HoosierHoopster

Already beat the total points projections. AA&M isn’t good, but we’re playing good basketball

Could be

Beautiful stat

Alexis may be undervalued. 17, 8 and 2 blocks, 3 assists…

14-14 FT’s. 100%.oh that brings a smile

So … passing 100 points seeming pretty likely, nice start

100%

Meanwhile, Creighton only beating S Dakota by 8….

Shooters. So refreshing

Hope you and your wife are all good soon

^^ Hope Dorn gets some minutes in as we open up the lead. A good chance for him to start working his way back into game timing and conditioning.

IU - 91 AA&M - 62

No -- I didn't say firing Crean was a mistake, I said hiring Miller was mistake #1. Again, pounding the dead horse that keeps getting ignored, with the right coach there's no reason to believe IU won't rise up again, none. "Exhibit No. 1" would be Sampson, picking up the pieces from Davis' decline after getting to the championship in 2000 with RMK's players. That Crean was able to accomplish the level of success he had -- and I don't care how you want to dice it, it was pretty good -- despite being just an OK coach, should be your Exhibit No. 3, but you flip the script. We see this all differently, that's OK.

Thing is, you're making assumptions based on the immediate now -- less than 2 seasons of football under Cig. FWIW, actual football schools (e.g., Texas) are critiquing IU now as #2 based on an overall weak schedule -- and that's pretty fair. We beat Oregon at Oregon, excellent W, and you can only play the schools on the schedule, but we haven't gone undefeated yet, we haven't yet faced OSU, the schedule has been pretty kind, and that's just this season anyway,. Very possibly the first undefeated season? Yes, possible, no it hasn't happened yet, and just one year anyway. Football is more important than basketball success, flat out? Your opinion, certainly not mine, and no the AD certainly hasn't intimated that or anything close to it. Football is bigger revenue, that's always been the case, that doesn't mean suddenly IU is turning to football over basketball. It / the AD the administration just fired Woodson, so IU can return to being a strong bball program. That's fact. If it no longer cared so much about bball we could still have mediocre Mike - what an awful thought, lol. Won't be surprised that they talk about basketball less during football games? Well, why wouldn't the school talk less about basketball during a football game. That doesn't mean anything. You and I agree on many things, on this topic we don't. My opinions are just my opinions, and I always enjoy your posts, so hope I'm not somehow conveying otherwise in the way I'm posting, but there's just no reason, imo, to think IU suddenly cares less about bball. I think your preference to football on a personal level is driving your expectations. And the inverse of that is probably true of me. Regardless, very much agree that if (when) the bball program starts to wake (I think that's happened already) this is a good problem to have. Let's be dominant in football and bball. Why not?

Bad rear view read from imo. We won Big 10 championships under Crean, had 3 SW16’s and multiple future NBA players, the program was in good shape it just wasn’t consistently at the level where it could contend at a FF level team so the U canned Crean in favor of a terrible coach in Miller, mistake #1. Of course it was a decade plus ago we just suffered through 8 years of Miller and Woodson. But immediately before Sampsongate we were 24-4 and clearly dominant - why? Because we had a great coach (basketball not ethics). That’s the point. Cig and Dev won’t be battling for resources, not happening. It’s so easy to wallow in the wake of Miller/Woodson, but that era is over. There’s every reason to believe the bball program will he dominant again with the right coach and staff. I think we just may finally have that again.

I hear you. Cig has certainly brought a great deal of fresh air to a program that was just crap for many years (though worth remembering IU did go to the Rose Bowl once, I’m sure you remember). I’m a IU bball lifer. When you grow up watching 3 NC teams, the last while you were at IU, and even roughly a decade after of IU as the cream of men’s basketball, that’s your compass. It’s great that IU is suddenly winning in football over 2 seasons but that doesn’t change the landscape for me. Our AD picked DeVries with the same approach Cig was picked. I expect we’ll see IU winning again pretty soon, and with that cones the spotlight, the uptick in recruiting, the uptick in portal and blam IU will quickly be “back” imo. That Bilas is already out there saying DeVries was one of the top hires speaks volumes. The negativity has been around for a long time, a lot of ut was deserved with the crap Miller and then Woody put on the floor, but a lot of it started with the whole RMK firing fallout, and that just is what it is. I think with an actual bball mind, the first since Sampson, things will trend positive soon

