Mike Woodson and His Coaching Staff

[mark1981]

57 minutes ago, Southside said:

So Archie

• never beat PU
• never beat MI
• never won 2 games in the B10T
• never made the Dance....

That's some good stuff from Woody in year 1

 

Now if we could just win three in a row......

[Southside]

2 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

We haven't been able to feel comfortable against the cellar dwellers in 5 years.  Madison always seems to be a house of horrors.

I'd rather play Wiscy in Indy than Iowa or PU to be honest lol... 

Doubt Wiscy advances to the finals to be honest. 

But would be nice. 

[Southside]

3 minutes ago, mark1981 said:

Now if we could just win three in a row......

[str8baller]

54 minutes ago, Southside said:

Just hope we don't run out of gas and hit a wall tomorrow, or game one in the Dance. 

I’m sure I’ll be mad at any future loss, but we’re hopefully in the big dance and any thing beyond that for this season is gravy. 

[Southside]

9 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I’m sure I’ll be mad at any future loss, but we’re hopefully in the big dance and any thing beyond that for this season is gravy. 

[HoosierHoopster]

20 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I’m sure I’ll be mad at any future loss, but we’re hopefully in the big dance and any thing beyond that for this season is gravy. 

We’re definitely dancing at this point only question is the seed. 
i do like gravy though :) 

[DWB]

55 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

We’re definitely dancing at this point only question is the seed. 
i do like gravy though :) 

I wish I could be as confident as you, but I don't see them taking 9 B10 teams.

[HoosierHoopster]

3 minutes ago, DWB said:

I wish I could be as confident as you, but I don't see them taking 9 B10 teams.

There's absolutely no way IU is left out at this point. Seriously

[Uspshoosier]

5 minutes ago, DWB said:

I wish I could be as confident as you, but I don't see them taking 9 B10 teams.

Probably not.  if I was a Michigan or Rutgers fan I would be sweating on Sunday 

[IUFAN1976]

4 minutes ago, DWB said:

I wish I could be as confident as you, but I don't see them taking 9 B10 teams.

Heck yes we are in.  If they only take 8 teams, Michigan is the odd team out, IMO. Our team has been highly competitive with every team on our schedule and we can compete with any team in the country despite our record.  Again, yes we are in.

[Stuhoo]

41 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

Heck yes we are in.  If they only take 8 teams, Michigan is the odd team out, IMO. Our team has been highly competitive with every team on our schedule and we can compete with any team in the country despite our record.  Again, yes we are in.

We have 20 wins with neutral court wins over ND, UM, and Illinois, and wins against OSU and Pudroo. 

And no terrible losses.

Rutgers and Michigan both have many excellent wins, but Rutgers is 18-13 with two horrible, awful losses, and Michigan is 17-14 and lost to us in a game that was nationally advertised as a play-in game.

We. 
Are. 
In.

 

[Southside]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Probably not.  if I was a Michigan or Rutgers fan I would be sweating on Sunday 

Agreed... 

IU (41) is way ahead of Rutgers (77) already in Net even before today's outcome.

If MSU (37th) loses to Wiscy, good chance IU (41) jumps them tonight. 

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Southside said:

Agreed... 

IU (41) is way ahead of Rutgers (77) already in Net even before today's outcome.

If MSU (37th) loses to Wiscy, good chance IU (41) jumps them tonight. 

In NET only.  0 chance IU could jumped them in seeding in my opinion 

[Southside]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

In NET only.  0 chance IU could jumped them in seeding in my opinion 

I agree. The H2H loss we have to them, plus the Q2 disparity. 

[Chris007]

So snapped 9 game winning streaks to Purdue, Michigan, 4 game streak to Illinois, won 20 games, 2 in the BTT and making the NCAA. Pretty good first year for Woody.

[DWB]

32 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

Heck yes we are in.  If they only take 8 teams, Michigan is the odd team out, IMO. Our team has been highly competitive with every team on our schedule and we can compete with any team in the country despite our record.  Again, yes we are in.

 

36 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

There's absolutely no way IU is left out at this point. Seriously

It's not that I don't believe you guys, I'm just a pessimist. I'm as hopeful as I can be, but until I see the name on the board on Sunday, I'll still have my doubts.

