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This kid looks really good. Very skilled with the off hand and really nice touch.

Fair enough, I live in Northern California. It's not like I'm going to the games at this point anyway. I just hope to be able to watch them all, which I will.

This is kind of lame from a fan standpoint in my opinion. The majority of the B1G is in the Midwest so the only fans that stand to gain are east coast alumni and the new additions. New new additions are lame at best, sorry... The B1G tourney should be alternated around central locations to the conference. Happy to hear opinions otherwise, but this seems like we're (B1G) accommodating the new teams interests. Maryland and the other one should not be catered to. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

In our current state, we need a better preseason to transition into the B1G. It can only help the progression of our you players. If we don't make it in the B1G we don't make the tourney, given our preseason schedule. I'm all for this. So what we play some less than stellar big east comp. it is way better than playing the preseason schedule we have been playing which is a joke. Even if you consider these schools mid majors, that is better than what we play. Don't forget that we lost to butler and Norte dame the last two years. This is a good thing because it forces us to increase strength of schedule. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

This is better than most of our preseason games. I'm all for it!

I haven't heard any direct source saying Noah negatively recruited against Indiana.    If anything Crean has done this to himself because his offense is not focused on inside play. It takes an athletic skilled big like Cody to make it look like we even use a big at all. When Cody was here the team was way more mature as well. Noah unfortunately got here to a system that would only use him as an outside shot, and rebounder. Not his fault.   Bigs out there are seeing the writing on the wall. IU will get you in as a lottery pick if you come here as a highly skilled player to begin with.    As far as guards go, CTC can develop them, and it shows in that we have lots of talented guards and wings here. 

Davis has a knack for getting rebounds even though he isn't really that tall. He is a work horse type player, and I think he will end up being really important this year. We should already have guys that can shoot. If Davis is open and can knock in a 10 footer then great, but we need people on the glass in a major way. If Davis can do that, I think we will see a lot of him on the floor this season.   Same goes for Hanner.

Welcome aboard!   Work hard, and play hard. You will fit in to the mix nicely. 

couldn't care less about the food issue.   What about the lessened drug testing or levels that is attached to this. That is something that could really get abused in the recruiting game. Or am I totally off base?

Noah was really fun to watch this year. He was a beast on the boards, and had a lot of game otherwise that was unused whether it was him not demanding it or the others not finding him.    Crean's offense is so anemic that he can make the best players look pretty bad at times. I'm sure you have all noticed this. Things like having Yogi dribble it out at half court till the shot clock runs out to settle in to a contested three (not knocking Yogi, if that is the play, play it), but with no movement, and screening Noah was not in a position to get the ball.   Not to mention, the times that IU actually took playing offense seriously, and people were moving, the opposing defense was going to collapse on Noah. He did not show a remarkable ability to pass out of the double, triple, or quadruple teams he was in. I look at Noah as a kid that played hard and would have loved to have had more impact, but one 18 year old kid can't lead you to the promised land. Especially when you consider that we had very little shooting to help. Yogi shot well and at a high volume (to high on the volume I think, but was there another option. NO),   In the words of Ray "that's the way she goes boys, sometimes she goes that way".    Noah was unlucky to get to IU and suffer though a really down season. He is fortunate to have accomplished his goal of going to the league as a lottery pick though, so in the end I think it was a success for him.   I don't know why Noah would actively negatively recruit against IU, and I just don't see it from his personality, but if he did, it doesn't help.    My guess is that Crean has negatively recruited himself by not utilizing the bigs (and really good ones at that) that he has had to work with.

Hello.   I am familiar with some of the names around here although I am new to this site myself.   I am just looking for any stats knowledge or ideas on a project I am working on right now. I set up the project to run simple t-tests on the data set, but now have some confounding variables that have occurred as a result of changes that were made to the project after it was started that were out of my control.   I am just gauging the potential that someone on this site has more stats knowledge than I do in a scientific based project and if they have enough time to give some advise on how to proceed or if there are any things that I am not taking into consideration.   I will leave it at that for now, and don't worry, you aren't doing my homework. I wish it was that easy!

No takers?! I don't blame ya...

Ok this involves two sites. The first is our project site, and it was originally tied into a brackish slough that had a tidal influence. It was diked and as a result is no longer tidally influenced and no longer salt water influenced. Because of its low position it still floods enough to be considered a wetland by classification, but is flooded when rain water inputs (there are plenty here) are in play.   The second site is a reference site that is still tied to the same brackish slough and has not had altered hydrology. Our original design was to compare our project site against a site that was more similar to its current state, but instead we have been asked to compare it to the state it would have been in if the dike was not installed 80 years ago.   The two sites were sampled on a grid layout with transects, and plots on the transects at every 100 ft. We tested for three things at the plots, and just looking at the data it is clear that they are different.   Wetlands accumulate organic matter because of anaerobic environments, and we proposed that because the project site had altered hydrology, and didn't flood as frequently over the last 80 years, it would have accumulated less organic carbon. The other tests we ran were in an attempt to further back that hypothesis up if it was indeed proven.   The problem is that although these soils are of the same parent material, and are classified very similarly with the exception of the saline characteristics in the reference tidal wetland, and would be extremely similar if not for the dike, I feel that the stats are weak. I feel that it is possible that the differences couldn't be proven to be based on simply the frequency and duration of flooding.   I could go on, but that should be a start, and to pad my post count...

wow!   not sure if serious, or really cynical at this point.

I find them winning disgusting (students will celebrate). They have hit some unreal shots to get there for sure, but I think Uconn's guards will cause some problems for Harrison.   Oh, well...   If they could both lose that would be great. I really hate seeing kentuk hang another banner though.

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I think we will be better next year than this season. Yogi didn't have much to work with this year, and had to play a role he isn't really suited for. I will give him credit for being a serious scoring threat this season. With that in his back pocket, and people that are also able to score along side him he should be able to pass more and find his easier as well.   We need a big for sure, but I am not giving up on Hanner as capable of filling that spot. I wish CTC would have given him more minutes, but I know he was second to Noah and also in a little trouble. He has improved and if he can keep his stuff together he can be useful next season if he keeps working hard and improving. The freshman (soon to be sophs) showed they can play some ball, so I think if they stay put in the gym they will be fine.   IU basketball team. Stay in the GYM!

yes sir.

I personally am glad to have Peter on this team. If he wants to be at IU why not have a scholar like him that seems to be a great guy and team member on the team. Not everyone is going to play. We aren't exactly short on schollies at this moment.