IUBB at Xavier - Friday, 11/18/22 @ 6:00 on FS1

[mark1981]

Wins like that have been rare on the road.  Good job fellas

[Banksyrules]

1. Our freshman have great fundies. Hopefully Reneau can better his free throws.

2. XJ- my god. You got the dawg in you but you really do make stupid plays at times.

3. Away game in a intense crowd. Love it. Does nothing but give our players confidence moving forward after getting the W. 

4. Do is our rock, but as the season progresses our offense could be special as well. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Lose this game and the "can't win on the road" mentality sets in deeper and how do we respond when he have to face Kansas and Arizona?   It certainly wasn't pretty, but now they know they can win these kinds of slugfests.

[Southside]

1 minute ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Good win. We don’t have near the depth that some people thought we had, but that’s ok. The best teams ride their best guys. Find your top 7 (maybe 8) and play the others as foul troubles/injuries require. 

IMO, our starters stunk early (and some late too).

Kopp gave us a ton of empty minutes. Horrible until the 3pt.

JHS and Race underwhelmed, but Race at least rebounded. 

[IUc2016]

Put this in our back pocket and keep it there til March. 
 

go Hoosiers 

[monskisprodigy]

I need to go back and watch the play…but was yelling at Kopp for passing the ball to a Freshman Reneau in that situation knowing they are going to foul. 
 

I have confidence in Malik to stroke those…but first road game as a freshman in hostile environment to hit big free throws. Tough for the young man. 

That said…they didn’t have an answer for Malik. His need to be on the court is evident…

[TheWatShot]

A close win on the road with plenty of teaching moments is every coach's fantasy. 

[HoosierHoopster]

This was a pickem game for betters, the line was like 1.5, and we were over the projected point total by a good bit, and overcame horrible officiating and a rough 1st half against a good Xavier team. 
That’s a good start to the real games

[LamarCheeks]

I missed most of the first half. Was there a reason Geronimo only played 5 minutes? 

Was he pretty bad in the time he did get? 

[Josh]

So we beat them with their best player...but he fouled out.  How should we feel in this situation?

Good farking win!

[HoosierHoopster]

1 minute ago, LamarCheeks said:

I missed most of the first half. Was there a reason Geronimo only played 5 minutes? 

Was he pretty bad in the time he did get? 

Yeah he started bad in this one, Bates too, they’ll bounce back

[monskisprodigy]

I was on the phone with a friend at like the 4 minute mark and we agreed we need 2 minutes of good  X…almost Jinxed us haha.

[Brass Cannon]

1 down 3 to go

[IUc2016]

3 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

I missed most of the first half. Was there a reason Geronimo only played 5 minutes? 

Was he pretty bad in the time he did get? 

No better or worse than race. 
 

but Malik is On another level and needs 25 minutes so that’s why 

[Uspshoosier]

[HinnyHoosier]

I call foul on this:
“We aren’t as deep as we thought we were. *tear*”

First road game. First legitimate opponent. We have underclassmen getting significant run. As far as I’m concerned, this was the best possible scenario going into a gauntlet of a schedule. We won the game. And we also won some good teaching moments for our guys, and we have a coach that can actually do the teaching.

My vote: Chill out and take the W.


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[Brass Cannon]

2 minutes ago, IUc2016 said:

No better or worse than race. 
 

but Malik is On another level and needs 25 minutes so that’s why 

Yep.  Play race and see if he’s Super Race and if not ride Malik the rest of the game otherwise 

[Hoosierfan2017]

13 minutes ago, IUc2016 said:

I agree we don’t have the depth. But I do think it being the first road game in a huge environment makes it seem worse than reality. 
 

play this game in Bloomington and some of the younger guys have better games. 

Depth is overrated in basketball anyway, imho. I’m not worried about JHS. He’ll be fine. Malik was great. He should be starting and playing 25+ mpg. He’s legit. Free throws need work, but he didn’t let that bother him and made back to back great defensive plays to seal the win. Kopp is very controversial, but he’s the closest thing we have to a shooter. He probably needs to play, the lineup that closed plus Race and Galloway are your 7 guys, imo. Bates and Geronimo competing for 8 and 9. 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

It’s a road win and yes of course we have the depth, pronouncements of lack of depth after one tough road game, sigh 

Lots of hot takes throughout the game

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[Josh]

We might NEVER LOSE AGAIN!!