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I was about to say something about how can we compete in Big Ten if struggling with this WKU team? Than I looked and realized they are actually a really good team coming off a 27-7 season and have already beat a ranked Mizzou team and playing reasonably well against an elite Notre Dame team (not to mention we lost to them last year and were still decent). I should of used my own trick which especially works at the Mid-Major level that generally if a school is strong in Football or Basketball it usually spreads across other sports and WKU has had a pretty good run in their conference in football last few years. I'll leave analysis to others as I don't follow Women's Basketball quite like Baseball and Soccer but I am fairly familiar and see IU has an extremely tough non conference schedule.

I take back what I said about Seton Hall looking like a Crean team. They certainly have some Crean tendencies but they actually adjusted at the half and made the changes they needed which is not something Crean did well. With all that said this rebuild is going to take a bit longer than we thought but this is the first game you saw the team battle somewhat a provide a glimmer of hope.

Anyone feel like Seton Hall looks exactly like a Crean coached team? Between their sloppiness, inability to finish at the basket and forgetting to constantly throw the ball inside to Delgado as much as they should this is everything we as fans jumped on Crean for. Let's hope they have the same issue Crean had with halftime adjustments. With that said very proud of the way IU fought and clawed that half and feel a bit better now about where the season could head.

We are the only team to lose so far but tons of the other Big Ten teams have had closer calls than they should at home. PSU OSU, Maryland and Minny had similarly uncomfortable barely double digit wins against Campbell, Radford, Stony Brook and USC Upstate respectively. Illinois taken to wire by UT Martin, Rutgers taken to wire by Central Connecticut, Northwestern taken to wire by Loyola Maryland and Nebraska taken to wire by Eastern Illinois. It's going to be a long year and hopefully we can improve but we are not the only team struggling mightily with teams we shouldn't.

Oh I don't think they're connected at all really in this case. I just am saying to hear them say it out of their mouths instead of having it typed on here hits home for me more than ever that Darius may be going elsewhere

I have remained quiet on this but Assembly Call guys think the timing of the announcement is not a great sign for IU. Not sure if they are hearing anything but actual faces attached to a thought means more to me than what people on here are posting.

I know its been mentioned already but 6 Game mini packs and single game tickets are available for only games students are on break. Other games sold out via season tickets and can only be purchased on secondary market.

There it is. First shutout since 1993.

Worth noting: IU's last shutout was in 93 in Mallory Era. I know this team is terrible but given how many terrible teams we've played and not shutout this would be noteworthy.

I don't want you to disclose the name of the assistant because that is not fair but was the unnamed assistant someone on Curt Miller's staff or was he an assistant for a different sport at IU?

What connection do you have to the department to know this? I am not doubting you just curious. I've heard about the first part and that he was forced to resign for some kind of inappropriate behavior involving a male assistant but what you describe in the second part is completely new to me and not anything I have seen written anywhere.

Jeremy Price predicted correctly: Charleston Southern. He's already asked on twitter what we wins. LOL In all seriousness perfect scenario and exactly who we should of scheduled to replace one easy win with another.

I don't want to jump the gun but there is a chance Hurricane Jose make landfall this weekend in Georgia not to far from Statesboro where Georgia Southern is (no one seems to know what it will do and it could move harmlessly out to sea rendering this post moot) . It also looks like it will be a little weaker storm but is there a chance we could be cancelled another week due to an opponent being located near where a hurricane causes issues? Something to keep an eye on.

Per Greg Raekstraw Bethune Cookman scheduled to play at Florida Atlantic this week and likely to be called off. Bethune Cookman has mutual bye week on Oct 7 so assuming their game this weekend is cancelled that may be another option for an easy win potentially if Charleston Southern declines.

FCS Charleston Southern was cancelled for hurricane last weekend and bye on same weekend as us per Jeremy Price. Pay them whatever it takes and bring them here for an easy win.

I hope its an FCS team for two reasons. First is personal and I am on vacation that weekend and cannot watch. Also FIU was scheduled as an easy win so I would like another easy win to replace it (obviously FIU is FBS but they are bad so its pretty similar) not a Georgia Tech or any other tougher game that we could lose.

IU fan first as an alum but Butler a distant second for good reasons I will not share. Anyways this makes me sad not only because it hurts Butler but it could hurt IU depending on how Holtman does. At some point if Butler wants to be the program they think they can be they have to learn to hold onto their coaches especially now being in the Big East. Losing a coach to OSU tells me they still have a bit of a way to go to be the top tier program they are trying to be. Eventually they will get one of these hires wrong (as they nearly did with Brandon Miller) and it will not be good for them. Also what does it say when two very similar programs and conference rivals (Creighton and Xavier) had their coach turn down the job? Says Butler is a much longer way from the top than their fans and school thought.

No problem. Just making sure you understand how ticket distribution works at IU. Stub hub will generally have tickets up when season tickets get mailed in early fall and people start to post them there.

Is this a joke? All games sellout via season tickets except winter break games (whether students choose to go or not the seats are sold and not available for purchase). Unless IU drastically changes the way they sell tickets this year (and I guess never say never but don't hold your breath) no tickets for Duke or any other game with students in session will have tickets released for sale to the general public. I would check stub hub or some third party site but be prepared to pay very high price for this game or any other marquee game (you can fine some lower profile games fairly cheap on stubhub).

I remember she had a profanity laced tirade that made the headlines in 2013 and she was warned by Glass. I wonder if something similar happened that forced her 'resignation' or if this was strictly performance related. I'd believe either.

Completely agree. An example of a player who never should of been recruited in first place and Crean reached as he did here way to much. There is a huge differences between a borderline top 200 3 star (ala OG, Juwan, Oladipo Etc) and a low 2 star like Gelon and April or Priller. This was one of Crean's biggest problems is he thought he could unlock talent in everyone regardless of ability and didn't get the difference between an OG and a Gelon. There is a mountain of difference in unlocking talent between a 3 star and a 2 star and I'm not sure Crean understood that till the moment he was canned. Don't blame Gelon at all and wish him the best.

Priller is not an impact player in my definition of IU basketball no matter what but we can definitely agree to disagree there which is fine

Not saying I believe faceless message board posters but the post clearly said 'non impact' and McSwain does not met that criteria. Non impact would be Priller, Gelon or one of the walk on's I assume. McSwain clearly makes an impact.

Jerod Morris said on Assembly Call recording just now that he is hearing Rojo is coming back for sure (said it was 60-40 last week) and Johnson just tweeted the contradiction of what his dad said basically so he can announce it on his own terms soon. This is kind of what i figured.

Not sure I want Johnson back now. As much as I think he could help throwing your dad under the bus like that makes me question what kind of character he has and if he fits what Archie is trying to do. Stay tuned. Also worth noting his twitter account is now verified which generally only happens after one officially withdraws from college and is a draft prospect.