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To bad but rather lose him then a player obviously;). My guess is they will have a student do it just like they had Austin Render take over baseball from Greg Murray last couple years. Maybe they give Austin both sports now or possibly another media student. They all do a solid job and I support whoever calls the game.

Very replicable. Decent substitute, but guys like him are a dime a dozen. The bottom line is of the guy's we need back, Glass is the special player and the one we needed of the four seniors and got him. Black is also a dime a dozen guy. Palazzolo (who has all but said he is leaving) is the next best in the senior group but also flawed. He is a terrific hustler and very fast, but often gets ahead of himself and tries to play quicker than his body allows and can miss easy goals and passes as a result at times. Time for Coleman Gannon, Emerson Nieto and Kyle Folds to step up in mid who have much higher ceiling and are high ranked recruits this year and last. If they can be what they are capable, we may be best team in country or close to it. Only other big decision is Bezerra. MLS draft is not until winter, but he could sign is a free agent and is very much ready to do so. If he goes, Wittenbrink is the guy and there will be a drop off. If we want to be a top team with a legit shot at a title, we need Bezerra back (very questionable) and Celantano (I think he comes back) as well. We may lose Sessock as well on D, but that's not overly concerning as they have been grooming Lawson Redmon and still have Maher, Munie and Beebej who are among the best in the business and D should be tough as nails like usual.

My dream is to have Smith take Dan Held's spot which would be a truly All-Star staff. One can dream and it would never happen, but that would really give IU a heads up with Mercer as head coach and Justin Parker and Tracy Smith as assistants. Three head coaching type people on one staff:).

Can we have him back? We still don't know enough about Mercer and absolutely no way you can fire him right now nor should we, but would love to bring Tracy back somehow in someway which is not possible right now. If one of the assistants leaves (which if Held or Simmons want to go or are fired my feelings would not be hurt) maybe he can have that job for a year but obviously not going to happen. Wish ASU had done this right after we lost Lemonis and Smith came back, but obviously Sun Devils not working on our schedule:).

Nebraska just took Arkansas who is best team in country to an elimination game tomorrow for the Regional Championship. If that does not prove once and for all they are best team in Big Ten I don't know what does. Deepest pitching staff (although their 2 and 3 starters are not always good) with depth to go all the way and best offense in conference. Does not excuse IU not finishing second and taking Maryland's spot in NCAA Tournament (No excuse to lose Illinois and first Maryland game which is what kept us out and put them in), but Nebraska was far and away best team in Big Ten and I thought so all year and earned the conference championship. There is a reason the Huskers were several games ahead of everyone and it was a muddy mess for the few spots behind them. Congrats to Cornhuskers for representing Big Ten.

Mercer very well could be different and I really hope he is. I am just pointing out it has not gone great for Wright State coaches outside of Wright St. Doesn't mean Mercer will not be fantastic here which is certainly possible. Merely telling what has happened previously.

Here is what scares me to death about Mercer is that everyone wins at Wright State and then have been either mediocre or horrible at a better job. It started with Rob Cooper who went to PSU and has been nothing short of pathetic after winning at Wright State. Granted no one wins at PSU and they have been a bottom feeder in the Big Ten with one tournament appearence in nearly 50 years. Next lets talk about Greg Lovelady who won even bigger than Cooper at Wright State. Lovelady has done far better at Central Florida then Cooper has done at PSU. However, he only has one NCAA Tournament in four years (like Mercer it was his first season) there and has finished near .500 in other three years. The guy Lovelady replaced is Terry Rooney who had a better run that his successor. Rooney made two regionals and had two other winning seasons where they just missed in seven years. Rooney replaced a guy who won very big but was forced out for improprieties. So basically Lovelady has been weaker than the previous two coaches. Alex Sogard the current coach at Wright State has come in for Mercer and kept right on winning. Obviously its way to early in Mercer's tenure to say much, but it is important to note that the last two Wright State coaches who got bigger jobs before him are not doing great. As I have said Mercer deserves plenty of time to fix the issues with hitting this year, but it does worry me that the last two Raider coaches have had little success after moving on but hoping for the best.

