str8baller

Back then 32 teams (maybe less) made the NCAA’s. The NIT was still a decent tourney with some upper echelon maj conf teams who didn’t make a much smaller NCAA field. Todays NIT is nothing like that.

I don’t think the NIT has any relation to the NCAA tourney. The BTT is more comparable from an experience standpoint. The teams are better and is a neutral court experience. This team has had plenty of practice together and plateaued two months ago. Our problem isn’t practice; it is talent. Might as well get a head start on other programs in the talent department. Outside of Bates, Geronimo, Lander (maybe), and Galloway I’m pretty ambivalent on any of the other players being here next year. To the extent any of them are getting minutes because the aforementioned guys or frosh haven’t passed them we’re in trouble. I’m assuming TJD is gone.

Nope. Rutgers hangs on. UNC, Michigan and Memphis with huge wins. Doesn’t look like we’ll back into anything unless maybe the conf tourneys all go chalk. I was in the camp of win 1 and we’re close to in. Now I think it’ll probably take two. All the teams we’d be competing with for at large spots (P5 conf teams with big names) are finishing strong.

Maybe Michigan will split coaching duties. Howard for recruiting and alumni events. Martelli for halftime adjustments and handshake lines.

Why?

I don’t know anybody can say it was the wrong decision without knowing the details. Also, why is everyone assuming we would have won had the other guys played? Odds are we would have lost anyways.

I’m still trying to figure out why we would even accept an NIT invite. Can’t imagine the upper classman want to play in it. Not sure any of the transfers deserve more time in an IU jersey. Galloway and Lander aren’t playing. So we’re trying to get Geronimo and Bates more minutes? If we’re not dancing, we should wrap up the season and start focusing on the off-season.

You have any evidence to back that up? That’s quite the claim considering people inside and outside the program claimed the opposite for the longest time.

Houston getting throttled by Memphis at half.

Players like XJ don’t exactly improve linearly. It’s not like the staff forgot about him or something. He improved quite a bit early in conf season then seemed to regress around his suspension only to find his form again.

I can’t put my finger on it. We’re not completely devoid of talent but we’re like the islands of misfit toys. Outside of a TJD post vs some matchups, we have no one thing we can hang our hat on. The players seem like decent enough guys, but the talent, or lack thereof, is frustrating. Let’s hope Woody, being new and all, just put hia trust in the wrong people last year and that can be fixed. The number of guys I care to see back next year is not large. We’ll need talented frosh and a successful transfer market (things I never thought I’d be saying about college basketball) for next year to be better.

Had a delayed flight, so I got home in time just to see us make our run in the second half. At no point did I even contemplate that we might win. With that said, I give them credit for playing hard and a close game. I predicted worse. I’m not sure what you’re supposed to do as a coach when you continually get your best shooter open looks and he bricks them in big moments. I have zero faith in any of our “shooters” at this point. You also got your best player a run at the hoop on the last oob play and your upperclassman inbounding the ball makes a lazy throw. Maddening if your on the staff. I like our personnel less and less each game. Probably a good thing for me the season is about over. :/

This team is something else.

XJ was fouled on drive

I still think 1 win in BTT gives a chance. Two and we’re in. With that said I’m surprised at the hope on her for the Purdue game. I have a feeling it’ll be ugly.

Which players stepped up when they missed the tourney? Which ones when they won 18 games?

He was at two bad organizations and did better than the guys before him and after him. But you know… Brad Stevens was .557 coach in the NBA and .477 in the playoffs with what most considered the best roster situation in the NBA at the time. What a loser…

But Gard has outlier talent. He was left Ethan Happ and a loaded roster. Then he missed the tourney. Then he won 18 games. Then Davis turned into the B1G player of the year. If TJD made the jump Davis did, we’d probably be top 5 in the conf and he’d be B1G PoY. We need talent. And one of our frosh to turn into a Davis-type player.

Just wrong. Hard to take the rest seriously.

That’s not how it works. In fact, it’s pretty much the opposite of that.

Gard won 18 games last year and was a 9 seed. Somehow he got momentum this year

seems naive. You assume that if we cheat we’d somehow do it better than UK or UNC. Lmao… Basketball is what Indiana does and we can’t even do that right. But by all means, tell me how we’d out-Kentucky Kentucky because all of a sudden our bagmen and alumni would be better than UK’s. Yes, this seems like a fail proof plan.

He was on probation and by extension so was IU. We didn’t give ourselves the death penalty. Crean kicked those guys off when he got here.

And IU had zero shot getting anyone remotely as competent as Woodson. So here we are. IU hired a nobody in mike davis. A retread on probation in Sampson, who promptly screwed us. We begged an average mid major coach in crean to come who had to be paid extra before he even coached a game just so he didn’t leave. And a promising young coach in Archie who crashed and burned in record time. Stevens played IU’s desperation to force out Ainge in Boston and Indiana fans think he was really interested. Literally, no one worth a **** has been remotely close to this job for 20 years. And you guys are talking about poaching successful P5 coaches. It’d be laughable if it weren’t so sad (mainly because I’man IU fan).

And I reiterate….IU isn’t qualified to land Woodson. He could’ve waited and got another pro job. It isn’t a perfect fit, but IU didn’t do him any favors. If anything, he did IU a favor.