JerryYeagley23

Agreed about the bubble. Last night was an enormous win for IU, not only because of the quad 1 road win, but just in relation to what it could have meant for trajectory and the smell test. I’m with you on the likelihood that even 1 more W in the regular season and 1 in the B1G tourney still gets us in. There has been sooo much publicity about the strength of the B1G, that even at 8-12 in conference, an 18-win IU probably still gets in. Especially when you consider this, MSU has remaining games @Maryland and @PSU, and home games against Iowa and OSU. If they lose two of those, which I see as likely, they would end up the regular season at 20-11, and they’re being projected as a 5-7 seed. There just can’t be such a chasm between two losses between B1G teams given everyone recognizes how strong 10 of the 12 teams are, or have the potential to be any given night. I think we get at least 2 more wins (and call me crazy but I think one will be at Purdue), and will be safely in with a 10-seed floor. Last night kept us from a potential end of season collapse “look” that would have presented poorly. Make sure no losing streak is now than two games from here out and it will show we’re still competing and aren’t in free fall which would give talking heads something to complain about if we got selected coming in losing 6 straight.

Which in my opinion should be his role. To come in off the bench and provide good stretches. But if we want to get off to better starts in games and in second halves, the TJD/Race combination is a better offensive and defensive team.

I saw it too, and don’t know for sure either way, but it easily could have been like a “get outta here man,” way of saying it, kind of responding to a ribbing from your teammate saying “come on bro, you gotta dunk that” (semi tongue in cheek giving him a hard time)

All I can do, is hope, and pray, that some of these emerging trends in player contributions are recognized and leveraged in our remaining games. Please Archie and staff, see what is working and start using it earlier and more often.

And just like that, IU is 2 games back in the loss column from a tie for 3rd place in the B1G.

Boom baby. Way to close!

Race! That’s a man’s rim run.

You could call a moving screen on every possession of you wanted to. Why they always call one late in games to shift momentum is beyond me.

Is that reviewable??

This is not a good lineup. No shooters.

Don’t look now, because nobody likes to hear it, but DG is playing some really strong on-ball defense, has hit a couple big shots and made some good passes to the post. Outside of any itchy trigger finger he couldn’t resist on the lob attempt to Trace, he is playing big for us in the second half. Love when the young man plays with confidence.

Fat fingers. Still don’t understand. They lost four of their five decent out of conference games to TX, FSU, Marquette and Butler. Beat a super soft Virginia team and are barely above .500 overall and they’re “safely in”??

It still baffles me that we are a first four out but Purdue is projected as a 9 seed. They’re 14-14, and have more conference losses than every team not named NW or Neb.

Is boxing out the shooter something we have abandoned in order to get out and run on the transition? Asking for a friend.

Credit where due, even though delayed, he gave Brunk a quick hook and got Race in only 2 mins into the half.

Disappointing. Your job in-game is to assess the situation and put your team in the best position to win. Operating in your comfort zone has gotten you a 6-8 conference record.

I’m a Brunk fan. Like what he brings to the game. But he’s a possession killer when he gets it in the post because he doesn’t keep his head up for kick-out options. Let him be your first big body off the bench after Oturo has run up and down the floor for a few minutes. JB doesn’t seem big enough or athletic enough to guard Oturo to me. My MAIN focus if I’m Archie is putting enough offense on the floor to start the half to make sure the game stays close. You can not afford to let this game slip into the 7-12 point deficit range. Personally, I’d like to see TJD, Race, Hunter, Green and Phinisee. Short leash on DG with Al ready.

Now please. For the love of all that is holy. Start the five that are playing well. Not the five that started the game! It’s not hard to see our starting five is not our best unit and will let this 3-point game get to 7-9 within four minutes if Archie rolls them out there again as usual.

USPS, I love your enthusiasm for college basketball, and your appreciation for teams outside the B1G. But, how impressed should we be by a team beating Boise St. by 14 really? Who is Boise’s best win? Because all I know about them is that Oregon beat them by 31 and they lost by double digits to Georgia Tech. It seems like Nebraska or Minnesota would be winning by 14 at Boise St. I know you and others have said SDSU is legit, and would be competitive in the B1G, but it’s hard for me to respect their 20 wins in a conference that is a combined 0-21 against AP teams.

That was a costly loss. For seeding purposes, and for confidence purposes given how shaky our play has been the past few games.

Starting to become a commonly recurring theme IU running out of steam and getting no contributions from our bench. Not a lot that can be done about it this far into the season so just gotta roll with it and hope they can get some rest before the tourney and be able to ride the starters for two games a weekend.

Yikes. 4th quarter collapse.

Bench points: OSU - 21 IU - 10

Penn and Berger have not been shooting the ball very well the last couple games. I think heavy legs are maybe a factor. Thank goodness for Patberg’s motor.

Only if you have BTN+ though. Ugh. Box score it is.