2025-2026 IUBB Season Expectations

[Stuhoo]

Just now, ebridges24 said:

is this the roster for the Czech Republic national team?

Only see two Czech flags for players on that graphic.

[ebridges24]

28 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Only see two Czech flags for players on that graphic.

But, a lot of names that seem like they're from the Czech Republic

[Home Jersey]

41 minutes ago, ebridges24 said:

is this the roster for the Czech Republic national team?

It's a Serbian team in the Adriatic Basketball Association, which is a pretty good league

[ebridges24]

40 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

It's a Serbian team in the Adriatic Basketball Association, which is a pretty good league

Okay, I was just being sarcastic, I apologize.

[Home Jersey]

16 minutes ago, ebridges24 said:

Okay, I was just being sarcastic, I apologize.

You don't need to apologize, I thought you were genuinely curious about the team lol

[CSP]

On 4/23/2025 at 10:05 AM, AH1971 said:

I don't think next years roster looks anything like his West Virginia roster. 

Welp-- pretty identical 

On 4/23/2025 at 10:11 AM, Asha’man said:

Doubt all you want. He isn’t going to be good enough defensively to start with the other offensive weapons. Get a rim protector to help on defense bc there is plenty of offense already out there.  Then when some of those offensive weapons go to the bench he can come in and put up some points. Can he shoot it? Yes. But he isn’t a prolific shooter on volume. 

He's starting

[realTomCrean]

Expect a tough year. WIll win a few they shouldn't when hot, but looks like an average Fran Iowa team from first look. 

[coonhounds]

Expect a tough year. WIll win a few they shouldn't when hot, but looks like an average Fran Iowa team from first look. 

I hope u are wrong [emoji17]

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[Pagoda]

3 hours ago, realTomCrean said:

Expect a tough year. WIll win a few they shouldn't when hot, but looks like an average Fran Iowa team from first look. 

Dang Coach, that's a rough prediction.

I hope your predication is as good as your record at Georgia.

[Home Jersey]

We will have a much better idea than we do now after the Baylor scrimmage on Sunday.

Then we will get a much better idea than we did before after the Marquette game.

Then we'll see what progress is made between early November and mid-January.

We should hopefully be no worse than 10-2 in non-conference play.

[HoosierHoopster]

I think we'll see a team that gets better and better through the season (barring injuries, please). We make the tourney.

[str8baller]

5 hours ago, realTomCrean said:

Expect a tough year. WIll win a few they shouldn't when hot, but looks like an average Fran Iowa team from first look. 

That would be bad because Fran was a horrible defensive coach. Maybe worse than your namesake. 

[realTomCrean]

25 minutes ago, str8baller said:

That would be bad because Fran was a horrible defensive coach. Maybe worse than your namesake. 

Fran is generic version CTC 

[Asha’man]

On 10/18/2025 at 3:13 PM, CSP said:

 

He's starting

Yup and struggled vs the athleticism 

[CSP]

48 minutes ago, Asha’man said:

Yup and struggled vs the athleticism 

Don't most? 

[Home Jersey]

6-0 coming off a really strong performance at home against Kansas State. Bethune Cookman this Saturday should be a win. Then Minnesota in our first conference game a week from today.

We should go into the Louisville game in Indy 8-0. Will be a tough match up but should be a great environment. 3 days after that we play Penn State. And 4 days later we play Kentucky. That game looks increasingly winnable.

Then we'll play Chicago State (very sugary cupcake) and Siena (regular cupcake) before we're in the thick of conference season. We could/should be 11-2 or 12-1 at that point. 

I felt like this team had a wide range of outcomes in the preseason. I'm really encouraged by what we've seen. Hopefully that translates come the spring portal, but we will get to really enjoy IUBB this year for the first time in a while.

Shades of early 2000s UF, with football rolling and basketball seemingly on the right track. Great time to be a Hoosier.

[Asha’man]

On 11/2/2025 at 6:13 PM, CSP said:

Don't most? 

He isn’t a high major player. At best he is a bench player. This team has major flaws and that’s ok, it’s year 1. Lacks depth, lacks athleticism, lacks size. They are scrappy. I like coach and his style of play, but he needs an injection of roster improvement in the offseason. 

[gfeltner28]

39 minutes ago, Asha’man said:

He isn’t a high major player. At best he is a bench player. This team has major flaws and that’s ok, it’s year 1. Lacks depth, lacks athleticism, lacks size. They are scrappy. I like coach and his style of play, but he needs an injection of roster improvement in the offseason. 

I don't understand why that is ok. You're getting paid a ton of money to build a roster and anybody with any basketball knowledge could see this team was built very poorly (especially in the B10). Not only is the roster construction a complete joke (no size, no shot creator, a black hole at point guard), the lineup combinations are very questionable and the offensive sets are bad. Scrappy is not a word I would use with the effort on the boards. I'm not at all impressed with what coach D has done so far. Hopefully he'll get it cleaned up next year. 

[str8baller]

2 minutes ago, gfeltner28 said:

49 minutes ago, Asha’man said:

 

I don't understand why that is ok.

You’ll know even you ever need to know about Devries when you find out what his son is making this year. Under market price? He wants to win. Crazy inflated price…they see IU as just another paycheck. 

[DChoosier]

35 minutes ago, str8baller said:

You’ll know even you ever need to know about Devries when you find out what his son is making this year. Under market price? He wants to win. Crazy inflated price…they see IU as just another paycheck. 

Crazy inflated?

I’m not disputing that, as I have no idea what Tucker is making, but do you know? If so, let us know.