe-bryants-20-year-career-in-video-games-1770680799

Didn't know where else to take this.  I've tried making a post to the Chicago Cubs thread but regardless of trying to create a new post or even quote a post, the text entry field goes completely black.  The Cubs thread is the only thread I've experienced this.   Surely the Curse of the Billy Goat doesn't reach this far.

Could he just take whatever classes he wanted? Like start on a 2nd Degree or something? I don't know the NCAA rules surrounding it but I would think he would be able to go after dual degrees or something if he so desired.

Okie doke :)

The push for #6...begins.

2 dingers tonight.  He is a stud.
Collin McHugh got roughed up.  Shoot, the Yanks had our entire's staff # last night.  My money says Houston will pick up a middle-of-the-rotation guy.  Hopefully it was just a really bad day for the Astros arms and a really good day for the Yankees bats.  A loss is a loss, but I hate to see us get blown out by 10 freaking runs.  

Thanks for the money everyone!

Thanks for the money everyone!

Thanks for the money everyone!

Congrats to the winners!
Awards have been sent!

So, not that Tracy Smith is a bad coach (he's an excellent coach and I'm a big fan), but why is it cool for him to be having a rough go of it in year two, but not for Lemonis? Both teams were in the tourney last year.

Congrats to the winners.  I'll be sending your winnings tomorrow evening. 

These comparisons are a bit odd but I'll try to explain. He seems to project a higher level of calmness and confidence that very few coaches or professionals posses.
I was in a rather sticky situation in Afghanistan. I was surrounded by Rangers and other really well trained military types. We knew something bad was coming and you could sense a nervousness about the group. An older gentleman with the label of "badass" sensed it as well. He started moving throughout the group ensuring everyone knew exactly what to do and when to do it. He brought a sense of faith to a group that knew what to do but needed reassurance. He was a cut above. This is a characteristic that I see in Stevens.
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So by letting them score so many runs, it lengthened the game enough to keep it from being official before the storms arrived and washed it away. 
 
Brilliant. 

Talked to Al today and he said he has a 6'10 wingspan and wouldn't wanna be playing anywhere else.

Brice Johnson earned that T. That was dumb

I have no issues with the new,version, basically. But, this one very minor issue. The unread posts are intermittenly all read posts. Even refresh does not cure this, as it did late last night.

The Night of the Future Stars with the slam dunk, 3 pt and 2 on 2 contest is on the 14th @ New Albany HS and the game is on the 15th. There is usually a stream for the both the these. I, or someone will post it if/when it's available. Can we pin this until then?
‏‏@rickbozich: One more nugget from #IUBB locker room. Heard signees Curtis Jones and Grant Gelon, plus commit Devonte Green will play in Derby Classic. De'Ron Davis might be fourth IU recruit in Derby Classic, but my sources were uncertain. Should get official list soon.
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Curtis Jones (G) 6-4 / Indiana
De’Ron Davis (F) 6-10 / Indiana

As another season comes to an end, I would like to thank everybody who posts and contributes to the site. This being the end of my fourth season as a poster on here (2nd account), it truly brings an insight to Indiana basketball that I wouldn't have otherwise. To those who provide insider information on recruits, players, and news- keep up the good work. I appreciate this site.
This season we were recognized by reporters as a source, how cool is that? 
 Viva la IU
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For the third time in five seasons, the Indiana basketball season ended in the Sweet Sixteen. Some feel the season was a success while others were disappointed with the finish. Here's my take.
There’s a simple reason why Indiana was eliminated from the 2016 NCAA Tournament by top-seeded North Carolina Friday night in Philadelphia at the Wells Fargo Center.
 
 
 
 
 
The Hoosiers lost to the better team.
 
 
 
 
 
You can flip this one any way you choose, but in the end that should be your conclusion. In 18 years covering IU basketball, I've seen a lot of seasons end where you were convinced that wasn't the case. Friday night, that's exactly what happened though: IU lost to a better team.
 
 
 
 
 
This wasn’t 2013 when Indiana was a No. 1 seed and lost to a No. 4 in Syracuse because it couldn’t solve the zone defense.
 
 
 
 
This wasn't a team that lost to Cleveland State or Richmond or Kent State or a host of other opponents where IU was heavily favored.
 
 
 
This was a No. 5 seeded Indiana team that beat a good Kentucky team to make it to the Sweet Sixteen and then simply went up against a red hot North Carolina team. A North Carolina team that when it reached the Sweet Sixteen was considered a co-favorite with Kansas to take home the national title. 
 
 
 
 
 
Indiana didn’t play poorly Friday night. North Carolina just played better.
 
 
 
 
 
Sure, we all would have liked to have seen a contribution from Nick Zeisloft.
 
