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Anybody know when the team is arriving to Chicago?

The good news is... we can watch from afar and see how he does at Texas A&M this year. I am willing to bet he performs quite well for Bucky.

I very much disagree with the "toxic" narrative about MM. Agree on everything else. I think they'd all do better with a real coach. So we will just get more evidence throughout the year exactly how awful Mike Woodson was. Thank goodness he is gone!

We'd be really scary if this team could've retained Tucker, Mgbako and Reneau IMO. Just as happy with a fresh start. But we're gonna see a lot of these kinds of performances from ex IU players this season. Good for them.

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Totally agree with you there. Wasn't sure what to make of Miles after the scrimmages. Didn't know if there'd be minutes for him once some of the injured guys are back. Yesterday you could see it starting to click a little more as the game went on. The bench unit will be a lot stronger if DDV can get the best out of Miles this year and Dorn comes back healthy (maybe Enright moves to 6th man? I kinda think not be depends how good Dorn is, I guess). Really want to see Harris too, but don't think that's on the table before December.

Laughing my *** off watching this game back and seeing Wilkerson firing off Trae Young kinda 3s then Conerway throwing it off the backboard to Bailey... We'll see how challenging the Big Ten is, not sure how the roster will match up vs. some... but this team is really fun. And I think could really surprise some people. 3 days til Marquette

Kinda cool the active leading scorer in D1 plays for Indiana.

They are currently beating Southern 89-75. Southern is 176 in KenPom. AAM is 318. Can't wait to root for a Hoosier win in Chicago.

On pace for a 116-44 finish. Stay healthy and bring on Marquette. But... first... we can enjoy this cathartic butt kicking for another half.

In one of the offseason interviews on Field of 68, Dauster said Sam Alexis was his dark horse pick for this team's X-factor. He may have been right about that.

Every time Wilkerson touches the ball past half court this season, the stadium is going to start ooo-ing and ahh-ing

It's been 10 years since Indiana could consistently make FTs........

Gotta avoid foul trouble against Marquette

I think it would be way more than 10 :)

How refreshing seeing a team that's genuinely excited to get the Assembly Hall crowd on their feet. And a staff that's on their feet being active coaches.

I uhhhh really like watching Tayton Conerway play basketball

I see Sisley in early and communicating on D. Nice.

Is anyone here in Assembly Hall tonight? Might be a situation where it looks better in person with the lighting than on video... I don't dislike it at all though

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I think we can both be correct. IU, structurally, has a lot of competition for attention from fans. These are factors beyond anyone's control and probably amount to a natural cap on how "loyal" our fanbase is. People spend money to root for winning teams. IU is investing in football especially, to be a consistent winning team and grow revenue that will support the rest of the AD. All this means to me is that IU does not have the same luxury as some other schools like Iowa or Nebraska do, where they're the main attraction in town. Winning consistently is more important for IU because that's how you overcome the structural challenges enough to the point that behaviors change in a way that's sticky (like season tickets or apparel sales). My final thought - 8 win football / 20 win basketball seasons will happen from time to time. Hopefully they're the exception, not the norm. You can endure a down year or two... but no program with routinely mediocre results should expect exceptional fan support.

IUWBB has historically been terrible and you are right last year wasn't so bad it warranted 40% of season ticket holders not renewing. Don't think it was considered a "failure" as much as "not a compelling enough draw that I'm going to spend time and money going." Again, we are competing with other local sports interests, general entertainment, and more broadly... macroeconomics to a degree. If your household needs to tighten the belt, things like IUWBB season tickets will probably come off the list pretty quick. Regardless, I think indexing on WBB is misguided. Football season tix sales were up 50% YoY weren't they? I wonder how many cancelled IUWBB season tix and got football ones. Football is where we're going to make money, so that's where we should be focused. You seem awfully confident that 8 win season is coming in football...lol. Don't think I can definitively "prove you wrong" that IU fans are more or less fair weather than other B10 schools. But I'd say IUBB has been largely awful for 30 years and has still been leading the conference in attendance. That support was very sticky because of what Knight achieved here. It became part and parcel to the identity of Indiana. The way things are trending, Cig has a chance to do that with football. And that's where our bread will be buttered $$$. Win big there. Change the culture. Grow revenue. Rising tide lifts all boats.

All due respect... this is quite the extrapolation for a women's basketball game in November vs Lipscomb not having a great crowd. No need to rehash our previous discussion in too much detail... IMO you can't read anything meaningful from women's basketball into football. Especially in November. People like rooting for winners. IU hasn't had winners in a very long time. I am skeptical we ever see a "yearly eight win Cignetti team" at this rate. That sustained success is what will change behavior. There's a lot of competition for attention in general these days. And there are many other popular sports/teams near Bloomington. IMO you're never, ever, ever going to transform "30%" of casual fans into loyal ones especially without consistent winning. You want butts in seats? Earn em. Put a good product on the court/field. That's on the coaches, AD, and admin. Fans don't bear responsibility for growing revenue. IU needs to make it worth their while to spend hard earned money on them. Once people are in the habit of doing that, fan support will be way stickier. Fact is, other than the Knight era and soccer... IU athletics has rarely strung together consistent enough success to earn consistent support from fans who have only X amount of money to spend on entertainment, with a slew of other (often better) options. Maybe other schools are better about it than we are. Maybe our fans are more fair weather. At the end of the day... they're not accountable for changing that. The school is accountable for winning hearts and minds.

How do you figure Cig and DDV won't be "battling for resources" ? I think every coach in every sport at every school is battling for resources within their department. And given the player payroll for football and basketball... with a finite amount of money... choices will need to be made. This is not wallowing in the wake of Miller/Woodson but acknowledging a reality IMO. Some would say that we were not the highest bidder for our 3 top HS targets, the battle for resources has a clear winner already. Hopefully DDV can bring the success we all want to see for IUBB.

Basketball may be good, even great, again under DDV. But will they be so great they outshine IUFB, about to go 2/2 on CFP appearances under Cig? Very possibly the first undefeated season... Stadium renovations/expansion being talked about more and more. For the AD to grow, football needs to succeed. It's more important than bball success, flat out. I wonder how often they will talk about the football team during basketball games this year. Plenty probably. Won't be surprised if they talk about basketball less and less during football games unless we turn it around fast. Totally fine by me... and I'd bet Cig too. Changing the way people think around here and what not. I prefer basketball to football on a personal level. But IUFB is way more fun to root for and follow right now. I buy that IUBB is a sleeping giant. But I don't think it's going to overtake the momentum football has built without huge, nearly immediate success. Historically a basketball school. Currently a football school. Potentially an "everything" school if IUBB gets it figured out. If the basketball program starts to wake up, this is a good "problem" to have. And money will flow.