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Don't recall asking if you did.

Kaner lights the lamp on the 2 on 1! Chicago 1, Tampa Bay 0. (Sorry, switched to the Blackhawks game at halftime.)

I bet if Freddie stood under the basket, with nobody guarding him, and shot 10 layups -- he'd miss 5.

Nice, uh, pass there by Durham.

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.

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.

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!

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

IU 34 Rutgers 14

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.

Funny, after that RoJo layup, Gus said "Here come the Hoosers." About 45 seconds later, we're down by 17.

So excited by our play in the first half. The second? Not so much.

16 TOs and we still got 9 minutes left. Ish!