MartintheMopMan

I've had the last weekend of the tourney blocked off on my work calendar for months.

I want MSU to win but I also want them to stop wearing those uniforms.

Niners friends officially talking about drafting suds and how he would look in Chip's offense. Loving it! I've been aggressively pushing Spriggs too

MSU fans are very reserved behind the basket.

I think JBJ being out is correlated but not causative. His being out might explain a slight improvement in defense, but he wasn't causing the rest of the team not to buy-in, he wasn't causing the poor defense we saw when he was on the bench. Something clicked behind the scenes and it is a night and day difference. If anything, JBJ being out pushed it along because it became a need. Until then, we could rest on being one of the best offensive teams in the country. We lose a huge chunk of production and the guys start thinking they may need some more defense to keep the other team from exploiting the weaker offense and then it just starts rolling.   I haven't seen the whole team play defense like this in a long long time and if we can keep it up then I'm encouraged for the team's future. The underclassmen who are seeing how effective this defense is will help pass it along to the next group and the next.

Pop it and lock it.   https://btownbanners.com/topic/9110-indiana-v-northwestern-postgame-thread/

So... what was the spread?

I hope Priller and JBJ are besties.

Z3!

I assume our D was better in the first half.

Made it. Glad my not watching has not held us back.

I know, it's way too early for a pregame thread with another game in the middle. So, just ignore this until you feel like using it ya' know?   I just can't believe we're playing Kanye West's kid.     Prediction League: https://btownbanners.com/topic/9059-prediction-league-game-20-week-11-iu-vs-northwestern-012316/   Pick'ems: https://btownbanners.com/topic/9099-iubb-pickems-game-20-vs-northwestern/#entry234888   Numbers (Pre-Illinois): [attachment=3238:5.PNG]

No way. I mean, only if number of losses is a meaningful statistic. We played for 128 years, of course we have more losses than UNLV. By percentage we're slightly better (not even bottom-10). Beyond that, there are far fewer FBS teams than college basketball teams, Northwestern Basketball has a lower win percentage than Indiana football. They are 40.5% in their existence compared to 42.4%.    And I'd moderately prefer to have the most losses in college football and have been to a Rose Bowl (and other bowls) than have fewer losses than some other teams but only ever make the NIT.   Edit: According to Winsipedia, we're the 92nd ranked program in terms of wins, winning percentage, bowl game records, and a bunch of other stuff:   http://www.winsipedia.com/ranking

Thanks for letting us know about the move guys, changed the topic title.   What's most striking about this game for me? The very nature of saying "The basketball game against Northwestern makes me nervous". This is a team which has never played in the tourney. Can you even imagine saying such a thing while on a 11-game winning streak at home like, 4 or 5 years ago? It's insane what Chris Colins and Jim Phillips have been doing at Northwestern. I hope we crush them so hard that McIntosh is turned into applesauce, but mad respect. I'm pulling for them anytime they aren't playing us.   I was going to say something like "It's what OSU and MSU fans must think when they say they're nervous about our football team" but it isn't even. At least we have been good at football for tiny windows in the recentish past. Northwestern has never been good at basketball.

I'm dumb. I have a bad habit of not paying close enough attention and definitely was thinking you were dalton in Texas for no other reason than your names both start with the same letter. I just barely caught myself doing the exact same thing with Natty and Naples like 2 minutes ago in that we don't need no burger boys thread.   You wouldn't have seen much of him anyway, he only got 15 minutes, most of those minutes will come at the start of the game or the half. He's leaps and bounds ahead of where he was at the beginning of the season. It would be cool to cut some of his games together and just look at the differences. Talking to him now, he's fairly clear that there was not much defense being taught at Indiana.    In general, I agree with you about the Blazers, they just lost so much in the last offseason they couldn't rebound in time for this season. But they have a great young team and I'm happy with CJ staying and our outlook in the next couple of years. You just can't lose 4 starters in the NBA and replace them with young guys without a drop, but if we firm up the front court it's a different ballgame. I'd rather we lose Leonard though. And not even trade him or anything, just "accidentally" leave him in a parking garage. I don't even know why entirely, everything about his play just gets me.   I do hope they can make some noise in the future, the amount of town pride for them is ridiculously high. During the playoffs last year you could just go out into the street and hear hundreds of people cheering at the same time for big plays from their own houses. It was surreal. Largely because it's them and the Timbers for sports franchises. If the NFL expands in the near future, I really hope Portland is under consideration, we would rock the socks off everyone else if we brought half of our Timbers pride into a football team.

Every player who only shot one three, made it.

Well, that was quite the game. New Records set!

And if you're someone who discounts the first 3 years, he is 4-2. Improving, but two losses against Northwestern is still pretty embarrassing.

Hey, we also snagged a DC in whom Auburn had interest. That's football school behavior.   And we had a multi-party argument about our standards in football recruiting. And, I'll bet everyone here can name 5 or 6 more players coming in this year than they could have last year.   Now we just need football traditions, another bowl, and to stop forcing students purchasing basketball student tickets to purchase football tickets and we'll be legit.

And why won't he get rid of the football background?

Closer time zones! Yay!   I think they played well and Vonleh is still getting better on defense. It's just a matter of being such a young team and an adjustment over the past few years. This is a definite rebuilding year, but I expect to be a playoff team next year. Hawks really prepped well for the game too and took away big chunks of the offense.   It's tough for me to appreciate the rebuild as much as I should because I grew up with the Warriors as my team and now they're blowing up. So, in the rare instances I watch a full NBA game, it's much more likely to be one of theirs than Blazers unless I'm there live. It's just more fun to watch a great team than a struggling team. But, as an Outback driving resident of Portland I have to embrace the Blazers and stop mentioning the Warriors or else I'm branded a Californian (the worst of all things to be).

East by NorthBump.

This is why no one remembers we exist. Who is staying up late to watch Vonleh lose to the Hawks? He was barely even in the game.

Wow, look at those offensive and defensive jumps for Northwestern. They look like us at the start of Big Ten play. Up nearly 40 spots on D and down almost 20 on O.   I think, and the numbers bear it out, that this game is all about pace. If Northwestern can make us play at their speed, then we'll probably lose. We held on against Wisco but, can we do another slow game? Or can we force them to speed up?   I'm most nervous about this game for one reason: My daughter has soccer practice and I can't watch it live (let's stop with the 9 am games OK? I literally scheduled the early practice to never miss a game because these were still TBA and here I am). Why does that make me nervous? I've missed two IU v. NW games over the last few years. Last year @NW (listened on the radio driving home from the Washington Bar Exam because even rushing through the second part I couldn't get home in time for tipoff) and at home the year before.    I don't know if we've beaten Northwestern while I wasn't watching in the past decade. Hope we break the streak this year.

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