LamarCheeks

I remember when he left IU. Rick Pitino said he asked Richard (already at Minnesota) to recommend an assistant. Richard recommended Kenny, and then Rick hired him off IU's staff. I always thought there was something unseemly about that. A B1G coach recommends that another coach -- in a different conference -- raid a conference competitor's staff. That just reeked of tampering to me. Or if not tampering, something very sleazy.

Sort of a poll question ... I read that Rick Pitino says he's open to coaching again. I'm thinking NBA or D-League or something? I would think he will likely end up with a show-cause penalty for college. So, I'm curious: Who gets a new coaching gig first -- Tom Crean or Rick Pitino?

Cream & Crimson 77 Red Wolves 60

Yes, I realize that. But thank you. He already had signed with IU when he got hurt. But before that, IU and Evansville were pretty much the only schools on him.

And remember, Calbert Cheaney wasn't that highly regarded coming out of high school. Nobody who's ever played B1G men's basketball has scored more points.

How 'bout somebody get in front of him and take a charge!

These boys don't eat enough. They're hoarding all the turnovers.

Panchot punches it in. Sweet move.

Hoosiers 73 Bulls 63

A strong first half so far against Detroit -- 7 carries, 88 yards, 1 TD. Just took it in from 12 yards.

Oh, man -- that defender just kept us from a 2-0 lead.

That's in the net!

Yep. Brickie Bowl is the No. 6 all-time high school stadium in the history of the world! http://www.espn.com/highschool/rise/football/news/story?id=3653316

My mother taught me if I can't say anything nice that I shouldn't say anything. ... When I was in grade school, my high school played in its first state title game. We lost to Columbus East and the late Blair Kiel. We were without our best running back and our best two-way lineman, and our quarterback played with a broken hand (not that I'm blaming injuries or anything -- LOL!). I was heartbroken!

RIP, Malcolm Young. We salute you. ... And to make this relevant to this thread, we salute the IU seniors playing in their final home game today.

At last IPFW players went to class and did schoolwork ...

I just noticed Man Bun doesn't have a man bun anymore. Man, it sure would be nice to see him chuckin' 3s for the Hoosiers. Hopefully under Archie, guys like that don't get away anymore.

Yeah, but it's kinda fun!

Old Dominion 62, Indiana State 44. So that clearly means ODU would be a 37-point favorite over us. I live about 15 minutes from ODU. Yikes!

I live in Virginia -- not too far from ODU, in fact. The last time we played a smaller Virginia school in the NCAA playoffs, I ran my mouth off about how we were gonna kick a** and take names and how there was no way the opponent could even compete with us. And what happened? Radford eliminated us from the NCAA baseball tourney. So this time, I'm keeping my yapper shut -- other than to say I hope we win and move on to the third round. And that I hope we don't have another game like against PSU and Bucky in the B1G tourney -- in which we dominate, but really struggle to score. I hope we play more like we did against OSU! Go Hoosiers!

And Temple just beat Auburn by 14, so that means Temple would beat us by 54.

IU 34 Rutgers 14

Is Sunday's match streamed or televised anywhere?

This is just my opinion, and I'm sure I'll get hammered for it. But frankly, I don't give a damn. Bashing the officials is pretty weak, and such a Purdue thing to do. The truth is, we got our tails kicked tonight. Poor officiating is in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure if there are Seton Hall boards, their fans would have as many complaints as we do. I remember the season before we had the No. 1 team most of the season. We went up to Purdue, were tied with about 5-6 minutes left, then just blew them out of the gym. Won by 17 or something like that. It was our first win over the PUs in a while and I was stoked. Then I saw a handful of my relatives (I'm from a half IU-PU family), put crap on facebook and send emails and texts about how the officials blew the game for the Toiletmakers. Really honked me off. Complaining about the refs ... I don't know, it's just so damn whiny.

Three guys going at the guy going in for the layup. And nobody boxes out. Yikes.