AKHoosier

The optimist in me feels good about this game, however recent playing history up there weighs too heavily on my mind. We are more talented than UW this year, plus have a lot more momentum right now, but I get the feeling this will be business as usual at the Kohl Center. We'll play down to their level, Davison/Trice will hit a bunch of 3s, the crowd will be very into it, and the referees can't help but play to the crowd. This is just the game Wisconsin needs to get back on track. I've seen this movie before.

Need to pound it inside to TJD and let him get fouled.

Have to wonder if Purdue pulls the redshirt on Brandon Newman to try to get some offense going. He's probably nothing special but he could inject some life into their shooting.

The past 2 weeks has only confirmed what I thought during the opening week, that NONE of the teams in the Champions Classic are all that good. Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, and MSU don't look like top 10 teams at all.

Give me a junior Al Durham over a freshman Anthony Edwards all day long.

I just really hope we can take advantage of the opportunity to boost our resume in December. If we win 3 of Florida State, Notre Dame, Arkansas, UConn, and Wisconsin I'd be pretty happy. 5 is totally possible though.

If you get a chance to watch a UMBC game this year, do it. They have a 5'2" PG on their roster named Darnell Rogers. He's a pretty good player, just looks like a child out there.

Supposedly we're waaaaaaay behind Michigan and Louisville right now. Probably better hope Michigan loses some of its luster, and Louisville undergoes another scandal pretty soon.

Absolutely imperative we go to the tournament this year. Since Michigan and Louisville definitely will, and could very well have deep tournament runs. We can't expect to fight off those schools for guys like Lander and Kaufman while we're in the NIT and they're going past the second week of the tournament.

Now that it's official I feel confident in saying there's a certain poster on another board who everyone thinks is an insider but obviously is not, and whose word I'll never give any time to again. I'm sure there was a time he had a good source, but that person is probably no longer close to the program so now he's just getting bad info and passing it along as near gospel.

I love the 2020 guys we have too, but none of them are as good as Garcia. How do you think the staff feels, do you think they're negative at all after visiting and targeting him so much only to get beat by a school like freakin' Marquette? Garcia is damn good. He averages 27 ppg, and no offense to our current recruits, but there's not a single one of them that I look at and say "thank God we got him, because I don't know what we'd do since we lost out on Garcia."

Plus Romeo kicked his @$$ defensively. That still makes me smile.

Bottom line is that we won't consistently pull top talent from out of state, or even instate, until we have tournament runs. Or we can go the Will Wade route and start throwing bags of cash around.

Sounds like Rabjohns trying to generate as many clicks as he can possibly get out of this recruitment. Garcia telling people he still doesn't know means he wants as many people tuning in to his announcement as possible. Just being skeptical I guess.

Thing that really bugs me is how badly Archie and staff really wanted this kid. Archie's racking his brain trying to figure out why it's so hard to get elite recruits to Indiana.

Another case why you should NEVER look at a recruit's decision logically. Where they go to college is 90% an emotion-based decision. So many factors were leading him to us: Better team Better program in a better conference Their sh1tty coach is on the hot seat 2 very good players at his position transfer at last season's end Has 2 really good friends on IU So of course he goes to Marquette.

Welp onto the next I guess. At least this happened in the fall, so it gives us plenty of time to target someone else for spring who will undoubtedly include us in his final 3 and pick some other sh1tty school over us.

Well TOS has maintained Garcia has favored Indiana this whole time (90% confidence level to IU) however now says he's hearing Marquette. Woj has pitched more touches at Marquette than IU and it's working. Sounds like he may want to be Marcus Howard rather than play on a good team.

Brian Snow seems awfully excited about Dawson's announcement on Wednesday, so that can't be good for IU. He is such a douchebag.

Since I'm from his area, I'm gonna have to try and get out to a Riley game this year to watch him.

Rooting for Wisconsin and UConn today. Wisconsin to help us with Garcia (in case that helps) and improve our SOS. UConn to also improve our SOS but they already lost to St. Joseph's at home so they may not be all that good anyway.

Rinse and repeat with Kentucky. I just see the same team year after year. Bunch of 5 star athletes who can't shoot and couldn't care less about anything other than where they're getting drafted.

Was Brooks even on the floor in the last 10 minutes? I was switching back and forth so I didn't see all of it. I did see he only had 6 pts tonight on 3/8 shooting. lol.

Probably could have said the same thing at halftime against Portland State too. It seems like a trend is developing. It's a legit concern.

3 pt defense once again a big strength this season. Yeesh.