IUBB vs Iowa - Tuesday, 01.30.24 @ 7:00 on BTN

[monskisprodigy 1,787]

Just now, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Seriously though can we “Cam Spencer” Sandfort to Indiana this off-season.  He is what all Indiana fans think Conor Essegian is.    

Saw him joking around and smiling with Leal and a couple others, helped X off the floor. Seems like a good guy, and that's saying a lot for how I typically feel about Iowa players. 

Kid can shoot the basketball. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 47,428]

1 minute ago, monskisprodigy said:

Saw him joking around and smiling with Leal and a couple others, helped X off the floor. Seems like a good guy, and that's saying a lot for how I typically feel about Iowa players. 

Kid can shoot the basketball. 

Saw same things. He punked us last year too if I remember right and gave us the Shhhhhhhhhh.  Confident kid and shooter

[monskisprodigy 1,787]

4 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Saw same things. He punked us last year too if I remember right and gave us the Shhhhhhhhhh.  Confident kid and shooter

He blew a kiss to the crowd after hitting a 3 and got t'ed up...that was an ugly game. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 47,428]

1 minute ago, monskisprodigy said:

He blew a kiss to the crowd after hitting a 3 and got t'ed up...that was an ugly game. 

Killa

[TheWatShot 13,455]

23 minutes ago, monskisprodigy said:

He blew a kiss to the crowd after hitting a 3 and got t'ed up...that was an ugly game. 

It seemed like the students really let him hear about it after that airball with a minute left. Maybe some of them remembered this. 

[IU_FanClub 1,643]

37 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Seriously though can we “Cam Spencer” Sandfort to Indiana this off-season.  He is what all Indiana fans think Conor Essegian is.    

I would have to 180 my complete and utter disdain for him

[OliviaPope40 6,340]

57 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Saw same things. He punked us last year too if I remember right and gave us the Shhhhhhhhhh.  Confident kid and shooter

Yes that was him at the end of the game last year.

[Stuhoo 77,521]

1 hour ago, monskisprodigy said:

Saw him joking around and smiling with Leal and a couple others, helped X off the floor. Seems like a good guy, and that's saying a lot for how I typically feel about Iowa players. 

Kid can shoot the basketball. 

Post game interview with Sandfort on YouTube? He says Assembly Hall has the best road atmosphere in the B1G and probably in the whole country.

[WayneFleekHoosier 47,428]

Post game interview with Sandfort on YouTube? He says Assembly Hall has the best road atmosphere in the B1G and probably in the whole country.

Squad up


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[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,461]

I had said earlier in the season that Indiana would have to win about 12 B1G games to make the tourney. At this point, that finishing out our last 10 at 7-3.

Schedule going forward...

Penn State

at Ohio State

at Purdue

Northwestern

Nebraska

at Penn State

Wisconsin

at Maryland

at Maryland

Michigan State

So to hit 7-3, we would need to win all 5 home games and steal 2 on the road. That would also put us at 20-11 heading into the tourney with wins over Wisconsin, Nebraska, Northwestern and Michigan State. It ain't a strong resume unfortunately.

[RaceToTheTop 24,441]

Ben Krikke has hit an absolute wall for Iowa.  He was averaging over 16 points per game until four games ago.  Last four games he has had to play against size -- Edey, Reese, Reed, and Ware -- and has averaged 7 points and 3 rebounds on 10 of 37 shooting.

[HoosierHoopster 6,490]

51 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I had said earlier in the season that Indiana would have to win about 12 B1G games to make the tourney. At this point, that finishing out our last 10 at 7-3.

Schedule going forward...

Penn State

at Ohio State

at Purdue

Northwestern

Nebraska

at Penn State

Wisconsin

at Maryland

at Maryland

Michigan State

So to hit 7-3, we would need to win all 5 home games and steal 2 on the road. That would also put us at 20-11 heading into the tourney with wins over Wisconsin, Nebraska, Northwestern and Michigan State. It ain't a strong resume unfortunately.

And geez playing at MD twice…

[RaceToTheTop 24,441]

One correction in your schedule, LCS, - you had IU playing at Maryland twice.  The next to last is at Minnesota.

