College Bball Thread

[cbp4iu 2,075]

I don’t know if Wichita State will ever bounce back. Losing to Alcorn State. Marshall did wonders to that program… Crap hit the fan… I don’t think they’ll recover

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

26 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Is anybody really surprised 

I’m not.   The team was terrible before he arrived.  One of his key transfers is academically ineligible until 2 second semester old target Anthony Harris.   Texas St was looking good early.   Rhode Island going on a run now only down 4.   Great game between 2 evenly matched teams 

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

7 minutes ago, cbp4iu said:

I don’t know if Wichita State will ever bounce back. Losing to Alcorn State. Marshall did wonders to that program… Crap hit the fan… I don’t think they’ll recover

Alcorn can’t miss.   Alcorn up 8 with 2:40 to go 

[Stuhoo 86,134]

8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

I’m not.   The team was terrible before he arrived.  One of his key transfers is academically ineligible until 2 second semester old target Anthony Harris.   Texas St was looking good early.   Rhode Island going on a run now only down 4.   Great game between 2 evenly matched teams 

Archie Miller was a terrible, awful fit for IU, but he’s a good guy and not a terrible coach.

He can succeed at Rhody; it probably fits him well.

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Lousy. He’s no Trent Sisley.

But Louisville, who were up five with the ball with one minute left, just lost to Wright State on a buzzer beater. Oh Louisville, that was disappointing I bet.

Wow just watched the replay of the second half.   Brutal ending.    

 

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

Alcorn is going to win it 

[WayneFleekHoosier 50,033]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Archie Miller was a terrible, awful fit for IU, but he’s a good guy and not a terrible coach.

He can succeed at Rhody; it probably fits him well.

Archie’s best hope at success was to be Sean Miller.  Sean isn’t the best coach but Sean usually finds a lot of success in the dark arts of recruiting.  The FBI sting with Adidas happened at the absolute worst time to know if Archie was going to try the Sean Miller Method. Maybe he wasn’t.  He was certainly and plainly trying to secure the state and win with that method.  Purdue mostly uses that method to some degree of success (find bigs elsewhere). Butler over the years, the same.  Archie should have done better with what he had.  And/Or his eye for talent isn’t incredible either.  

[Stuhoo 86,134]

4 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Archie’s best hope at success was to be Sean Miller.  Sean isn’t the best coach but Sean usually finds a lot of success in the dark arts of recruiting.  The FBI sting with Adidas happened at the absolute worst time to know if Archie was going to try the Sean Miller Method. Maybe he wasn’t.  He was certainly and plainly trying to secure the state and win with that method.  Purdue mostly uses that method to some degree of success (find bigs elsewhere). Butler over the years, the same.  Archie should have done better with what he had.  And/Or his eye for talent isn’t incredible either.  

Maaaybe; I think that Sean is far more shady and far more charismatic than Archie.

Archie did great with lower ranked recruits at Dayton. His personality is not wired to be the face of a big program IMO.

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

All I care about is good basketball games and right now Rhode Island/Texas St is a good one.   Tie game 4 min to go 

[Josh 12,975]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

Maaaybe; I think that Sean is far more shady and far more charismatic than Archie.

Archie did great with lower ranked recruits at Dayton. His personality is not wired to be the face of a big program IMO.

And he did great at losing too!

[go iu bb 7,917]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

And he did great at losing too!

Indeed. He made it look natural. 

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

3 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

All I care about is good basketball games and right now Rhode Island/Texas St is a good one.   Tie game 4 min to go 

Jalen Carey turns it over and doesn’t get back on defense.  Bad look for the former Cuse player.   Texas St up 2 with 2:25 to go 

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

11 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Jalen Carey turns it over and doesn’t get back on defense.  Bad look for the former Cuse player.   Texas St up 2 with 2:25 to go 

Texas St up 3 with 15 sec to go. Rhode Island ball 

[Brass Cannon 25,176]

I am skeptical Archie will be successful.  He showed me no signs he can build a winning culture.  He inherited one at Dayton 

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

Texas st is going to win it 

[monskisprodigy 2,223]

That’s two very bad losses for Rhode Island…yikes. 

[HoosierFan1994 4,961]

8 hours ago, Hovadipo said:

Yeah I have a feeling this UNC team is criminally overrated. They were flaming garbage for a majority of last season, got a little hot at the end of the year and got a dream NCAA tourney draw. I get why they got the preseason love, but they’re not impressive to me at all. 

I agree about playing St. Peter's in the Elite 8 but they did beat Baylor, UCLA, and Duke. Almost Kansas. I think they are good but it's extremely hard to make the National Championship game in back to back years. I know they did it in 16-17. They have a ton of pressure. I don't think they are a very deep team. That is where IU has a huge advantage on a lot of teams. I don't think our next opponent, Xavier, is that deep. Now, I am still scratching my head as to why Gonzaga is #2. Outside of Timmie I'm not impressed with them. 

[Uspshoosier 51,368]

Evansville made a late run and lead by 2 at half at St Louis 

[Hovadipo 59,967]

4 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Evansville made a late run and lead by 2 at half at St Louis 

That seems…….significant. 

[Demo 21,914]

5 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

That seems…….significant. 

They’re really playing well. They got punched dead in the mouth, got down 14, and they’ve just out-competed SLU ever since.