Class of '66 Old Fart

From the Urban Dictionary and the word 'rank':  disgusting smelly nasty ugly gross foul stinky smell stink dirty putrid stench So yes, I believe after our performance in Maui we are definitely a 'rank' team!   :rtfm:

They aren't winning the game but PUke fans are beating us on their Hammer and Rails game day thread as they have over 700 posts and we're still under 600.   But, our posts are much more civil.  To say the least, they are not a bunch of happy manure flingers today.    POTFB!   And we have!

Final 90 - 58.  A great  way to bounce back after yesterday's loss.  4 girls in double figures led by Buss with 23.

34 - 39 IU at the half.   POTFB

This is just so so sad in so many ways.  It's a small sample but not one of us at this point has picked an IU victory.

Home Team  80   Them   70

Blue Weevils   87   Turnover Machine IU  70

The pretenders who wear candystripes   92   Acorn Heads      62

Oooooh, I love committees.  First of all let's start with an unwieldy number of people who clearly dislike each other.  Then let's pick people who are so geographically far apart that getting them together to meet is a near impossibility.  Finally, don't give them any deadline.      And always remember a camel is nothing more than a horse designed by a committee.   If Fred Glass doesn't have a head coach prospect list for every IU sport he's not doing his job.

Phinisee scored 14 points (only stat I found) in McCutcheon H.S. 101 - 41 season opening win against Western. 

Lost 63 - 56.  Only shot 29% from the field and just 20% on 3's.  They play Austin Peay tomorrow.

Well, I think he does still have a scholly burning a hole in his pocket.

In the 3rd period, the Lady Hoosiers are down 55 - 54 to Ohio University.  Cahill, Buss and Royster all in double figures.   Game stats available at:   http://www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_wbaskbl.html?event=1454889&school=fo&sport=wbaskbl&camefrom=&startschool=&   They'll play again tomorrow against either Vanderbilt or Austin Peay.  If they defeat Ohio U, game time on Saturday will be 3:30 E.T.  If they lose, they'll play at 1:00 E. T.    Go Hoosiers and POTFB!

  If this season implodes, I think Glass' support also implodes and he will make a change.

  Are you an alien from another time dimension?   POTFB

IU    35   POTFB   31

Nice piece by Kent Sterling at:  http://kentsterling.com/2015/11/26/indiana-basketball-time-for-decision-on-crean-is-months-away-and-it-should-be/   A mid-season termination is completely out of the question but I loved this paragraph:  "My advice is to relax and enjoy the ride.  if you are outraged by what you perceive to be a lack of coaching acumen from Crean, take pride in the effort of the players.  If the players appear to check out, listen to the band and watch the cheerleaders.  if the band and cheerleaders mail it in, dream of a strom and bucket (or six) at Nick’s."   Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

  We haven't played that many games, but has anyone played well?  Not just in spurts but over the course of this new season.

  We don't have a TEAM!  We have a bunch of players running around the court with little sense of direction, i.e., on-court leadership and sideline coaching.  Individually, most of the squad have D-1 basketball talent but it's not talent that meshes together to form a TEAM.  IMO that's reflective of the shotgun approach we use in recruiting.  I think we are literally teetering on the edge of the cliff and if we don't get it turned around before B1G, I don't think it gets turned around and January and February are going to be very ugly months.

Makes you wonder if she grew up playing against bigger brothers and had to put the high arc on the ball to shoot over them.

Congrats to the Lady Hoosiers on a 79 - 72 win.

From the stat line I saw it looks like she's played nearly the entire game.

Laken Wairau a 5'9" New Zealander will join the team in December.  I started a new thread with 2 articles I've seen.

Indiana will be adding a guard from overseas midseason, according to The Press News out of New Zealand. Laken Wairau, a 5-foot-9 guard out of New Zealand, will reportedly join the team at the end of December. “It’s pretty surreal,” the 18-year-old from Christchurch High School told The Press. “Coming from a small country like New Zealand and moving to the US is a pretty big deal, but I’m nothing but excited about it and I’ve just got to embrace the opportunity.” The Hoosiers have been in some need of backcourt depth. Junior college point guard Victoria Kemokai left the team in October, and the Hoosiers currently have 10 active players on their roster. Wairau fast tracked to Indiana basketball scholarship HANNE DAVIS Last updated 14:50, November 24 2015 KIRK HARGREAVES/FAIRFAXNZ Laken Wairau has found herself making last minute preparations to join the University of Indiana Hoosiers in December Laken Wairau has got a case of the giggles, disbelieving ones, as she takes in the fact she's heading to play basketball for a division one American college at the end of December. The year 13 student from Christchurch Girls' High School called it "surreal" as she prepares to take up a place at the University of Indiana as the only foreign player on the team roster when she joins them in just over a month's time. KIRK HARGREAVES/FAIRFAXNZ Laken Wairau has found herself making last minute preparations to join the University of Indiana Hoosiers in December "You know Kiwis are typically hard working people," said Wairau "So I just have to go over there and prove myself, show them what I've got and represent New Zealand." It'll be a swift integration for Wairau. She lands in the USA, and has two training sessions before the guard takes to the court for the first time as a member of the team, nicknamed the Hoosiers. "I get there a couple of days before I'm meant to have my first game, then I train the next day, and the day after that, then straight into a game," she laughed. Wairau has won a secondary schools title, played with the New Zealand Junior Tall Ferns, represented the the Canterbury Wildcats for the last three years, competed at all levels of Canterbury Junior representative team and has also got four seasons for the UC Women's Premier team under her belt. She said all those achievements will pale in comparison to the next challenge and where it might take her. "You know it's a new year, a new team, a new country, so that pretty much all goes out the window and I've got to start over now." Wairau is not just an excellent basketball player, she has also been an exemplary academic student. She believes her work ethic must get even stronger if she's to cope with the demands of her college years. "It has to go up a notch. The intensity is just going to be full on the whole time, no slacking. "So I think the major difference will be the intensity and that level of basketball I'll be exposed to over there. It'll be way different to here." Wairau was both excited and nervous about the proposition of stepping on court with some of the world's best female basketballers. Although she'd love an opportunity to play WNBA, she just wants to be the best player she can be, hopefully wearing a Tall Ferns jersey. "At the moment I'm just hoping to get through my four year undergrad and then come back to New Zealand, but you never know! "My goal is to make the Tall Ferns in the future, maybe get to an Olympic Games, that would be a pretty huge accomplishment for me." Playing for the Wildcats and working with the Mainland Eagles Academy has gone a long way to building Wairau into the player she is, but she's determined to keep pushing herself, mostly to set an example for younger players, including her sister Sapphire. "I've just got to set a good example for her and hopefully do well over there, so she knows she has something to aspire to and be like. "She's definitely looking to go over there when she's finished high school, so If I do well, then it gives her more motivation to do well." The process almost caught her by surprise, and she spoke of a hectic period over the last six weeks, having initially thought she would most likely go to college mid way through 2016. "It's pretty surreal. Coming from a small country like New Zealand and moving to the US is a pretty big deal, but I'm nothing but excited about it and I've just got to embrace the opportunity."

Just starting the 3rd quarter; ladies up 45 - 32.