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Forrester with the bucket!

It could very well be that Phinisee is OK, but that he's just being kept out just as a precaution -- and because we should be able to get by without him tonight.

It's not for a lack of trying!!! LOL!

I was gonna say that I thought Justin was playing much smarter and under control and hadn't made a mistake tonight -- but I checked his stats and he does have a turnover. Don't remember it. But he's 5 for 5 from the floor, so at least he's taking smart shots.

Didn't like the result, but loved Romeo's aggressiveness. Want to see more of that.

If Green and a teammate were the only two players on the court and they were 5 feet apart, Green would still find a way to throw it away. Instead of a simple two-handed pass right to the fella, he'd try to go between the legs, behind the back, over the head or do a cartwheel while trying to pass.

For once (OK, maybe two or three or four or five or six times), I would love the turnover talk to be about how we're doing a better job of taking care of the ball instead of the same old sh-- about how we lead the free world in miscues.

Durham traveled, but he made up for it by throwing the ball away on the next possession.

Hoosiers 83 Da Bears 61

When Terry was at the Indy Star, he was my go-to guy for IU updates. Hoping there will be good news on this front. I'm no doctor or police officer, but from the article posted, it almost sounded as if he might have had a medical issue before the accident. Whatever the case, will be thinking of and praying for him and his family. I hope he's back covering the Hoosiers soon.

If the Toiletmaker fans still around were indeed chanting “IU sucks,” what better way to shut their damn pieholes than for the Lafayette kid to hit the winner right in front of them!!!

I’m damn sick and tired of losing every 50-50 ball. Show some fire! Go after it hard!!!

Do we not have anyone who can shoot the basketball?!

Wonder where he's getting this. It makes sense that at this point, Hunter would redshirt. But I haven't seen this anywhere else.

Whoops. Feeney just got called for a key tripping penalty against the Chiefs. He's not helping the Chargers in their attempts to keep Patrick Mahomes off the field.

And if you've seen the "30 for 30" on Calipari, he essentially says he views his job as sending guys to the NBA. Not winning conference or NCAA titles or seeing that kids get an education, but getting them to the NBA. I guess a big part of me is still clinging to an ideal that might no longer be relevant, but I don't think that's what college basketball is all about. And I'd want no part of a coach like that.

I also remember reading something -- though I can no longer find it -- that there was very serious mutual interest between us and Mark Few (this was after the resignation/firing of Sampson). As I recall, Few either agreed to take the job or was very close to doing so before changing his mind. He's obviously a great basketball mind and has had success against some of the top programs, but I can't help but wonder how he'd fare in a Power Five league -- where you're facing pretty good competition night in and night out. There's a big difference in facing Michigan State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Purdue, Ohio State, Maryland every game as opposed to facing Pacific, Saint Mary's, San Diego, Santa Clara, Portland, etc.

I heard that interview and recall him saying this. It was one of the strangest things I've ever heard a coach say. To this day, I still don't understand what he meant. Was he serious about hiring a PR firm, or was he just spitballing? ... Did he want advertisements and posters saying "Come on out to the games, but be warned: We're not gonna be very good." or "From Big Ten champs to middle of the pack: Meet your 2013-14 Hoosiers." ... You should never want to lower expectations! ... And as you said, the loss of talent was on him. I can't imagine that Vic or Cody leaving were big surprises. And if they were, that's on him, too -- for not being very aware of what's going on in his own program. ... To me, him saying something like that was exactly the reason a change was needed. The lowest bar we should set is to make the NCAAs every year. There are 68 teams, and if we're not in that field 90 percent of the time, there's a problem.

I thought it was about the right time. I started getting worried after we had the best team in the country and got waxed by a totally inferior Syracuse team in the NCAAs -- and all because Crean was terrified of, and had no idea how to attack, that 2-3 zone. Anybody with some decent coaching chops could've taken that team at least to the the Final Four. And then "The Movement" was a total failure and after that, the state's top talent wouldn't even consider us. Still, I was willing to ride it out a little -- especially after we won the B1G regular-season title in 2016. But going from No. 3 in the country to a first-round NIT exit was kinda the last straw -- at least to me. It was proof positive that it was time for a change. We had gone as high as we were gonna go under Crean. And besides, he was making way, way too much money for the kind of performances we were seeing. For as much money as he was making, the NCAAs should've been a given every year -- with an excellent chance to make the Sweet 16 and a decent chance to make the Final Four. One argument I would make for an earlier exit was that we missed out on Brad Stevens. At any point when he's at Butler, I think if we fire Crean and offer him the job, he takes it. And not to sound arrogant, but I think if he were here, he wouldn't leave for the NBA. As far as the move coming too early, I can't see any argument backing that. If we truly wanted Archie, I can almost guarantee you that if we didn't hire him when we did, Ohio State would have.

I wonder: If Calipari actually ever gets caught by the NCAA, would they go ahead and remove him a second time?

Am I the only one who's really interested to the Tyson-Douglas 30-for-30 tonight? For some reason, I remember exactly where I was when I found out the great and mighty Tyson lost. I was in school, just about to leave Nick's after a few cold ones. I think SportsCenter was on in the background, and I asked the barkeep -- sorta tongue in cheek -- who won the Tyson fight. He said: "Not Tyson." I said: "Yeah, right." He said: "No, I'm serious." I said: "C'mon?" He said: "No. The other guy kicked his @$$." I said: "Seriously?" He said: "No joke." These days, as I've learned more about it and look back on it, it's almost kinda disappointing Buster didn't do more. The guy was really talented. But his heart wasn't in it, and he was, for a lack of a better word, lazy. I think if he trained for Holyfield the way he did for Tyson, he'd have kicked Holyfield's @$$, too. But he essentially collected his millions and rode off into the sunset. In a way, I guess you can't blame him. But still, all that potential ... just kinda wasted.

Hoosiers 70 Bulldogs 65 We haven't hit 70 since beating UC Davis. We've got to break out at some point, right? I think this is the time. (BTW, I base this on no factual evidence. It's just a gut feeling -- and If you've seen my gut lately, you'd believe it).

The article says he was in Carmel. A northern Indy suburb. 10-4 -- I must've missed that part ... I know Carmel. When I was in junior high, my high school lost to Carmel for the fooball state title. Plus, I have relatives in Noblesville. ... For some reason, I was thinking Eric had returned to Chicago and was living up there.