AKHoosier

So I read on another site that Juwan Morgan hurt his ankle, and could be out against Nebraska. Hope it's not that serious.

Up to and including the first half of the next game. That'll teach him his lesson!

Well if this is true, things can start to go downhill pretty quickly if we get beat NYE by Louisville. A loss to Butler, drinking incident, then a loss to Louisville in just a few weeks' time could result in some unsettling feelings around the program. Hope not though. However, I just want to add that this team seems nothing like the 2013-2014 disaster though.

13-5.

This may be an unfair criticism, but does anyone else remember early in the fall when the B1G Network televised an hour of our practice? I remember watching that and being excited, but couldn't help but think we were spending way too much time shooting 3's. We seriously spent like half of that hour doing drills where guys would do a weave then shoot a 3. Maybe I'm reading too much into that, but it seemed like we didn't spend too much time practicing our half-court offense, and it shows during our losses when the other team slows it down on us.

It's so frustrating to not only play down to the level of competition, but also not be able to exploit a size advantage down low.

lol what?!? That's only 7 pts a quarter... Must have been some suffocating defense.

Thank God I'm drunk as f$*@ right now, or I'd be really upset.

We dug our own grave, but god I hate Butler so much. SO annoying.

omg. That was out on Butler, even Ray Charles could see that.

You have to be kidding me, we can actually win this game?

Come on guys, just find a way to win this.

We're trying to scrap and claw our way to a win, and that's just not our game.

This is why it's always tough to trust a team that can light it up from 3. Because they can just as easily go ice cold from 3.

Newkirk is giving us very little right now.

This is why I thought it was ridiculous when people were predicting we'd win by double digits. There's no way. The in-state teams almost always bring more fight than we do.

No way, I had no idea guys from St. Joe HS went to IU, learn something new every day. And yes, I'm 31 but I'm sure my parents have heard of them, my mom graduated from St. Joe in '76. I went to Marian and then to Mishawaka. I thought we may have had a chance at Demetrius Jackson for a while, but Yogi pretty much scared any potential PGs away for a while.

Man, between Anderson and Musa Jallow, we certainly have some high-scoring wing options in-state for the 2018 class. I'd love to see either at IU, however I'm more partial to Anderson since I'm from South Bend and can't remember a player from there ever going to IU. That'd be sweet.

I remember watching him as a freshman when he was widely considered one of the best class of 2017 kids in the state, which has obviously cooled down a bit since then. He's still a good player, looks to be a lot better built and less doughy than when he was a freshman. If Jordan Tucker says no, I would definitely take this kid as a backup plan. The only concerning thing is that this class pretty much consists of backup plans. That's not the worst thing in the world as long as it's a complementary class, however the pressure is on to land some studs in 2018.

OK after watching that video, I'm ecstatic about him and his future here. If you told me he was a top 50 recruit and then I watched the video, I would have believed you.

It will make me feel even more optimistic about him if he averages a double-double for his team this season. Combined with his size, his eye-popping stats will really create a true diamond-in-the-rough type of feel to his recruitment. Since Durham and Smith look like they're tearing it up for their respective teams, having all 3 of our recruits stuff the stat sheet has them trending up, in my mind at least.

Totally. Remember when we spent all that time on Raymond Spaulding of Louisville, only to see him pop for UL. Hopefully this is the inverse of that. We shouldn't ever lose a Bloomington native that we're targeting (other than he who shall remain nameless).

Wow, UM lighting it up and has taken the lead 44-39. Hoping they can pull it off today.

Looks like definitely a good player. If he's a culture fit and interested, I would hope we take a look at him. Sucks he'd have to sit out next year though.

Good, man I really hope we land him. High 4* and top 100 recruits are what we should be primarily focused on. At this point, I trust Crean's development of players who buy into our program of player development more than I trust Crean's ability to recruit top-10 or top-15 out-of-state players.