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Tie game. 2:15 to go

Auburn and Baylor both lose at home. Both needed those games

Wisky up 2 at Illinois early in the second half

Miami with a huge win for them. 1St win against a tourney quality team

Nebraska is having a bad game. It happens. Purdue was due for a big game. Too good of a team to be playing as bad as they have been playing.

They have some really good wins early in the year that will carry them through March. Their seed will continue to be worse but I don’t expect them to miss the tourney. Big 12 is a gauntlet and they just went through their toughest part of it

Purdue all over Nebraska. Up 13 and it’s not even to the under 16 time out

Someone asked about bubble teams. Here are some bubble teams with big games tonight

If they won out that would mean 2 road wins (NET- 4 and 10) and home win after NET 12. Those would be massive wins add in another road win at NET 39 and they would sky rocket up the seed line. They will end the year with at least a top 15 sos. If and that’s a big if they won out they would be no worse then a 5 seed and more then likely a 4. 3 seed line would be out of reach unless they went very far in the conference tourney

lol. Luckily for me it probably wouldn’t hold the true seed line for that to happen. They would have to move some teams around for bracketing principles. If we did end up playing them then

Typical loaded Tuesday slate. Miami has a chance to move up the seed line. They have done a good job of beating the teams they should. Now they get North Carolina on their home court. Huge game for a bubble team. Same with TCU who gets Iowa st at home

Road wins against top of the bracket teams are like gold. If IU wins one of those games they will jump in the 20s for a the NET. The offensive and defensive efficiency like you said will probably be hard to improve on

It’s a message board of course people cared about it. Bad games happen and IUs happen to be against Iowa at home. The season doesn’t go in a straight line and teams as you said can improve. Here is the actual thing for IU fans for 8 years they watched IU and for most the part the teams stayed the same or got worse. I would argue the Covid year Archie had them playing better but for the most part they were the same team all year. Same with Woody for the most part. He got hot in the conference tourney his first year and needed both those games just to be second to last team in. In my opinion good or bad you need to give a team more time then a bad 4 game stretch or a good 4 game stretch to judge a team. Even before the Iowa game there was a lot on here that said IU would be lucky to win 4 more games all year. Thats just fan emotion and built up frustration from a program that hasn’t had much success to say that that early in the season. Either way everyone wants the same thing which his him to be successful

Who and where they were playing had a big part to do with that. I would guess most on here didn’t think IU was going to compete for a national title in year 1 and 3 of the 4 teams they played are considered title contender teams. I think people see Nebraska and think automatic win at home. Most years yes but this year they are legit. Ius 4 game losing streak consisted of Nebraska at home( projected 2 seed), @Michigan (title favorite), @Sparty (projected 2 or 3) and home against Iowa (tourney quality team that IU should of competed better against but didn’t). For me the Iowa game is the worse loss of the season for IU ( the optics of DeVries losing to Ben at home when both are from Iowa and IU flat out had a crap game. Would love to play them in the BTT. If those loses were spread out over the B1G season I don’t think people would have been losing their minds as much however they all happen in a row. That is a tough of stretch on a schedule for any team. Season isn’t a straight line although it would be nice for it to play out that way for fans. Teams, especially non elite tourney teams with a flawed roster, are going to have ups and downs. Finish strong and no one will remember that stretch

He updates every Friday and Tuesday so his bracket hasn’t updated since IU beat Wisky. Tomorrows should have them out of his first 4

Took care of business against a team they should have beaten. IU has put itself in great position. Now they have 2 high level road games that are like bonus games. Get a split and they are cooking. A win in either one of these next to games would basically be like winning 2 games. Still some work to do

They play at Houston at some point. If they don’t lose before that game i think that will be a game they lose

Will Wade lost by a million

Louisville up 33 over NC State. Brown is on a heater. 8-11 from 3 and 32 pts

IU will have a Q2 loss again when Minny falls to a Q2 game

Where things stand with a month left in the regular season IU has put themselves in position to where if they win their home games they should be comfortable in the tourney. If they start losing home games then they will have to make it up on the road games where 2 of them are top of the bracket road games and the other is at a bubble team. They always have the conference tourney to build their resume if things fall through in this last month. I’ve seen teams completely fall apart in the last month and fall out of the bracket completely and I’ve seen teams solidify and improve their seeding in the last month. Not sure what IU will do but the schedule suggests they will have a shot to solidly their seeding and have bonus road games to sky rocket up the seed line if they win any of those games 18-6 (7-6) NET-33 Sos-33 Non con-212 Results based metrics WAB-40 KPI-53 SOR- 41 Predictive metrics Ken Pom- 35 Torvik-25 BPI- 29 Q1a(2-7) Q1b(0-3) Q2a(2-0) Q1b(0-0) Q3(5-0) Q4 (7-0) IU has 8 losses which are all in the Q1 area breaking it down further 5 losses are Q1a( 4 away from home ) 3 losses are Q1b(2 away from home ) IU has an sos of 33 with 2 away games left against the top 10 in NET and another road game against a top 37 team with another home game against a top 12 team. How much higher will their SOS jump up with those 4 games? They possibly could have a top 10 SOS when it’s all said and done. Is IUs roster perfect? No it has some flaws and room for improvement next year. if IU makes the tourney while playing a potentially top 10 SOS with this roster that would be a heck of a start for this staffs time at IU. I think everyone knew after the first couple games that the roster had some limitations that would hold them back from being able to compete with the top teams in the nation. As of today 8 of IUs 20 conference games will come against top 18 in the NET. Buckle up for the last month.

About the 1:12 mark the talk about the IU game

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If they lose to Sparty they would probably be right on the cut line and it would depend on what others around them do and how many bid stealers there end up being