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Pacino looks a lot like Pat Reilly. Just saying. And while we're doing mob movie/college basketball comparisons, Sean Miller is Paul Sorvino, Brad Underwood is Luca Brasi, Bruce Pearl is Moe Greene, Brad Stevens is Michael Corleone, and Archie Miller is clearly, irrefutably... Fredo.

After this year our conference schedule will be significantly easier: Instead of games every year against OSU, UM, and PSU, we have a total of three games in two years against them. The teams that we play both of the years? Purdue, Michigan State, Maryland. So, so much easier to navigate. Now only if we can get IUFB to suck way less.

He should be! I did that off of the top of my head, but his visit shows that he is clearly interested.

I think you just did.

Way to call him out, Honkyman.

There’s more than a little Michigan buzz for Reeves. Apparently he’s a quiet kid and doesn’t want to be the only upperclassman on a team of 18 year olds.

If it's IU Football-style news, our new conference opponents will be mandatory nine annual games consisting of mandatory triple plays against Penn State, Michigan, and OSU. To make it 'fair' our opponents will wear helmets and we will be banned from helmet usage.

Agreed. I could easily see Reeves or Hart, but not Wilcher.

A lot of it will be matchup dictated; Ware is taller and longer and Reneau and Sparks have a stronger base but ae shorter. I would think that Ware would start on a guy like Edey, but that Reneau/Sparks would draw a shorter five like Zed Key.

I believe that Ware projects as a four on offense and a five on defense, and Malik projects as a five on offense and a four on defense. Payton probably projects as a five on both ends.

True, and Cody Zeller has a really short wingspan for a seven footer. DeRon Davis is impressive.

That all-time leaderboard is interesting. The football middle linebacker built Freddie McSwain is the all-time leader at 30 reps, and second ever at 25 reps is...5'10", 185 lb walk-on guard Taylor Wayer.

So, with that interview he just became one of my absolute favorite prospects. Two quotes really stood out: “When I go on these visits, I want to get a feel for the school as a student. I know I’m going to play a lot of basketball, but honestly, I’m going to be a student more than I’m a basketball player in college, so I want to go get the feel around campus and see how people treat you. I want to go around and see what the college town is all about and how the teachers are.” And as if that's not enough, when asked for a recruiting quote about UConn, instead of the usual platitudes he answers with analysis that shows a severely interested, bright young player: “They play aggressively in the gaps. UConn shoots the gaps on defense because they always have big men who can protect the rim, like Donovan Clingan. They run their shooters off a lot of flairs and pin-downs, and I’m comfortable doing that.”

Kel’el Ware better get that motor hot because Payton Sparks is gonna challenge him for that 25 minutes at the 5 spot.

Holy crap… That’ll get some instant respect from teammates before the ball ever bounces. The look on Jakai Newton’s face is something like “Shiit; that little smiling freckle-faced kid is a bad-@$$.” Oh, and the kid never turns the ball over, and is a better recruiter than Ostrom was.

May have to rename him “Shootmore.” (sorry)

Please be 100% healthy Jakai Newton. Because if he is it’ll be a sight to see.

Reeves would be my first choice for sure, without a doubt, without question! Antonio Reeves is a proven, quick release, Power 5 conference, outside shot maker.

Wouldn't shock me in the slightest if we are in the mix here.

Here's a moderately hot nugget of info from today's Hoosier Hysterics podcast: Hysteric Eric stated in no uncertain terms that Caleb Love was not considered because he was not going to be academically admitted to IU. So apparently it's not a Michigan problem; it's a Caleb Love problem. Props to IU for not creating the mess that Michigan did with this one.

Adios Mongolian Mike!

Yikes and wow.

It's been a slow slide, not a sudden devolvement. The word is out that it's not a good culture.

That will expand their roster to six freshmen, and two sophomores who both averaged under 10 mpg and under 3ppg last year.

With bolded purple for the ones we seem to be most heavily involved with. These are ones where we're already stated as in their final five, or ones that are taking a pre-commitment visit to IU. That's eleven top 100, and six 5* players in the mix to fill a class of approximately four players.