NOLA Hoosier

Speaking of which, I saw they put this up at the park by my mom’s house where Pat used to play pickup games (he went to my high school)

Oh definitely, though I never had any classes there, everyone else I knew did.

Not sure where to put this, but the WIC is now named after Bill Garrett, which I personally think is awesome. One of the things about IU that we should be proudest of is the breaking of the unwritten color barrier in the B1G as the first black starter and not just a sub. Meanwhile, decades later at UK, Tom Payne...*cringe*.

Man I really loved when he’d troll Purdue and flex and just be a scrappy player the other teams probably hated to deal with, a real Nover-type bad guy. We need one of those next season.

“Gene Keady looking for that national championship.” Keep looking, guys.

Of course that’s what he’s auctioning. I don’t have any words for that guy. I do want someone pay for this and all the Nick’s employees get as much money as possible. I just hope whoever does buy it understands the irony.

And Rutgers at 13

Those super-teams (his best team actually) have hung exactly one championship banner in Cal’s entire tenure at UK. We are fast approaching 10 years since the last one, and never say never but I don’t see another one coming in the interim. Unless you get lightning in a bottle, that’s what happens when you randomly assemble 5 stars. And all this in the SEC. Not saying that league is down every year or anything, but it’s still the SEC. I think we can all agree that UK would be an upper-middle (like between 4-7) B1G team every year.

Ha! I can’t say I was old enough to remember, but my dad is really proud that it wasn’t “mama” or “dada” but Uwe because of the crowd chants. Now my first real IU memory was walking out onto the court with my dad when all the lights were off, back around ‘89...a janitor found us right outside one of the tunnels and said “are you guys supposed to be here?” My dad apologized and we started walking off when the guy stopped us and told me to go stand at center court directly on the “I.” My dad said to walk out there alone, and after a minute or two all of the lights came on in the Hall and I stood there looking around. I was probably only 5 or so, but it was an incredibly important moment I’ll never forget.

My first word: “Uwe.”

Haha! Columbus is a cool town but the campus is really ugly. We are so spoiled by our beautiful limestone castles here. And the modern buildings aren’t all bad except for Ballantine which is an eyesore and should be torn down and the godawful Satanic stairs stricken from all records and memory.

Lunardi had us playing Brigham Young. I know that wouldn’t have actually happened, but man I wish it would have.

My dad has been a season ticket holder since Coach Hep’s first season, and 2020 will be the first year he declines to renew his tickets. I told him to use those preferred points or whatever towards basketball (apparently you lose all that you accumulated if you sit out a season).

Sooooo..... anyone know how all this affects his reclass to 2020?

I was fully convinced IU narrowly beats PSU then beats Maryland because 3 times in one season ain’t gonna happen (unless you’re Nebraska). It blows so hard because I honestly thought we were gonna make our first deep run.

The MVP

Heard it was food poisoning as well.

Really really really wish that O-lineman got a shot off. Couple good looks too!

This is the weirdest game I’ve ever seen this season, for several reasons now.

Welp, that may do it for the NBA the rest of the season.

Step. On. Their. Throats.

The reporter asked what he and the refs were talking about (he was clearly angry).

He’s working them just like Knight. If he makes a massive jump next year in winning and continues his snark and sarcasm I think we’ve got our Indiana back (finally)

Give me Crean’s walk-ons any day, at least they stuck it out and had heart.

This is bad. Really bad. Really really really bad.