Have to assume we will have full slate of non conference also or we would of played several teams twice like this year. The fact we are down to once obviously means this is Big Ten only and we will have regional rivals back on schedule like Notre Dame, Butler, UK and maybe Evansville and whoever else we add. Will be nice change to play non-conference again.

I agree, but we should of had plenty of other big innings against those pitchers. You can't strikeout and look befuddled against guys with double digit ERA's or you don't deserve a title. Ask the coaching staff and I am sure they will tell you and believe in truth that their hitting cost them the game, not that call. There is a different between executing better and massively failing to hit the worst pitchers in the Big Ten. When that type of hitting happens against that staff you don't deserve a title. Its that simple.

Agreed, but I still think you absolutely have to do better off that pitching staff and that call never should of mattered. When you score two runs off those pitchers you deserve what you get regardless of that call. If that happens this weekend, we can complain a little more when runs are hard to come by. However, if this game is the difference in winning the title we can look at Jeremy Houston and our horrible batting against THAT pitching as reasons we lost. Not the call. Horrific and replay needs to be added, but there are many other things to look at before that play on why we lost.

Horrible call but the fact you could not score more than two runs on that pitching staff is what could cost us Big Ten Championship. Yes it cost us one run, but we should of had a lot more than a couple runs in the game against literally the worst pitchers in the Big Ten. We looked befuddled at the plate by guys with double digit ERA's. I absolutely think there should be instant replay for things like this, but we have no one but ourselves to blame given the Houston error and the plate approach. Never should of come down to this. Period. If that call happened Friday and we lose 3-2 to Povich than you can blame the umps, but against that pitching that call never should of mattered.

I don't think that precludes you from getting drafted. He could very well come to IU in end, but if he is drafted I don't believe him signing his letter here stops him from going to pro's. It more gives him option to do either. Will be harder to get drafted with only 20 rounds though.

No sorry. Just heard he is close but no timeframe has been given to me unfortunately.

Not disagreeing, but this seems to be mostly a Big Ten thing, since they started the policy of no fans and when they left it up to schools halfway through the season, all but three of them left the family/friends restrictions in place to this day. I blame the Big Ten for not letting schools set the policies from the beginning like other conferences. If they had done this, more schools might have changed. To say halfway through the spring season it is OK to let fans in, makes it a little harder to change on fly and many schools did not.

Right now every Big Ten team outside of Iowa, Nebraska and Purdue are family and friends only just like IU (theoretically Rutgers "opened it up" to 500 people this weekend but only family and friends showed up). Every other Big Ten school is doing exactly what IU is doing including Michigan and Maryland where we finish season. A family friend drove past MSU this weekend and their baseball game would not let him in as a fan. It really sucks and they probably should let some fans in now, but just realize the vast majority of Big Ten schools are doing exactly what IU is doing still.

It won't matter pitching wise which is big thing. Illinois has no good pitchers. The issue is our bullpen and how we play it and we need to throw decent guys against their offense. Hopefully like three innings each of Mudungo, Bothwell and Tucker will be sufficient and will make everyone available each weekend in between as planned. We have terrific pitching depth. Just unfortunate to have to use it against Illinois and their offense. Biggest thing is we may need it to not lose Big Ten by 1/2 game to Nebraska after their win today. Better to play it before 4 game weekend then after and those were the choices. Not a great situation but this is probably best we can do and just hope we win high scoring game (I have zero doubt we won't put up 5-10 runs on their bullpen given they don't even pitch well on weekends, but key is not giving up more than we score).