Not a big Bilas fan but he knows his basketball. Yes, nice optics and another voice of confidence

I tend to think Cig stays because he’s fully supported and has us already winning on a big level, but you have to know the real football schools will come calling. If he leaves IU crashes back down fast. If he stays the U could be s strong fb program for some time. Disagree students determine whether we’re a football or bball program but it’s all just discussion and for fun. The bball program remains a slesping giant. It wasn’t that long ago that Obama was picking IU to win it all on national tv, Cody and Vic were huge, and a mediocre coach in Crean had the U with the nation’s longest #1 ranking. All it takes is the right coach with support from the AD. It looks like we may have that again but we’ll know in a couple seasons or so whether that looks to pan out. Hell we’re already a long-time elite soccer school, Moren has the women’s program working its way onto the national stage, Cig is legit, and maybe, just maybe we’re on the cusp with DeVries. He looks to be cut from the same cloth as Cig

Would bet that line increases tomorrow

I don’t think we’re a football school because of a 2 year run with new coach. Current students will say so bc that’s sll they know, after Woody. We start winning well again in bball, and we’re immediately a recognized bball program getting noise again.

23 fast break and 22 off TOs - yes please

Socka and Beaumont having strong games

Caffey looks like she’s 12 lol

Crazy, but ultimately a likely scenario when you go and allow big time sports betting. Chauncey Billups, currently HC of the Trail Blazers (ironically formerly often called the Jail Blazers), and player Terry Rozier, have been arrested in an FBI probe of sports gambling and rigged poker games, along with members of organized crime groups. Reportedly at least 30 people have been arrested. Billups apparently is named only in the poker operation. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-nba-chauncey-billups-terry-rozier-arrested-gambling-rcna239312 and re the NCAA/college: The NCAA has been engaging in its own long-term gambling investigation, noting last month that it is seeking violations for 13 unnamed former men's basketball players, with the athletes coming from six different schools. Three players at Fresno State and San Jose State were permanently banned from the NCAA last month as part of the gambling probe. The NCAA has pushed states for more than a year to ban prop bets on college sports, mostly citing harassment of student-athletes, but is now pointing to the potential for athletes to manipulate stats. However, after previously cracking down on all betting, the association recently opened the door for students to bet on pro sports. https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/live/terry-rozier-chauncey-billups-arrested-as-part-of-sports-gambling-probe-live-updates-as-fbi-announces-details-134022201.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKYfCYUOaUx2QEKNfuGBZMvGrAQvWF7383nqvLJpH_6rOaP6YPQTHDlQ-iu6eCdDV4LLG1ifIND9uy4wDouE7SPHit_eRNU3mRnIhOekeacoj5cAAt-adoHL8UybPn28qZF6iqnkwQqOBfUxUKxxcWJEPESvvTShysmbx64vmDMI I'm sorry, it's freaking stupid to permit gambling/betting on college games, it spurs point shaving and other illegal gambling / betting activity. This from today's NYT: A pair of indictments unsealed in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday cast a pall over professional basketball, describing separate schemes in which three current and former N.B.A. players and coaches worked with other defendants to defraud gamblers and online betting firms out of millions of dollars. One case accused an N.B.A. player and a former coach of trading inside information on a series of games to win hundreds of thousands of dollars of bets with sports betting companies. The other charged a well-known head coach, Chauncey Billups, with participating in a series of rigged poker games organized by Mafia families that cheated unwitting victims out of at least $7 million. Taken together, the two indictments, involving more than 30 defendants, will compel the league to confront questions about how far the misconduct has spread, and whether those accused of financial crimes affected the outcomes of games. The first indictment accused six defendants, including Terry Rozier, a guard for the Miami Heat, and Damon Jones, a former player and coach, of trading on inside information available to players and coaches to allow a network of conspirators to place winning bets on their games. Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, called it the “insider trading saga for the N.B.A.” https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-illegal-gambling-arrests