 
 
 
 
We all would have liked to have seen Troy Williams play in the first half like he did in the second.
 
 
 
 
 
We all would have liked to have seen what Indiana could have done had Robert Johnson been cleared to play.
 
 
 
 
We would have liked to have seen what would have happened if North Carolina wasn't in the bonus in the second half before the first media timeout.
 
 
 
We all would have liked to have seen Indiana come charging out of the second half locker room and quickly get the deficit into single digits and get back into the game.
 
 
 
 
 
But none of that was to be because North Carolina is a really good basketball team. If the Tar Heels play the way they did Friday night against IU, I think they win the national championship.
 
 
 
 
 
They were that good Friday night.
 
 
 
 
 
What I don’t get is the people I’ve encountered in message board threads and Twitter today who are taking Tom Crean to task for the way the season ended. They somehow want to place all the blame there for the fact that North Carolina couldn’t miss from the field and was too much for IU inside.
 
 
 
 
 
A buddy of mine sent me a text after Indiana beat Kentucky and asked me if I thought that victory would silence the Crean haters at least for this season?
 
 
 
 
 
I gave him my standard, canned answer on that topic: I told him it would silence the critics until Indiana’s next loss. That’s simply the nature of the beast with IU basketball fans.
 
 
 
 
 
But here’s my take there: I think this was Tom Crean’s best coaching job at Indiana. Hands down. If we go back to the way this team looked through the first eight games, how it played in Maui and how it looked against Duke in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, and then fast forward to IU winning the outright Big Ten title by two full games, I don’t know how you could reach any other conclusion.
 
 
 
 
This wasn't a GREAT Indiana basketball team. It was a good Indiana team that played its roles really well. And Crean and his staff are responsible for getting players to accept those roles.
 
 
 
Crean got people to buy in. Players did a great job in embracing their roles. And the days of IU playing a turnstile type of defense came to an end. And because of that, this was a fun team to watch. A team that never gave up and had three wins in games where it trailed by 10 points or more.
 
 
 
 
 
It was a team that got IU fans excited about Indiana basketball again. A few hours before the game, I was across the street from the Wells Fargo Center and saw a crowd of more than 1,000 IU fans packed in a sports bar called McFadden's for the Big Red Warmup. It was a madhouse. People were excited. People believed that IU could do the improbable and knock off the No. 1 seed in the East. They believed in Indiana basketball and that was fun to see.
 
But I think that's because Crean and his staff got this team to a place that few would have expected them to be, especially after that 5-3 start to the season. It was a team filled with the kinds of kids you wanted wearing the IU basketball uniform. It was the kind of team that you truly felt had a chance to win every game they played.
 
 
 
 
 
That’s also why Friday night was disappointing. Because you got the feeling that Indiana was playing its best basketball at the absolute best possible time. You didn’t feel like the team had run out of gas like you did in the last few years with Bob Knight at the helm, or more recently, perhaps how you felt in 2013.
 
 
 
 
 
This team had confidence, energy, focus and a cast of characters that you wanted to root for. Players like O.G. Anunoby, Thomas Bryant, Juwan Morgan, Collin Hartman, Yogi Ferrell, Max Bielfeldt, Nick Zeisloft, Robert Johnson and Troy Williams were players who endeared themselves to IU fans everywhere.
 
 
 
 
 
In the end, however, the Hoosiers went up against a better team.
 
 
 
 
 
And that’s the reality, plain and simple, coming out of Friday night’s 101-86 loss to North Carolina.
 
 
 
 
 
Indiana lost to the better team.
 
 
 
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Happy Easter to my Christian friends.  Happy regular Sunday to everyone else!  ;)  I hope it's an enjoyable day with family and friends!
 
He is Risen!
 
 
And please, before a post is made about how this topic shouldn't arise on an IU Athletics Board, please remember that topics have been made for our Jewish friends (Hanukkah) and are free to post Good Wishes to your respective religion as the milestone days come and go.  No one is being censored.  If you are disagreeable with the topic I implore that you move along and ignore it.  If that's not possible, please send me a direct message to voice your displeasure is said topic.  Thanks.  Management. 

People don't remember how dirty Blackmon is the dude can BALL! If cream can get him to play some D he's about to be crazy next year
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I got it, thanks.

I don't really get the Crean hate after this game.  IU played arguably one of the hottest teams in the country coming into the tournament, and there's not much you can do when they shoot like that.  It is what it is, no one was going to beat UNC last night the way they played. Trust me, I get still wanting Crean gone, but this was his best year IMO coaching wise.  He made a ton of adjustments, and we didn't have a late season swoon of old.  

Let's not forget, we didn't have 2 of our starting guards for this game, and Morgan and Hartman were still banged up.  He did a lot this year, and he impressed me this season.