WayneFleekHoosier

Incredible! Tried sitting on the lead in the third. That’s always dangerous. And I hate that style of hockey/soccer.

Yeah, I feel pretty awful about this one. I'll keep the wishful thinking alive until we get down 10. Would love to have one of those unconscious type shooting night from our big 3 and knock them back. Wilkerson has been the only really consistent one of late. Dorn is on a major slide. Not sure what to chalk that up too.

Wow. Watched the end on my lunch break. 3 minutes until one of the biggest hockey upsets of all time. Great watch.

As I said earlier, that’s gonna be a tough one. Hope we don’t have to have it. 2-4 in the final stretch probably doesn’t get it done.

Yaxel was 2-3 million area. top 3 portal player. Mara, Morez and Cadeau power conference contributors didn’t come cheap. 5 star McKenny Then still need paid, N. Burnett (former 5 star), Gayle, Tschetter. Big money on top 8. Maybe they didn’t outspend us by a ton. But the rosters were always a mismatch and we likely overspent. my guess is we spent 10-11. I think they spent more.

But there will be. Imo we don’t have the funds or momentum to build a top 5 roster. Or top 10. Just gotta get in that perennial top 25 range and go from there. Michigan spent big bucks, plus had a lot of guys knocking on their door. We won’t have that, at that level.

Better than 0-2 for sure. One of our 2 or 3 good wins. Football has been spectacular. Doesn’t change that we are bubblicious with a non competitive team at the top level. We are 1 or 2 games away of missing the dance. But that’s the standard this year, so hopefully we fulfill it.

Hard to watch the success Michigan is having. Purdue is legit good. Not Michigan level good. Fear we are gonna get belted Friday.

Miami is an interesting case. Seems to me they’ve done enough to be far off the bubble but the analytics don’t support that. Project they win tonight. They’ve been good most of the season.

hopefully their window has shrunk to winning the B1G tourney by that point.

I’m with Stu, likely need 3 of 6. I don’t like our odds at OSU if they are still alive. They might lose enough before that to zap their enthusiasm. Getting 3 home wins in a row would be gigantic, especially with MSU.

Secondhand Lions was incredible.

Indiana would be coached by Dusty May if we had Kansas States reaction speed. It’s gonna take me a while to get over this obvious flub.

At least we have football. Amirite? And Soccer.

Purdue 81 Indiana 64

2 will absolutely not be enough. We barely have a player worthy of a starter spot returning. It will be a near full build. Unless we are just trying to tread with a similar ceiling team. Which we absolutely might be doing.

Michigan and Illinois assembled tremendous rosters with size and shooting. Hard not to be jealous of what they have going on right now. Both with legit shots to win it all.

Roster limitations exposed today. Expected. Going to have to take care of business to sneak into the dance. Not too much fun today.

He needs to better his pump fake drive game. Doesn’t finish well with his left. Dribble isn’t as tight as it should be.

Brutal

I Was a very small part of that crowd noise. That season cemented my diehard fandom. Fond memories!

While freshman were unremarkable as the stars of college basketball the past couple years, short of Flagg and a few others, this years class of freshmen is the best I can ever remember. So many good ones. Dominating. Athletically, Jordan Smith has a strong chance to be that next year.

Heard men’s slate is intentionally weak on Thursday to accommodate the women’s game which puts big games on Thrs.

Wishful thinking and good vibes. It’ll be a fight for real impact makers amongst all the best schools. We need about 3 of them. 34 minute type guys. We return very little and have a recruiting class with good long term projections. We aren’t starting square 1 but without serious portal wins we won’t sniff preseason top 25 next year. Lots of schools will be WAY ahead of us with what they return. Many schools will have more cash to spend. I guess we will see what the portal giveth.

Hearing Arkansas beat out Duke in this one.