Bracketology and Team Resumes

[rcbowla]

Besides Stuhoo's point/question on how the 4 works out going forward, it's also somewhat a road game vs home game thing imo for the guards, in particular Bates.  I'm not in the give up on him camp, but he needs to find his mojo / confidence again. He's had some excellent games, but without going back and checking I think they were home, and his away game play just hasn't been there (though I saw a post that said he hasn't shown he can pass, and that's just wrong imo, he's had some terrific passes to the post in traffic and otherwise in moving the ball inside). He was outstanding in that MSU game, but has largely disappeared. And in fairness, Gallo has had some real off games offensively, he brings it defensively every game so he's going to play, but when he contributes more on both ends our overall guard play is much better. It's impressive that we've continued to win despite not scoring that well recently, shows just how good TJD and JHS are and that the team does have depth for other players to show up (like Kopp), but we need those other guys to step up again to run deep.

I feel like he had a solid game at Illinois. But that was so long ago I could be remembering it wrong.

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[HoosierHoopster]

55 minutes ago, rcs29 said:

I feel like he had a solid game at Illinois. But that was so long ago I could be remembering it wrong.

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I wasn’t sure and checked, he went 0-3 with 3 boards in that game, if you meant Bates. Gallo had that 4-5 game including his 3, and played a big part in that dominant game.

[rcbowla]

I wasn’t sure and checked, he went 0-3 with 3 boards in that game, if you meant Bates. Gallo had that 4-5 game including his 3, and played a big part in that dominant game.

Yeah I was thinking Bates. Clearly from a production standpoint I was very much remembering incorrectly.

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[IU - Kaulie]

4 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

JHS, X, and Gallo have an extremely high ceiling as a March guard trio. Once X is back, Tamar slides to the backup three spot (along with Gallo in crunch time).

Our biggest question mark by far is from our "4-spot buffet" IMO.

X is the big unknown right now.  I mean I think he gets back and helps us for sure but how much remains to be seen.  Bates needs to get it going or his minutes are going to disappear.  I think Gallo will continue to play heavy minutes and will be on the floor to close out games regardless of X.

[mamasa]

[RaceToTheTop]

IU fell from 17 to 21 in my WAR values with the loss to Northwestern.  Northwestern enters my top 25 war for the first time at 23.

[LIHoosier]

We fell a spot to 18 in NET

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[Uspshoosier]

https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2023/team-net-sheet?team=Indiana
 

 

[Josh]

4 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2023/team-net-sheet?team=Indiana
 

 

Is this the average net ranking of the opponents we've beaten vs the ones we've lost to?  If so this is a perfect example of why we need to eliminate the bottom feeders in our pre conference schedule

 

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2023/team-net-sheet?team=Indiana
 

 

9 of IU’s road games are against top 75 teams.   No road games outside the top 75 except for the Minny game.      Big 12 and B1G teams get no days off on the road. 

 

[Uspshoosier]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

Is this the average net ranking of the opponents we've beaten vs the ones we've lost to?  If so this is a perfect example of why we need to eliminate the bottom feeders in our pre conference schedule

 

Yeah and actually 150 isn’t bad compared to other teams.   Only 1 team has an average of under 100.  Kansas is that team.    If your average wins  is under 100 then that’s a crazy compliment.   

[Josh]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Yeah and actually 150 isn’t bad compared to other teams.   Only 1 team has an average of under 100.  Kansas is that team.    If your average wins  is under 100 then that’s a crazy compliment.   

We could easily be there too if we' stop scheduling teams 200+ in net!  Thanks for the clarification

[Hoosierfan1901]

On TR, we went from from a likely a 4 seed before the game and now likely a 6 seed after it

[Uspshoosier]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

We could easily be there too if we' stop scheduling teams 200+ in net!  Thanks for the clarification

Kansas average is 84 and Bama is 95 for their wins.   Almost everyone else is 120 or above 

[Uspshoosier]

2 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

On TR, we went from from a likely a 4 seed before the game and now likely a 6 seed after it

Just will depend on what others around that area do and how IU finishes.   I could make an argument that a 6 seed is a better position than a 4 or 5 seed.   As always with the tournament it will depend on matchups 

[Hoosierfan1901]

Lunardi actually rose us to the highest 4th seed after the loss

[IU_FanClub]

2 hours ago, Josh said:

We could easily be there too if we' stop scheduling teams 200+ in net!  Thanks for the clarification

Who would you suggest we schedule? We already have a 20 game conference meat grinder and typically 4-5 really solid non conference games

[AKHoosier]

21 wins before the BTT. That's my benchmark for this team right now.

Pick up a win in the conference tournament, hopefully at least 2, and that would put us at 22-11 for the season. 

I'd have to think we'd be no lower than a 5 seed, but lots depends on what other teams do too.

[Uspshoosier]

1 hour ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Lunardi actually rose us to the highest 4th seed after the loss

He has IU as the last 4 seed as of now 16th overall.    If you look at his top 16 his snakes down to the next line.   Every other person just lists from left to right to make it easy but not him. 

[Hoosierfan1901]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

He has IU as the last 4 seed as of now 16th overall.    If you look at his top 16 his snakes down to the next line.   Every other person just lists from left to right to make it easy but not him. 

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