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Bears finally get a franchise QB and he goes to play basketball at Minnesota instead...

Watch out for flying elbows!

Looks like Ballo played about 25 minutes per game for Arizona last season. Malik was at 28 per game for IU. That surprises me, it felt like he was constantly in foul trouble.

If Woodson can bring in one more outside shooting threat, a capable backup center to spell Ballo and Reneau when he gets in foul trouble half the time, and MM takes the freshman to sophomore jump we see many kids take this team should be competing for a Big Ten Title. The guard play should be so much better and that makes all the difference in the world of college basketball. It didn’t happen often the last couple seasons but whenever X had a good game the team played much better. I expect we see a lot of that out of Rice but much more consistently.

Isn’t this what happened with Caleb Love last offseason before Love wound up at Arizona?

I'd have no problem with adding Essegian. We all know the team needs to improve 3 point shooting and he has proven in the past that he can do that in the Big Ten.

Who will be on campus this weekend during Little 500? I'm having a little trouble keeping track of everything.

I graduated in 2010 and I remember it being the weekend of 4/20 at least once. I think one year it got pushed back a week because of a later easter/passover that year.

I wonder how many of Kentucky’s current roster/incoming recruits follow Cal to Arkansas. Cupboard might be left pretty bare for Pope year 1 in Lexington.

Some kids just fly under the radar. What was Vic rated before he came to IU?

It might be, but Ballo is also a heck of a college player so I would have no issues adding him to the team if he wanted to come to IU. Also, he is a terrible free throw shooter so he will fit right in.

Anyone have any idea where Cream Abdul Jabbar could be transferring to?

Possibly MgBako's spot too. That would leave us with Leal, Cupps, Reneau, Galloway, and Newton as returning scholarship players.

Well then that's just dumb then unless you are getting Reneau or X a layup. Ware had great position but definitely possible he did that on his own as opposed to how Woodson drew the play up.

I just watched the play again. The play was clearly drawn up for Ware, he had his defender pinned down low and Malik just didn't pass him the ball and instead forced up a tough shot.

He did go 2-1 in the BTT tournament 2 years ago. He’s now 4-2 in it.

We also blew two games where we had late leads against good teams. Home against Kansas and at Illinois were both very winnable games and we just couldn't get the job done.

Crazy thing is if we had finished the comeback against Northwestern last month, IU would have been in a 3 way tie for 4th and had the tiebreakers over them and Wisconsin. That's how weak the Big Ten is this season. This bad IU team was a close 4 point loss away from having a double bye.

With Northwestern’s win over Minnesota tonight I believe IU now officially avoids playing on Wednesday in the Big Ten Tournament. Can still be anywhere between the 6-10 seed at the moment.

I like Tonsoni he always tells it like it is. Is Jerod Morris on too? He seems like a great guy but he’s always making excuses for the team when things go wrong. He’s definitely a glass half full person when it comes to IUBB.

If I am understanding correctly, I think getting blow out so many times is hurting the NET a lot. Most of IU's losses have been by large margins.

If they had done that last year we probably would have landed Dalton Knecht, in the top 3 of the conference, and nobody would be talking about Woody losing his job.

I'd be surprised if he went to Duke after asking out of his LOI there last spring

Can't imagine Banks sticking around. I actually forgot he was on the team until he got subbed into the game in the final minute last night. Crazy that he was getting some playing time in the tournament last season and making some nice hustle plays for us. When he was playing a littler earlier this year he looked like he had no idea what sport he was playing.

It's almost as if the media and "insiders" made the story to be more than it was. Woodson wasn't going anywhere, IU just only announced he was coming back next year to put an end to the rumors. In a year or two he will ride off into the sunset on his terms which was always the plan.