IUBB at Minnesota - Wednesday, 12.03.25 @ 7:00 ET on BTN

[Class of '66 Old Fart 96,018]

Opening our B1G season on the road at Minny (4-4) who have lost their last 3 games.  They average 73.5 ppg shooting 46% FG and 31% on 3s.  They hold a +7 rebounding margin.  Cade Tyson leads them in scoring at 22.4 ppg.  Jaylen Crocker-Johnson their only other double digit scorer at 12.4 ppg.  Crocker-Johnson (6’8”) is their leading rebounder at 9.1/gm.

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[WayneFleekHoosier 52,375]

We can’t let ourselves lose to a 2 player team that projects bottom 3 in the league, even if it’s on the road.

Especially with a possible loss against Louisville upcoming.

Fingers crossed for a sneaky big game.


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[str8baller 8,355]

I would say Minnesota is a very soft 4-4 at that, having lost to every decent team they’ve played and needing overtime to beat Green Bay.  
 

Tough place to play, but it’d be disappointing to drop this one. 

[Stuhoo 93,496]

It’s really good to start B1G play with a road win. This is as winnable as the road gets. Stars currently aligned for the Hoosiers.

[OliviaPope40 7,660]

The game of the annoying barn animals.

 

[Brass Cannon 26,800]

This is the beginning of a 4 game stretch where we are gonna learn a lot about our team. 
 

0-4 possible a new topic getting created
1-3 disappointing but we can grow from it 
2-2 kinda what we expected.                                 
3-1 oh yeah we can make some noise           
4-0 we’re back baby 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 96,018]

0-4 and our site may never recover from whatever the heck is playing havoc with it.

[HoosierHoopster 9,527]

I’m in England right now, which is 5 hours ahead — this of course means I will know the result of this game before it even starts for you poor suckers.
Can’t wait to enter my “prediction” in the prediction thread!

[Stuhoo 93,496]

3 hours ago, HoosierHoopster said:

I’m in England right now, which is 5 hours ahead — this of course means I will know the result of this game before it even starts for you poor suckers.
Can’t wait to enter my “prediction” in the prediction thread!

Riiiiight.

So, for a $50 'processing fee' I will enter an American on-line bet for you and your advance knowledge.

[OliviaPope40 7,660]

6 hours ago, HoosierHoopster said:

I’m in England right now, which is 5 hours ahead — this of course means I will know the result of this game before it even starts for you poor suckers.
Can’t wait to enter my “prediction” in the prediction thread!

Do tell me what all you see taking a trip there next summer. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 96,018]

The Daily Hoosier - Cory Provus, Robbie Hummel, and Andy Katz will call IU at Minnesota for BTN on Wednesday evening (7 p.m. ET).

[LIHoosier 29,286]

Mini Soda's starting PG is out for the year. https://www.si.com/college/minnesota/gophers-basketball/gophers-lose-starting-point-guard-for-the-season

[str8baller 8,355]

Let’s just delete this thread and pretend this game and Louisville never happened.

[WayneFleekHoosier 52,375]

Let’s just delete this thread and pretend this game and Louisville never happened.

Some saw this coming. Think we can make the tournament with this team? Basketball has some decisions to make.


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[HoosierHoopster 9,527]

3 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Some saw this coming. Think we can make the tournament with this team? Basketball has some decisions to make.


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Absolutely. You give up way too soon man. We have plenty of chances to gain points and momentum back. Minn loss was awful and hurts but no, fat lady isn’t close to done singing yet

[str8baller 8,355]

3 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Think we can make the tournament with this team?

Not with the team that took the floor at the Barn. Probably not the one that played vs Lville either. Minnesota is really bad and that loss is probably somewhere down there with some bad Woody and Archie losses.  
 

I think they’re talented enough to make it. Probably like Lville last year…9/10 seed. But something is off. Hard to blame CDD too much this early but his offense has very little answer to teams extending their pressure and daring us to beat them off the dribble. 

[HoosierHoopster 9,527]

On 12/1/2025 at 6:54 PM, OliviaPope40 said:

Do tell me what all you see taking a trip there next summer. 

This trip I was visiting my Brit cousins in Northhamtonshire which is about an hr 1/2 north of London, but we visited London last spring. There are many many things to do and see of course in London, but def worth a trip to the Tower of London (castle, really enjoyable tour and beautiful), Big Ben and Buckingham Palace — surrounding park. 

 

[WayneFleekHoosier 52,375]

1 hour ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Absolutely. You give up way too soon man. We have plenty of chances to gain points and momentum back. Minn loss was awful and hurts but no, fat lady isn’t close to done singing yet

While technically true this team is what it is.  I guess we’ll see if DeVries is with his salt. But then again he put this collection together and thought it was good enough.  

[Josh 13,515]

1 hour ago, str8baller said:

Hard to blame CDD too much this early but his offense has very little answer to teams extending their pressure and daring us to beat them off the dribble. 

I find it incredibly easy to blame the guy who picked all the players and gets to tell them how to play.  I fully blame him.

This team is bad and our gimmicky offense is offensive.  

[Rico 4,045]

For as pitiful as the Minny game was, the start to the Louisville game was worse.  Disappointed with Enright, Conerway, and Bailey.