This could or worse thing to happen to us depending on how schedule plays out with Nebraska's win today. There is a decent chance we will need that win to wrap up Big Ten Title if we split the two Nebraska games. What scares me is this is the type of game Illinois is at the greatest equalizer against us. They cannot pitch worth a lick which is why we beat them twice, but they have the offense to beat anyone. Our best starters are far better than theirs for a weekend series, but a one off where both teams are using bullpen guys should even it up. We will put a ton of runs on them is this makeup almost certainly, but the key is them not getting to back of our bullpen and losing like 10-8 or something.

Even with family attendance has not been bad. Also, only Purdue and Ohio St allowing fans in right now and everyone else doing family and friends in Big Ten, so we are far from only ones not opened to public yet.

Almost, its 8-4 with 5 points left when the Tennis competition is taken into account correcctly. Need 1/2 point more to tie and a point to win.

Men's Tennis was not postponed. IU won 4-0 so add a half point: https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2021/3/13/mens-tennis-hoosiers-blank-boilermakers-4-0.aspx (teams play again later this year). Also Women's Tennis is only half point for PU as they play again next weekend (but IU will probably lose so it will go back to whole point. Here are the results for this year per PU, its 8-4 not 7.5-4.5 when you fix the Tennis issue: https://purduesports.com/sports/2018/9/27/2018-19-governors-cupresults.aspx

Wrong IPFW game. This one was Crean's final yr at Fort Wayne. The one we lost was at home the year after under Archie.

Coach Moren is not everyone's cup off tea. She is a Coach Knight light in personality and an absolutely brilliant basketball mind. The ones who love her really do, but she rubs some the wrong way and is hot headed which leads to a lot of transfers (Knight had a ton for this reason). Ultimately, though the ones who stick around are better for it and think she is the greatest, just like the players who like Knight think he is. Every once in a while a Penn or a Yeaney will transfer, but for the most part the good players stay around and it is well worth it to them as evidence by Patberg committing to a seventh yr. Don't worry about the transfers. The entire bench might transfer and outside of Browne and maybe Price you literally lose nothing. I also wouldn't be surprised to see Moren get some good transfers herself from the portal which she has used very successfully.

Great season! As I was afraid of depth caught up with us. When starters play 35+ min because you have zero bench, eventually you get tired legs as happened last 5 min. We need Berger to be able to develop her three point shot. She is killer from mid-range, but if she could only become just as strong from a few feet further back, she could develop a truly deadly inside-outside combo with Holmes. Expectations have now changed, but don't be surprised if we become similar to Iowa as a top half Big Ten team that gets to the tourney ever year and occasionally makes a Sweet 16 or Elite 8. Even if we run this back next year, there is no guarantee we get this far as tourney takes a lot of luck. This program feels like it is solid to be similar to IU baseball as an upper tier Big Ten team that makes tourney every year. From there anything can happen. Don't expect us to be making regular Final Four runs, but to be like Iowa and for Teri Moren to become as successful as Lisa Bluder would be amazing. Thanks for a fantastic season and its the most enjoyable I have had for an IU team of any kind since 2014 baseball (I expect soccer to have the elite seasons they do so I place them in a different category).

As was mentioned earlier no IU team in Basketball since 2002 has been this far. I knew we could be in trouble when Holmes fouled out, but thank god we held on. For Cardano-Hillary as a 50% FT shooter to step up and nail both those FT's was something and was most important play of game. Arizona is next and they certainly are not as good as NC State and very much on level with an Iowa/Michigan type team so should be a thriller that hopefully IU can win. After that, I fear Baylor or especially UConn is a bridge to far, but even getting to Final Four would be something (for the record I thought NC State was possible and only one seed we had chance against). Go Hoosiers!

Nope she has a 10 million dollar claws in her contract that prevents her from going to PU (OSU is welcome to put same clause in contract for Holtman if they wanted). PU just hired Katie Gearlds a former alum and player as their new coach anyways today who was very successful, but only coached at NAIA level. Can you imagine if IU did that (and yes PU women are the equivalent of IU men as a once proud program now struggling)? Everyone needs to calm down and see what happens. No harm in reaching out to people and trying. I see no problem in what is happening until we see who is named.