IUBB @ O$U - Saturday, 03.07.26 @ 5:30 on Fox-TV

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Better late than never I guess for the final regular season game.    A game with just a little bit of importance if we hope to play in the Big Dance.  Which IU team shows up?

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[Hovadipo]

Tough to beat an Indycar lead-in to IUBB. If they stop putting people in the fence on restarts we shouldn’t run into any TV window issues. 

[BtownStrength]

Lots of other games went in our favor today, but it doesn't matter if we don't show up. 

Just win. 

[LIHoosier]

Gus and Jim Jackson will have their pom-poms out so I would recommend Fisch.

[Stuhoo]

Don’t love this matchup or our odds today. Hope I’m wrong but they have a few active bigs, it’s Thornton’s last game, and that team peaking is a bad combination.

It’d be a pretty darn good win, but I’m expecting us to be kind of overmatched in this one.

[Pagoda]

IU +4.5 seems like a small line for this game.  

Maybe IU will surprise me (probably not).

[Jeff Flabjohns]

Definitely losing by 15+ but it costs nothing to be hopeful right now! Plus all these other games have gone in our favor today

[LIHoosier]

FFS

 

[JF87]

Thornton is going to be a tough matchup.  He's built like a linebacker, and we have no one that can match him physically.  It's going to be hard to keep him from driving to the hoop.  

[Stuhoo]

27 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

FFS

 

Kind of like the terrible referee crew.

If we can’t win a fair fight, we need to have a wild card that could screw up Ohio State.

[str8baller]

45 minutes ago, JF87 said:

Thornton is going to be a tough matchup.  He's built like a linebacker, and we have no one that can match him physically.  It's going to be hard to keep him from driving to the hoop.  

This is Enrights calling card. Be a pest. Draw a charge. Step on his foot. Whatever 

[WayneFleekHoosier]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

Don’t love this matchup or our odds today. Hope I’m wrong but they have a few active bigs, it’s Thornton’s last game, and that team peaking is a bad combination.

It’d be a pretty darn good win, but I’m expecting us to be kind of overmatched in this one.

On paper it’s a mismatch.  Not much faith.  At least we get to play it out.  Not feeling good about this one though.  What’s usually a mild crowd will likely be solid as they know this is huge for their season too.   
 

1. Thornton >>>>>Enright

2. Wilkerson >>Mobley but not by as much as I’d want. 
 

3. Royal >>>>>Dorn

4. DeVries >>>>Bynum

5. Tilly >>Alexis

[Whoozhers]

Conerway, Bailey and Sisley need to contribute in this game big time.

GO HOOSIERS!!

[Stuhoo]

3 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

On paper it’s a mismatch.  Not much faith.  At least we get to play it out.  Not feeling good about this one though.  What’s usually a mild crowd will likely be solid as they know this is huge for their season too.   
 

1. Thornton >>>>>Enright

2. Wilkerson >>Mobley but not by as much as I’d want. 
 

3. Royal >>>>>Dorn

4. DeVries >>>>Bynum

5. Tilly >>Alexis

Bynum and Tilly are big, physical, and do a ton of dirty work. For an undersized IU team that is a problem.

Our guys truly focus on keeping opponents off of the offensive glass, but against some teams it’s physically really difficult. OSU will likely be one of those teams.

[IUHoosier5]

I sure hope today is the Jasai Miles game. I’d have him guarding Thornton as much as possible 

[Dave from Dayton]

Enright better be on today with 10 assists and 4 steals...plus oodles of frees.

And Sam Alexis is going to ball.  Blocking 4 shots and getting every stinking inside shot to go in.

IU's defense travels and OSU's PG does too.

Watch IU get 38% of their 3s.

And all of the rebounds go to IU.

Hey, hope is a good thing.

 

[Hovadipo]

7 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Bynum and Tilly are big, physical, and do a ton of dirty work. For an undersized IU team that is a problem.

Our guys truly focus on keeping opponents off of the offensive glass, but against some teams it’s physically really difficult. OSU will likely be one of those teams.

That being said, statistically they suck pretty similarly to us at rebounding. We even have a better defensive rebounding rate. 

[Stuhoo]

Just now, Hovadipo said:

That being said, statistically they suck pretty similarly to us at rebounding. We even have a better defensive rebounding rate. 

But we have no way of taking advantage of their defensive rebounding.

Trying to kill any optimism rep I have lol. I really appreciate this transition-new era IU team, but not optimistic today.

[Pagoda]

1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

Tough to beat an Indycar lead-in to IUBB. If they stop putting people in the fence on restarts we shouldn’t run into any TV window issues. 

Damn that race was good.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

10 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Bynum and Tilly are big, physical, and do a ton of dirty work. For an undersized IU team that is a problem.

Our guys truly focus on keeping opponents off of the offensive glass, but against some teams it’s physically really difficult. OSU will likely be one of those teams.

And their 2 3 point shooters are as good, maybe better than ours.  Mobley is dangerous. Can’t get open looks.