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On a serious note, a guy like Luke Goode should’ve spent his entire career at Indiana and gone down as one of the greats. Truly malpractice that the lion’s share of his best years were spent elsewhere (at a conference rival, no less). It’s also evident that Leal should’ve been getting more minutes long before now.

You’re lucky I didn’t call him Anthony Steal. I seriously considered it.

“Real estate? More like steal estate” – Anthony Leal, probably

Leal for MVP

Considering the fact that Houston plays tonight at 8pm, this isn’t just a vacation for Cody. It’s a business trip. Only way to explain why he’s there. Certainly lends a little credence to the rumors that Brad Stevens was bringing him on as GM. I’m not jumping to conclusions. Just noticing.

That gives me more confidence for the Oregon game. We'll see what happens!

This color commentator seems to have never watched a single IU game all season. Mispronouncing names and throwing in the most cliché comments imaginable lmao

I assume someone here likely knows the answer to this, but is the plan for the team to stay out on the west coast until their game against Oregon on Tuesday night?

Since the tourney was expanded to 64 teams in 1985 there have been 39 national champions. 35 of them have been a 3-seed or higher. 25 have been a 1 seed. Barely backing into the tournament is not a recipe for success. Indiana's highest seed in the tournament under Woodson was 4 in 2023, and they got ran off the floor by 5-seed Miami (who would go on to the Final Four, to be fair). Under Crean, Indiana was a 4-seed in 2012, 1-seed in 2013, 10-seed in 2015, and a 5-seed in 2016. Under Sampson IU went to the tourney both years, as a 7-seed in 2007 and an 8-seed in 2008. Under Mike Davis, IU was a 4-seed in 2001, 5-seed in 2002, 7-seed in 2003, and a 6-seed in 2006 Under Knight, from 1994-2000 Indiana made the tournament every year but was not seeded higher than 6 at any point. Aside from 2013, Indiana has not been a 1-seed (or higher than a 3-seed) since 1993. Statistically Indiana has not put themselves in a position to even remotely compete for a national title more than once in the last 32 years. Let's compare to a similar program in terms of historical success, fan support, finances, etc. -- Kansas Under Bill Self, Kansas has not missed a single NCAA tournament. They've been a 1-seed ten times, a 2-seed three times, a 3-seed three times, and a 4-seed four times. They've won two national championships, both as a 1-seed. This demonstrates two things, 1) how difficult it is to win the tournament even as a high seed, and 2) that winning a national championship requires a degree of consistent success over many years. There is no excuse given the similarities between Kansas and Indiana that we cannot achieve similar success. I do not expect our next coach to emulate the statistics of Bill Self -- that would be insane. But I do expect that we can start achieving SOME degree of consistent success so that we can be in a position to be competitive in the tournament. There is no excuse with our resources for Indiana to be struggling to make the tournament, and getting consistently outclassed when they do.

Just caught up on today's posts. To summarize: Nothing has changed, no one knows anything. I trust Scott Dolson to make the right hire but he's really not giving us message board geniuses much to work with.

All I know is that he only appeared when Woodson’s seat was getting hot last February and became a lightning rod for Woodson supporters on Twitter. He blocked anyone who disagreed with him so that his posts would only receive likes and the replies would be people applauding and agreeing with him. It all reeked of a weird subversion campaign by the staff (or a rogue element of the staff) from the beginning. And this became more obvious during portal season as he repeatedly got predictions wrong, because the only info he had was from folks inside the program, not from agents or people close to the prospects.

If he didn’t block anyone who disagrees with him I’d take him more seriously. He’s totally uninterested in actual discourse.

He said Connor Essegian to IU was a done deal multiple times, doubled and tripled down on it, then it was announced literally that day he was going to Nebraska and he deleted all his tweets on the topic. He blocked me for asking why he got it wrong lol. He blocks anyone who questions or dissents with his BS.

can we stop acting like Tyme is an insider who knows anything? he's clearly connected to the current staff but is not connected within the athletic department he also missed on a lot of recruitment predictions this offseason because he was being fed sunshine and rainbows by whoever his staff source is, but deleted his tweets so people couldn't go back and call him on his BS

you all forget RTZ is an hour behind us. bro is gonna drop a bomb at 1am. trust

Hey that’s me!

yeah IU is great at giving their opponents all they confidence in the world in assembly hall

so glad we got that rebound so we could take another long 2

Miles ahead, one might say

lmao

To be fair, we got a little help against Purdue the other day haha

Ballo has been a half step slow all night. Frustrating to watch.

When's the last time we saw a half court buzzer beater? That was awesome. No way this game can follow up how good that one was haha

Alright Hoosiers, let's try to follow up that half court buzzer beater lmao

Correction: he missed cork taint