College Bball Thread

[rayl456 1,139]

13 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Injury or can’t crack the rotation? How did he look?

I believe he had an injury that kept him out of practice for some time.  If I remember the box score correctly, he played about 10 minutes and scored 2 points.

[Uspshoosier 55,391]

Yale up 2 over Vermont with 34 sec to go 

Texas Tech up 1 over Wyoming at half 

[Uspshoosier 55,391]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

Yale up 2 over Vermont with 34 sec to go 

Texas Tech up 1 over Wyoming at half 

Yale wins it and Tech holds on 

St Bonaventure up 3 at Florida Atlantic with 37 sec to go 

[Uspshoosier 55,391]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Yale wins it and Tech holds on 

St Bonaventure up 3 at Florida Atlantic with 37 sec to go 

St Bonaventure wins it 

[Stuhoo 93,482]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

St Bonaventure wins it 

[Uspshoosier 55,391]

Game of the night in the Southland.  Conference play already starting with the 2 best teams facing each other.  
 

Incarnate Word up 7 at home over McNeese with 7 min to go 

Kansas St down 14 at home to Bowling Green

Colorado/Cal Baptist just tipping off 

[WayneFleekHoosier 52,374]

8 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

Game of the night in the Southland.  Conference play already starting with the 2 best teams facing each other.  
 

Incarnate Word up 7 at home over McNeese with 7 min to go 

Kansas St down 14 at home to Bowling Green

Colorado/Cal Baptist just tipping off 

Kansas State and Marquette doing us no favors, however the metrics love us so far. 

[Home Jersey 17,987]

Some good ones today

Iowa @ MSU 7pm Peacock

Cuse vs Tenn 7pm ESPN2

OU @ Wake 7pm ACCN

TAMU @ Pitt 7pm ESPNU

Florida @ Duke 7:30pm ESPN

UConn @ Kansas 9pm ESPN2

UNC @ Kentucky 9:30pm ESPN

USC @ Oregon 10pm FS1

[jermhoosierfan 606]

22 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

UNC @ Kentucky 9:30pm ESPN

 

On a Tuesday night? This seems like it would be a weekend game with all kinds of hype around it, but the CFB championship games might have caused this.

[Uspshoosier 55,391]

4 hours ago, jermhoosierfan said:

On a Tuesday night? This seems like it would be a weekend game with all kinds of hype around it, but the CFB championship games might have caused this.

Sec/Acc challenge.   Games are during the week just like the old Acc/B1G challenge.  B1G and Big 12 need to start a new challenge 

[Uspshoosier 55,391]

6 hours ago, Home Jersey said:

Some good ones today

Iowa @ MSU 7pm Peacock

Cuse vs Tenn 7pm ESPN2

OU @ Wake 7pm ACCN

TAMU @ Pitt 7pm ESPNU

Florida @ Duke 7:30pm ESPN

UConn @ Kansas 9pm ESPN2

UNC @ Kentucky 9:30pm ESPN

USC @ Oregon 10pm FS1

Heck of a slate tonight.  Hopefully the site can hold up during the games but not holding my breath 

[Uspshoosier 55,391]

9 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Kansas State and Marquette doing us no favors, however the metrics love us so far. 

Still early for the metrics.  K State just dropped 30 spots for that home loss.  Marquettes problem is they just haven’t beat any high major teams yet.   I’m confident both K State and Marquette will win enough high major games by the end of the year to at least be Q2 wins.   Maryland and Oregon are 203 and 192 in the NET this early in the year.  Do I think either are that bad? No but it is going to take some time for their numbers to improve 

[Home Jersey 17,987]

Been a lot of great college basketball games this past week. How about that Purdue loss to Iowa state? Tied for biggest home loss by a #1 team? 

[WayneFleekHoosier 52,374]

Indiana basketball is the definition of Mid in the power 5. All the things I spouted all off season are proving true.

Hopefully we can scrape enough to make the tournament. Projections say we need to go 13-7 to make it. Awful nonconference.

Glad the football team rocks. DeVries has a long way to go.


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[Uspshoosier 55,391]

B1G took one on the chin yesterday. Illinois helped out.   Most the games I would have live texted about were all blowouts yesterday.  Still yesterday was the first big Saturday on the college basketball slate and I missed talking about in here with you guys.   Congrats to all the IU football lifers that got to experience that yesterday. You guys deserved it.  Hopefully the lights can stay on this time 

[Demo 25,919]

https://x.com/TheFieldOf68/status/1997693607940407306
 

Hate agreeing with Cal. But when he’s right, he’s right.

[str8baller 8,355]

3 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

All the things I spouted all off season are proving true.

I mean…you were worried about rim protection. As some of us pointed out there’s other ways to play defense besides to funnel everything to a shot blocking big. Devries has shown he can get an athletically limited group to play sound defense. 
 

Our problems right now are offense and nobody really imagined that would be the case. Some of it is athleticism, but currently the problem looks to run deeper than that. Devries has his work cut out for him. 
 

I’ll agree with you that whoever put the roster together needs to be reassigned to some other duty next season. You only need to look to Louisville who has two transfers and a euro big helping lead the way, but they’re more proven than ours. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 52,374]

37 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I mean…you were worried about rim protection. As some of us pointed out there’s other ways to play defense besides to funnel everything to a shot blocking big. Devries has shown he can get an athletically limited group to play sound defense. 
 

Our problems right now are offense and nobody really imagined that would be the case. Some of it is athleticism, but currently the problem looks to run deeper than that. Devries has his work cut out for him. 
 

I’ll agree with you that whoever put the roster together needs to be reassigned to some other duty next season. You only need to look to Louisville who has two transfers and a euro big helping lead the way, but they’re more proven than ours. 

Yeah.  I wasn’t only going about the centers. Speed and athleticism.  Counting on a very little enright to be the PG. Rebounding.  Just general roster build. Lack of proven commodities.  It was all so obvious.  
 

I know people love Enright and he does the little stuff.  But he’s a ceiling limiter in a big way. Both defensively and offensively despite adding hustle plays.  I don’t dislike him. I respect him but I’d rather him not be the PG of the team I want to be a top in the country.  
 

Conerway has been good but he showed yesterday where he stacks up to top end guards and athleticism and that was a problem too, including ball handling.  
 

Just frustrating as it was all so predictable. 
 

A better PG, a Legit defending/rebounding/shotblocking C and we could have had a nice team.  But we have what he have.  
 

Our best lineup might be Conerway, Wilkerson, Decvries, Bailey, Alexis but we don’t have depth to even find out if that’s the case.  
 

Dorns shooting was promising.  If I’m coach I’m trying Conerway, Wilkerson, Dorn, DeVries, Bailey/Alexis.   
 

Ive been down on this team all offfseason and nothing is helping change my mind so far.  

[Scotty R 3,865]

22 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

respect him but I’d rather him not be the PG of the team I want to be a top in the country.  

This is where you have a problem if you think this team should be top in the country this year

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1 hour ago, Scotty R said:

This is where you have a problem if you think this team should be top in the country this year

No, not the top team. But building with the intention and chance of being a top team. Subtle difference.