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Beware the Bison! #dangerous (is a bison the same as a water buffalo?) https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5401693-oklahoma-water-buffalo-auction/

Watched a fair bit of the game. He is well coached and seems very court aware. Plays very maturely for his age; I guess that's a product of playing a lot with grown-@$$ Serbian men. The jump shot form will 100% translate. A caveat - he faced next to zero on ball pressure throughout - the French guards spent a lot of time eyeing the Serbian bigs to help in the post. I suppose that can make many guards look buttoned up.

Not “accusing.” Just stating. It’s not in any way scandalous; it’s just kinda true. Heckel averaged 17 mpg, 6 ppg, 2 apg, and 1.3 steals as the first guard off the bench on a team that went to the national championship game. For a final four UCLA Zania got into less than 1/2 of their games, never played ten minutes in a game that was in any way meaningful, and had 24 points for the entire season.

Looks like a Lion King copyright violation in the making.

Well that's pretty freaking encouraging. The French U20 national team is a real deal team. Maybe the best stat of all? That he was 5-6 on 2pt fgs and took 6 fts. That means he wasn't solely scoring on catch and shoots.

Seems like we need a thread to monitor and comment on the summer progress of the current IU basketball roster. So there’s this!

Zania was a freshman backup last year. The only reason she's on the team is as a favor to Coach Moren. If she was one of the better players in practice she would play more.

If they really wanted to be “conditioned for Chaos” they should be forced to read message boards of cranky RMK era fans.

Of note: the coach of this US team is the best women’s hoops coach in the land.

It was an U-20 tournament game against Iceland, a country with a population of under 400,000 that isn’t very focused on basketball. It would be like having a strong game against the Alaska U-20 all stars. I hope he’s not a project, but as our 12th guy he likely is.

As part of an effort to make this very slow month slightly entertaining, I give you... The Banny's; an awards thread for the best in IU sports. Feel free to chime in on awards, categories, nominees, and your choice for the winners: Best IU BBall Player 2024-2025 Gallo Leal Reneau Ballo Best IU Football Player 2024 Rourke Ponds Fisher Kamara CJ West Saraat Best IU Women's BBall Player 2024-2025 Czieski Garzon Moore-McNeill Parrish Best IU Coach Woody Woody Woody Woody cig moren yeagley IU athlete most likely to succeed in the pros (who hasn't played there yet) CJ West Rourke Tucker D Garzon Ponds IU athlete best pro year Lily King Kelel Ware OG Anunoby Kyle Schwarber Most Impactful Event Woody gets fired IUFB makes CFB Playoff Devries is hired Big Woods names burger after Reneau IUFB beats Michigan IUFB beats Nebraka by a million IUFB beats Purdump by a zillion Most entertaining IU-alum, current personality, or sports personality Dakich Woody Mike Katic Sage Steele Cig Lee Corso Ready... GO!!

I almost forgot a really good additional category... Best Play!! Feel free to video-nominate your choice for best play. Mine is this one:

Galloway Rourke Moore-McNeill 100% Cigi-cigi-cigi CJ West Schwarber IU Beats Purdump by a zillion Katic

As they used to say in da good old days, "Stevie Wonder could see that coming." I wonder who his agent is. Feels like IU has strong-@$$ offer potential for this young man (and in this case, so does Will Wade at NC State).

Okay Demo -- you are clearly on the mind-meld-same wavelength as this young man. See today's Daily Hoosier interview of Deron Rippey, or you could just read Demo's post from yesterday! https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-recruiting-top-25-pg-deron-rippey-on-indiana-visit-his-game-and-recruitment/