Currently, those games would be:                      

• Penn State, NET 127:  quad 3   
• at Ohio State, NET 73:  quad 1   
• at Purdue, NET 2:  quad 1  
• Northwestern NET 59, quad 2  
• Nebraska, NET 58, quad 2  
• at Penn State, NET 127:  quad 2 
• Wisconsin, NET 11: quad 1  
• at Maryland, NET 81:  quad 2  
• at Minnesota, NET 94:  quad 2  
• Michigan State, NET 24:  quad 1  

Two of those games look to border quad 1/2:  if Ohio State were to drop three in NET, they drop to a quad 2;  if Maryland gains 5 in NET, they would be quad 1.

As a hypothetical, let's say IU wins all five home games and beats Penn State and Minnesota on the road (7-3 is still a pretty tall task IMO, but it is possible).  IU's overall record is 20-11 as LCS mentioned.  By quads, IU would be:

Q1: 2-9   Q2:  7-2   Q3:  5-0  Q4:  6-0

While IU's efficiency numbers wouldn't be great, that's not a bad resume for a bubble team.  20 Q1/2 games, 9 Q1/2 wins, no Q3/Q4 losses and only 6 Q4 games.

Here are the records and quad records of the first four at large bids last year:

Mississippi State 21-12

Q1:  3-9   Q2:  3-1  Q3:  5-2  Q4: 10-0

Arizona State 22-12

Q1:  3-4  Q2:  4-4   Q3:  4-3  Q4:  11-1

Pittsburgh 21-11

Q1:  3-5  Q2:  3-3  Q3: 5-1  Q4:  11-2

Nevada  21-10

Q1: 5-4  Q2:  5-5  Q3:  5-2  Q4:  6-0

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So in the scenario of IU winning all five home and two road, I like IU's resume more than three of the four resumes of the last four teams in last year (I like Nevada's 2023 resume over IU's 2024).  But you can see that often teams on the bubble have gotten to 20-22 wins but racking up a ton of Q4 wins, something IU will hasn't done because they've only had 4 of those type of games.

 

 

 

 

[HoosierTrav 7,630]

9 hours ago, Chris007 said:

Long time no see from you sir. Glad to see you back. Or maybe you've been here and I've missed it. 

My two favorites! 

[str8baller 4,902]

4 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Seriously though can we “Cam Spencer” Sandfort to Indiana this off-season.  He is what all Indiana fans think Conor Essegian is.    

Good luck pulling him out of iowa for his senior year. 

[hoosierbgh 1,259]

14 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

Where are IU fans falling all over themselves?  

It seems there are a couple threads dedicated to exactly that... they predate and have nothing to do with the Iowa game though. 

[JF87 1,413]

15 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Seriously though can we “Cam Spencer” Sandfort to Indiana this off-season.  He is what all Indiana fans think Conor Essegian is.    

Sure, then we can stick him in a corner like Miller Kopp and never run anything for him. 

[OliviaPope40 6,340]

No word on the Radiology department mum is the word.

[Uspshoosier 44,654]

14 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

So to hit 7-3, we would need to win all 5 home games and steal 2 on the road. That would also put us at 20-11 heading into the tourney with wins over Wisconsin, Nebraska, Northwestern and Michigan State. It ain't a strong resume unfortunately.

If IU won all their home games and won 2 road games they are more then likely going to in and they won’t even be in the first 4.   In this instance they would have 0 Q3 or Q4 losses and would have beating a top 2 seed as of today (Wisky) plus a couple of other tourney quality teams.   With an overall SOS in the top 20 it would be hard for the committee to leave a team like that out.    Bubble teams are going to have flaws and bad losses if and that’s a big if IU was to win their home games and steal road games in my opinion they should be in.  But you won’t know for sure until you get closer to the end of the year to see what the end of the bubble actually looks like 

[Stuhoo 77,521]

Nice story from Leal. Right after he came into the Iowa game, he saw a chance to inbound a ball off of Freeman's back, but was too chicken to do it because he thought he'd get yanked if it didn't work.

So at halftime he thought to himself "I'll try to get a freshman to do it!" Went to Mgbako; told him to watch for it and that it was a good idea. And Mack made a helluva play.