RaceToTheTop

We know that IU had the incident three years ago prior to the Northwestern game and that there had been a game prior where Xavier Johnson had pulled something similar. Been rumors this year about players being out late and now a confirmed one with Ballo. It's not that I'm against disciplining players but the fact is that when you see the head coach not putting the time in it is a learned behavior.

This is about an anti-Rutgers team as Pikiell has had. 65th offensively, 97th defensively, 57th in pace. Both team play at a pretty fast pace.

The Hammond Civic Center is a very old venue but definitely not a rec center type of venue. Very large seating capacity that has hosted WWE events. Seating capacity of 4,500. From videos I saw it did look like they played some games in Whiting’s gym which is much smaller.

Against Oregon, Jeanty ran 25 times for 192 yards and 3 touchdowns. He's fine against any level of competition.

Hoping that Ballo plays. I understand sitting him last game for obviously not being focused on what he should have been but the truth is on the court he is one of our most engaged players. If we are going to sit people for not being focused on the right things then Woodson shouldn't show up.

@Uspshoosier If you go to the NCAA NET rankings, there is a separate column for 'WAB' but it gives a record. For instance, IU's WAB on the NCAA NET site is 9-0. Maryland's, though is 9-1. Any idea what those mean? It seems to be different than the WAB that is put on the team sheets. I did read up on the WAB calculation that the NCAA uses (not the wins/losses one which I have no clue about) and it is EXACTLY what I was doing with my WAR rating. For instance, if a team played another and the expectation was that the last at large bid team in the tournament would win that game 30% of the time then winning the game would net the team a WAB of +0.70 while a loss would net them a -0.30. The only difference would be in how they calculate those percentages and how I did.

I believe the Big Ten is now 4-1 head-to-head against the SEC in postseason this year. Ohio State (7-2 in the Big Ten) 45, Tennessee (6-2 in the SEC) 17 Missouri (5-3 in the SEC) 27, Iowa (6-3 in the Big Ten) 24 USC (4-5 in the Big Ten) 35, Texas A&M (5-3 in the SEC) 31 Michigan (5-4 in the Big Ten) 19, Alabama (5-3 in the SEC) 13 Illinois (6-3 in the Big Ten) 21, South Carolina (5-3 in the SEC) 17

Yep, rewatching the latest kerfuffle I know what Bielema was complaining about. There was no reason for South Carolina to have forty guys huddled up on the field near the injured Illini player.

I think I know what Bielema was 'taunting about'. He was going across the field to check on his injured player and while doing so in the break in the action, basically the whole South Carolina team was out in the field with Beemer addressing them. Bielema was upset with that and having to walk around South Carolina to get to his player so he was giving a repeated signal to South Carolina the signal the refs give for injured players.

Bret Bielema and Shane Beemer getting into it. Bielema taunted Beemer and then Beemer pulled a fake tough guy routine.

Illinois up 7-3 on South Carolina at half.

high tide

Bama goes down. Jalen Milroe's stock had to take a real hit today.

79.7% Michigan on ESPN going into the two-minute warning.

Going to come down if they keep pressure on Milroe.

Michigan with three straight gut runs. Ugh. Alabama will get the ball back with a little more than two minutes left and two time outs

19-13 Michigan, five minutes remaining. Michigan set to receive the kickoff.

Michigan up 9, 7:21 left

Would be sweet for Michigan to beat Alabama and Illinois to beat South Carolina later.

Big stop for Michigan. Take over on their own 34 up 6, 12:38 left.

Michigan would be pretty good if they had ANY type of quarterback.

Bailed out by undisciplined Alabama -- Alabama coach runs over female ref on the sidelines after the sack and multiple Alabama players run on to the field as well over a freaking sack int he third quarter. Sideline interference, Alabama penalty.

Pretty much every song on the Cheap Trick Live at Budoken would qualify. I'm not even a big Cheap Trick fan but they really captured the concert experience on that album. But I'll go with Take Hold of the Flame by Queensryche from their Japan tour. Not sure how Geoff Tate hit that note at 1:14.

I don’t know what rumor you heard about Ballo but Woody said his coaches would get together to ‘talk about the Ballo situation’ so it likely wasn’t an injury thing.

Further investigation -- Found his Twitter page. He transferred to Don Bosco for the 23-24 season for his senior season, so it looks like he was not a post grad transfer. First D1 offer was in January of 2024 from Incarnate Word (please no Tim Priller jokes, LOL). Received an offer from the University of Detroit in March of 2024 and then Central Michigan in April of 2024. Don't know the case, but I am guessing he wanted to hold out for better offers and decided to come back to Bosco as a post grad for another year to see what he could get. Looks like he visited Wisconsin in November of this year but does not look like he has an offer at this point.