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Jeebus Christmas, you can be happy your team won and acknowledge the details of each game, good and bad. This fanbase needs therapy. Everyone probably agrees on that.

When Mgbako was shooting FTs toward the end of the game, Kern was talking crazy smack to Mack - who calmly sank both. This post game question at 4:05 from a reporter asked what Kern saw from Mgbako and Ballo, what kind of challenges they presented. His response will serve as quite the bulletin board material IMO.

Here is your imaginary medal for repeatedly making the same observation. I mean, you could at least learn a new song…

Any word on the team’s trip home? Some folks at the game were saying they may not be able to get back to Bloomington tonight or even for a few days possibly because of the storm?

Quite a few people around me criticized his lineups/lack of energy on the sidelines, a couple “true fan” jokes… some “I wonder who will be coaching next year?” comments.

Doesn’t change the fact Dylan Harper was out. Can you read? Lol

We beat RU without their best player by 10 and PSU by 6 while they were shooting abysmally from 3 and the FT line … when Goode was struggling early in the season people liked to say “water finds its level” … that doesn’t really bode well for next time we play them/the rest of conference play. But, at least it’s not as painful to watch lately since the energy and effort is there. Can’t imagine making the same mistake we made last offseason again, but way wackier stuff has happened… just going to try and enjoy wins this year. As pretty much everyone here is… nobody here is in shambles. People just aren’t ignoring the elephant in the room, which the admin is entirely responsible for creating this year. On a more positive note… Goode played really well today. Mgbako can be frustrating but also score in bunches. He may actually be the microwave scorer Carlyle was thought to be coming in. Feel bad for KC that it’s really not working out here. He seems in his head. It was fun after the win for all the IU fans to stand up and cheer as they left the court. The players were excited and pumping up the crowd… I’ll always enjoy seeing that no matter who is coaching.

I’ve yet to see consistent play that makes me think this team can beat teams like Illinois, UCLA, MSU, etc. We will surely get a few Q1 wins because of how well the B10 did in the non conference but I don’t think they’re going to come against the top 3rd of the league and that’s the minimum standard we should be expecting imo. But hey I’m sure AH and Steuben think it’s time for an extension lol

I’m trying to will his departure into existence even though I’m not at all 100% sold it’s a given yet that we part ways. Scary thought.

It would be more disingenuous to pretend they shot so poorly because of our defense, as if it was amazing, when it wasn’t. I read USPS’s post a little differently… Oregon had a poor shooting game and Illinois took advantage to the tune of 30, whereas we did 6. Yeah always good to win on the road in conference, but this doesn’t make anyone radically recalibrate their idea of Woodson/the team. It’s still PSU hoops. We did what we were supposed to do… and just barely. I’m not mad we won but I’m not looking to hang the banner like the true fan club is.

Program is exactly where we all want it to be grinding out a win against a PSU team that shot extremely poorly from 3 today. I admit I wrote the team off too soon as in I assumed we’d continue seeing the same lack of effort we have been prior to the past two games especially. Doesn’t mean I’m particularly impressed. Just that I think we can now probably win 8 or 9 games instead of 6 or 7. Better barometer than Rutgers but why overreact - not like we beat a top 25 team. USC is very winnable and 4-1 to start conference season be a good start before the conference schedule really gets tough. Thank goodness gracious this is our last season with Mike as HC. He’s pitiful.

Replay will show off Ballo looks like

Clock operators are watching giants eagles and colts vs jags on their cell phones lmao. There were just competing chants between we are and let’s go Hoosiers… loving what we are showing this half for the most part

Mack looking like a middle schooler trying to dribble up the court in traffic lol but a great pass right in the pocket to Goode