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If he cannot perform in practice to please the staff, there is no reason I trust him in an important game.

Tom Izzo was at the Southport @ Bloomington South game scouting Southport players on December 12th if you guys didn't know or are interested. 

Sorry, that's right .Don't know where I got that.

All we have to do to win at Purdue is drive it at their bigs. Haas and Hammons both have a terrible time with foul trouble. In one of their recent games both were on the bench late with 4 fouls a piece.

All we have to do to win at Purdue is drive it at their bigs. Haas and Hammons both have a terrible time with foul trouble. In one of their recent games both were on the bench late with 4 fouls a piece.

Always a good night when IU wins and a top team like Duke gets beat!

Duke down 20.... at home!

Goodnight duke. You made my night.

That's not a complaint?  Lol...ok....

Can we leave politics out of an Indiana Hoosiers Basketball board please

Okay he was arrested for an alcohol related issue, but his confidence and playing ability has absolutely NOTHING to do with alcohol. Come on people

Im sorry to say it, but this adds nothing to the conversation. 

Im sorry to say it, but this adds nothing to the conversation. 

Okay he was arrested for an alcohol related issue, but his confidence and playing ability has absolutely NOTHING to do with alcohol. Come on people

Sad to hear. One of the few ESPNers I actually respected.

Just wanted to throw this out there from the IU site with odds and ends stats with the bball program. Honestly, I feel pretty good about where the program is as a whole. For me, I've had to finally let go of the bad hangover from last year and enjoy this year, cuz it could be a pretty good one.

• Since 2011-12, IU leads all major conference teams in field goal percentage (47.8), three-point field goal percentage (39.6) and 2nd in free throw percentage (74.3) and in free throws made (2,132). The Hoosiers are 4th nationally in scoring (77.3) over the last 3+ seasons.
• The Hoosiers 38.5 percent shooting from behind the 3-point line since the start of the 2010-11 season is the highest among major college conference schools in that time frame.

• With the win over No. 22 SMU and No. 23 Butler, IU leads Big Ten teams with 17 regular season wins over Top 25 teams since the start of the 2011-12 season. This year, IU had 2 of the Big Ten's 4 wins against nationally ranked squads in non-conference play.

**this one below says something I think and should put us somewhat at ease
THREE YEAR WIN TOTAL
• The Hoosiers 73 wins from 2011-12 to 2013-14 represents the highest three-year win total for IU since 1990-91 to 1992-93.

NUMBERS
• The Hoosiers are 6th in the country in scoring (86.4), 12th in effective field goal percentage (57.2)., 13th in 3FG percentage (40.8), and 15th in overall FG percentage (49.6.).

ODDS AND TRENDS
• IU has made at least 7 three-pointers in all 14 games this season. Last year, the Hoosiers made 7 three-pointers or more just 8 times in 32 games.

• IU is 12-10 in Big Ten road games since February 4, 2012.

• The Hoosiers made a season-high 13 three-point field goals against Georgetown.

• Freshman Robert Johnson has made 8 of his last 14 three-pointers in the last 4 games. He led IU with 14 points at Nebraska.

• Junior Yogi Ferrell has made 15 of his last 17 free throws over a 5 game period. He also has 19 assists and just 10 turnovers in that span. With 12 seconds left in regulation against Georgetown, he hit a three-pointer that tied the score and sent the game to overtime against the Hoyas. It was the second time in his career that he hit a game tying shot to force overtime. He also did that against Butler at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in December 2012. Ferrell has made 16 of his 35 three-point attempts in the last 6 games.

The Hoosiers have done a much better job of making the extra pass and taking care of the basketball. Last year, the Hoosiers were ranked 325th in assist/turnover ratio. This year, IU is 57th in the nation in that category at 1.25 per game.

We have a top 10 offense as rated by KenPom and are top 5 in points per game. Who cares what Knight would do with James Blackmon? Crean is doing a pretty damn good job with him.

Very nice stats and facts!! Very insightful. Great post

Can't wait to see what the constant "sky is falling" losers on the forum have to say about that.

If you rewind, we were discussing the pipe dream that would be a Hanner who could give us 10/10 or 12/8... 2 most impressive things this season for me, Hanner and Hartman. Hanner deserves a lot of credit for working so hard. He is now starting to catch up to his "potential". He's even had some face up drives that were impressive. He's like a praying mantis out there or something. I actually listened to the Nebraska post game interview and Crean mentioned how we are going to start seeing some times when we put Hanner on the perimeter and he is going to be called to drive....and as athletic as hanner gets when he starts a face up drive to the lane, it's probably headed towards a Thunder Chunky. Imagine the crowd that day. 
 
All I know is - Yogi to Hanner lob.. needs to be 20% of our possessions  :biggrin:
 
I want to see a little nasty streak from Hanner. We have seen it a few times this season. No reason to worry about fouls now because Holt is a very worthy back up or even neutral/better in some match ups... CUT AIR COLUMBIA LOOSE CREAN!! 

I was certainly ready to write him off as a hopeless project and now I'm ready to eat my words.  He has shown great improvement and hopefully his improvement will continue.  And if it does, he can be a real beast by the end of this season and into his senior year.

The good thing about all their youngsters and press clippings is that they WILL take some teams lightly. Hopefully by the time they decide to flip the switch, there won't be enough time left to avoid the upset.

Hopefully we will remember last year's beat down and return the favor to the Boils.  :120:

High ball screens with their bigs, drive to the rim or kick it to open shooters.  They're horrible defending the 3. 

Can we leave politics out of an Indiana Hoosiers Basketball board please

In 2012, only 19% of voters were between 18-29 which includes my generation and possibly the one prior to mine. Find me stats to prove or support your claim that these traits are much more prevalent.

Also, this came out of left field.