Thought I'd prompt a discussion during a slow month for IU sports. Our outstanding IU Football squad has a 2025 schedule as follows: 2025 Indiana Football Schedule Saturday Aug. 30 Old Dominion MonarchsMemorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN 2:30pm ETFS1 Buy Tickets Saturday Sep. 6 Kennesaw State OwlsMemorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN 12:00pm ETFS1 Buy Tickets Friday Sep. 12 Indiana State SycamoresMemorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN 6:30pm ETBTN Buy Tickets Saturday Sep. 20 11 Illinois Fighting IlliniMemorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN Time TBA ETTV TBA Buy Tickets Saturday Sep. 27 at Iowa HawkeyesKinnick Stadium, Iowa City, IA 12:00-4:00pm ETTV TBA Buy Tickets Saturday Oct. 4 OFF Saturday Oct. 11 at 8 Oregon DucksAutzen Stadium, Eugene, OR Time TBA ETTV TBA Buy Tickets Saturday Oct. 18 Michigan State Spartans (HC)Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN 12:00-4:00pm ETTV TBA Buy Tickets Saturday Oct. 25 UCLA BruinsMemorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN Time TBA ETTV TBA Buy Tickets Saturday Nov. 1 at Maryland TerrapinsSECU Stadium, College Park, MD Time TBA ETTV TBA Buy Tickets Saturday Nov. 8 at 1 Penn State Nittany LionsBeaver Stadium, University Park, PA Time TBA ETTV TBA Buy Tickets Saturday Nov. 15 Wisconsin BadgersMemorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN Time TBA ETTV TBA Buy Tickets Saturday Nov. 22 OFF Friday Nov. 28 at Purdue BoilermakersRoss-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, IN 7:30pm ETNBC/Peacock

Your example of $1m instead of $1.5m would be a 50% ‘hometown discount’, so no; not that. But a 10% hometown discount? Maybe sure. Or winning a recruiting battle by matching instead of having to outbid? Yes! Or some players don’t shop themselves because they’re happy and getting what they generally consider market value where they are? Absolutely. FWIW; there were three of our twelve players who I would imagine we got that advantageous treatment from this year; Tucker, Enright, and Sisley.

What a great article. An underrated part of it that shows just how poorly we were thought of going into last season? "Before the game against UCLA on September 14th, the Hoosiers have two home games. Indiana should be favored to win both games as they host Florida International on August 31st and Western Illinois on September 6th." Yes ... "should be" favored against FIU and WIU. Should have taken the Hoosiers against the spread in every damn game last year.

At the risk of oversimplifying things, it's a matter of Having a generally competitive budget, Creating budgetary value as a product of relationships and the staff's ability to develop, and then Spending the budget wisely.

Is it reasonable to say that this visit also puts pressure on Kinney? The two of them have been battling each other and both are strongly considering IU and Kensucky. Feels almost like two dominoes that could fall, one to each of the two schools.

To say that this interview and article reads "promising" would be a vast understatement: https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-recruiting-qa-latrell-allmond-recaps-indiana-visit-next-steps/ D-Rock, KJ, and Prince AM getting to work.

Drake was not an especially 'cut above' player at Drexel and there's no reason to think he'll ever be a key piece if we're a tournament team. More like one of those garden variety guards that Minnesota has filled their roster with. And that's okay - he'll be an experienced, playable back bench guy.

Listened to the Rabjohns podcast with, as a wise poster has nicknamed them ... "the Dorks." Some informative takeaways: Rabby has spoken with "12-15 coaches" that he says have no motivation to lie about Devries. To a man, each and every one says that he makes players better, is very good at establishing roles for players, and that his teams always overperform expectations. Practices have been, without exception, very organized, relatively short, and purposeful. Cignetti-like. Speaking of expectations, Rabby was fairly convinced that the Rothstein early "IU 15thin the B1G" projection was a product of: It's summer when it's hard to get clicks. Only about five fanbases stay engaged for July college bball content, and we're one of them. Projecting IUBB 8-12th this year does not prompt discussion or clicks; only projecting them unnaturally high or low will do that. Now the good stuff: Rabby currently sees three guaranteed starters: Tucker, Wilkerson, and Conerway. Tucker apparently is our best player in practice, and is going full contact five on five. Lots of good stuff about Conerway as a disruptive defensive guard. Enright is a top eight rotation player and the backup point guard. Not a starter. The other two starters are likely to come from the foursome of Bailey (the most likely), Alexis, Harris, and Miles. Dorn is still recovering from a last season foot injury, and has not been able to go at all. He is not looking like a rotation player any time soon. Drake will likely play some as the current ninth player. Sisley is confident and hyper-competitive; he could play some and would slot as the tenth most likely used player currently. Ritisic is not athletic. Not at all. He was described as good catch and shoot kid with a good attitude who will need a year or two before he adjusts to the speed of college hoops. Developmental only. Someday maybe Matt Roth, or maybe Grant Gelon.

100% We wouldn’t be offering the day before he announces his top 7 if we weren’t on it. So good.