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  I want four year players! It's a college basketball team. I want kids that are here to stay and get a college degree.    It would be even better if those same kids are fantastic basketball players.

A review of his play at the Classic:   6’10 Sr. Matt Cimino of Worchester Academy: Cimino may be one of the top unsigned “bigs” in the country. While he has a slender build, he is highly skilled offensively. He has a nice arsenal of moves in the paint with the jump hook being his favorite weapon. Cimino has good hands and footwork in the paint, but could easily add weight and strength. Cimino finished with 22 points going 9-12 from the floor and 4-9 from the FT line. He collected 8 rebounds and had 3 block shots.

  A "Hell Mary", not a "Hail Mary", eh?

While we were suffering this afternoon, a very high-level of security and secrecy was implemented while the Kentucky Wildcats and the Purdue Boilermakers squared off in their first ever alumni game:   The game was originally scheduled for coRUPPt Arena, but Cal did some research and found that UK had lost there before. It was then moved to Indianapolis, but IU owns that town. They finally settled on Pyongpang, North Korea, where both the Boliers and Kitties agreed that the neutral site fan base had the appropriate level of delusion.   Eric Bledsoe was scheduled to sing the national anthem, but could not read the lyrics. Instead, Cal hired Jack, the Purdue donkey who Coach Knight once interviewed, to stomp out a funky rhythm with his dainty hooves.   LewJack warmed up with some back room wacky tobacky, all the better to ease the pain of his jump shot. Terrance Jones sulked and would not come out of the locker room. Then, Marques Teague chased Jones out of the locker room by threatening him with an "Anthony Davis style" naked duct-tape spank-o-rama. Davis was nowhere to be found, as his $200,000 booster payment was being put on the table in a high-stakes poker game with Kim Jung Un.   The evening was supposed to start with a three point shooting contest, but Barlow stole the ball rack after Supreme Leader Kim warned him of impending enemy aggression. Instead, Calipari conducted a symposium entitled "How top athletes can become Kentucky style scholars". As a prime example he spoke about the academic success of...well... it was a very short speech.   Then the game started. As you might expect, Kentucky was the superior basketball team. JuJuan Johnson tried to trip DeMarcus Cousins with a rolled up Helms banner. Cousins first beat Johnson senseless, and then had him deported, as no European players were allowed in North Korea. Kramer, ever the schemer, wore a Robert Morris jersey and his shots started falling, but just when it looked like Purdue might prevail, World Wide Wes made it rain, and the North Korean referees were replaced by Cal and Wes' choice, Casual Gamer Reed. Reed started throwing fried food and boogers at the feet of the Boilers, all while exclaiming " That der fella over dere oughta git oughta tha way of my good ol Kentucker boys for I marry another one a ma cousins raght here a-centra court!"  The Purdue players ran away scared, and continued their worldwide search for less ugly girls.   SOOOOOO, if that game today has you down, always remember... It could be a lot worse.

Thought the mood needed to be lightened a bit!

Jeff Howard did a fantastic job when he was given a shot at Drew Crawford. Really. That, and I'm going to have nightmares about Yogi going under multiple high screens while Noah doesn't hedge out on the guard. Yeeesh.   The only other positive I can think of is the general ability of the posters in this thread to be thoroughly disappointed and frustrated, yet to keep thoughts for the most part in context. Kudos to this board. Lord help our Hoosiers.   PS: we WILL get our act together (I think).   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Yop62wQH498   "When I'm stuck with a day that's grey and lonely, I just stick out my chin, and grin and say......   At least we're not, Kentucky, even though we were quite sucky, at least we don't have to pay.. Our players, our players, they were quite egg-layers, but Boilers have ugly girls.   Tomorrow, tomorrow, we've no game tomorrow, but practice's at the break of day.   Tomorrow, tomorrow, to change all the sorrow, we're only one winnnnn....ahhhhhh...WAYYYYYY!!!"""

Zeller-esque

"Big Al" is coming!!!   See attached link for a great write-up on Alex I. Sounds like a hot ticket young man to say the least. Count me intrigued, and hopefully count him interested.   http://www.startribune.com/sports/240032781.html

AAU ball?   Boo Williams.

  Lyle = Extraordinary talent.   Who do I want as a Hoosier more? Rob Johnson >Lyle

  Not for nothing, I'm a semi-oldster (48) that went to IU for undergrad and law school, and I think that random expressions of IU fan joy, such as last night's mini-court storm are appropriate, excellent, and to be encouraged.

Stan and Will are birds of a feather who feed off of each other.   Great post.

I'ma betcha there was a lot of post editing that was done by some after the game.   Buncha yellow-bellied Nancies!

  I believe you mean "grammer"

IUfanCharlie=JohnFreed=IUfanCharlie=KyleHornsbyRules.   An IU fan who wants IU to win, but doesn't care for the coach or more than one or two players.   Sigh

  Twelve? Sure.     BUT NOT THIRTEEN!!

To properly know what the remedy for a situation is, it is extremely important to have a full command of the facts of the situation.

  Wow, JS. Let's take it as a given that there are about 30 major conference teams each year in the tourney, and therein which are capable of winning the national title.   Under this logic every major conference team except for one underachieves each and every year. With those expectations, expect to be disappointed a whole lot no matter who you're rooting for.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-01-06/sports/bs-va-sp-john-carroll-calvert-hall-boys-hoops-0107-20140106_1_calvert-hall-bauersfeld-john-carroll

How you come with some of these nuggets, I have no idea.   As always, kudos ccg.   PS; Don't know if he can play, but "Nico Clareth" is a cool name.

  I thought the 15 turnovers against Mich St (which I believe were mostly in the first half) was a stronger sign of progress than the Penn St performance. The Penn St 13 turnovers was a continuation of a good trend.    A bit of perspective; we only have one player handling the ball who played significant minutes for us last year.Turnovers should be expected, but progress should also be expected.   We're getting what we expected, aren't we?

  Like he*l we can't.    Penn State plays three quick guards and we did a nice job of protecting the ball. Wisconsin is a test a level higher. I betcha we do a pretty decent job.

  Yes - exactly right.   By the way, our very young team is hard at work correcting their turnover issues, and they are making real progress if I'm not mistaken.

  A slight amendment:   Howard is a smarter defender than Vonleh (for now).    And in the last few minutes of a tight game against an opponent with no dominant big for Jeff to have to handle, that matters.

  Now you have...   Hooray, us!!!!!