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When he first entered the portal and National services and talent evaluators were doing their scouting reports most basically said this kid would  have his pick at where he would go and that he could play anywhere.  I’m no talent evaluator but I watch a ton of college basketball and every time I watched Washington St play I always ask myself how in the world did Washington St get a kid like this and wished a team I was invested in had a guard like him.   Now I get to see how that will go next year 

You end up like Purdue with a team of guys who can only shoot well and nothing else though. UConn exposed the hell out of them. Rice is a fantastic pick up. You can still think we need more shooting. But getting a building block player, 1st team all conference and freshman of the year... I'll take that talent and bet on him to have good improvement next year 

Just wanted to add a comment on the bag dropping.
Id recommend the fanbase not villainize the bag dropping from Indiana but instead be happy we can win bag drops now. 
its been going on for eternity in college basketball and for the most part those dropping the biggest bags are winning the most games. 
I can pretty much assure you if we stop dropping bags the fanbase will have a lot more to worry about than we already do.
id recommend embracing it and just leaving it out of the equation. It’s been a part of high level recruiting forever and now it just expands into mid level recruiting as well. 
Be happy we can compete in that for now and cross your fingers the staff uses its salary cap wisely. 

I would push back a little on this and say he hit a freshman wall at the end of the year and had an 0-22 stretch.  I can’t say for sure it was because of a freshman wall but before that in games I watched he looked like a shooter to me.   Freshman to sophomore jump in shooting number rise in most instances.  Tony A had a tweet about this.    Got to see it translate next year but from what I saw before that terrible 9 game stretch makes me think he will put up better numbers 

Some want everyone to know they are not happy with Woodson as coach so they will bring it in every thread to let people know about it.  Even though I did a poll and 87 people were not happy and only 8 said they were happy.  I guess some want to let those 8 know they are not happy with the coach.  Even in a Myles Rice commitment thread they try to find a way to get their point across 

Different question, assuming that’s a question given the use of a period: If a post is dropped into a thread and it provides no information, insight, analysis or clarity and will be quickly forgotten, did it really happen? 

If you can’t be extraordinarily excited about what this player brings to the team both on and off the court? You may need to question a little bit what your standards are for quality addition.
This may be quite literally as good as it gets in matching exactly what we needed with who we just added. 
 Three level player with extraordinary leadership and proven accomplishments who will have three years of eligibility.
Oh my goodness, this is a massive pick up 
 

Yes, I would say judging a player's worth off just one statistic over a seven game stretch is being a hater. He was 33% the rest of the season, and that's as a freshman coming off chemotherapy. He's also a point guard that can affect the game in many ways other than just shooting, such as an assist percentage over 22%. He was first team All PAC 12 and conference ROY after all. And the great thing about freshmen is they get better.

Probably from the fact he hadn’t play basketball for 2 years since he was battling cancer and beat that then went on to be 1st team all PAC 12 and freshman of the year.   All I know is everytIme I watched them play he impressed me big time.   Definitely an upgrade from what I watched at IU last year 

Rice committed! Official!

It wasn’t that what he did was special. It just demonstrated that he was willing and able to use a guy who was more dynamic off the bounce and would tailor some things for him. JHS wasn’t explosive enough to beat guys cold so they’d run a ton of zoom to get him the ball on the move. He did that a fair amount with Galloway last year, though not with Cupps, and it wasn’t as effective because Gallo isn’t as good. The other thing they did a lot was set their high ball screen as a flat screen so he’d come off it as a straight line drive instead of perpendicular. Didn’t do that for anyone last year. X & O genius? Nope, just a clear example that he’s ready to exploit matchups. If they’re able to bring in, prayers up, both Rice and Carlyle, they’re not gonna look for 50 post touches a game. They’re gonna get those guys the ball on the move and expect them to distort the defense and make reads and plays. Haven’t see Rice enough, but Carlyle can beat guys cold. The last guy on this campus on who could do that was Yogi. I promise that they’ll have end of game plays next year running 1 out with no screener for Carlyle and him just finding a shot. 

Not sure which is a known shooter but I’ve watched a lot of Washington St games this year where Rice was on fire from 3.  Also watched some games where he struggled.   Didn’t watch as many Stanford games but that kid had some good games.   Torched Arizona with a 6-8 performance from 3 and 28 points.   However he also struggled in some games.     Anyone know last time IU had a player hit 6 threes in a game.   Last year hitting 6 for the whole team would of been a good week 

Getting top level players from the portal is 1 thing however turning them into a team that is actually competing for the top of the B1G is another.    Ask West Virginia and Arkansas how winning the transfer portal off-season worked out for them last year 

Well they will be

Yup. And the thing with Ballo, showing my age here, he reminds me of having Dale Davis. Not for his game, but for the fact that he’s the biggest bada$$ on the floor and nobody wants any part of that guy. That’s a really underrated trait. A Coleman Hawkins-type kid is not woofing at Ballo.

Trilly has put his prediction in for Rice to IU.

The guy on the his discord earlier said that Rice was a Hoosier, also said that IU is pulling all the stops to make Ballo not take any visits after ours.
Also said that the person Rice has been communicating with is Conwell.


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I don't know who Brad Crawford is but he's got IUFB on this list. And if this is even remotely true, it tells me Indiana is finally ready to get serious about its football program. For us that have been paying attention, we already knew Coach Cig wouldn't have taken the job if he didn't have the resources and backing of the university from top to bottom. But to be on this type of list where resources seem to be a larger bucket has me wonder how accurate it is. On the other hand, it also kind of makes sense if you think about it. Coach Cig has done only one thing throughout his entire head coaching career, win. Google him.
Man, I can't wait for the season to start. 

Gillis from Pure-doo now in the portal. 
Don't anyone wanna stay to get their @$$ kicked without Edey?

We have a thread with over a 1,000 pages criticizing Woody so deflecting criticism is laughable.  Unfortunately, we have a number of posters who just can't resist piling on him in almost every thread.  Contrary to what you or others may believe, we do have some followers that want the thread content to match the title of the thread.  They're interested in information on portal targets.  

A guard rotation of 
Myles Rice (sophomore) Ryan Conwell (junior) Trey Galloway (super senior) with
Jakai Newton (red shirt freshman) as a wildcard Gabe Cupps (sophomore) as a developing bench piece Anthony Leal (super senior) as a steadying veteran option Sounds really really good to me. I hope this is exactly what we are presented with. Would be hard not to be optimistic about that upgrade.

just reading between the lines - Rice has no other visits lined up(been in the portal for awhile now), we are his first visit(reminds me of Ware and how his situation played out), rabby continuously talking/tweeting about Rice since he entered the portal.  Similar for Conwell, rabby and lots of IU accounts with connections saying IU was one of the first if not the first official team to speak with conwell the moment he entered, from Indy and parents like IU.  We have Conwells attention from what I have read

Wouldn’t pretend to have started looking at next year past IU, but anyone who watched Purdue last night and sees a top 10 roster minus Edey is stone nuts. 

I think I can answer both you and the sandwich:
No. He does not.
If we are playing to win games such as two years ago when we were a four seed? He did not play because the roster had enough actual talent. Glad Leal is a Hoosier but if he’s averaging over ten minutes a game? We. Are. Screwed.

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