College Bball Thread

[hoosierbgh 1,234]

29 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Speaking on just the Beard part...Texas Tech doesn’t play a whole lot faster than UVA. Their past few years on offense have been in the mid/high 200s nationally in tempo. Not sure what they do on defense compared to Archie - I’m sure Demo or one of our smarter basketball people could speak to that - but I’m not seeing how Beard’s style is much different than what we’ve been watching based on what I’ve seen. 

I see two main differences between Beard and Bennett. First, Beard's teams seem to play the way they do in the Big 12 because that gives them the best chance to win. I might be mistaken but I think Beard's team at A-LR played a bit faster. Bennett's teams play the way they do no matter what. 

The other main difference is that Beard is a candidate, maybe a long shot, but still a possibility. Bennett is... well, let's just say that Brad Stevens is more likely to be the coach at IU than him. 

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4 minutes ago, hoosierbgh said:

I see two main differences between Beard and Bennett. First, Beard's teams seem to play the way they do in the Big 12 because that gives them the best chance to win. I might be mistaken but I think Beard's team at A-LR played a bit faster. Bennett's teams play the way they do no matter what. 

The other main difference is that Beard is a candidate, maybe a long shot, but still a possibility. Bennett is... well, let's just say that Brad Stevens is more likely to be the coach at IU than him. 

I was more defending Bennett’s style just in general, not necessarily as a candidate although I’d like him to be. I understand he isn’t and probably never will be, though. 

[Hovadipo 53,339]

I am indescribably happy that Matt Haarms doesn’t play for Purdue anymore. 

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3 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

I am indescribably happy that Matt Haarms doesn’t play for Purdue anymore. 

He was very easy to dislike, but I think they woulda been worse with him and Eastern this year... guess it doesn’t matter, first round exit regardless.

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Just now, madmax said:

He was very easy to dislike, but I think they woulda been worse with him and Eastern this year... guess it doesn’t matter, first round exit regardless.

Agree with Eastern, but not so sure about with Haarms. That would’ve been an extremely not fun 3-deep to deal with for anyone. 

[Hovadipo 53,339]

Haarms with some “not-so-BYU-code-of-conduct” language!

[IUCrazy2 2,178]

19 minutes ago, hoosierbgh said:

I see two main differences between Beard and Bennett. First, Beard's teams seem to play the way they do in the Big 12 because that gives them the best chance to win. I might be mistaken but I think Beard's team at A-LR played a bit faster. Bennett's teams play the way they do no matter what. 

The other main difference is that Beard is a candidate, maybe a long shot, but still a possibility. Bennett is... well, let's just say that Brad Stevens is more likely to be the coach at IU than him. 

I am more than happy to have Bennett not considering us.  His system is like watching paint dry and makes you extremely prone to early tournament flame outs.  I will be fine if I never see the pack line at IU ever again.

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God, I love watching UVA lose. Their style wins but it’s a pestilence on the game. And when Crean had the pair to take the IU job, Bennett wanted no part of it. So I’m great with him losing. It’s almost personal for me. I just hate what they do and I hate that he didn’t want to take on a tough, high expectation job. Don’t care if he’s great. 

I ‘m just not a fan of the way UVA plays. A bit too slow-paced for me.


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2 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Haarms with some “not-so-BYU-code-of-conduct” language!

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Just now, Uspshoosier said:

Someone help me out and post the gif of this please.   It makes me laugh 

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1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Someone help me out and post the gif of this please.   It makes me laugh 

 

*sincere pro-Purdue post incoming*
 

I ******* loved Carsen Edwards. 

[HinnyHoosier 4,416]

Get us somebody who gets kids to hustle and scrap like these guys at Abilene Christian. They’re gonna fight a full 40.


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[LIHoosier 25,067]

In a game where there's been literal blood on the floor, the refs surprisingly didn't swallow their whistles.

[LIHoosier 25,067]

Abilene > IU

[TheWatShot 13,418]

Refs just gave Abilene Christian the win. 

[HoosierAloha 30,020]

2 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

Refs just gave Abilene Christian the win. 

How?  Coleman (I believe) completely hacked down on him

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Just now, HoosierAloha said:

How?  Coleman (I believe) completely hacked down on him

That happens countless times over the course of a game without a whistle, and the ref out at half-court calls it with 1 second left? It was a bad call. 

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Just another reason why this sport delivers every single night.   Texas should win this game 10-10 times and they didn’t. A couple years ago in this thread on a random night of me watching I stumbled across an Abilene Christian game on espn + and posted I’m about to watch it because it was one of the few teams I never watched.  After that I would make a point of watching some of their games against SF Austin and Sam Houston St and noticed they were getting better each year.  Never thought I would see them take down Texas but that was fun even though I had Texas going far.  

[Stuhoo 76,725]

Arkansas was mocked for their ridiculously easy nonconference schedule. They played eight non-con games. Three of their wins were against North Texas, Oral Roberts, and Abilene Christian.

IU’s supposed good non-con wins were against Stanford, Providence, and Butler.

Arky’s resume not looking like such an easy nonconference schedule anymore, eh?

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3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Arkansas was mocked for their ridiculously easy nonconference schedule. They played eight non-con games. Three of their wins were against North Texas, Oral Roberts, and Abilene Christian.

IU’s supposed good non-con wins were against Stanford, Providence, and Butler.

Arky’s resume not looking like such an easy nonconference schedule anymore, eh?

I’m 100% down for muss at this point considering our other options.