JerryYeagley23

UCONN has played Xavier. They are 0-16 in conference and 7-18 overall. How are they not quad 4??

If we’re really #5 in the NET, then it is flat out a flawed metric. We are 9-0 against ranked teams. UCONN is 5-3. LSU is 1-1. Stanford is 7-1, but they benefit from having four teams in conference ranked 16-25th. If UCONN benefits from a close loss to SC, they should be equally penalized for a close win (8 pts) over a 10-14 Georgetown team two games later. Same should be said about Stanford’s 3 pt. home win over 11-14 Oregon St. and loss to 13-11 Washington. Same for LSU’s 3 pt. win against last-place in conference 6-17 Tx A&M. I know it doesn’t matter, because we’re the consensus second best team in the nation. But to have a team at 25-1 with 9 wins against the top 25 (5 against the top 10) be fifth in a metric points to it not being a great metric.

I wish the voting was based on a more true definition of the words. If you’re just talking about the national (men’s basketball) player of the year it’s TJD all day. If you want to say Edey is the most dominant player, okay. Most valuable to his team. Maybe. Tallest. Yeah, he’s really big. But if you watch them both play, it’s very clear TJD is better at basketball and doing it in all kinds of different ways. Edey gets his statistics one-dimensionally. He’s the equivalent of the 600-lb hockey goalie IMO. Sure he’s effective. He’s a cheat code at 7’4”. But the domination Trayce is showing, with his passing out of the post, his blocked shots, his athleticism around the basket - he’s the better basketball player, and having the better season.

Although I actually think we could be a matchup nightmare for SC because they play too bigs that don’t like to defend outside the paint and we have shooters at 4 positions, I definitely don’t think there would be any shame losing to them in a national championship game. That being said, can someone help me understand what I’ve seen in the mock brackets? We are currently the consensus second best #1 seed. But in the brackets that puts us in the Greenville 2 region. SC is the number one overall seed in the Greenville 1 region. Would that mean we’d be set up to play them in the final four if seeds hold?? I understand wanting to keep teams closer to home and that being bette than going out West, but as the overall second best seed that would seem kind of unfair to have to face SC before the title game.

I love the announcers every game trying to say things like “they will have to keep hitting free throws to hang around IU.” Or “we’ve got a battle going on in Assembly.” Have they not watched us play? When we’re up 20 it’s over with these ladies. Stop trying to make it sound like it’s still in doubt.

We’ve all been watching the men’s team with leads for too long. :) The women don’t flinch.

Wow. That. Was a half of basketball.

Scalia shooting with this type of confidence is the difference in us being a final four contender and a legitimate championship contender in my opinion.

I don’t have DVR or I would go back and grab a screen shot. But yep, men’s. Analyst’s first name was Chris, but I’m not familiar with who he is.

Halftime of the OSU/MSU game on CBS, one of the analysts revealed his top 8 teams and had IU as the second #2 seed. Our wins piling up starting to get some attention nationally.

Not sure where they get their information, but Mack stated in no uncertain terms she will be back at IU next year. She’s coming back.

Wonder if the availability is based on not yet opening the balconies Chris? Prior to Iowa they had not made those available.

Was it worse than Race shooting a 3?

It’s one thing to roll Race back out to start the second half. Okay you like your starting lineup to start. But there’s zero reason to go almost 9 mins with no subs. Your bench was contributing in the first half. Race isn’t 100%. Accept it.

- Kopp played his best half of the season - Tamar and Reneau great off the bench - TJD beasting in the post - Our on-ball defense the first 15 minutes was smothering. - Race is simply not explosive and can’t make plays on either end; but Woody is stubborn and continues to give him too many minutes - Per usual, a guy averaging 1.7 ppg went off for 9 points on us to keep them close. - Last five mins we started overplaying high ball screen and left open three-point shooters that let them trim a 14 point lead to three at the half.

Woody, use your eyes. Race can’t contribute at this level and is a net negative.

Easy on the insults… we could really use his little brother to decide to be a Hoosier. :)

Stanford lost to Washington. Should see our Hoosiers no lower than #3 this week. My opinion, should be #2 after LSU snuck past a bad A&M team and continues to have no good wins.

Not the right thread probably, but the right audience: My two cents on watching SC/UCONN for the first time. I’d honestly rather draw a potential final four matchup with SC if it weren’t for the likely homecourt advantage of playing in Greensborough. They are pretty one-dimensional. Granted it’s a really strong dimension. They have a 6’7” and 6’5” front court. But they can’t really shoot the ball. UCONN is actually sagging off all the way into the lane on their guards. I think we play better team defense than UCONN and could have success doubling them in the post and picking pockets with swipe downs. Plus one of their bigs would have to guard Yarden or Syd around the perimeter and that would be a huge mismatch. UCONN is playing without two potential NPOY candidates and still holding their own. If they get healthy, they would be a tough matchup for us. All in all, two good teams, but neither are Head and shoulders better than us. Comforting to see having not watched either and hearing how dominant they are.

I’m not advocating for anybody else to be #1, parity is obviously king this year. I’m just pointing out Purdue hasn’t proven to be the best team in the country with their wins. In fact, in their own conference they have 0 wins against the top four teams (Rutgers, Iowa, IU, ILL). An unbalanced conference schedule has been kind to them.

Respectfully disagree. Purdue got to #1 by default honestly. Their early season wins against Duke (now unranked) and Gonzaga (top 20 team but playing in the WCC) don’t look great anymore. Throw in the fact that 7 of their 11 B1G wins are against Minny, Nebraska, OSU and Penn St. (the bottom four teams in the B1G). They are not the #1 team in the country. Shouldn’t have been really.

Can’t say I understand the fashion trends of today’s youth, but believe X is studying apparel merchandising… future in starting his own clothing line?

I know it “doesn’t work that way” - but someone should unofficially put out a feeler to the Schmeikel girl on Rutgers and see if she’d “hypothetically” be interested in coming to compete with Mack next year to win a national championship instead of living in New Jersey and losing another 20 games on a poor team.

Next Sunday is looking like a tougher game at PU than maybe anticipated. They’ve beaten ILL and OSU on the road in back to back games. Throw in the rivalry. We will have to bring our game to that one.

Early observation: Rutgers plays an unusual style and it’s taking us a little while to adjust to it. They aren’t very organized so it’s unconventional in that they gamble more than they should on D, and don’t make extra passes on O. I think it’s caught us off guard because we’re accustomed to playing teams that operate more traditionally and fundamentally.