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Freaking ruthless

Wow. Riddick is one of my favorite guys on ESPN, but that is an atrocious post.

IU 52 PU 6

Beat me to it. That kid is a bada$$.

Finebaum’s got me rooting for GT like their IU. Dude’s an insufferable creep.

St Mary’s is laying an utter beating on USC. After watching both the IU Atlantis games back to back, and then taking a long shower, watching St Mary’s is a pleasure to end the day. They’re gonna lose games on shear talent or a good/bad shooting night, but they are freaking rock solid all the time. Usually, my “Randy Bennett is the best coach in CBB” post happens later in the season, but for some odd reason I’m feeling pretty emotional about great freaking coaching right now.

Gonzaga 84 IU 77

At this point not fouling up 3 is straight coaching malpractice. I cannot believe there are any coaches left who play it out.

Self is an incredibly smart guy and I’ll never understand why he went all in on Dickinson. You’re never winning anything with him.

Iowa St’s jersey logos look like some cheap summer work league jersey. Are these new or have I just not noticed before?

Hunter Dickinson nearly air balled a dunk.

Fraschilla goes on a 60 sec rant about how Cooper Flagg needs to be taking the ball to the rim as the producers are showing clips of him turning the ball over 3 times by driving into traffic. Don’t know how much Fran makes but I could give analysis of that value for a fraction of the cost.

Wish I was surprised. If Bama and Ole Miss don’t throw up all over themselves IU losing to #2 on the road would have gone from 5 to out. The committee pretty clearly is holding their nose placing IU. So the only thing you can do at this point is go out and beat Purdue by 70. That being said, man,would I be down with a bracket of Penn St and Miami.

He is. And he’s either improved his shooting a bunch from what I recall of him or he’s on 1 hell of a heater. Side note: MSU’s bigs are a problem. Kohler’s got a chance to help, but Zapala and Booker ain’t stressing anybody.

I imagine this will be the game where we start to see that scaled back. Would think they’ll play 8 guys and the only issue I have with any lineup you can create from that group is the rebounding issue when Ballo‘s not on the floor. That problem would solve itself if Reneau got committed to it. The idea that that kid is averaging 6 boards a game against the teams they’ve played is nuts. His personal goal should be outrebounding Ballo every game.

https://x.com/kyletheboone/status/1861461502609223922 This is good for a laugh in a grown man acting like a child sort of way. The officials have created this monster. T him up the 1st time he pulls that **** in a game, usually in the 1st 10 mins or so, and you’ll take care of it. And if it does get away from him 1 more time toss him and call it a day. He’s a smart guy, he’ll learn. No different than training a puppy. My favorite part on that particular play is the angle from the baseline made it obvious he couldn’t see the play, it was just a reflex reaction. Yeah, they need to put a stop to that.

IU 79 UL. 72

I agree they shouldn’t be in, but they’ve got some good wins and they’ve played better as the year’s gone on. I wouldn’t want to play them. The freshman Sellers kid at QB is a load. The guy some Colts fans keep trying to tell me Richardson can be that kid looks to me like he might actually be.

Interesting study in fit. Tonje was at Mizzou last year. Hurt his ankle in early December and missed the rest of the year. But even before he got hurt it wasn’t working and he was just a guy. Playing maybe 15 mins. Now he’s at Wisky and he’s killing people. He did a number on Arizona. They had no answer.

Not 1, not 2 but 3 2-loss SEC teams all losing as favorites. KICK @$$

Because they were an undefeated top 2 conference team who’d beaten up the teams on their schedule and deserved respect for that despite not playing anyone who’s actually any good. Now they’ve played 1 good team and got handled pretty good. So now they don’t have the undefeated element and it definitely put a dent in the eye test element because, at least to these untrained eyes, OSU looked like they beat them 10 times out of 10. Not saying that’s my argument, it’s not and I think they should be in with some cushion, just saying that’s an argument I can see winning.

This should be funny, but I will not be surprised if Ole Miss is 12 this week and IU is 13. I’m probably the most pessimistic guy around here on this question, but I’m convinced that the committee wants no part of IU’s strength of schedule and losing today while not looking particularly good will give them the excuse they need to leave them out.

They’re reviewing that? That wasn’t even close.

What do you mean ‘I don’t know about that?” It was a block in the back.

A 3 and out and a 6 min TD drive. A literally perfect start.