HoosierHoopster

Women are playing well on the road

Take the over

Those are some crazy stats

Except Payne was playing. Shaka went with his players, by midseason they’ll be fine

Wait. The site is up and running?

UM just claws out a 4-point low scoring win over TCU. Not exactly looking like a top 10 team there Mich— and if DeVries had us top 10 ranked and stunk it up like that the Board would be all over him.

TCU up on Mich with a couple to go in the first

IU - 101 Wordless - 63

Love this player. I’m an old Reggie Miller fan. He was always the last guy in the gym, and getting shots up after games like this. That’s how you become a great shooter

Just think about how long it’s been. And DeVries has done it in 3 games.

Definitely encouraged by Dorn’s early play. Landing him was kind of surprising at the time, seemed unlikely he’d join then to some. Can’t wait to ser him back at full strength, he’ll help

That’s why he has the smiley face at the end…

Don’t give DeVries any Diet Coke

100%

There are people on this board who’ve probably never seen one of those lol

I'll be snarky! Come on BtB get your stuff together, we need you!

2 shining lamps in the ugly fog of a game

I’m not in the sky is falling camp. That was a horrendously sloppy game, 28 TO’s. That’s not a norm it’s an outlier. Lots to clean up and part of that is the team learning to play fast. Yeah could be a year where 20 wins is the ceiling, but a 28 TO game is not the yardstick

IU - 97 UW- Mil - 71

Crazy early 'bracketology' - IU a #9 seed https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2026-march-madness-men-field-predictions Other B1G teams early projections PU #1 (Noooo Waaayyy) UM #2 Ill #3 MSU #5 UCLA #5 OSU #7 Ore #8 Wisc #6 USC #9 Iowa #10 On the current rankings: Watch list Indiana coach Darian DeVries has a history of producing quick turnarounds at previous stops and is hoping to pull another one off in his first season in Bloomington. The Hoosiers looked good in the first week of the season, blowing out Alabama A&M and Marquette to inch closer to being ranked. Indiana next has two games that won't exactly move the needle -- against Milwaukee and Incarnate Word -- but could find itself ranked if the early-season jumbling continues. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46918594/no-1-houston-leapfrogs-purdue-ap-top-25-poll

When you build a team around shooting, free throw shooting will be there

Yeah it’s opposite- there hasn’t been a formal statement Acimovic is redshirting as far as I know but it looks like it

If you build it they will come

Any program in any sport anywhere?? Nope. Resources, foundation, facilities, general program recognition, media coverage/tv/web, recruiting base— connections to HS/AAU coaches/programs. Your perception of IU as the opposite of whatever special is, is crazy negative, couldn’t be less true. We’ve been run to ground by Miller and Woody, clearly. While you choose to deflect and ignore it, that Crean was able to do what he did - B1G championships and multiple SW16 runs despite being a mediocre coach is directly due to his “it’s Indiana” mantra. He rebuilt the program from nothing after Sampsongate into a successful program because of what IU is. Now we have what I think is clearly a strong HC/basketball mind and staff again, and because of IU’s historical program stature, resources, facilities etc and all that comes with it, the path “back” is right there, not just “any” program anywhere. That’s not rose colored glasses, that’s reality

SIAP - in addition to the ESPN game broadcast, which bodes well for recruiting etc., the game writeup still appears under the NCAMM Top Headlines - https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46908832/tucker-devries-leads-indiana-marquette-chicago This used to be routine (back in the day). Think we'll be seeing more of it going forward