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I think that's a fair and really well-stated counter-point. It can be either/or: When Teri Moren came to IU there was a major culture change, and with it came some really nasty posts from the families of players that left IU about how Moren was steamrolling good people. That turned out to be so very not true. Of course, in some instances a new coach can be just an @$$, nothing more and nothing less.

100% Catch and shoot wing.

After of years of waiting, Hoosier fans, you will finally be represented in TBT. Assembly Ball is the latest blue blood alumni team to enter the field for the 11th annual TBT. Led by Juwan Morgan and Troy Williams, the first edition of this squad is going to make some noise in Indianapolis this summer!

If you're gonna come in super, super hot, you better be super, super right. It appears that Deion has done the former but not the latter.

^^That’s kinda intriguing if Nikita isn’t happening.^^

Can’t teach height! And 6’5” is a good thing for a women's basketball player to be.

*Insert obligatory “Mike Woodson-nice Chianti” joke here*

Most likely in my opinion? I'm gonna go with... No one.

That's weird. People do not bet their kidneys. Not spleen, liver, nor other internal organs. That's weird.

Would be 27 years old by the first week of the season.

Abandon the Good Ship Underwood!

Any inferrence otherwise is strictly echo chamber speculation.

Let it be said, and let it be so. Braylon Mullins to IU will be a special thing.

Very true! But a coach is judged ultimately on results. And those results are dependent on the national rules/situation that the coach is placed into. Illinois is certainly not hurting for NIL $$. Woody also has been good at player retention, which works in any era.

So his first three years at Illinois were significantly worse than Mike Woodson’s first three seasons at IU. The jury is out to see if Woodson can get to 24 wins in year four. And you’re OK with that and think Underwood is a good coach. Got it.

He doesn’t always win all that much

"Geez; nothing is working for this Georgetown team! We've gotta try something different! Naahh; not him."

Career Stats: Three years. 54 games and one start: GP GS MIN FG FG% 3PT 3P% FT FT% OR DR REB AST BLK STL PF TO PTS 54 1 8.2 1.3-2.5 51.8 0.0-0.1 25.0 0.6-0.9 70.0 1.1 1.2 2.3 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.9 0.3 3.3

Would it help if I told you that the entire rest of their roster is: 4* freshman PF Morez Johnson, 2* freshman C Jason Jakstys, and portalist SF Jake Davis, who averaged 9ppg at Mercer? There is time, but those eight are their entire current roster. Dainja, Harris, Moretti, Hansberry, and Goode walked away. Lots of kids leave Illinois who would have had significant roles if they stayed, because Underwood just may be, ahem ... "difficult."

Underwood gets a ton of love, but he took over an arguably similar situation to that of Woody, and did far, far, FAR worse than Woody did in his first three years. Only when he added 5* Kofi Cockburn to Trent Frazier and Ayo Dosunmu (whom he already was losing with) did he get to a 21-10 record. Had a couple of good years with Kofi and then fell off to 20-13, 11-9 last year before having another good year this past year. In seven years at Illinois he has had exactly one player stay for four years. I see how his teams are effective, but I guess I'm not a fan of Illinois under Underwood being some "successful without any discussion" program.

The upside? He's a true big He's from Atlanta so he probably knows Ya, Myles Rice, Jakai, and Kanaan C The downside? He's a terrible basketball player

Illinois says "hold my beer." Their current starting lineup: Ty Rodgers, Carey Booth, Tre White, Kylan Boswell, Drayvn Gibbs-Langhorn.

Favorite take away from that interview? IU seems to think that there's a real chance that Luke could get a second year at IU because of time lost to injury, and if that were to happen Luke would be all for it. Second favorite takeaway? He wants to be in the Miller Kopp role in many ways. And damn, we truly missed the senior year version of Killer Mopp last year.

True dat.