lillurk

Ball don’t lieeeeee

Technically by .7 seconds he did lol

Like seriously if they screw this up the zebras should not even finish this game

Doesn’t matter, if they get this wrong, they should lose their jobs forever: EPPS IS STANDING. OUT. OF. BOUNDS.

What did they just report about X on the broadcast?

I still sort of think he might be back if cleared today. Race hadn’t practiced and just showed up in uniform for a home game.

I have gone from thinking he was underrated to properly rated. I used to think the lack of tourney success was bad luck, hiding a better-than-reputation coach. Still think there’s some bad luck but his teams annually get worse from about mid-January on. He’s also been somewhat unlucky: last year Branham was off draft radars but played his way from a 2- or 3-year college career into a 1st round draft pick, this year it’s happening with Sensabaugh. The Zed Key injury has tanked their defense…but IU’s had worse injury luck and survived it.

I’d add that the allegations bring up the question of his integrity. Officials needn’t be choirboys but in theory it should make an employer pause before continuing a relationship

My counterpoint is that I would like to take my small children to a game without them learning that word.

Team needs to flush it. We can discuss it all we want but I think I learned something good about this team in the second half. Let’s get X back and keep winning. If IU can take care of business at home and maybe steal a road game it should still finish second. Looking forward to the BTT for once, honestly. Let’s nip NW in the semifinal and then either play PU for the sweep or to break the season series tie on Sunday.

Yeah, still a sophomore and it’s always the road games. IMO he, personally, needs to 1. totally alter whatever road routine he has. 2. come in and just move the ball and defend on the road. Take an open rhythm shot, sure, but otherwise just let it come to you.

Kansas State losing had to be slightly beneficial for IU’s seeding relative to them, right? Even on the road to a decent team?

Oh yeah, as a fan I’m with you — more separation for the top of the conference and UW looks more respectable w/o really damaging UM much.

I don’t think you have to root for them, and in fact the Torvik rooting guide says a UM win is better for IU. I’d guess because it would strengthen IU’s resume by dint of allowing them 2 shots at UM?

Illinois falls. Ruger falls. If UW beats UM, we’ll have some separation in the middle of the standings.

Nebraska has been tough at home, and frisky all year buuut winning in the RAC???

Played 2 minutes against IU, missed 2 FT, fouled one time. That’s all, folks. Best of luck to him.

PSU may miss the tourney but Shrewsberry has done a great job there. Think he really maximizes what he’s got this year, though how on earth were they unable to land an interesting big in the portal? Truly think Notre Dame should look long and hard there.

Someone better versed in NCAA compliance can correct me, but a medical RS is applied for when you plan to use the extra year. So e.g. whether he stays or transfers, after two more years — when he exhausts his standard eligibility — Logan could petition for an extra year on the basis of missing most of one year earlier in his career.

As of today, none of the bracket matrix participants worse than the 5 line. A few have them a 3

I may have it wrong, now that you mention it; I recall him talking about how it’s noticeable because teams make some jumps you wouldn’t expect based on not playing, for example

Yes, I believe Pomeroy said similarly on one of his appearances on the Solving Basketball pod. The reason is pretty straightforward: including the preseason rankings improves their predictive accuracy vs. removing them entirely

As with the Rutgers game last week, I like the way the timing shapes up for the Hoosiers. One extra rest day, mitigated by a travel disadvantage. Both teams coming off emotional wins. And IU’s last two against NW have been Ls. This team’s leaders will want some measure of revenge. Should keep them motivated , and their reward should be a rabid home crowd on Saturday.

That CBS analyst with IU at, effectively, #6, and Katz with IU at 5 are more or less saying they believe IU is the team it was through the UNC game and since PSU. Torvik post-PSU has IU 6th, IU’s first seven game had them 13th over that span. And for one reason or another Torvik has been lower on IU than the other computer metrics all year. Do I buy that you can just wipe those six weeks away? Well they count on the resume. But I think 1) IU’s clearly capable of playing at that level, including on the road and in neutral gyms. 2) There are some hard-to-measure narrative reasons that help explain the poor play period (injuries, TJD sat some of the cupcakes during the omitted stretch, moping about injuries, the defense was shockingly bad for parts of that stretch, maybe the players’ only meeting made a difference…). 3) Notably, the other teams ranked highly in those samples are largely teams that we’d all agree really are top 10 or 15 level good.

I think X will be back by 2/25 :)