RaceToTheTop

On the floor???

So much for the change in front court rotation we heard about. FItzner, Davis, McRoberts give us ******* nothing and they still play.

Jerome Hunter, Damezi Anderson, and Robert Phinissee are all good shooters. One is hurt and out for the season, one is shooting 45% from the three but is on concussion protocol, and the third is having problems getting on the court because of reasons other than his ability to shoot. I'm not sure where the 'Archie isn't recruiting shooters' is coming from. And I'd say Durham's leap in his perimeter game has been incredible.

Positives: 7 turnovers. +3 rebounding. Fans complained for years about our inability to get the ball into the post. We went there relentlessly in the second half today. Hung in a game where we outmanned on the road against a top 5 team that was lights out in the first 10 minutes. Negatives: Still need a third scorer. Bench scoring is nonexistent. Slow start. Food for thought: Michigan played very well at home and won by 11. They had 3.....3.....turnovers. I would argue they should have had a few more (couple of charge calls not made as well as a couple of travels) but overall I thought the refs were okay today -- nothing out of the ordinary on the road.

There is something to be said for having 51-150 guys who stick for four years.

Yeah, I didn't see anything from him that says he should be getting more time. Really wish Hunter or Thompson were able to be getting minutes. Fitzner hasn't been good, but Moore looks lost.

Wow....looked like a clean block.

If Damezi played any kind of defense right now, he'd be getting those minutes. He'll come around.

80% ? I wish he was a free throw.

Seemed like it started in about the last ten minutes of the half.

IU has only 5 turnovers after 29 minutes. Michigan has 3.

I have no idea what a charge is anymore. Not sure what else Durham could have done a couple of possessions ago.

I'd say there is zero chance of UCLA hiring Pitino. UCLA fired Jim Harrick just a season after he won s title for lieing on an expense report. Pit in o's transgressions go waayyy beyond that. Pitino furthered condemned himself by suing Louisville after being fired. Schools stay sway from coaches who fo things liks that.

Yeah, I'm not sure what he was supposed to do in that circumstance....doubled in the backcourt, he can either pick up the dribble or try to find someone open. No one came to the ball. So the turnover looks like it's on him, but someone is supposed to flash to center court.

Win. On to the next game. I have yet to see a win I would return. Bottom line, we are a top 20ish team. I'm expecting around a 11-9 Big Ten record, 20-11 overall. And I'm sure if that's our final record some will talk about how we faded down the stretch instead of the schedule simply got very tough. We are 3-0 in the conference against three of the teams near the bottom. Thing is.....that's the best that you can be in three games against three teams at the bottom. Guarantee there will be teams in the conference that wish they had went 3-0 against this set.

Oh, I don't disagree. My problem with the current testing is that because its still just in its state of infancy: 1. There are tons of false positives resulting from the tests. 2. Players will take note of the # of false positives and which makes them less likely to report concussion symptoms. For instance, in my son's case, he dropped a heavy cooler on his head one day after practice. Had a really bad headache that night, but chose not to report it.....felt that if he did and didn't have a concussion, it would still have prevented him from playing for quite a while because of the difficulty he had in passing it in the first place. Everything turned out to be fine and there weren't any signs of concussion after that, but I think it demonstrates an unintended consequence that comes when the safety precautions do err so far on the side of safety.

I think getting out of Fort Wayne helped.

Yes, and I didn't say it was of zero importance, just that it wasn't taken as much. Not a surprise that a team doesn't get the overall #1 after a loss. But the committee does have a history of locking teams into seeds despite the result of their conference championship when the title game ends close to the selection time

Honestly, I think that Phinissee being out is probably good reason to have Langford, Green, and Durham have limited minutes together as we are short at the guard position. I'm not really that concerned about Green's performance as others are and Durham has certainly stepped his game up from last year. I'd like to see some of our big men get more court time and go with a more traditional two guard line up with Rob out.

A lot were short and long term memory tests. Part of it had him receiving a list of words quickly and then stating which of those words were on that list when words were flashed on a computer for sixty seconds. The long term memory tests had him recall that same set of words after about ten minutes. The funny thing was he pretty much always passed the long term test -- I believe he was allowed to miss one on that and still pass -- but he struggled with the short term test. One mistake and you failed. I found the test online and tried it and I did pass, but I had a coworker try it and he failed one of the tests. I know this was a new test that the IU extension was using -- they had used a different test previously. I have no idea if IU Bloomington is using the same test.

They discuss comparison of baseline concussion in this document. If this test is similar to the one my son took (don't know if it was), then they are comparing it one where the player achieved a certain score.....but might not truly be the player's baseline. My son's baseline score isn't what he initially took (and again, totally non-concussed) as he didn't score the minimum needed to pass it for a multiple attempts.....the baseline score they use for him is not really his baseline.

My son is a freshman playing tennis at an IU extension. Everyone had to start the year by taking a baseline test.....don't score the minimum, and you can't play until you pass. He was allowed to take it twice per day....and it took him three days before he finally passed it. Several other athletes had to take it multiple times as well. The concussion protocol really errs on the side of caution. I know that in my son's case (albeit, he's a little bit different case as he had childhood epilepsy and his brain functions a little differently), if he were to ever actually get a concussion I can't fathom how long it would take him to pass concussion protocol.

IMHO, I never really count conference tournament championships more than anything as extra wins. The committee has shown they really do much with them in terms of seeding.

Ask fans at Iowa their opinion of Alford. Ask UCLA fans. Think about this: Indiana fans were obviously very brutal to Mike Davis.....and when he came back a couple of years ago as a visiting coach, he was given a very warm reception. Steve Alford will never receive that reception at Iowa or UCLA. If you don't advance the program OR demonstrate positive traits as an individual, people remember that. Alford is welcome back at Missouri State and New Mexico because he exceeded their expectations in terms of wins....he didn't do that at Iowa and UCLA. If you do that AND you are demonstrate low character, the fan base has no use for you (rightly so).

In my case....I'm 50 and have zero use for Dakich and Alford. Knight was a great coach but a flawed man and at this point in my life I want to look forward and not back. Knight has chosen to keep himself distanced from IU so I don't spend much time hoping for someone to come back that has openly rejected olive branches.