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That explains it. Didn't realize going through 4 head coaches was the reason we sucked. Amazing we couldn't get it right through any of those hires. If someone made that many bad hires in business they'd probably be looked at as the reason the bad hires occurred. That utter destruction was mostly self inflicted and explains 1/8 maybe 1/6 of the seasons we haven't performed. Excuses for the other seasons? Agreed, purdoodoo's a joke and yet we'd love to have their last handful of seasons.

I was referencing the overall Big 1.o. I didn't realize how bad we've actually been this millennium in comparison to other Big 1.o teams. Stats from the 2000-2001 season onward:

I was skimming through Big 1.o history on sports reference and didn't realize how bad it's actually been. Storm the court! **** when we get close to winning anything we should storm the court, safely, and dodge anything Assembly Hall might be tossing from the rafters.

Neutral court it's 33-30 in IU's favor We foul a lot. We have fouled a lot. We continue to foul a lot. It might not be to the level to warrant the FT discrepancy but we foul a lot. We tend to go into stretches where we "attack" the lane before jumping away from the basket or going up soft.

We have the four highest ranked players in the league. I believe we had the most minutes returning (in the 70s%) and most points returning (80s%) that lead to the hype of winning the Big 1.o. It seems like we're one of the few who missed on evaluations or can't expect younger players to contribute or the Big 1.o calls fouls only on us or any other number of excuses and copes. We have talent. We have experienced talent. We don't seem to be able to convert.

Michigan State Illinois Ohio State Michigan

Sean Miller seems to be getting it done in his first year back at Xavier

Just a quick search to compare a few Big 1.o teams for funsies. IU Rutger Iowa Northwestern Penn State Maryland

This announcer needs promoted. Good quick run to end the quarter

Yes, we don't go hard after loose balls and have had a case of butterfingers trying to grab rebounding balls. I believe this plays into the foul discrepancy too. We seem to not go hard or go balls to the wall hard and foul. You would think with a combined 15+ years of Big 1.o experience in our starting lineup we'd find a happy medium between being soft and whacking the **** out of teams.

I was sorting by the "opponents of played games" column. My understanding is that is the strength of the schedule you've already played(?)

If I'm interpreting this correctly we have a 6-5 record against the 4th easiest schedule in the Big 1.o to date?

St. Mary's? Won the play-in game to get to the round of 64 and lost to a better St. Mary's team after not sleeping for several days?

Woot woot, went 4-2 against the 6 worst teams since the restart. Although now we're tied with Maryland (or they're ahead depending on how you look at it) and Michigan has a worse record than some of them since the restart. Does anyone have Kenpom Big 1.o SOS for conference only games?

When have we consistently attacked it this season? I can recall a handful of times we beat it and looked to attack. The rest of the time was get across half court and then setup the offense. The half court offense last night wasn't pretty either.

Going through the motions. We were on a 5 gamer we didn't really need this one. Add this to our list of WTFs: - "press break" - one turnover turning into 20 in a short amount of time - waiting to call a timeout after a 20-5 run - giving up straight line drives - looking great against the zone one trip and forgetting how to beat a zone the next trip TJD came out in the second half to two straight airballs (one broke the backboard) from 3'

Hard work beats talent when talent refuses to work hard or something like that. It takes a system, culture, leadership to realize that potential talent. We seem to be lacking in some areas.