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Offense looks AWFUL! Defense has a chance to be elite.

IU: 86 FGCU: 65

I never thought we were getting Queen, honestly. I can say that I have more optimism now than I did a few weeks ago. My interpretation of Trilly’s article is that Queen and his camp are keeping things extremely close to the vest and he hasn’t heard anything to suggest a changing wind. I don’t allow myself to get all worked up over recruiting anymore. I KNEW we weren’t going to land (3) 5 star recruits bc we’ve never been the program to do such a thing. If we can get 1-2 every now and then and continue our portal success, I’m happy.

Dalton Knecht is an absolute animal. Would love to see a guy like that at IU at some point.

Sparks needs to see BIG minutes. I don’t even need to see any more from him. He’s legit.

This is ugly boys. Expected it to be rough but the offense is really struggling. Love the size though!

We will stay neck and neck anytime the starters are in but we will pull away each time both teams need to go to the bench. Our frontcourt depth will overwhelm them. I see us rebounding everything. IU - 88 U of I - 72

Another one! My oldest son commented “ he just can’t stop.” Said it with the most serious tone. Haha. Schwarbzenegger is the man!

I love Cupps. Think he’s going to take longer to come along but the payoff will be huge. As far as Newton? I hate to say it, bc I was so excited about him. Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t he originally require microfracture surgery? If so, I’m afraid his ceiling will have been drastically reduced. The knee seems to be problematic ever since his initial injury. I hope I’m wrong and really want the world for the young man. I just don’t think we can realistically expect him to breakout at this point.

I always wondered how a recruitment loss like this one would affect the staff. I’m sure they get deflated. Wonder how long it takes them to regroup.

Listen to his interviews. He wanted to play for Cal. He knew all of the recent guards that played for him and had success. Stinks bc winning these types of recruitments are how you build that type of resume with the future kids. Woodson has done an amazing job in the portal and in late recruitments, so I’m not going to be upset over it.

Agreed. Yea leaves were UK all along. I don’t buy for a minute that we were leading going onto this week.

Not feeling great about this one. But that’s how I felt about Mbako as well.

I thought the decision had already been made.. lol.

He says he’s not a Kansas fan. I’ve never felt overly optimistic about this recruitment. Reading all the tea leaves, it seemed that Kentucky was his #1 choice but they had another kid higher up their board. Now that their top choice is no longer an option to reclass, the door was wide open. My gut says he’s off to Lexington.

This sounds funny when you read it out loud….. I’ll see myself out.

I see.

Doesn’t look like it will happen until after 9:00 pm. Montverde not playing until the nightcap.

From this article, it sure does.

I always thought getting stiff was more of a challenge at that age range.

You’d have to fight him for it. He’s pretty scrappy.

My oldest son is a huge McDavid and Oilers fan. He’s only 8 but has been watching his YouTube vids since he was like 5 years old. Cool story: A business associate of mine from Edmonton, had a condo in the same building downtown as a few of Oilers players and ended up catching McDavid before headed to Fort Wayne. He got McDavid to sign a jersey and gave it to my boy last summer.

Sounds exactly like the type of player that helps propel a deep March run. March is about guard play!!

I’ve been down the rabbit hole of ai generative images. What do you think of these variations of IU jerseys? yes I know some of them are misspelled. The AI does this often, even when your prompts is spelled correctly.

Have you heard anything re: Queen? I’m really curious to see if we can parlay him into the fold if we indeed land Liam and Boogie.