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Viewership goes up each round and comparatively not many people watch the play-ins, so the quality matters somewhat. But what it really does is water down the regular season and conf tourneys a little more, but the NCAA doesn’t care about that because they only get money from the tournament.

IU 69 Neb 68

It’s a terrible idea. At some point all this expansion to capture tv money will have some blow back.

I hate the shot charts that are basically Alabama shooting only runs at the basket and threes because open 2s are still a good shot and should be taken in the flow of good offensive execution, imo. I also just aesthetically dislike the constant dribble drive and kick. With that said, if there’s one team who’s share chart could credibly look like that it would be a team like Indiana that dumps it into a couple big post players and has good perimeters setting up along the three point line. It shouldn’t even be possible for us to have a bunch of long 2’s except that our spacing is constantly a mess.

Exactly. no need to inquire further. Pick a real candidate and make your play.

Luckily there aren’t very many above avg. which means if we’re above avg we could still finish top 6. I’m not sure we’re better than average though.

We could guess. Or we could look to last time as our guide. It was messy last time he was publicly disavowing the whole state and calling himself a masshole.

Pope was a mid level guy and roughly equivalent to us getting Archie. Not all that hard. Looks great now but lots of people thought they settled at the time. The big names are different. Even if they don’t want to go, their agent won’t allow them to give a simple, discreet no. They’ll leak it to the press and then use that leverage to renegotiate where they are at. Then that’s it. You can’t go after another big name and say “good news, you’re our 2nd choice and number 1 just said no.” If you tried that with May after getting turned down with Steven’s then he’ll do the same and just use it to renegotiate. If you want to go for a big name, pick one and make your play. If/when you strike out you’ll be fighting everyone for whatever mid/low major guys are left. See Lville last year.

He could say much worse. And we saw it last time: you only have so much political capital to spend chasing pie-in-the-sky candidates before you run out of capital and publicly the job reeks of desperation. We literally watched this unfold last time and is allegedly the reason we stuck with Woody. I’d probably pass on wasting any energy on Steven’s this time around.

Spend the extra buck and get some JTS Brown. Paul Newman would be proud.

Oregons court is a traveshamockery. With that said, they are kind of taking the conf by storm in the revenue sports.

IU 71 Minny 65

While I get your point with regards to Woodson, I think there’s a larger point in there. The current NBA is terrible basketball and corresponding their ratings are in the tank. Just watching guys run up and down half heartedly for layups and 3s isn’t compelling. Because of the number of games in the NBA, it can somewhat be effective in the long run. But in college with a single elimination tournament you had better bring a little more than that. Unfortunately Woody can’t do either effectively.

Damn…that’s wild. IU is the worst run program in the major conferences, or was before C1G. It’s actually amazing how resilient our basketball fan support is.

I actually can’t believe he didn’t transfer. Maybe Iowa ponies up a bunch of money.