LamarCheeks

I didn't necessarily believe it. ... I recall the day this board exploded because we were supposedly hiring Donovan, and was just curious if anybody had heard any rumors that financials were the reason it didn't happen. My guess is that if he's doing OK in the NBA, why on earth return to college and have to deal with trying to recruit a bunch of entitled 16- and 17- and 18-year olds.

I got rooked into joining an IU basketball page on Facebook. Someone just wrote a Dear Fred Glass, you suck kinda post. But he went on to say we had Donovan, but Fred was too cheap to pony up for his assistants. Anybody ever hear anything like that? For one, I'm not convinced he would've been the right person for us. For two, I have a hard time believing at this point in his career, he'd have any interest in going back to a college program.

If we play with the kind of effort against Michigan that we had in the last 10 minutes tonight, we actually might come within 10-15 points of the Wolverines.

Refs coulda easily bailed Rob out with a foul there. Lots of contact. More than on some of the fouls on us.

Breaks just aren't going our way tonight and the men with the whistles aren't helping (and believe me, I hate when our fans complain about officiating): What the hell was that kick call on Aljami? After the dunk, Pardon hung on the rim -- and he wasn't in any danger of injury. That coulda easily been a T. That last play, all Durham did was stood his ground. Very ticky-tack call. I know I'm grasping ...

Justin -- catch the ball and make the bucket! Jeezus.

I hate to be one to complain about calls, but I think that was a clean block by Justin.

Two of my sidekicks have completely lost interest in this game ...

We actually have opportunities to chip away at this lead, but we're just running down court, chucking it up and not even trying for an offensive rebound.

I think their past six buckets are 3-pointers.

12 points in 4 possessions.

NW has nine points on its past three possessions.

Crean's first IU team might be better than this!

The color analyst: "Indiana needs to get back to what they are offensively." My question: Just exactly what are we offensively?

I'm almost starting to feel like this his high school ball in reverse. Minnesota vs. Michigan was varsity and us against N'Western is the JV game. We shoulda played first.

Blackmon on McBob would be the perfect matchup. Blackmon can't guard and McBob won't shoot. It would be the resistible force vs. the movable object.

I've read it on here dozens of times, but just for the hell of it, I'm gonna repeat it: If McBob isn't gonna shoot, he shouldn't be out there.

Big Cliff with the block!!

Ftiz!!!

My bad -- that wasn't McBob's fault on the missed box out. He had his man.

Box out, McBob!

Sweet move from Aljami

With all he has going on with his shot, not sure if Justin will ever be a decent shooter. Helluva athlete, though. Needs to take more advantage of that.

1 possession. 1 turnover. Here we go again.

Got a crock put full of chili that's been brewing all day. Got me a couple ice-cold beers. Am ready for some Hoosiers hoops. (Don't have a very good feeling about this one, though. Not only are we short-handed, but we are because a player, essentially, got booted from the team. This can bring the lads together or further their spiral. Based on what I've seen this season, my bet's on the latter. Hope I'm wrong, though ...)