2022-23 Prediction League - Game 16 at Penn St Wed 7pm BTN 1/11/23

[LIHoosier 24,995]

How this works!!!

Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s).

It's a simple concept:

Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week)
+25 PTs if you guess the winner
-25 PTs if you pick the loser
+10 PTs if guess IU score correctly
+10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct
-The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter)
-The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter)

*** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits.

The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins

[WayneFleekHoosier 46,725]

PSU 79

Indiana 71


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[Henryville Hoosier 929]

PSU 80

IU 73

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,935]

Road Warriors Not      69

 

Nitwitty Lions               82

[hper50 1,170]

Indiana 77, State Pen 72

[craigyv88 384]

IU - 75

Purrin' Kitties - 82

[HoosierCoop 3,810]

IU - 70

Nittany's - 78

[DWB 1,098]

PSU    82

IU       64 (if we're lucky)

[IU Scott 2,375]

IU 77 

PSU 73

 

[RaceToTheTop 23,558]

Penn State 73, IU 70

[BottomLine 677]

Should have had that game at home against NW.  Scored plenty of points - much more than I expected.  The same can be said about the Iowa game.  We lost because we made a ton of crazy turnovers and mostly because our defense is a shambles.  Everybody seems to be able to drive the basket on us.  Reminds me of the Tom Crean years.  We also can not get out quick enough to stop the outside shooters.  I thought this year was supposed to be about defense but that plan has crashed and burned.  With our shorter bench the players are wearing down in the second half.  

I bring all of this up because it has an impact on my predictions.  We aren't the team we were earlier in the year and adjustment is needed.  We need ball handling but I'm not sure where that is going to come from.  We need to slow the other team up when we are on defense.  Did like to see the 3/4 court press dropping back into the 2-3.  Know coach is a man-to-man guy but he need to do something to keep Jackson-Davis closer to the basket on defense (who else do we have that can rebound in a crowd?).  Hope to see more changing defense here and a deeper bench.  With Leal a ghost and Johnson and Thompson gone, we are down to 10 scholarship players.  It may to be time to throw Banks and Duncomb into the fray for short periods and see what they can do.  They can't play defense that much worse that what I am seeing.

Sorry for the rant.  We are all ranting.

I was thinking 73-69 PSU for this game but because of the above I'm going to push those numbers up a bit and see what happens.

PSU -79

IU - 75

[Dave from Dayton 2,581]

IU                     74

Philly Suburb  71

Indiana plays really good defense for the last 6 minutes of the game and wins!  Last second 3-pointer swishes...shot by Reneau from under PSU's basket. All this in spite of Coach Woody getting 2 Technicals and being ejected for not emoting enough when baited by the refs.

I really do love my crimson-tinted spectacles. You too can own your crimson-tinted spectacles!  Just call 900-Indiana.  Operators are standing by.

[incrediboy 919]

Surprised at the pessimism but I guess shouldn't be. But seriously, Northwestern won AT Michigan State. Iowa just took down Rutgers (which took down Purdue) at Rutgers. We lost 2 games to those two winning teams by 3 points total. Our luck has to change, and it will:

Hoosiers 74

Knit Any Pussycats 64

[rcbowla 6,732]

PSU 77
IU 66

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[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,181]

Penn State 86

Indiana 73

[Naturalhoosier 15,353]

PSU - 78

IU - 71

[choosierred1 74]

IU - 79.
PSU - 75.

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[LIHoosier 24,995]

Keepers of the Mausoleum 74

Intensity U 69

[tkbbn 481]

IU 79.  GO BIG RED

knitten kittens 75

[Rico 2,911]

Lions  75

IU   71