College Bball Thread

[Uspshoosier]

3 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Neutral court game or away game. Not this season, playing at Xavier and at Kansas this season is great. Using KP numbers since we don't have NET numbers yet.

Neutral vs #10

Away vs #18

Home vs #21

Away vs #31

I like that schedule but the cupcakes we chose are extremely cupcake-y.

Add that to at least 18 conference games of teams in the top 55 with most being top 25 sprinkling cup cakes in isn’t necessarily a bad thing in my opinion.    Better smash them if you play them 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

50 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

All this talk about non-con scheduling made me think of our batsh*t crazy (by today's standards, anyway) schedule in 2001-02:

at Charlotte

at Alaska-Anchorage (Great Alaska Shootout)

Marquette, in Alaska

Texas, in Alaska

at North Carolina

at Southern Illinois

vs. Notre Dame (first home game, December 4th)

vs. Ball State (ranked #15)

Miami, in Miami, but a neutral site

Kentucky (RCA Dome)

Eastern Washington (Indianapolis, Hoosier Classic)

Butler (Indy, Hoosier Classic)

 

No Power 5 team will ever play a schedule like this again. Kenpom ranked it #2 in the nation by the end of the season. 

We had a crazy one in 04-05 as well. Our non-con looked like...

Indiana State

Western Illinois

#9 North Carolina(won the title that year with May, Felton, McCants, Williams, Noel.)

AT #7 UConn(had Marcus Williams, Boone, Villanueva, Denham Brown, Rashad Anderson and Rudy ***)

Notre Dame

#10 Kentucky at Freedom Hall

AT Missouri

Charlotte(Went 21-8 and was a 7 seed that year)

Ball State at Conseco Fieldhouse

Oral Roberts(who ended up being 25-8)

Furman

Yea we went 5-6 through... Including losing 6 in a row from UNC through Charlotte. Players that started throughout that stretch?

Bracey Wright

Marshall Strickland

Pat Ewing

Robert Vaden

Sean Kline

Mike Roberts

DJ White

James Hardy

[IU/Butler/Notre Dame]

16 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

Blackmon is on fire.   Just hit another 3 to put Stetson up 3 with 1:33 to go.    He has 21 

Brown was out with flu hope he didn’t give it to anyone else ….Blackmon was on a hot streak for sure but I don’t like that he took 19 shots and made less than half when Swenson and smith were 80% and 100% respectively …:I was also really surprised with as small a lineup as they ran that blackmon had zero assists and zero rebounds I think he’s letting his shooting slump effect his play …..he took a contested 3 on second to last possession when only down one and then Stetson took another wild 3 on last possession down 2 ….they are young and will get better jones seems to be a good teacher 

[LamarCheeks]

Seth Davis showing the Toiletmakers some serious love -- he took them all the way to No. 1 in his weekly rankings. 

I'm fine with them jumping ahead of us. They handled Duke and Gonzaga while we beat Little Rock and Jackson State. 

But from 24 (their actual ranking; not sure where he had them last week) to No. 1? I cannot imagine a bigger leap. 

Oh well. We still have UNC, Arizona and Kansas coming up -- so there will be plenty of chances to prove how good (or not good) we are ... 

And it is a weekly poll. Nobody was better than the PUs last week. 
 

 

[IU/Butler/Notre Dame]

26 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Seth Davis showing the Toiletmakers some serious love -- he took them all the way to No. 1 in his weekly rankings. 

I'm fine with them jumping ahead of us. They handled Duke and Gonzaga while we beat Little Rock and Jackson State. 

But from 24 (their actual ranking; not sure where he had them last week) to No. 1? I cannot imagine a bigger leap. 

Oh well. We still have UNC, Arizona and Kansas coming up -- so there will be plenty of chances to prove how good (or not good) we are ... 

And it is a weekly poll. Nobody was better than the PUs last week. 
 

 

Agreed on all points

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

1 minute ago, IU/Butler/Notre Dame said:

Agreed on all points

Wait until you see mine. 

[str8baller]

10 hours ago, Brass Cannon said:

Woodson would not be able to give them as long of a leash without risking a loss.  These cupcakes reduce the risk of a loss while giving the guys the maximum leash possible to grow. 
 

This schedule was done it would seem to let the team do the maximum amount of growing because come big ten time the rotation is going to be reduced. 
 

Once again I’m not sure I would have done it.  But it’s a sound strategy. Hopefully it works out 

We simply disagree about the strategy to achieve “maximum amount of growing.”   
 

Btw, I don’t think Woody designed this schedule, so I’m not confident he agrees with you, either. He’s taken steps to improve the schedule, imo. Two big away games and a big neutral site game are great additions. We’ll see where it stands next year. 

 

11 hours ago, IU Scott said:

All top teams at buy games and by the end of the non conference schedule we will play as tough of one as anyone. People get caught up with feast week and see teams playing other top teams but that is just one week

All top teams do not play the number of 300-ish teams we do. We’ve been bad about it for some time.  

[Hovadipo]

B1G/ACC Challenge is over. 

[IUc2016]

27 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

B1G/ACC Challenge is over. 

Figured this would be the case. Still crazy that it will be ending after such a long run

[Brass Cannon]

41 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

B1G/ACC Challenge is over. 

I’m ok with this. Gives Woodson the flexibility to schedule a marquee game 

[Hovadipo]

3 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

I’m ok with this. Gives Woodson the flexibility to schedule a marquee game 

Won’t be surprised to see it replaced. They’re already saying the ACC will now be doing an SEC challenge. 
 

Edit: which is in the tweet lol nevermind

[Brass Cannon]

1 minute ago, Hovadipo said:

Won’t be surprised to see it replaced. They’re already saying the ACC will now be doing an SEC challenge. 
 

Edit: which is in the tweet lol nevermind

What conference is left That would be worth it?

[IUc2016]

3 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

What conference is left That would be worth it?

BIG 12, which will be ending their series with the SEC. 

They will have 12 teams starting next year

[Brass Cannon]

18 minutes ago, IUc2016 said:

BIG 12, which will be ending their series with the SEC. 

They will have 12 teams starting next year

I guess I disagree that they would be worth it.  

[IUc2016]

7 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

I guess I disagree that they would be worth it.  

I'm not really saying they are. Just stating that it will probably happen since they both have TV deals with FOX and their current conference challenges are ending. 

BUT one could argue that they have been the better conference in compared to ACC for the past few years. Losing Texas does hurt though

EDIT: They do add Houston...

[rcbowla]

I wonder if the B1G, Big East, Big 12 and Pac 12 would do some sort of colab challenge? That could be interesting

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[J34]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2022/11/02/gonzaga-interested-joining-big-12-conference&ved=2ahUKEwjv5vq5lNH7AhWEKEQIHVlbAYkQtwJ6BAgQEAE&usg=AOvVaw1vDRfmu_R_UD58W44AT1gz

Talks about Gonzaga joining the Big 12

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[HoosierAloha]

It'll be interesting to see how some of these preseason tourneys are configured once the super conferences are formed. Next season the Maui Invite will have both UCLA and purdoodoo from the Big 1.o.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

[Uspshoosier]

21 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

You dropped San Diego St all the way out of your top 25 when they lost games on a neutral court to your number 4 and 11 teams.   They probably should have beat Arkansas and they did beat Ohio st (23).   For me San Diego St is a clear top 25 team