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Haha suck eggs PU! Love that our guys finally closed out a good W. Great win, let’s go

It would be so nice to finish this out with the W

PUke - 81 IU - 75

Applies to most games we play lol

Great review, thx for posting it. Though maybe you could've spent more time on the important stuff, like the hair.

I want a Btownbanners chucklehead bobble head

Dead last twice lol

Yeah STFU!! ;)

Nice Conerway

Good to see Tucker finding his mojo again and yes Dorn belongs in the starting lineup

IU - 77 Rutger - 68

"possibility...."

I am cautiously optimistic (somehow, not sure how) that our guys will get it together for this game and come away with the W. Rutger is bad. We're not good on the road but did win at MD, our last W. Time to put the 4-game losing streak behind, get a W before having to deal with PUke. This may be a year where we look like we're out but then have a run in the back end of the schedule. Once we get to Feb. 24, it's home games against NW, MSU, Minny, then at OSU to close out the season. At least a possibility of a 4-0 run.

Personally I think Moren was upset with the team that then essentially bailed on her and departed en masse after last season, that related to her talk of considering retirement. Don't know personally of course, but I disagree with the idea that she's not coaching -- she's dealing with the repercussions of an en masse player departure and a team in transition, with an absolutely outstanding -- best in program history -- incoming class next season on the way, while she also just once again excelled as HC in USA Basketball, as HC of the 2025 U19 Women's Team She's the all time winningest HC in IU women's bball history. 3 SW16's, an Elite Eight, 7 NCAA appearance, 10 consecutive tourney appearances, recently again B1G COY (2023). Not so much in this thread but there have been several posts on this Board taking pot shots at her and her coaching and to me that is flat out stupid. She's an outstanding coach, and while this season looks to be a disaster, for which she takes blame as HC, she's positioned herself with the new recruiting asst coach to be in great position next season. That doesn't look like retirement to me, and I hope it's not, trying to find a replacement coach at her level of ability? Good luck with that.

Holy crap is that 103-3 accurate?

Seems like we've also often been soft there over the past ugly 8 years. Our current guys aren't soft, hopefully that makes a difference as well.

Can't get here soon enough

Combination of luck and a very well-researched hire. No way of knowing in advance if Cig would succeed at IU, but a lot of research went into identifying him as a good candidate for IU and then Cig brought a good amount of his existing team to IU to hit the ground running. In my book he's the Bobby Knight of football for IU, what an amazing turnaround in 2 years.

I do not often agree with you @Old Friendbut largely agree with your post above. Bball is diluted and the portal — at least as it is now — is bad for the game (while being generally good economically for the players), and it specifically fosters disloyalty, pay me more or say goodbye. The portal needs an overhaul with rules limiting the mass transfers, capping pay, etc. imo. the posts calling out DeVries and saying he can’t coach though are just flat out boneheadedly uninformed and lazy. He’s a very good x’s and o’s coach and program builder with a fairly long track record supporting that. What I think we’re seeing for the most part is most of our players are just not at the B1G level to excel — and at this point I think I was wrong about that. Wilkerson is excellent as I knew he would be having seen him play here in TX, Tucker has the talent bit seems slowed over the past several games and his shot is off. I think he’ll turn it back around soon. i like Dorn’s game and Sisley has potential though he’s not ready yet imo for a major role. Most of the other guys aren’t playing at a high caliber level. I thought more of them would be. DeVries came in and had to restock the entire roster on the fly. You can’t convince the best players to join up when a) you’ve been mediocre to bad for 8 years, and b) they have no idea who their teammates will be because you’re rebuilding the entire team, and c) again, you’re rebuilding the entire team and most elite players want nothing to do with that. of course DeVries needs more time, that’s beyond obvious. Whether he’ll succeed remains a question and will be up to him, but minimum 3 years? Of course. And while I’m really disappointed in the team’s falloff over the past several games, I think he’ll get us back to winning

IU - 75 UM - 86

Maybe put on some football jerseys….

This thread may be the stupidest, most short-sighted idiotic nonsense I’ve seen yet.

That’s the thing, everyone just focuses on his shooting while failing to watch how he integrates the team. He needs to get his scoring going again, but he’s one of our best players and makes the team play better as a unit.

IU - 74 Iowa - 69 Please win.

I think IU is around 160th in tempo, slower than I thought they’d play, haven’t looked at what Woody’s teams were at