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Sparty down 11 at half to Minny

MSU is beatable. They needed OT to win at Rutgers and they are down at Minny tonight. If it was a road game at MSU I would agree with you however IU playing MSU at home is a very winnable game

Massive game for IU on Saturday. IU got the split on the LA trip. Now they have set themselves up to where if IU wins their remaining home games they will be in great shape and not need phase 3(conference tourney) to build the resume. Tourney quality team (lower seeded as of today)at home for a nice Q2 win. Lose and the path becomes more difficult

Former IU recruit that ended up going to St John’s to start out his career

IU has a chance tonight to win its 3rd straight Q1 game and 2nd straight road win. Playing in a tough conference can have a double edge sword. There are no nights off so not many get right games and losses can snowball however if you can string together some wins it usually against tourney quality teams so you resume gets a huge boost. Not many teams had a better week than IU. 2 Q1 wins with one being against a top 8 net team and a road win against a top 40 net team. The reason why IU shot up the projections was because there predictive metrics were already great since they took advantage of their non con Q4 games which started them out in a positive. Their SOS is top 35. All they were missing were the results against quality teams so their results based metrics were low. That change last week and now those metrics are trending up. Puzzle is still not complete with 9 or more pieces to go but last week was a big one for IU. Big stretch coming up. Fo me the Wisky game is the most important game left on the schedule. Win that one and they are in very good shape. Losses stink but here are their losses according to the NET 3, 10, 11, 17, 19, 28 and 84 ( 5 of those away from home)

Miami(Ohio) at Buffalo at 6:30. It’s on espn +

SFA up 1 with 3:26 to go.

IU beat 2 power 5 teams and blasted every Q4 team by 20 + except 1 and started the NET out as 11th overall. People see what they want to see. Getting Wilkerson over him going to Kentucky is far from lackluster. I’m sure IU will lose 1 that they shouldn’t so people can jump on the fire train again

I would hope so just like I would hope people would wait after a bad 4 game stretch in the first 3 months of a coaching tenure

Texas Tech/Kansas should be a good one as well

Light High major night so if you got espn + watch the game of night and it’s in the Southland SFA/McNeese. Should be a good one

Stirtz is the real deal. Like IU they need to keep stacking wins. Ironically enough IU beating UCLA gave Iowa their first Q1 win of the year when IU moved into the top 30 of the NET. As of today they are 1-4 in Q1 games. They are at Washington next. Big one for them like the USC game is for IU

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It really all depends on the recruit and what they want. Wilkerson chose IU over Kentucky. Ohio State hasn’t made the tourney in 3 years and they got Thompson a 5 star kid to sign. My opinion only but most recruits think they will be the reason to turn things around.

Way back in the day. The team and program you are invested in now hasn’t finished the B1G regular season with back to back winning conference records since the Crean years.

Should have but that’s not how it works. Plenty of teams besides IU should of have won games but they didn’t it’s just more frustrating for people on here when IU does it because of the past 9 years

More than people would think but most people on here only care about IU results which is understandable.

TCU down 19 on the road to Colorado. TCU is a bubble team that can’t afford losses like this since they have a Q4 home loss. This would be an example of results happening outside of IU playing that could effect the bubble

Tang at Kansas st would be an example of a new coach starting out hot in his first year going 26-10 with an Elite 8 appearance to not getting back in the tourney his next 2 years and looking like it being 3 years after the season