IUBB vs Northwestern - Tuesday, 02.24.26 @ 7:00 on FS1

[cbp4iu]

After how this season is trending I wish we would have had 10 underclassmen. I rather lose with a young team then be okay on the bubble with a team who is all seniors. Coaching wise… I’m worried. We find something good and then we stop doing it. Conerway was blowing by people and we stop doing it. When a team makes an adjustment for our offense we tap out. The last 10 minutes of regulation this Big 10 season has been brutal for this team. We lost tonight, could have lost to UCLA /Purdue/Wisconsin, lost to Nebraska. Archie lost games in the first 10 minutes… DeVries is losing it in the last 10 minutes. 

[cbp4iu]

58 minutes ago, TrueHoosier62 said:

After tonight, Dolson needs to seriously think about the direction of this program. I realize the situation Devries inherited was dire, but this team is not without talent, and the mistakes they made tonight are the same mistakes they've made all season. Poor fundamentals, excessive dribbling, excessive reliance on the three point shot, questionable combinations on the floor, questionable game management. Periodically hot shooting has been the only thing covering up a multitude of sins.

Dolson has to know. Why do you hire a GM so quickly? If I’m Dolson I’m telling DeVries he’s firing atleast 1 assistant and getting someone to help him with X’s and O’s

[iubb]

You hire me to drive a school bus and on the first day i drive a bus full of kids thru the wall of an orphanage its doubtful i will still be a bus driver when the sun rises the next day 

[realTomCrean]

He’s just a terrible fit at IU most of all

[Jeff Flabjohns]

5 minutes ago, iubb said:

You hire me to drive a school bus and on the first day i drive a bus full of kids thru the wall of an orphanage its doubtful i will still be a bus driver when the sun rises the next day 

If it’s anything like college coaching not only would you still be driving the bus, but they’ll invest in an even nicer one for next school year!

[iubb]

Just now, Jeff Flabjohns said:

If it’s anything like college coaching not only would you still be driving the bus, but they’ll invest in an even nicer one for next school year!

Or if you are an official. You get a raise and exceeds expectations on your end of year review 

[IUHoosier5]

There really isn’t a much worse look than sending that letter only for the students not to show up and then the team and coaching staff lays a big ole egg. 

[str8baller]

4 minutes ago, IUHoosier5 said:

There really isn’t a much worse look than sending that letter only for the students not to show up and then the team and coaching staff lays a big ole egg. 

Yea, it was kind of passive anyways. I don’t think that type of thing is really in his personality. Now it just looks dumb.

[Hovadipo]

6 minutes ago, IUHoosier5 said:

There really isn’t a much worse look than sending that letter only for the students not to show up and then the team and coaching staff lays a big ole egg. 

 

Just now, str8baller said:

Yea, it was kind of passive anyways. I don’t think that type of thing is really in his personality. Now it just looks dumb.

Like pretty much everything with IU Athletics PR that Cignetti doesn’t have a direct hand in, the letter sucked and was completely out of touch with reality. 

[Jeff Flabjohns]

My lasting memory of Tucker in Bloomington will be him getting whooped by Martinelli, chirped at, and struggling to get up. Fitting.

[Shooter]

1 hour ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

My least favorite season in a while. 
 

No preseason hype. No momentum.  Just was never confident we were good. Hard to get excited when you already know we whiffed on the roster build.  Then the season plays out about exactly like you’d expect it. Living on the bubble. And then going to miss. 
 

The burners defending Woodson for 2 seasons was awful too. But those teams at least felt like the could be good for moments.  All 3 seasons virtually identical.  And all of them suck.  

This isn't great. But it's about 10X better than Woodson season 3.

[cbp4iu]

I can’t imagine DeVries can do any worse than what he did in the portal last year.

Reed Bailey…. No shot we get someone 1/2 as bad as him. Like this guy is worse than folding pocket aces in black jack. 

Tucker…. We will get someone better and more in Big 10 shape. This guys athleticism is woof. Especially at what we think he’s approximately getting paid

Conerway… He can be good but he’s also kinda like Myles Rice. You don’t know really what you’ll get. I don’t know if he’s a top 10 big 10 point guard. 
 

Lamar… only one thats hard to replace but at the same time If we don’t have 3 15+ ppg scorers leaning so hard on one guy is going to lead us into a loop of this mess.

Alexis… A true backup big for a good Big 10 team. I believe he’s improved leaps and bounds but his size truly limits him. I feel like these kinds of players are easier to identify. 

Enright… A hustle guy. He’s limited but will work his butt off. A true bench guy that’s being thrown in to start. If we had a guy like this team on the bench as our 9/10 man we would be a top 4th of the conference team. 
 

As for everyone else on the roster that we got in the portal. If they can’t make the rotation on this team I would be concerned. I’m guessing people will transfer out because this era of basketball some always do but if we have 6-8 open scholarships for the portal I can’t possibly imagine getting players worse than what we got. I just want to see a clear path. I want some kind of foundation, more athleticism, size, multiple shot creators and an elite PG. 

[DChoosier]

How in the hell does IU basketball lose 6 in a row to NW?

[Rico]