College Bball Thread

[Josh 12,979]

4 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

You trying to get me to rant again??  I hate this.

[Stuhoo 86,195]

10 minutes ago, Josh said:

You trying to get me to rant again??  I hate this.

We have Auburn in Atlanta.

While technically not a true road game, pretty much the same thing.

[WayneFleekHoosier 50,066]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

We have Auburn in Atlanta.

While technically not a true road game, pretty much the same thing.

UConn in New York which will be less than Auburn in Atlanta but still a trounament type atmosphere that will likely lean UConn’s direction.   Although, we do travel well, so who knows.  
 

Strength of schedule doesn’t bother me under Woodson.  I think he gets it just about right.  Plenty of B1G games on the road as it is.  Losing a nonCon road game won’t be a big difference maker imo, as we can lose a B1G road game and get the same feel. 1 less loss. 

[TheWatShot 15,027]

4 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

Purdue hasn't scheduled a non-conference road game since the 2019-20 season. 

[Josh 12,979]

14 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

We have Auburn in Atlanta.

While technically not a true road game, pretty much the same thing.

No!

 

[Scotty R 2,913]

6 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

I think neutral site games against Auburn, UCONN and UT or UL makes up for that 

[Hovadipo 60,079]

think the neutral site games against Auburn and UConn are like having road non-con games

[Josh 12,979]

Do any of you actually believe your own bullshyt?  UPSHoosier done started some stuff

[BGleas 8,495]

Couldn't care less about how many true road games we have in the non-conference. 

Would rather have neutral site games anyways. It's a smarter way to schedule. We'll have tons of tough road games in conference. 

Last time I checked the Big Ten Tournament and NCAA Tournament are neutral site, not road games. 

[Josh 12,979]

14 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Couldn't care less about how many true road games we have in the non-conference. 

Would rather have neutral site games anyways. It's a smarter way to schedule. We'll have tons of tough road games in conference. 

Last time I checked the Big Ten Tournament and NCAA Tournament are neutral site, not road games. 

Last you checked lol.

There's nothing like a true road game to check mental toughness of a team.  To prepare a team for adversity.  To prepare a team for competing against a team, an environment, against hometown calls.  How to get punched in the mouth and wipe off the blood.

But we're not trying that this year.

I hate it.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 9,083]

8 minutes ago, Josh said:

Last you checked lol.

There's nothing like a true road game to check mental toughness of a team.  To prepare a team for adversity.  To prepare a team for competing against a team, an environment, against hometown calls.  How to get punched in the mouth and wipe off the blood.

But we're not trying that this year.

I hate it.

There isn't an out of conference team you can play that'll have the same garbage Big Ten officiating on the road. It's literally impossible. Not playing at Kansas, Kentucky or Duke are as horrid as Big Ten refs peak conference play.

[Josh 12,979]

32 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

There isn't an out of conference team you can play that'll have the same garbage Big Ten officiating on the road. It's literally impossible. Not playing at Kansas, Kentucky or Duke are as horrid as Big Ten refs peak conference play.

Eh.

[BGleas 8,495]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Last you checked lol.

There's nothing like a true road game to check mental toughness of a team.  To prepare a team for adversity.  To prepare a team for competing against a team, an environment, against hometown calls.  How to get punched in the mouth and wipe off the blood.

But we're not trying that this year.

I hate it.

Meh! Lot's of way to build toughness, including playing numerous top 10 teams both neutral site and on the road. 

We have something like 4 games against the preseason top 5. One of those on the road and two in tournament style neutral site locations. 

[HinnyHoosier 5,957]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Last you checked lol.

There's nothing like a true road game to check mental toughness of a team.  To prepare a team for adversity.  To prepare a team for competing against a team, an environment, against hometown calls.  How to get punched in the mouth and wipe off the blood.

But we're not trying that this year.

I hate it.

That's the benefit of playing in a power conference (especially one that mixes football rules and refs in with the basketball). These boys will have plenty of tests in conference play which happens to span the majority of the season. Odds are they will fulfill your imagery by getting the opportunity to wipe the blood from their mouths and keep going. I agree that the quality of teams we will be playing in 'not-home' environments will test the team quite enough early in the season. It's also about building confidence and keeping that going; you can't be mentally tough without confidence.

[Josh 12,979]

7 hours ago, BGleas said:

Meh! Lot's of way to build toughness, including playing numerous top 10 teams both neutral site and on the road. 

We have something like 4 games against the preseason top 5. One of those on the road and two in tournament style neutral site locations. 

In neutral court games, IU fans represent.  There's nothing like the adversity you feel (especially for college age kids) when you feel everybody and everything is against you.  You don't get that playing in Atlanta where at least half the crowd will be cheering for you.

I feel pre-conference games on the road help prepare you for Big Ten road games which are more important imo.  

[BGleas 8,495]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

In neutral court games, IU fans represent.  There's nothing like the adversity you feel (especially for college age kids) when you feel everybody and everything is against you.  You don't get that playing in Atlanta where at least half the crowd will be cheering for you.

I feel pre-conference games on the road help prepare you for Big Ten road games which are more important imo.  

The bottom line is that at the end of the day this is absolutely not a team that will go into tournament play untested. 

[Scotty R 2,913]

2 hours ago, Josh said:

In neutral court games, IU fans represent.  There's nothing like the adversity you feel (especially for college age kids) when you feel everybody and everything is against you.  You don't get that playing in Atlanta where at least half the crowd will be cheering for you.

I feel pre-conference games on the road help prepare you for Big Ten road games which are more important imo.  

I know you don't care but there are very few power programs who play true non conference road games. We played two last year so it isn't like we never play on the road.

[Josh 12,979]

2 hours ago, Scotty R said:

I know you don't care but there are very few power programs who play true non conference road games. We played two last year so it isn't like we never play on the road.

Ummmm....did you see the list from USPS that there was only 7 that don't? 

[Josh 12,979]

3 hours ago, BGleas said:

The bottom line is that at the end of the day this is absolutely not a team that will go into tournament play untested. 

Different argument.  I'm trying to go into conference play with a road game or two under our belt.  

 

[Uspshoosier 51,421]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Different argument.  I'm trying to go into conference play with a road game or two under our belt.  

 

I can understand why programs have gone away from playing true road games in the non conference but in my opinion I’m with you on teams testing themselves before conference play on the road.    For me from a bracketology side of things it’s a very low risk/ very high reward type of deal.     Playing neutral games are fine but it’s nothing like playing a game  on campus in a hostile setting.   If a team loses on the road in one of these marquee matchups big deal they were suppose to lose anyway however if you win one of these early games on the road then you have a big piece that will hold up in March.   IU got smashed by Kansas last year on the road and it didn’t affect their seeding one bit.   Just a road loss to NET top 5 team.  No one but IU fans remember the final score and beat down.     IU winning at Xavier turned out to be one of the best road non conference wins of the year and helped IUs résumé tremendously.   Some people were shocked IU was in that first 16 reveal as a 4 seed.  Committee showed right there how much stock they were going to put in big road wins.   If I was in charge of a teams schedule they would be playing at least 1 true road game a year