MartintheMopMan

5 to 1 is 20% (1/5) in ratio odds or +500 in American odds. 4 to 1 is 25%. 16 to 1 is 25% of 25% or 6.25%. We are currently at 33 to 1 or 3%.   It's what MSU and Kansas are currently at right now. I expect they'll remain around there until it starts. There is always a lot of flux after Sunday because potential match-ups matter a lot and betting right now is pretty minimal so they aren't self-adjusting yet.

Ah yes, 92-93. I dated myself a lot back then.

FGCU will take care of them. Napes assures me they're back.

Seeing a lot of teams we've already played too. Iowa isn't a terrible drive from Indiana either.

The answer turns out, is "Yes"

Try this one on for size.   https://btownbanners.com/topic/8816-iu-vs-duke-post-game-thread/

I don't think they are adding any seats.

Odds Shark is better because they use real sites you can bet on right now.   http://www.oddsshark.com/ncaab/college-basketball-futures   We are +3300 (MSU and Kansas +500). Weirdly, we haven't moved all year.

If they did not have skeletons they would die because of their lungs not having room to inflate.

Looks like we beat Wisconsin twice after all.

And screw the haters who think we only won because our schedule was easy. Ask them how easy our games @Iowa and v. Maryland were to win the title by 2 games.   And while we're at it, screw Purdue fans who try and move the goalposts because "Well, we should really combine BTT titles and regular season titles because that's what sports almanacs will do in the future".   It's a great time to be a Hoosier... though it would have been much easier for me to watch our upcoming game if we were maybe the 4 seed instead. Thanks for nothing guys.

Head coach Tim Beckham has been fired on allegations of player mistreatment.

Indiana now ranked #10 in both polls.

Put all your COY and other awards in here. Merging everything here.   All right, should be right now. Did not realize it didn't ask you for a thread title and everything if you merged from the checkboxes instead of the thread.

Historically? It started after we were good (1998).   Since the start of the BTT, we've only been to the second weekend of the Tourney 3 times. We've missed it entirely 6 times. Our best tournament teams are 2002, 2012, 2013. 2002 we played it close on Saturday and lost by 2, so we didn't make it to the next level. We played like a Mike Davis team and it wasn't enough. 2012 and 2013 we hit kryptonite (Wisconsin) 

This will have an interesting effect on how history looks at this transition. Since it was successful, it's almost believable now that Bo quit mid-season for this exact result.

That I can believe. I don't have those numbers for pregame, though next year I will probably include them since they're interesting too. They're always so uninteresting at the beginning of the year when each game causes huge swings that I forget to go back and look at them later.   They are however, still number 2 in the conference on defense (MSU, Maryland, Us, Wisco).

Soooooooo..... We don't think he's going to pick us.

19th. Not much of a drop at all. (For any team's pre-game KenPom numbers check the first post of the pre-game thread and I'll have posted the match-up numbers)

Point 5 is huge. The biggest difference between this team and past teams is the ridiculous depth. We can feel comfortable when a starter needs a rest and when there are 5 forwards on the court we are willing to give the benefit of the doubt instead of freaking out because the bench is just so deep. If you send a message to this board on December 3 saying "BTW, you'll end your season without RoJo and JBJ" who here would predict winning the Big Ten by two games instead of a record like... well, like Rutgers? It's incredible to me that we have numerically the shallowest team of the Tom Crean era (11 eligible scholarship players including Priller), then we lost two more scholarship players and are currently rolling with 8 rotation scholarship guys and we're still undeniably deep.

I don't think I processed this before the game, but Maryland was the best defensive team we've played according to KenPom and we hung 80 points on them.

I'd certainly rather see what we look like against them in the Big Ten Tourney (and force the committee to separate us some more by having played twice) than to face them or a team like them in the Tourney without any additional experience.

I think Minnesota is going to win it all.

Because he's a winner?

I can't keep all of these Florida teams straight napes. I'm not a native.