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Our NBA player is 0-5.

Al has over half our points. Al has his moments to be critical, but the rest of the squad is where the criticism should be directed. Archie doesn't have many options thus far until a few guys in red can get themselves awake for this 5:30 EST start

Durham might be the only one who's ready to play. He's limited and still prone to turnovers from bad drives/decision making, but he's at least ready to play. Can't confidently say that about some of his teammates

Line shift change for IU. Throw bodies at the problem I guess

Closer than Lander has been getting. Kidding everyone and all Lander fans out there

This Northwestern team is to put it mildly: not good. We sadly might not be much better

Getting that scoring drought out of the way early today. Bold strategy, Cotton!

Saw we have the dreaded noon tip on Saturday for OSU, at least dreaded for this team it would seem. Will 5:30pm be too early for IU? Need this one - "Just Win, Baby"

Have they determined the venue for those first four games? It's normally been at Dayton and on Tuesday and Wednesday IIRC, but clearly that isn't happening.

Justin Smith, left IU playing the 3 in hopes to play the 2, I believe was stated here. Watching a few minutes and it seems like he went the opposite way for Arkansas is playing the 4. Not sure how much he'd have helped this year, but having him in the front court rotation wouldn't have hurt, no?

Ahh, saw them on the bottom line Sunday, but clearly didn't look at that final score close enough. Thanks for setting me straight

Probably a rhetorical question, but I've been of the belief that at least in the case of Kentucky and Duke and their reliance on freshman have been greatly affected by the pandemic with an abridged non-conference slate and altered preseason. Being thrown to the wolves of conference games after 8 or so games is tough. We've seen with our own eyes how long it's taken Lander to get up to speed. As for the others, I can't really say. UCLA is top 25 though, no?

He started it early once it hit the backboard and then tried to compensate. I'm convinced that's what happened as it stopped at .8 and .5 on the clock shown on the broadcast. I'm assuming that reflects to the real clock

Loved seeing that #4 and those Oladipo clips. Hoping for an IU career emulation. And thank you for posting that video/tweet as someone who doesn't have a Twitter account

Just me or that clock stop at .8 and .5? Can't get any home cookin' from our own clock operator?

Nice win, toughed it out. Guard play still needs to improve. Trying to stay positive as that was a great game from Race and Trayce, but our guard play is too hit or miss

Please hit at least one Trayce

Franklin is our best passer and it doesn't seem particularly close. 5 assists and would have had a 6th there if Race made that

8 misses from the FT line. Iowa has missed 2. Not good in a tie game. Achilles heel for IU

He's not a world beater, but man IU had better had at least offered Nunge. 6'11" and not a stiff, could use some of that height on this squad.

I'm assuming they went in during HS to land the offers he did. Just looks odd to me, and I'm sure it's not helping his consistency. Just frustrating as his aggressiveness with the shot and with the ball driving is what this team is needing at that position.

Lander has been playing much better lately in Big10 play but his shot needs a decent overhaul in the summer. His whole alignment is to the right side of his body, it's no surprise he pulls everything to the right and can miss by 3 ft at times. He's made some sure, but just my observation from afar

Can't recall such a bad game from Franklin. Need him today

Think that was a Rob assist. Off the gooseggs?

It wasn't until the 12 minute mark that Lander entered last game and that was his "breakout game". I kept looking for Archie's note card, Crean style, but didn't see it. His sub patterns are eerily similar to the last regime