IUBB vs North Alabama - Thursday, 12.21.23 @ 8:30 on BTN

[reconmkd 4,366]

Please for the love of all the is holy, win this game in good fashion! I can only take so much drama when I climb Mt. Crumpit to watch basketball games with the mountain goats.

[Uspshoosier 45,615]

This team should have won at Kansas St earlier in the year.   Ended up losing in OT but they had the game won.   They were up 5 with 20 sec to go.  Gave up a layup and then missed front end of 1 and 1 and Kansas st hit a 3 to tie the game 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 84,639]

Thanks @Uspshoosier  Just what I needed was more stress.

[IUrocker 2,178]

Looking back, kinda crazy to know we have only won by double digits twice so far this season, the most being 13 points to Harvard. Obviously a win is a win and I’ll take them however we can get them, but I’m certainly ready to see an all around dominant game where we blow a team out by 25+ like we’re supposed to be capable of doing

[Stuhoo 80,540]

16 minutes ago, IUrocker said:

Looking back, kinda crazy to know we have only won by double digits twice so far this season, the most being 13 points to Harvard. Obviously a win is a win and I’ll take them however we can get them, but I’m certainly ready to see an all around dominant game where we blow a team out by 25+ like we’re supposed to be capable of doing

FWIW the Maryland game was a blowout pretty much from start to finish. We established a double digit lead early, stretched the lead to 23, and the final 12 point win after a few end of game buckets by Maryland was the closest score for the entire second half.

[IUrocker 2,178]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

FWIW the Maryland game was a blowout pretty much from start to finish. We established a double digit lead early, stretched the lead to 23, and the final 12 point win after a few end of game buckets by Maryland was the closest score for the entire second half.

Right, that’s true, I agree with that. I forgot we had such a big lead throughout that game.

[IU_FanClub 1,667]

59 minutes ago, IUrocker said:

Looking back, kinda crazy to know we have only won by double digits twice so far this season, the most being 13 points to Harvard. Obviously a win is a win and I’ll take them however we can get them, but I’m certainly ready to see an all around dominant game where we blow a team out by 25+ like we’re supposed to be capable of doing

To be fair, and not that it makes it much better, I know both Army and Louisville hit meaningless last second shots to make those games single digits and I'm 90% sure Wright State did the same.

 

Either way point still stands we need to play better and start treating these games like they matter, because they are way more important than we have acted.

[coonhounds 8,910]

Well malik is questionable for tonight so it appears he did hurt something at the end of the mo head game. We're a cursed program

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[Home Jersey 7,363]

7 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

Well malik is questionable for tonight so it appears he did hurt something at the end of the mo head game. We're a cursed program

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Wasn't he also listed as questionable before the UM game? I don't think what happened at the end of the game is related to this/anything to worry about but I certainly could be wrong.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 84,639]

Not making light of the fact he may well have an issue, but the B1G guidelines for listing players as questionable is a joke.  Ask for a band aid; ask for an aspirin and per the guidelines you are to be listed as questionable.

[coonhounds 8,910]

Thanks class of and home j. I was about to have a panic attack thinking he may start missing time. Hopefully just something minor. I need to stay off social media lol

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[RaceToTheTop 25,622]

14 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Not making light of the fact he may well have an issue, but the B1G guidelines for listing players as questionable is a joke.  Ask for a band aid; ask for an aspirin and per the guidelines you are to be listed as questionable.

Yeah, there aren't too many guys who miss games in the Big Ten that it's a surprise when they do.  It would be a surprise if Reneau didn't play.

[Josh 12,621]

I hope X doesn't play until Big Ten games.  If Reneau is border injury, I hope the same for him.  No reason to risk injury against cupcakes when we need success in the Big Ten to hope for the NCAA tourney 

If we lose today without them, maybe it will fire them up moving forward.  I almost wish we lost last game so these guys realize we can't play like **** and expect to win

[Ryno6284 2,645]

15 minutes ago, Josh said:

I hope X doesn't play until Big Ten games.  If Reneau is border injury, I hope the same for him.  No reason to risk injury against cupcakes when we need success in the Big Ten to hope for the NCAA tourney 

If we lose today without them, maybe it will fire them up moving forward.  I almost wish we lost last game so these guys realize we can't play like **** and expect to win

I think winning by one point the other night proves that point all the same.

[Josh 12,621]

5 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

I think winning by one point the other night proves that point all the same.

I hope so.  Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom though.  I'm afraid some of the players may think "who cares that we started so slow, we won!"  We'll see I suppose

[Home Jersey 7,363]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

I hope so.  Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom though.  I'm afraid some of the players may think "who cares that we started so slow, we won!"  We'll see I suppose

I don't know what the hell they're thinking, but the body language has been definitely questionable lately... CJ looked like he hardly wanted to be there last time out. Totally deflated. Reneau and Ware at times had kinda bad body language too. I'll cut those two some slack tho. 

What Walker said about staying ready and bringing the energy... I appreciated that "senior" leadership from a transfer. Wish it didn't come to that though. Huge credit to him... 18pts 9 boards? Just want to give him major credit for saving that game. Huge part of the team. 

[HoosierHoopster 6,963]

3 minutes ago, Josh said:

I hope so.  Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom though.  I'm afraid some of the players may think "who cares that we started so slow, we won!"  We'll see I suppose

Doubt it. They barely clawed back to the 1 pt win, staff was going nuts and no doubt read them the riot act during half time and since.

[HoosierHoopster 6,963]

2 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

I don't know what the hell they're thinking, but the body language has been definitely questionable lately... CJ looked like he hardly wanted to be there last time out. Totally deflated. Reneau and Ware at times had kinda bad body language too. I'll cut those two some slack tho. 

What Walker said about staying ready and bringing the energy... I appreciated that "senior" leadership from a transfer. Wish it didn't come to that though. Huge credit to him... 18pts 9 boards? Just want to give him major credit for saving that game. Huge part of the team. 

Walker taking on some leadership going forward is a good thing.

[Hornsby 1,825]

Doubt it. They barely clawed back to the 1 pt win, staff was going nuts and no doubt read them the riot act during half time and since.

Iu by 3 tonight.

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[Hornsby 1,825]

I hope X doesn't play until Big Ten games.  If Reneau is border injury, I hope the same for him.  No reason to risk injury against cupcakes when we need success in the Big Ten to hope for the NCAA tourney 
If we lose today without them, maybe it will fire them up moving forward.  I almost wish we lost last game so these guys realize we can't play like **** and expect to win

A loss today would be devastating four our tourney chances

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