The thing that is nagging at me is that while we don't have any bad losses, we played pretty lousy (read 5 game losing streak). Yes we were competitve in most of them, but we lost 7 out of 9 (I believe) at the end. The BTT has helped, no doubt, but I see a team like Rutgers who were giant killers down the stretch, and we were on the struggle bus.

On the bright side, IF the committee does take injuries into account (big IF), then they have to give us some relief for Trey & Rob being hurt for essentially ½ the season.

Hope you guys are right, and a bunch of surprise tournament winners don't emerge from other conferences and take our bid away.

[HoosierHoopster]

Just now, DWB said:

 

It's not that I don't believe you guys, I'm just a pessimist. I'm as hopeful as I can be, but until I see the name on the board on Sunday, I'll still have my doubts.

The thing that is nagging at me is that while we don't have any bad losses, we played pretty lousy (read 5 game losing streak). Yes we were competitve in most of them, but we lost 7 out of 9 (I believe) at the end. The BTT has helped, no doubt, but I see a team like Rutgers who were giant killers down the stretch, and we were on the struggle bus.

On the bright side, IF the committee does take injuries into account (big IF), then they have to give us some relief for Trey & Rob being hurt for essentially ½ the season.

Hope you guys are right, and a bunch of surprise tournament winners don't emerge from other conferences and take our bid away.

I can certainly understand the pessimism / concern after IU's recent history, but at this point it's a numbers game and there's really no way IU gets left out -- it's basically a clear 11 seed right now, at worst maybe a 12. We're in, have a beer!

[cthomas]

1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

So snapped 9 game winning streaks to Purdue, Michigan, 4 game streak to Illinois, won 20 games, 2 in the BTT and making the NCAA. Pretty good first year for Woody.

Personally, I think CMW has done a good job with this team. When was the last time that IU has been playing really good basketball at this time of year? He has kept them engaged during trying times and has them securely in the dance. And, he has done it while maintaining control of the program. For all the second guessing he received for the suspensions before the Northwestern game, the bigger picture is more important than any one win or game. The culture is changing. I, for one, am glad to see it.

[IUFAN1976]

1 hour ago, DWB said:

 

It's not that I don't believe you guys, I'm just a pessimist. I'm as hopeful as I can be, but until I see the name on the board on Sunday, I'll still have my doubts.

The thing that is nagging at me is that while we don't have any bad losses, we played pretty lousy (read 5 game losing streak). Yes we were competitve in most of them, but we lost 7 out of 9 (I believe) at the end. The BTT has helped, no doubt, but I see a team like Rutgers who were giant killers down the stretch, and we were on the struggle bus.

On the bright side, IF the committee does take injuries into account (big IF), then they have to give us some relief for Trey & Rob being hurt for essentially ½ the season.

Hope you guys are right, and a bunch of surprise tournament winners don't emerge from other conferences and take our bid away.

Most every team goes through highs and lows.  They said the committee mainly looks at the entire body of work.  A 5 game losing streak isn’t something they dissect from the middle of the season.  I think they look do look at how they are playing down the stretch.  We won the last 4 out of 6 games and the two we lost were by a total of 5 points.  We are in!!!!!

[Uspshoosier]

2 hours ago, DWB said:

 

It's not that I don't believe you guys, I'm just a pessimist. I'm as hopeful as I can be, but until I see the name on the board on Sunday, I'll still have my doubts.

The thing that is nagging at me is that while we don't have any bad losses, we played pretty lousy (read 5 game losing streak). Yes we were competitve in most of them, but we lost 7 out of 9 (I believe) at the end. The BTT has helped, no doubt, but I see a team like Rutgers who were giant killers down the stretch, and we were on the struggle bus.

On the bright side, IF the committee does take injuries into account (big IF), then they have to give us some relief for Trey & Rob being hurt for essentially ½ the season.

Hope you guys are right, and a bunch of surprise tournament winners don't emerge from other conferences and take our bid away.

Committee does entire body of work and stress in every interview that games played in November are just as important as the games in March.  No extra weight for conference tournament games.   Committee also stopped looking at how a team does down the stretch.  (Last 10 or 12 games).  Used to be a factor but hasn’t been for a very long time.