IUBB at Kentucky - Saturday, 12.13.25 @ 7:30 on ESPN

[str8baller]

On 12/11/2025 at 12:55 PM, TheWatShot said:

Our last win over OSU in football before this year was 1988. Our basketball program's last win at UK was in...1988. 

 

 

That’s more believable to me than we haven’t played them in 10 yrs, especially since we went long stretches at neutral sites. Ten years means that unless the current students grew up rabid IU fans they barely even know this as a rivalry.  Crazy. 
 

 

[TheWatShot]

37 minutes ago, str8baller said:

That’s more believable to me than we haven’t played them in 10 yrs, especially since we went long stretches at neutral sites. Ten years means that unless the current students grew up rabid IU fans they barely even know this as a rivalry.  Crazy. 
 

 

Our last 10 years is a case study on how to lose an entire generation of potential IU fans. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

The Daily Hoosier - Kentucky is ranging from a 3.5 to 5.5-point favorite in tomorrow night's game vs. Indiana with Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale and Charles Barkley on the call for ESPN at 7:30 p.m. ET.

[str8baller]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

with Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale and Charles Barkley on the call for ESPN at 7:30 p.m. ET.

The only prediction I feel confident in is: whichever team wins will be mildly amused with this announcing crew, and the fans of the losing team will absolutely hate them.

[TheWatShot]

Dick Vitale spent the better part of the last 10 years bringing up Kentucky during every one of our games and ranting about how we needed to play them again. He'll probably feel like he died and went to heaven. 

[Pagoda]

Personally, I find the Chuckster to be hilarious and I doubt he can make me mad.  Even if he doesn’t know much about us or is critical I just don’t care, I like his humor and I don’t need super sharp game analysis.

[HoosierHoopster]

2 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Personally, I find the Chuckster to be hilarious and I doubt he can make me mad.  Even if he doesn’t know much about us or is critical I just don’t care, I like his humor and I don’t need super sharp game analysis.

He knows very little about college ball (“turrible’) but he’s hysterical, always a fun listen 

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, HoosierHoopster said:

He knows very little about college ball (“turrible’) but he’s hysterical, always a fun listen 

Agreed. I find Barkley quite funny, OTOH, I cannot stand Vitale - his voice is annoying, and he's all hype.

What's the over/under on Vitale calling for IU to name the floor/arena/campus after RMK?

[OliviaPope40]

5 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Agreed. I find Barkley quite funny, OTOH, I cannot stand Vitale - his voice is annoying, and he's all hype.

What's the over/under on Vitale calling for IU to name the floor/arena/campus after RMK?

I'm taking the over. 

[mamasa]

The site I use had IU as 4.5 underdogs yesterday and down to 2.5 today

[jermhoosierfan]

36 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Agreed. I find Barkley quite funny, OTOH, I cannot stand Vitale - his voice is annoying, and he's all hype.

What's the over/under on Vitale calling for IU to name the floor/arena/campus after RMK?

Or a statue for him outside of AH which I think is more likely to actually happen.

[DChoosier]

On 12/10/2025 at 10:13 PM, Demo said:

https://x.com/ConnorHinesTV/status/1998818723306606807
 

Ok, is this one of those things that those of us who either didn’t attend IU or are of a certain, uh, vintage have just missed out on and the rest of you know exactly where Lamar’s referring to?

1) The words burrito and gas station should never be in the same sentence (unless the sentence is “I ate a huge burrito and desperately had to stop at a gas station to use the can”)

2) UK is 6-4 but haven’t exactly lost to the Little Sisters of the Poor (MSU, Ville, UNC and a bad, they got smoked, loss to Zags).  Dont feel good about this at Rupp. If we don’t have a good day from the 3 I could see a 15+ loss.  

[Brass Cannon]

21 minutes ago, jermhoosierfan said:

Or a statue for him outside of AH which I think is more likely to actually happen.

Yeah if we end up building one for Cig I feel like the obvious question will be asked about Knight 

[str8baller]

4 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Yeah if we end up building one for Cig I feel like the obvious question will be asked about Knight 

How is one not in the works for Knight already?

[Brass Cannon]

Just now, str8baller said:

How is one not in the works for Knight already?

IDK. Maybe trying not to highlight how good we were because it begs the question who was responsible for the decline.  

[jermhoosierfan]

12 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

IDK. Maybe trying not to highlight how good we were because it begs the question who was responsible for the decline.  

I can see Dolson doing it because of his being around the program since the late 80's, and the university and RMK repairing their relationship just before he died.  I don't see them renaming AH after him while you have the court named after McCracken already.  A statue is the most likely unless they build a new arena and name it after Knight which I do not see happening at all.

[go iu bb]

I'm not sure what to expect this game. UK isn't that good but it is a road game. IU already lost on the road to a team which is definitely worse than UK. Hopefully, they learned from that and perform better this game.

[AZ Hoosier]

50 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

1) The words burrito and gas station should never be in the same sentence (unless the sentence is “I ate a huge burrito and desperately had to stop at a gas station to use the can”)

Well, there are gas stations and then there are gas stations... I eat breakfast from the QuikTrip kitchen several times per month, and the place is clean, the food is good and quality is consistent.

Then there's Billy Bob's Good Ol' Boys Diesel Stop.

YMMV

Let's go Hoosiers... beat Kentucky.

[HoosierHoopster]

20 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Well, there are gas stations and then there are gas stations... I eat breakfast from the QuikTrip kitchen several times per month, and the place is clean, the food is good and quality is consistent.

Then there's Billy Bob's Good Ol' Boys Diesel Stop.

YMMV

Let's go Hoosiers... beat Kentucky.

We have Buc-ee’s in Texas, it’s almost a cult thing, have to stop at a Buc-ee’s on any road trip, big, size of small grocery, several types of fresh jerky and pastries and tons of types of snack mixes etc

[mamasa]

Taco Shell (a little hole in the wall gas station in Ellettsville) had the best tacos and burritos last year. Unfortunately they sold it. It had a fervent following