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while you might not look at it as iu not beaten anyone with substance, in the committee's eyes there are several wins with substance. The committee likes top 100 rpi wins and wins away from home. They are 5-2 away from assembly hall and 5-2 against rpi top 100 teams (notre dame, Wisconsin, Ohio state, creighton, and Ipfw). If someone told me at the beginning of the year a win against Ipfw (69) would be a better resume win then Georgetown (103) I would of laughed. We do have a bad loss as of today with Unlv on a nuetral court. Hopefully a coaching change for them rally's the team and they go on a run and crack the top 100 (121 right know) The downside is that we don't have a top 25 win (which we will have 4 opportunities to do so in the big ten later on in the year. we are not going to win all of those games but we are also not going to lose all of them as well (at least statistical data will say we will win 1 or 2) While the B1G might be down from the last couple of years I disagree with you that it is a weak conference. A conference with the (9,11,15, 32, 39, 47, 63, 82, 89, and 98th) rpi teams in it is far from a weak conference. It might not be a top 3 conference this year but it isn't weak. I agree we need that signature win that will separate us from the other teams with s similar resume. There just isn't much separation this year from teams ranked 20-60. Fwiw lunardi has us at the 28th best resume in his s curve for all the teams he projects into the field (7 seed) ...27-TTech, 28-Ind, 29-WICHST, 30-STMARY, 31-Mich, 32-Cal, 33-Utah, 34-Cincy, 35-GWash, 36-Zaga, 37-Conn, 38-Fla, 39-Monmouth, 40-NDame... They will have numerous opportunities to improve their resume and seed or they will have numerous opportunities lay some eggs and get a worst seed flame out. Only time will tell. One thing I do know this years March madness will be must see tv more then usual, the seeds by the teams name will be be meaningless for seeds 4-12 and should make for some crazy matchups

he fouled out but it was also a flagrant 2 which is an automatic ejection

Wow a Oregon st player just tripped a ref after not getting a call. The game was tied with 3 min to go. He got a tech and tossed

http://www.onthebanks.com/2016/1/9/10741518/rutgers-basketball-jahlil-tripp-commits-to-rutgers

@SethDavisHoops 16. Iowa St 17. Mich St 18. Ind 19. Lou 20. Valpo 21. Wich St 22. UVa 23. Providence 24. Clemson 25. USC Seth Davis's ap ballot has iu at 18th

while newkirk hasn't played in a game that counts in this system he at least has 2 years of playing in a tough conference like the acc that should help him transition next year

can you be considered a giant killer if you were ranked number 1 in the nation during the year? But I agree when March comes no matter the seed next to their name I will pick them 2 or 3 spots further then what I think they should go

i agree they are probably playing the best ball in the big 10 and uthoff is probably the big ten player of the year as of now however you said you didn't think we could be competitive against them and I just pointed out teams we have beaten or teams we are better than played them close and some even beat them. I have watched all but 3 of there games this year while uthoff is there best player when they have lost Gesell has struggled in stretches in each game and I feel yogi matches up well with him. Limiting jok open shots will he key as well

Wisky wins. Heck of a game

we can be competitive with Iowa. Iowa is on a hot streak right now but don't forget they lost to notre dame and Dayton early in the year. Drake played them close before losing by 6 and they only beat Florida state by 3. I'm not saying we will win on the road against iowa I at least think we can be competitive

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/noah-vonleh-1.html vonleh was 16-33 from 3pt range at iu

@jerrymeyer247 Few in the 2017 class shoot the ball w the precision of Markus Howard. #hhclassic 247sports.com/Player/Markus-…

@jeff borzello Markus Howard has 21 points in the second half -- gotten hot from 3-point range. Findlay Prep rolling. #HHClassic

kenpom changes daily. In a span of a couple days earlier in the week we fell from 21 to 25 without playing a game. We are far enough in the season where the rpi is the only that really matters since the committee uses it and doesn't concider kenpom when evaluating a resume. I still think kenpom is the better formula to evaluate teams but we are stuck with rpi

@BSnowScout Huntington Prep & Prolific Prep tied at 31 at the half. Curtis Jones leads all with 13. Miles Bridges a loud 6. Josh Jackson 8 & Ira Lee 10

http://www.iuhoosiers.com/news/2016/1/15/MBB_0115165627.aspx

@DSebass32 @insidethehall Crown Point 55 - Merrillville 50. Stefanovic with 22. Gelon 0.

Before this game through 17 games Michigan state was leading the big 10 in rebounding http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/conferences/statistics/team/_/stat/rebounds/year/2016/seasontype/2/id/7/big-ten-conference

A deeper look into kenpom rankings differences from rpi http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/entry/tiers_of_joy

@marshallbolger Curtis Jones with four steals in the first quarter....still 2:52 to go....Prep up 19-3 #HuntingtonPrep

Nasty game winner by Dunn

2 games with top 15 teams playing each other at the same time. 2 tv kind of night Kanas vs West Virginia and Miami bs Virginia

Wake vs nc state has been a game of big runs. Wake up 10 with 6 min to go

Villanova beats butler at hinkle. Villanova is now 6-0 against butler all time

i think the year we went 17-15 and had 0 shooters besides yogi on the team has made him prioritize shooters a little more than usual. In that year we had the defense to win more games but lost because teams would make other people shoot besides yogi and doubles Noah in the post