go iu bb

I hope McCollum doesn't end up at Iowa.

Has anyone seen what kind of budget DeVries will have for assistant salaries? It looks like IU was at just over $1M for those 3 spots. Preston Murphy has been mentioned as a possible assistant but he's making $450k at Alabama so we'd have to pay him more than 1/2 of the total for 3 assistants under Woodson. On the football side, IU is committed to paying assistant coaches in addition to the head coach. I hope the same is true for basketball.

I don't think I'd call an 11 seed losing to a 6 seed crashing and burning. Now, a 5 seed losing to a 12 seed, especially when the game wasn't as close as the final score would indicate? Yep.

Next year is the first of 15 roster spots and no walk-ons, right?

This doesn't bode well for Brownell in the future when Clemson has to play an NC State team coached by Wade and will have a lot more talent than McNeese. 11 points scored, down 16 with under 2 minutes left in the half. Pathetic. Edit: Down 31-13 at the half. This board would be imploding if we hadn't announced a hire yet and he was still thought of as a possibility.

4 minutes into this Clemson/McNeese game just reaffirms how glad I am we didn't hire Brownell.

It's interesting that we're now at the point where players release statements saying they're NOT entering the portal.

Woodson only cared about rankings.

Probably just like it does at Creighton except with red uniforms instead of blue. :)

Preston Murphy sounds like he would e a good pickup if we can get him. https://rolltide.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/preston-murphy/1593

But 4 years...oh, right, that's just IU. He definitely was on a downward trend and did nothing to deserve being retained.

Sounds like CD needs to bring in a heavy hitter recruiter.

He won the offseason one year at IU. He was the sniper who couldn't miss in workouts. Never really translated to the real games as has been typical of IU for the last decade or so. I remember @HoosierHoopster always being big on him. Glad he's playing well. I hope he has multiple degrees for when his playing days are done.

Does CD want him though? Rabby is saying he's gone. Implies that CD might not have wanted him.

DVD for DeVries, Darian I'm lazy so I'll probably just call him CD Besides, CDs were still the thing when IU was last consistently good and DVDs weren't around yet.

I really hope we can land that Tucker DeVries kid from the portal. I think we have a chance.

Matt Painter has already collected a loss to a 13th seed. I think he needs a 14th seed to complete the set. The only way that happens this year is the E8 or later. Bummer. Maybe he'll get it next year, I'm really pulling for him to get the whole set.

Yes, he played only 9 games early in the season before an injury so he should definitely be able to get another year.

It's interesting how the national narrative about the IU job changes when IU hires a sitting P5 coach. Before that happened, IU was delusional thinking they'd get anything other than a mid-major coach. Now it's IU is a higher tier job than WV so of course he took the job.

Darian Dale DeVries

Try to contain your surprise at this next news: Rabby is saying that Zrno's agent told them that Zrno will not end up at IU.

Cougars > Panthers

Yep, a collection of players is what we saw with Woodson. Same with Davis. Crean had several years like that. Miller was just so bad in so many ways that it was hard to tell but his teams never seemed to play as a team, either. Sampson's teams were cohesive units that played well as teams on the court. Off the court they were a disaster. Basically, it's what IU has been missing since the mid-90s other than a few years here and there. It'll be nice to have a coach which tries to gauge that as part of the recruiting evaluation process.

I was worried when it became clear early on that Stevens wasn't an option that IU would cheap out and not be willing to spend money on anyone else. This proved my fear worry was misplaced. Salary and buyout are going to be high if you hire a sitting P5 coach, which he was. $6+M for the buyout ~$5M salary Committing $7M for NIL Committing well above average revenue sharing Already in the top few for basketball operational spending We saw that even a bad coach like Woodson almost made the tournament with enough money thrown his way. He had an NIL budget that was 167% that of the NIL budget DeVries had. While they both ended up missing the tournament with similar records, the circumstances were quite different and WVU should have made it in. It'll be interesting to see what DeVries can do with IU's resources. I'm looking forward to next season.