Game Thread : Illinois @ Indiana | 8:30EST on BTN

[bleedhoosier]

So BTN is talking about Penn state and the tourney. I say, why not us then? Beat OSU at home which i feel pretty good about... shoooot.. Let's make some noise now boys!!

 

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[WayneFleekHoosier]

Morgan is a stud! Plain and simple


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

2nd Canada goal was way offsides and never challenged. What the heck?


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[cappymo14]

Rule is gone. Most like that it's gone. Some advocate the rule to be back to limit injuries. I never liked the rule but I'm a hockey player and not some sissy. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


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I really like it. Very exciting.


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[cappymo14]

So BTN is talking about Penn state and the tourney. I say, why not us then? Beat OSU at home which i feel pretty good about... shoooot.. Let's make some noise now boys!!
 
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They were talking like we we were going to be the spoilers in the B1G tourney. I’ll take it. Sounds like the B1G needs us to stop winning. Don’t care. If you can’t beat us, you never belonged anyway. Blow it up Hoosiers!


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[KingPG21]

So let's say we win our last 3 games...... 18-12, 11-7 in conference. What does this team have to do to make the tourney?

 

Man I love Archie and what he is doing

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Man... another ugly game vs Illinois. I hope we got that ugly sh*t out of our system for the next few games. 

[ebridges24]

44 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

I really, really really, really hope Morgan is back next year.

On a side note.....we need to have Morgan next year.

PS. did I mention we need Morgan next year?

Well put

[cappymo14]

So let's say we win our last 3 games...... 18-12, 11-7 in conference. What does this team have to do to make the tourney?
 
Man I love Archie and what he is doing

Can’t lose by 30 to FW and Ind St. Can’t lose to a Wisky team playing 3rd string HS players. Can’t lose to a team that went winless in the B1G. We just don’t have wins on our resume, large enough to make up for what are really monumental losses.


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[ebridges24]

7 minutes ago, KingPG21 said:

So let's say we win our last 3 games...... 18-12, 11-7 in conference. What does this team have to do to make the tourney?

 

Man I love Archie and what he is doing

Committee says they like teams that finish strong........

[WayneFleekHoosier]

US ladies net a goal to make it a game!


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[rcbowla]

30 minutes ago, KingPG21 said:

So let's say we win our last 3 games...... 18-12, 11-7 in conference. What does this team have to do to make the tourney?

 

Man I love Archie and what he is doing

Win the B1G tournament

[HooHooHoo22]

13 points jn 13 min for smith. Not too shabby


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[Uspshoosier]

Committee says they like teams that finish strong........

No they don’t. They got rid of looking at the last 10 games a long time ago. A win in February is the same as a win in November


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[ElectricBoogaloo]

Only way in to the NCAA tournament is an automatic bid from winning the BIG tournament. 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Yup. We need a PG. desperately.


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And we have 1 coming

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[HoosierAloha]

Not the prettiest win but it was a win. I hate the Big Ten. These officials.. two goaltending calls missed. If they would have cleaned the game up in the first half we wouldn't have watched a free throw shooting contest the last 8 minutes.

Loved seeing Durham step up when Green didn't have it. Smith made some nice plays but still needs to get stronger. Morgan..

We gave into Ill's pressure. A strong pg leader will be nice.

I have full faith Newkirk would fail a true/false test on basketball decisions. Glad he made a few FTs and layups though.


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[Brass Cannon]

Gonna have to play much better to beat any of our next 3 opponents. We have a better D than Nebraska we gotta use that

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

I turned it off 5 min. into the 2nd half because I had to get up at 4:00 this morning (no, we old farts don't sleep in until 10:00 a.m. every day) and went back and read all the posts from page 16 forward.  Wow, I almost thought we'd lost.  Yeah, it sounded very ugly from most everyone's comments but here's my take looking solely at the box score.

Ugly because the teams attempted a total of 49 free throws and there was no game flow.  That's on the officials - again.

We shot 53% from the field and held Illinois to 41%.

We shot 43% on 3's (season high?); Illinois 21%.

We hit 70% of our FT's which has to be one of our better nights.

We outrebounded them 34-23.

We had 14 assists on 20 made shots.

We got 38 bench points in a game we needed our bench to step up.  Yeah, Josh had 3 TO's but he had 11 pts. on 4-6 shooting; 3 assts. and a steal in 21 min.  And Al, who's had trouble seeing much playing time lately was ready when his number was called with 14 pts. on 5-6 shooting.  Smith gave us 13 pts. on 5-6 shooting and 3 reb. in just 13 min.  That's really good support.

Big negative was our 18 TO's. especially 6 from Rob and 4 from Green.

Had I not watched as much of the game as I did and not read many of the previous posts and looked solely at the stats, I'd say we played a reasonably good game.

On to Eye-O-A and the Franimal.  Keep the win streak rolling.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Rabjohns - Indiana has won three consecutive Big Ten games by 10+ points for the first time since the 2012-13 season (Feb. 10-16, 2013). Archie Miller's team is 12-0 this season when leading with five minutes to play.

 

And we clinched a first round bye in the B1G tournament.