Dave from Dayton

Why that lineup? Is Rice hurt or in the dog house? Was Rice suspended for the push? Where is Mgbako? Is Reneau ever going to play again this season? Is it his leg? Are there other issues...well I know there are...I mean his health? Is Ballo suspended for half of the game against OSU? Man, I feel that I missed a bunch of announcements. Bizzaro world? Is SSAH still our home court? Tell me that you were kidding or just reacting to Woody's comments post-game.

Reneau comes back and gets a triple double. Galloway is PG while Rice sits. Galloway makes no mistakes. Scores 21 and gets 9 assists. Mgbako gets the game ball for shooting and hitting 8 of 9 3-point shots and wins game with his defense. OSU gets chippy. Ballo pushes back...contributing to the team's positive attitudes. Coach Woody skips the post-game interviews and says simply: "What hump?!" Iniannnna 89 Useless Nuts 69 I love to win the prediction thread competition. Better than IU hanging another banner in AH. You have to leave now. Visiting hours are over. See you on Friday if the windows are clean.

Do you have a thing about pimps and marijuana? Or sacks of cash? Or impermissible phone calls? Or going to class? Or rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules! Today it is all about money, and/or power, and/or sex, and/or entertainment and diversion from the reality that we are free to choose. As a human being...that is a tough responsibility that few can handle well. But, hey...I got sidetracked. Sorry.

Maybe there is another point of view. It would not have been my point of view. Certainly after 3 years it was abundantly clear that Woody didn't know how to win at this level. The other perspective would be to spend the NIL at the end of the last season. Get the best one can get out of the portal. And see if Woody sinks or swims with his hired players...his way. They did that. He sunk. Now let him go with a negotiated buyout. My point of view was it was clear, after one season, that Coach Woody did not get the best out of a team. But, he had TJD and others. Coach Woody is going to gut the program for the next sap, I mean person, that agrees to come in as HC at this deathtrap for HCs. (For mega millions of $$$$.) For those of us that still yearn for great basketball at IU...we are about to see whether IU actually agrees with us. To throw IU basketball forever under the bus or build something spectacular and hang another banner in AH if it is still standing.

That's all folks!

So close...

I may need to revise my prediction.

JFC. WTF, OMG...LBR...TBH...CMW...SNAFU...GTFO!

I have seen the hump.

no defense...no win...

One report has Carlyle out. Another has him questionable. Either way, is that the extent of Coach Woody's game plan? /s

Lots of questions raise their ugly heads about tonight. Will the students be back in strength...and the rest of the crowd? Is Illinois guard Jak going to play? Will he be a little rusty? Can the crowd impact him at his first visit to SSAH? Is Reneau going to play? Will this be a high scoring game (favoring Illinois) or a slow game with IU struggling in their half-court offense? Can IU's defense show up tonight? Will IU defend home court? Can our 3-point shooting continue to improve? Will Ballo defend a small Illinois player and chase him around the perimeter leaving the inside vulnerable? Can IU and Miles Rice be disciplined and not dribble around on offense, or will they pass a lot and not throw the ball away? Will Coach Woody send in plays that work? Is there a real game plan that can put IU in position to win? Will IU win and be on the road to the tourney? Or will Coach Woody throw one or two players under the bus. Then say that it is on him. They need to work harder to get over the...wait for it... I remember the first game that our family, years ago, returned to AH. At the half, I finished explaining to my 5-year old youngest daughter about defense and teamwork... Asked if she had any questions. She said: "If that man over there asks if we want some popcorn...can you say yes?" Maybe, she had her priorities correct. Popcorn anyone?

Before the beginning of the just completed IU FB season, on this site we had predictions of how many games IU would win with the new coach and team. I stretched, knowing that Coach Cig was a definite winner...to 8 wins...we got 11 amazing wins! Has anyone revisited? And crowned the goofball, I mean visionary, that predicted more?

Charles Mound at 627 MSL is the highest hump in Illinois. 72 Hoosier Hill is twice that high. Over the hump it is. 79 This may just be the last prediction I make until Coach Woody resigns at the end of the season.

I see a little of that. But, I do not perceive Coach Woody as even an average X's and O's coach. His game plans are flawed. Offensive plays are at times nonexistent. He does not have any idea how to attack a zone. Putting lineups in that are exceedingly flawed drives all of us nuts. Blockouts and crowding 2 bigs inside prove he has no idea. Not disciplining players that do not do their roles is also proof that he is not an X's and O's coach. One could have the position that to discipline or not is not X's and O's but how can a coach coach without discipline and requiring adherence to helping team and not be just about ME? And I also believe that Coach Woody does not want to resign. But if he is given a choice by the AD between being fired or resigning...he will negotiate a lump sum buyout and they will sign that...he would then resign. But that won't happen until the end of IU's season. Not sure about that though. I just think that he is gone soon.

My prediction: Woody will resign on Sunday, March 16, 2025. Just after the Big Ten Tournament Championship game and after the NCAAT seeding is announced. Probably before 8 PM ET. If that does not happen then...just turn out the lights of SSAH. We will see if this administration is serious about basketball in the next two months.

Whenever I call heads or tails...the coin lands on the edge and sticks.

Correct analysis. You certainly need a few more shots of 4 Roses SB.

If USC can beat Ililnois at Illinois, then IU can beat Ioway...right?

I need to revise my prediction from IU by 3 to IU by 2.

Four Roses Small Batch is the cure.

Where the fack is Mgbako? What the fack is with the turnovers? Challenge the three point shots. Duh.

Ballo getting his pocket picked. Sloppy play. No rebounds. Other than that. It is early

This is Indiana in a win!!