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Why did Dorn foul at the end? If we’re going to be metrics merchants, let’s lean into it fully.

Nick Dorn to pull a Darryn Peterson and hit two 3s out of nowhere at the end to win it?!?!

Tbf USC is down Baker-Mazara, Rice, and Marsh

Will likely fall to 3-8 in Quads 1 & 2. This game to me highlights why IU has been so frustrating for so long…it’s not hard to make the tournament! Neither of these teams are good and for sure one of them will be in. P4/5 teams only need to be at the median to make it, and the median, frankly, is not good basketball.

Sisley has not seen the floor in the 2nd half

What’s that student doing? Seems to be quite effective at distracting IU

…and Chad Baker Mazara isn’t even playing.

Just gonna chuck threes now out of frustration. This could get really ugly.

Really inexcusable for Sisley to be sitting at just 7 minutes with the way Tucker has played

Outscored 11-3 at the FT line so far

This game is so weird. Don’t want to bring bad juju but there are times where the lane feels as clogged as it did under the coaching of the previous ten years and the offense seems hellbent on still forcing it in the lane

What foul?

I thought for sure when Sisley hit that 3 that it’d be the start of more offense from more guys. But let’s hope we get another guy or two to join Wilkerson as an offensive threat in the second half

It feels like something that NBA scorers can do so well that it’s become standard in college too, despite the fact that collegiate teams—even elite ones—need way more time to setup a good shot

Looks like SLU will pull away with this one! This guy Dunlap is 6 for 6 from deep off the bench

Really sucks to be down 5 at the half in this one. USC seems very beatable tonight for this IU team but just ugly stretches on offense with a few really dumb fouls.

Cronin’s gotta be wondering how his bigger more athletic team got cooked by Bailey. (obviously I’m very happy Bailey had that performance and hope he pulls it together consistently. I’m just stressed by this game.)

Lamar is our offense right now. Hope someone joins him soon.

Schertz’s SLU team down to a Davidson team even Archie—now 22-41 in the A10—beat by 25. Really surprising so far, but SLU can’t seem to stop Davidson in the paint

12 minutes until the scheduled tip and the DePaul-St John’s lead in just got to the under 8 TO. Going to be really late before the NBCSN feed cuts to the IU-USC game

This is the dude that had the Sherrone Moore tip a week before it broke. Generational Michigan hater, but also prone to believe anything negative based on that. That said, the Andy Kennedy mention is in reference to Kennedy talking about Yaxel’s portal recruitment at the end of last season:

Florida running away with it at home up 62-39 against Alabama with the student section chanting “G League Dropout” whenever Bediako touches the ball. Florida is looking really good of late, though they had that head scratching loss to the Steven Pearl Auburn.

I believe there was a weird AD situation that led Willard to really want out of there. Plus, I think he’s just a much better fit in a basketball first conference rather one that’s ruled much more by football. Buzz Williams does have a history of tanking the first season on a new job, then “rebuilding” and getting the program at a decent—but not great/elite—spot in 4-5 years and then moving on. We’ll see if this holds at Maryland, but feels like unlike his previous stops Maryland fans do want men’s basketball to be back and I don’t know if they can handle empty arenas for another season.

Haha good point. I keep wanting to forget that game

Yeah, they do have a great win like us against Purdue at home. Otherwise, their home slate is not impressive in the slightest and I think IU and many others would be undefeated with that schedule.