IUMBB Hosts Delaware State - 12/19

[Class of '66 Old Fart 85,580]

The Delaware State Cupcakes Hornets (3-9) pay a visit to Assembly Hall this evening at 8:00 E.T.   Should be a rout and rinse a little of the bad taste out of our collective mouths after the Butler loss.  One remaining non-conference game at home against Austin Peay on the 22nd and then the real season starts on the 28th with a home opener against Nebraska and its newly non-tweeting head coach Tim Miles.

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[hsrtxp 1,400]

I'll be at this game with the family! Excited to see the newly renovated AH! Making the drive this afternoon!


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[HoosierAloha 30,077]

We'll turn the ball over a lot but make shots against a physically inferior opponent. I don't see this game adding much and hope the bench mob gets a ton of run.

[bigrod 2,904]

I'm sure this game is really going to help us prepare for the next cupcake on the schedule.


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[Stuhoo 81,802]

 

As irrelevant as this game is to anything and everything, a little fact for consideration:

Delaware State has played 12 games so far this season. They have three wins: against Division III Summit College, against Division III Keystone State, and against the once proud, now truly and completely pitiful...

St. Johns.

A poster on the Johnnies board as Penn State was going on a 28-1 1st half run against them over the weekend:

"I didn't think it could get worse than St Thomas Aquinas or Incarnate Word or Delaware State or LIU Brooklyn but this is...just...
something else."

 

[cthomas 6,514]

This horse has been beaten to death but I just don't get these games. Are schools like this the only ones who will come here? Are we afraid that we will lose if we schedule better? As hard as it is to watch us lose to IPFW and Butler, it's worse to watch us beat the crap out of way over-matched teams. I guess the silver lining is that this part of the schedule is just about over and will actually have to start playing every night.

[TheWatShot 14,251]

12 minutes ago, cthomas said:

This horse has been beaten to death but I just don't get these games. Are schools like this the only ones who will come here? Are we afraid that we will lose if we schedule better? As hard as it is to watch us lose to IPFW and Butler, it's worse to watch us beat the crap out of way over-matched teams. I guess the silver lining is that this part of the schedule is just about over and will actually have to start playing every night.

I've never understood why we don't schedule MAC teams. They aren't good, and we aren't paying them to travel thousands of miles to come here. 

[TheWatShot 14,251]

I predict we'll see one of the following outcomes/reactions tonight:

 

1) Win by 10 or less: "OMG, we suck so bad! We don't deserve to be ranked! Fire Crean now!"

2) Win by 10-20: "We're terrible. We just are." 

3) Win by 20-30: "There are so many things we suck at." 

4) Win by 30-40: "Games like this are pointless. We aren't good." 

5) Lose: BTownBanners breaks the internet and ceases to exist. 

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

I've never understood why we don't schedule MAC teams. They aren't good, and we aren't paying them to travel thousands of miles to come here. 

Are any MAC schools in the 250+ range?

[Stuhoo 81,802]

7 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Are any MAC schools in the 250+ range?

 

That almost made me laugh my after-work beer up through my nose.

 

[TheWatShot 14,251]

5 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Are any MAC schools in the 250+ range?

Miami is 293. Next lowest is Western Michigan at 206, then Bowling Green at 193. 

 

Tonight's opponent is 339. Mississippi Valley St. is currently 343 with a record of 0-11. Austin Peay is 308. 

[Alford Bailey 12,415]

43 minutes ago, cthomas said:

This horse has been beaten to death but I just don't get these games. Are schools like this the only ones who will come here? Are we afraid that we will lose if we schedule better? As hard as it is to watch us lose to IPFW and Butler, it's worse to watch us beat the crap out of way over-matched teams. I guess the silver lining is that this part of the schedule is just about over and will actually have to start playing every night.

Our non con schedule is actually pretty decent this year. We will always have some cupcakes.

[Alford Bailey 12,415]

29 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

I predict we'll see one of the following outcomes/reactions tonight:

 

1) Win by 10 or less: "OMG, we suck so bad! We don't deserve to be ranked! Fire Crean now!"

2) Win by 10-20: "We're terrible. We just are." 

3) Win by 20-30: "There are so many things we suck at." 

4) Win by 30-40: "Games like this are pointless. We aren't good." 

5) Lose: BTownBanners breaks the internet and ceases to exist. 

#3

[Alford Bailey 12,415]

33 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

I've never understood why we don't schedule MAC teams. They aren't good, and we aren't paying them to travel thousands of miles to come here. 

We used to all the time. IU even played at Millett Hall ( Miami OH) under Knight.

[Whoozhers 3,723]

I still have a hangover from the Butler loss. This win will not go very far for my recovery. But, GO HOOSIERS!

[OliviaPope40 6,627]

Will be switching back and forth on this one.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 85,580]

starting lineup tonight vs Delaware State: -Newkirk -Blackmon Jr. -Johnson -Morgan -Bryant

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

I still have a hangover from the Butler loss. This win will not go very far for my recovery. But, GO HOOSIERS!

A win over UL would go a long way but I don't see is getting it done. The cupcakes are there to develop young players and for Crean to par his record.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 85,580]

Purely out of curiosity, does anyone have an idea of what kind of $$ schools receive to come and get their a$$ kicked but occasionally take the money and still get a 'W'?

[LIHoosier 26,553]

10 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Purely out of curiosity, does anyone have an idea of what kind of $$ schools receive to come and get their a$$ kicked but occasionally take the money and still get a 'W'?

I'll do some research during breaks, but I think for some schools in B-ball it can get into the low 6 figures/game.