IU Basketball News and Notes

[HoosierHoopster 8,900]

34 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

There will be an intrasquad scrimmage at AH to supplement the Kirkwood event.   7 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 3.

I'm glad this gives folks a chance to get into AH.

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2025/9/15/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-to-host-cream-crimson-scrimmage-presented-by-smithville

Thanks for posting. This covers all bases for me. The scrimmage is on Friday night in the Hall and its open to the public. That's kind of like the old midnight madness event when it was just a scrimmage. Now they've moved to a new college event on campus, but the scrimmage in the Hall is part of it.

Nice -- all good

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,863]

Love what he’s trying to do.  Should be a cool event for students Thursday.  Friday for old heads and kids.  And I love all of it

[Hovadipo 62,252]

1 hour ago, Pagoda said:

There will be an intrasquad scrimmage at AH to supplement the Kirkwood event.   7 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 3.

I'm glad this gives folks a chance to get into AH.

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2025/9/15/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-to-host-cream-crimson-scrimmage-presented-by-smithville

Not sure why this wasn’t announced with the Kirkwood event. Sounds like everyone wins. Good deal. 

[Stuhoo 91,035]

3 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Not sure why this wasn’t announced with the Kirkwood event. Sounds like everyone wins. Good deal. 

Possible that this is an after the announcement response to feedback? 

[Pagoda 5,539]

4 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Not sure why this wasn’t announced with the Kirkwood event. Sounds like everyone wins. Good deal. 

It’s Indiana[‘s Athletic Dept].

I’m not sure what’s easier to schedule than your own team playing itself in the arena you own.

Stu has a good theory.

[Hovadipo 62,252]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Possible that this is an after the announcement response to feedback? 

Ooooh spicy. Bullying works!

[Demo 24,818]

8 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Possible that this is an after the announcement response to feedback? 

Yup

[Scotty R 3,776]

3 hours ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Thanks for posting. This covers all bases for me. The scrimmage is on Friday night in the Hall and its open to the public. That's kind of like the old midnight madness event when it was just a scrimmage. Now they've moved to a new college event on campus, but the scrimmage in the Hall is part of it.

Nice -- all good

Actually midnight madness under RMK was a full two hour practice 

[Rico 3,705]

43 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

Actually midnight madness under RMK was a full two hour practice 

[HoosierHoopster 8,900]

1 hour ago, Scotty R said:

Actually midnight madness under RMK was a full two hour practice 

Actually, that misses the point

[HoosierHoopster 8,900]

17 minutes ago, Rico said:

It never gets old

[OliviaPope40 7,513]

12 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

It never gets old

There's a video on Youtube with a counter that counts how many times he says the word.

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,863]

Actually midnight madness under RMK was a full two hour practice 

I think a lot of fans would enjoy that tbh.


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[Scotty R 3,776]

14 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

I think a lot of fans would enjoy that tbh.


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It was alright for awhile then it got a little boring 

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,863]

1 hour ago, Scotty R said:

It was alright for awhile then it got a little boring 

understood.  I think people get bored of all the formats after a while.  Going back to more basketball oriented is cool to me.  I didn't hate the recent format because i accepted it for what it was.  I like to see scrimmages but now with the super secret scrimmages being more public and the exhibitions I don't even desire that as much.  

[eddy4iu 966]

Full schedule by Thursday.  Mini-series package emails go out shortly after. Mini-series package will include Kansas State and 2 B10 games as well as the holiday patsies.

[Scotty R 3,776]

1 hour ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

understood.  I think people get bored of all the formats after a while.  Going back to more basketball oriented is cool to me.  I didn't hate the recent format because i accepted it for what it was.  I like to see scrimmages but now with the super secret scrimmages being more public and the exhibitions I don't even desire that as much.  

I got tired of HH and haven't gone since Woodson's first year.

[go iu bb 10,034]

Rabby said something concerning: "IU doesn't have big-time money right now." He says that IU is leaning more on revenue sharing and backing off of NIL. He quickly listed 6 schools (I bet you all can guess which 6) and indicated  there are more who aren't doing that which will put IU at a recruiting disadvantage against them. He says IU now has a "good" amount of money to spend, not great.

I guess part of the reason is concern over the clearinghouse but that is a poor excuse to intentionally put yourself at a disadvantage. NIL Go is already looking like the CF that everyone knew it would be with inconsistent approvals and rejections. It looks like they initially rejected a bunch of deals which are now being approved.

Part of the reason is donors thinking rev share is larger than it is from the sound of it.

[Pagoda 5,539]

47 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

Rabby said something concerning: "IU doesn't have big-time money right now." He says that IU is leaning more on revenue sharing and backing off of NIL. He quickly listed 6 schools (I bet you all can guess which 6) and indicated  there are more who aren't doing that which will put IU at a recruiting disadvantage against them. He says IU now has a "good" amount of money to spend, not great.

I guess part of the reason is concern over the clearinghouse but that is a poor excuse to intentionally put yourself at a disadvantage. NIL Go is already looking like the CF that everyone knew it would be with inconsistent approvals and rejections. It looks like they initially rejected a bunch of deals which are now being approved.

Part of the reason is donors thinking rev share is larger than it is from the sound of it.

Thanks for the info.

Not what I want to hear.  NIL Go is just something to work around and as we know NIL is still vital to compete.

I also wonder how football is trending.

**Edit**: For what it’s worth, the few people I know around the AD saw this from Rabby and said no one really knows the exact NIL levels and they aren’t too worried.  We shall see…

[Hoosierfanyuh 7,210]

He was just saying we don’t have byu uk money, the board is inflating it 10x more than it really is. Just my take on it