TheWatShot

Pretty sure you said the exact same thing about Dusty May a year ago.

Last time they played, Oregon was up 14 at the half in Breslin. Granted, that was right after MSU came home from a west coast trip.

So that's the flavor of the day? Last Thursday, Trilly had half our board convinced it was Otzelberger.

The type of athletes the SEC schools get wouldn't even consider us right now. We had to overpay the guys we have because our staff was too lazy/incompetent to get anybody else.

I can't be the only person who read Curtis Jones and thought it was the guy from the Crean era somehow still playing college basketball.

I think it's safe to say we're not a first half team? Crazy how bad our first halves have been over the past month.

Watching that first half made me laugh when I thought of the people who were worried about a tournament run still saving Woodson. Tournament run....lol. We have all the hallmarks of a bubble team and right now we look like it.

Duke down 26-12 late in the first half...WTF.

Have to admit, I didn't think you'd be around this long. You're committed, if nothing else.

Lmao, Archie goes one and done in the A-10 tournament, losing to the league's last place team which he just beat 4 days ago. Clearly the guy just needs more time to build the program and get that pack-line defense where it needs to be.

Mila already transferred once, from Maryland. Must be getting pretty bad at Purdue if she's willing to sit out a year before she plays again.

Don't waste posts on him. He's still bitter about Woodson getting pushed out the door.

Chris also shared the date of the UCLA game before the schedule was announced.

Was a bid stolen last night? That would be my guess.

Scott is a walking typo. I'm not sure if he meant "DD" or "DF" given that F is right next to D on a keyboard.

Since NET rankings were introduced, the lowest NET for an at-large team was Rutgers at 77 in 2022. Towson is 138.

I can't keep up with everything in this thread, and have no intention of trying. But it seems people are discouraged at hearing that candidates are still being vetted. How do we know this? In the whirlwind of pages this thread added over the weekend, I saw a few posts mentioning Chris Beard again. Is this where the talk about vetting coaches originated? If so, how recently was he vetted (if at all)? Any coach could have been vetted long ago and we're just now hearing about it from someone who felt like sharing.

Sometimes I think he's more of a "what the hell is in this glass?" kinda guy.

Putting aside my IU basketball cynicisms for a moment, I'm going to say that I don't believe Brownell is actually a candidate. I just have a hard time believing he'd be Dolson's guy. This feels like something we've spoken into existence. Getting rid of Woodson wasn't easy, and required persuading some people with very deep pockets. I doubt those people favored moving on if the new guy was going to be Brad Brownell.

Or, the two coaches sharing a name has allowed him to post what he has, and he doesn't want to lose that cover. I think you're massively overthinking this. Is Brad Brownell really going to get someone excited enough to post about it like he has?

Dolson has wanted him gone for over a year now. That's not changing. And I don't know how anybody could watch yesterday's game and think we're making any kind of tournament run.

Chris said about a week ago that Woodson signed paperwork agreeing to leave.

Not sure if it was mentioned anywhere, but could our poor first 30 minutes be attributed to coming back from the West Coast? Ever since Purdue lost to OSU at home it's something people started paying attention to.

UCLA 59, OSU 25, mid-3rd quarter. The California schools are making me miss the Caitlin Clark era when everyone was gunning for Iowa. At least we knew we could beat them.

"Let's go under screens, who cares if they shoot a wide open shot?" --IU on defense, probably.