Hoosierfan2017

Our only two wins against teams worth a crap are UNC and Kansas. Of course those are outstanding wins, but they're not enough to get us into the tournament. I could see this team falling off the cliff and going sub-.500 in the Big 10. We lack leadership on the court and the players have no one on the sideline they can look to for it. I think every loss puts more doubt into their heads. TB and OG are MIA, and our schedule only gets harder from here on out. A couple weeks ago I said I thought we might miss the tournament. At that point I hoped I was just being a prisoner of the moment and overreacting, but now I think there's a legitimate chance of it happening. This might get ugly...

De'ron needs to get more than two shots. I wouldn't be against him and TB switching minutes.

Don't forget about him getting manhandled by Fort Wayne

Two more losses to tie last season lmao

Every loss is a step closer to a Crean exit. If that's the way it has to be then I can live with it.

He's gotta use his big frame or else a lot of his shots are going to get blocked since he isn't very athletic. He's still further along than I expected him to be this year tho, and a better post option than Bryant imo.

De'ron dribbles too much when he gets it. He needs to be able to get to a point where he can take 1-2 dribbles and make a move.

Rutgers was 11-4 too before they got beat down by MSU

It makes me wonder if he's in Crean's doghouse or something. It always seems like he never plays enough.

This is a terrible decision at face value. He was a good back for us but I never thought of him as an NFL prospect during his time here. He probably saw the writing on the wall and realized the carries weren't going to be there for him next year. Might as well take a chance and see what happens while his stock is as high as it'll get. I can't fault him for that. Best of luck to him!

I'll lose all faith in IU basketball if Crean gets another extension.

I wonder if this means Tegray is coming back too or if it's just a coincidence that he's in the picture Rashard picked.

Lol oh boy..

No talk of deflections either. Did he even want to win?

Awesome news this morning!

100% this! We need to be playing our starters 30+ minutes a night. Kids need breathers from time to time but Crean's breathers tend to turn into 3 day weekends on the bench. If our guys aren't physically capable of playing 30+ minutes then that's on the coaching staff for not having them in shape. They're 18-22 years old and only play a few games each week. It's not the NBA where they're playing back to backs all the time. They're not going to get worn out by playing that much.. They would honestly probably prefer it.

If Crean unleashed something like this on our guys I think our season would turn around immediately.

Our guys would probably still be running suicides right now because of the Nebraska loss if Knight was our coach lol.

TB's been the biggest disappointment for me this year. He looks like a shell of his freshman year self out there sometimes. I hope he manages to get it together. I'd like to see some more TB/Davis lineups but the way Bryant's been playing lately I'd rather just stick with Davis. I think we all expected a little too much from OG this year because of the flashes of brilliance he showed last season. He's a very good player, and some of it could be lingering effects from his ankle injury, but right now he's not quite where we expected him to be. If he stays another year I think he could take a massive, Oladipo-esque, leap. I'm optimistic that our guys will step up and right the ship. We should know within the next 2-3 weeks whether this season will be salvaged or if this thing is going up in flames.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but I have to disagree on us not being a top 10 team talent wise. We don't get the highest ranked kids and we don't pull down top 5-10 recruiting classes, but I think if you gave this squad to an Izzo or a Coach K they'd have them competing for a national championship. We have a lot of nice puzzle pieces right now but they're not being put in the right spots. Not even close. I'm jealous you got to watch Coach Knight's teams growing up. That's one thing I wish I could've had the chance to do.

I just wanted to use that picture lol

Yeah that's the one. A rotation of JBJ, Rojo, OG, TB, Davis, Morgan, and Newkirk/Cujo/Green sparingly is easily a top 15 rotation. We have gaps in our roster like most teams but you're not going to find 15 teams with a better collection of players than we have. We look like crap sometimes but that has a lot more to do with the guys wearing the suits on the sidelines than it does the talent of the kids wearing the candy stripes. If you gave our team to a number of other coaches I think they win a heckuva lot of ball games.

"For a roster that lacks a natural alpha, Indiana could use more offensive structure to create looks — but expecting that from Crean would be similar to expecting a military academy to throw the ball 75 times a game next season. It’s not happening." What in the world are we paying him $3 million a year for then? Their article last night seemed like they're looking for every possible thing to blame except for Crean. I strongly disagree with their assertion that we don't have a top 10 or top 15 roster this year. We have the players. They just need to be used properly.

I don't hope we lose, but I'd be lying if I said that during games like last night I don't think about whether a complete collapse that gets Crean fired would be worth it.