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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

If they win their home games and finish 11-9 in the regular season that would be a wrap and the BTT game would be for seeding. Winning the home games means another top 11 win (Sparty) which would give them 2 massive top of the bracket wins with 0 bad losses. I don’t even think the committee could leave out a team that finished over .500 in the second toughest conference this year.

Hopefully it’s rolling by year 2 and we don’t sweat year 4

I want success as well. I think IU has dug itself a hole that’s going to be harder than some think. Yes with NIL and the transfer portal it can make things easier but it’s not guarantee it will. A couple things make this sting even more then it should and when an IU grad and manger takes a mid major to a final 4 and the administration holds onto a coach 1 year longer then they should to hire the coach and he goes to an in conference team and is killing it in back to back years that hurts. IU needed to make up for the Archie hire (who at the time of the hire I was one that though he would work out )and they hire a coach with 0 college coaching experience. IU couldn’t get out of their own way. No one in the college basketball landscape thought IU was serious with that hire and I would guess 80 percent of ius own fan base thought the same thing. Having back to back coaching hires where in reality the program didn’t move forward was bound to leave a stain. Sure there was some bright spots but overall the program was stuck in the same mud they were in at the end of the Crean era. At least this time they hired a guy that sat on the bench of 2 really good college coaches and had success at the lower level first and looked to improve on that and was competing in his 1st Power 5 job. The Archie hire will make any IU fan gun shy on any hire IU was going to make that wasn’t a sure fire thing. Those coaches really don’t move anymore. I have no clue if devries is the guy or not but from my years of watching him at Drake and watching him beat Arizona, Gonzaga and at Kansas all in the same year gave me hope after watching IUs last coaches lose to these programs by 20 + in the last couple years and be non competitive. If he could do that in his first year at West Virginia of all places why couldn’t he do that at IU? I don’t think he will be another Archie but I can’t guarantee he will be the next Hurley. All I can do is do what I do for every new coach and sunshine pump the heck out of him and hope what I saw in watching him have success over the last couple years carries over to IUs program.

New Mexico with a home loss to Boise. They are on the bubble and this loss will not help them with that

That’s got be a rough 20 + years of watching IU basketball for you. The fact you are still here watching them and giving your time to a message board about them is dedication. I hope for your sake IU gets back to a point to where they don’t have as many deficiencies as they have had the last 2 decades plus. Here is to hoping DeVries can be the one who will do it and if not let’s hope the next coach puts an end to the misery

BYU up 2 now in the second half. Boise up 3 over New Mexico with 3 min to go. This day of ball has been awesome

Kentucky up 2 with 30 sec to go

We also got UC San Diego/Hawaii at midnight. 2 top teams in the Big West. I won’t make it on that one but it should be a good one.

Heck of a day of hoops and we still got more. Tenn/UK in a close 1 with 6 min to go. BYU/Houston at 10:30

Florida is going to be a problem come March. Casual 26 point lead on the road at A&M

I didn’t think there was anything you hated more then the Illini

Or not

He is missing 1 of these

Yeah I was just providing stats

Sparty up 2 with 8 sec. Huge 3 on a offensive rebound

They went 18-2 in the ACC and got a 9 seed. Acc was terrible last year

Glimpses in year 3 not year 1 when Hurley went 16-17. Remember the IU/Uconn game that IU won during Archie’s year? That game was terrible for both teams but someone had to win it. not sure about greatness yet in year 1 but I’ve seen some ofcoaches out of bounds plays that have scored some really nice baskets. Too early for me to go all in or all out

As of today they are projected around the 9 or 10 range but I get it. Ius first ever double digit seed came during the Crean years. (10 seed that lost to Wichita State) Before that IU never was a double digit seed in its history of the tourney

Hurley was figuring things out in year 3. He didn’t have the players in the first 2 years or didn’t have the culture but you could see glimpses of it and even with them losing in the first round against New Mexico St you could see that he was on the verge of putting it together. Just sucks he is a.. because he is a really good coach

His first title was mostly all the guys he recruited. He did it the old fashion way. He had some great back to back to back recruiting classes. Newton was the only transfer on that first team if I’m remembering right

California a bubble team playing a quality team at home is down 19 with 17:50 to go. Clemson looks good

10 seed. I had Texas out as well but they put them in with 7 home losses. Last year was a weird year for the committee