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Nit is delivering. Illinois St just drains a 3 at Wake to go up 3 with 2 sec to go

McCollum has often highlighted that the team is "an infant program" in its first year and that navigating the physicality of the league is part of the learning process to "get shockingly better". Hawk Central f

Yeah. Cost next to nothing in NIL and knew it was a developmental project. Still would have 4 years of eligibility and still cost next to nothing in NIL

Sisley, Dorn and International Big

He did say it multiple times. In the Journey episodes and articles with the Detroit press pointed out how big of adjustment it was to deal with the league especially the officiating from game to game. Said him and his staff would have to figure it out. He figured it out but he pointed out multiple times over the first year the B1G was a different animal. Figuring it out while winning a B1G tourney and sweet 16 is easier to swallow however doesn’t mean he didn’t feel their was an adjustment to the B1G

B1G has 5 teams in the sweet 16 in the same tourney for the first time in its history.

Definitely think Texas was the harder matchup for them instead of the Zags. Was something off about that Zags team all year

Woodys last year IU was preseason 14th

People probably forgot but this current team was in the AP top 25 for a couple weeks. Got to 22. They still were flawed and never returned to the top 25

He has a good approach to the portal. He brought Henderson with him from Duke. He decommitted and followed him to Miami. He was a shark recruiter so he will be a hit with the recruits. He wants to build from high school kids but in the portal is focused on local kids that went elsewhere and want to come back home. Thinks with those kids even if it’s for 1 year they will have pride for the program. Malik, Donaldson, and Edeh, Marcus Allen all kids from Miami or the state of Florida

Auburn and Creighton were preseason top 25 heading into the year last year. Only teams not to make the tourney Nebraska and Virginia were not in the preseason top 25. Every team besides Auburn and Creighton in the preseason top 25 earned a top 7 seed in this years tourney. The top 4 seeds were all in the preseason top 25 besides Virginia and Nebraska

They were good all year. Won at Illinois in December and was one of the last teams that hadn’t lost. They did get better as the season went along but they were a top 12 team all year

Burton is the small ball dominant scoring guard you do not like. That’s what he was in high school as well. Won Mr Basketball his senior year. Koehler had some up and downs throughout the year. I watched him a couple times and thought he has potential and then some times where he looked lost. Definitely added some pounds but probably could add more. Sisley was committed so don’t think IU ever looked his way in high school

Delivering

Yeah and playing without Huff in this tourney

The best of the 3 still only had 3 winning conference records in 9 years. Just a brutal stretch in conference for the last 18 years

Schertz vs May in the round of 32. 2 really good friends battling it out for the sweet 16.

https://x.com/davidworlock/status/2034809913684185527?s=46

2 years ago he led ISU to the NIT championship game even though they should of went to the NCAA tourney but got screwed