RaceToTheTop

Stay classy, Ohio State.

Announcers saying 'that happy really fast'.....no, that one was pretty obvious.

Ohio State trying to put points up for the pollsters. Should have just been running the ball and clock.

****** move by Ohio State there.

Carter is pretty dang good.

Not sure who thought that.

Bad WR group as well, so that makes it even harder.

Decent time in the pocket there

There you go. At least a little guts.

4th and 3, down 17, punt. Yes, chances of winning are pretty much nil. But who cares if we lose by 24 or 34 other than bettors.

Looks like we are changing our hander offer.

Yeah, I get that we are 'in' the game right now....kind of. But the goal of a game isn't to cover the spread.

Ohio State has to be discouraged with not being able to put up points on IU. At the same time, IU isn't good enough to be a one dimensional run team and expect to hang in the game for 48 minutes.

What is strange is how often in retrospect a player becomes a 'starter on a championship caliber team' AFTER the fact. I think most people would agree that IU's 1992 team that went to the final four had a championship caliber team. The five guys who logged 24 or more starts that year were Calbert Cheaney, Damon Bailey, Alan Henderson, Eric Anderson, and.....Chris Reynolds. That team was a 2 seed and a final four team. The 2002 team that made the final game had a normal starting five of Jared Jeffries, Tom Coverdale, Jared Odle, Dane Fife, and Kyle Hornsby. How many of those five are starters on a 'championship caliber team'?

Link the stats instead of a Kentucky anecdote. U Conn had three neutral court non-con games last year and one road game….and that was a 21 point laugher at Florida.

Oops…I was looking at a rating, not a rank.

Bronny James is ranked 95th by 247….not exactly a watch list type.

Not sure what you are saying with the last sentence. I will say that I'd rather IU play three neutral court games than one road game. If you want to advance in the tournament, neutral court ones are the ones you have to win.

....we always circle back to Welliver's.

Did you read the "this list will be updated periodically as we count down to the 23-24 tip off"? It's not a complete list because not all schedules are finalized. Also have to wonder how many teams are only playing a single road game because of a conference challenge has them playing on the road. IMO, the mandated 20 conference game schedule has produced fewer and fewer true road games. You are already guaranteed 10 power 5 road games. Add in a conference tournament and the average team plays another two games against power 5 teams on neutral courts. The point of making your non-conference schedule tougher is kind of a moot point when 70% of your SOS is going to be against teams in your conference.

I don't think Woodson was looking at that being a regular occurrence. Saying we are a bit thin at the 2 IMO doesn't mean we would still expect to see Banks/MM at the 2 anything but on a rare occasion. Galloway is still the starting 2 for the time being and X can slide to the 2 alongside Cupps. Gunn and Newton can play the two but Gunn has to be better than last year and we still are hoping for a healthy Newton.

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Have to say if I'm C.J. Gunn, I'd take that as either not encouraging or a message.

Ques Glover transfers to Kansas State. Would have been a decent IU fit.

Lexie Hull: played in all 28 games, started 22, averaging 21 mpg, shotting 37/22/74 after shooting 27/19/90 last year and has 30 assists to 30 turnovers. Grace Burger: 12 mpg, shooting 44/45/84, 39 assists to 22 turnovers. Make this make sense.