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That would be good! Hoping they take care of business today with Iowa.

Thanks! Appreciate it! That's kind of how I was viewing it too. Go 3-1 and we should be solid. Would love to snag two more quad 1 wins.

@Uspshoosier Curious your opinion on this in terms of what the better outcome is for IU's tournament resume. Say we finish the regular season 3-1. Which scenario is a better outcome for us? NW - W MSU - W Minn - W At OSU - L Pretty chalk. Big quad 1 win over MSU. Quad 3 home win over NW and quad 2 (at the moment) home win over Minnesota. Avoid having a "bad loss" on our resume. NW - W MSU - W Minn - L At OSU - W Two quad 1A wins to really close the gap on our poor Quad 1+2 record. Probably a higher WAB ranking (OSU win helps more than Minn loss hurts that ranking). But, potentially a "bad loss" on the resume. Minnesota is currently quad 2, but that home loss could be quad 3 by end of season. Curious your thoughts. Would the road OSU win help more than a home loss to Minnesota?

Kind of depressing watching this Michigan-Duke game and seeing where Dusty May has them in year 2.

Crazy finish in the ACC. Reneeau with a circus layup to tie it with 10 seconds left, then Miami fouls with on 3 with 3 seconds left.

It's an interesting thing. In terms of basketball coaching, I think he's gotten more out of less. Not a great deal more, but IMO more out of less. That's meaning what he's done with this roster. In terms of the building of the roster and the money spent, we did not get the bang for our buck. Spending $10-$11M should have gotten us a legit power 5 big and point guard. That's why my big concern remains recruiting, not the actual coaching.

It's gonna need to be an A this off-season.

I don't disagree with your line of thinking here. If we really are spending top 10-15/25, then having the somewhere between 40-45th best team is unacceptable long-term. I agree NIL has to be factored into the discussion. With all of that said, when looking at this season I think you also have to handicap that the roster had to be built 100% from scratch with a completey new staff. That part has to factor in as well. That's why the bar should absolutely be raised for next year. While they're not great, we'll have some guys returning and the staff is fully in place. I've been pretty happy with his actual coaching, but I do have big concerns on how DeVries pulls this off next season. He is going to need to land a massive haul in the portal, and it will need to be a big upgrade over last offseasons portal haul. I'm not sure he can do it? It's a tall task given what IU has been the last decade.

Put this in the game thread, but will put it here too, the first 4-5 possessions of the 2nd half were a masterclass by DeVries.

Masterclass by DeVries with the sets on the first 4-5 possessions of the 2nd half. Wilkerson is unbelievable!

Not that KenPom is the end all, be all. But, UConn was 98th in a way weaker conference (still in the AAC) in Hurley's first season. DeVries has IU 35th and at least at this point positioned to make the tournament.

Which one? The call on Blackwell was absolutely a foul. Not even really debatable.

There were like 3 games on Wednesday or Thursday night, can't remember, where teams blew 15+ point leads. Happens almost every night in college basketball.

DeVries made several comments in the off-season saying that our 5 spot and rim protection were a concern and something they were going to need to figure out scheming around. It's not like hes a moron that didn't realize you need size in the Big Ten. With that said, that makes the next question, 'why could he and the staff recruit a legit big'? That's the issue. How come we couldn't recruit better with our resources? That also makes me concerned for next season since we have to recruit an entire new team.

I hear you. The state of IU basketball is very frustrating (meaning the last 10 years and even 20+ years). I don't really see lack of effort from this group, though. I feel like we've largely played hard. Although I think Conorway is way too nonchalant for me. But, I haven't seen a team 'mailing it in'. I think we just have a huge lack of athleticism, strength and size, which is really frustrating and is easy to expose for Big Ten teams. Why did we think Bailey could be a starting Big Ten center? Why is Tucker DeVries so out of shape? Etc.,etc