College Bball Thread

[Josh]

Greg Gard got no suspension st all?  Un freaking acceptable.  Dude turned a verbal altercation into a physical altercation.  Ridiculous. 

[Hovadipo]

Sycamores beating Drake on the road at halftime. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

February for us has... Sucked... But before February... Not as doom and gloom...

2017: 14-8(4-5) Creans last season. At this point, could still have made some noise and had wins over Kansas, North Carolina and Michigan State. Some bad losses so it would have been an uphill battle but we were on the edge of the cliff and hadn't fallen just yet I guess... Probably holding onto the edge of the cliff ..

2018: 12-11(4-5) Archie's first year. The embarrassing losses to Indiana State and IPFW by 20. That season really had no hope after game #1. That pretty much set the tone for Archie's time at Indiana. 

2019: 12-9(3-7) We were already on a 7 game losing streak going into February. Sad thing is, before that were 12-2(3-0) and ranked in the Top 25.

2020: 15-6(5-5) This season had some hope. A minimal amount. We had lost two games at the end of January, the 1 point loss to Maryland(the day Kobe died) and then a 15 point loss to a ranked Penn State. That followed by a 9 point loss to OSU, 12 point loss to PU, 12 point win against Iowa and a 24 point loss drubbing from Michigan. But this team ended with some of making the tourney until everyone dreams were smashed and we all ended up watching reruns of games all summer. 

2021: 9-7(4-5) No hope last season. It ended even worse. But even going into February, there was zero hope. 

2022: 14-5(7-4) We actually had hope this year! Actually had somewhat of a decent feeling heading into February. The problem was... It became February. And we are on a 5 game losing streak in the month of February. Now the season is quickly coming to an end. 

[Uspshoosier]

2 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

2021: 9-7(4-5) No hope last season. It ended even worse. But even going into February, there was zero hope. 

Everything else you said about the other seasons was spot on but saying there was no hope last year would of been false.   IU was 12-9 (7-7) mid February with playing a top 5 SOS in a shortened season going into the Sparty game who was (4-9) in league play.     Sparty won out pretty much and got in being 2 games over .500 and IU lost out finishing 12-15.     IU was setting in a good spot heading into that game.   The rest is history but there was hope that year also 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Everything else you said about the other seasons was spot on but saying there was no hope last year would of been false.   IU was 12-9 (7-7) mid February with playing a top 5 SOS in a shortened season going into the Sparty game who was (4-9) in league play.     Sparty won out pretty much and got in being 2 games over .500 and IU lost out finishing 12-15.     IU was setting in a good spot heading into that game.   The rest is history but there was hope that year also 

I don't think there was anyone here that felt this team was going on a run of any sort last year. I think more were just ready to get the Archie era over with. 

[Uspshoosier]

11 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I don't think there was anyone here that felt this team was going on a run of any sort last year. I think more were just ready to get the Archie era over with. 

Maybe but that’s a different conversation then saying IU had no hope of making the tourney last year.    They didn’t even need to go on any kind of run to make it last year.    Win home games against Sparty, northwestern and Rutgers and play they get in easily.     Sparty got in with NET 76 and 2 games over .500.    Pretty sure IU lost to Illinois in OT at home as well.   

[Its Always Sunny at IU]

21 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Maybe but that’s a different conversation then saying IU had no hope of making the tourney last year.    They didn’t even need to go on any kind of run to make it last year.    Win home games against Sparty, northwestern and Rutgers and play they get in easily.     Sparty got in with NET 76 and 2 games over .500.    Pretty sure IU lost to Illinois in OT at home as well.   

There's still lots of hope this season. 10-10 gets IU into the Tournament which was the main goal for this season. Let's go. No time to quit. Get to 10-10. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

29 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Maybe but that’s a different conversation then saying IU had no hope of making the tourney last year.    They didn’t even need to go on any kind of run to make it last year.    Win home games against Sparty, northwestern and Rutgers and play they get in easily.     Sparty got in with NET 76 and 2 games over .500.    Pretty sure IU lost to Illinois in OT at home as well.   

I guess I should say, a lot of fans had no hope for last year's team. Sure there was a way to get in, but there was a way in 2018 as well even with the losses to IPFW and ISU. IU fans have just lost a lot of hope and spirit for this program over the last 20 years. 

[Uspshoosier]

5 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I guess I should say, a lot of fans had no hope for last year's team. Sure there was a way to get in, but there was a way in 2018 as well even with the losses to IPFW and ISU. IU fans have just lost a lot of hope and spirit for this program over the last 20 years. 

IU had 0 shot of getting in the year they lost to IPFW and and ISU as an at-large    They didn’t beat 1 tournament team that year and after the first week of the season they were never mentioned in bracketology.  Last years team was in the whole year up until the 6 game losing streak 

[Uspshoosier]

15 minutes ago, Its Always Sunny at IU said:

There's still lots of hope this season. 10-10 gets IU into the Tournament which was the main goal for this season. Let's go. No time to quit. Get to 10-10. 

Getting in going 10-10 in conference will still depend on who the games are against and what the bubble looks like at the point in the season.    Just as good as chance to be left out then it would be to make it with only winning 3 more games. 

[IUc2016]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

Getting in going 10-10 in conference will still depend on who the games are against and what the bubble looks like at the point in the season.    Just as good as chance to be left out then it would be to make it with only winning 3 more games. 

agreed. I think 20 wins gets them in (that's counting 1 in the BTT) but I would honestly be surprised if 19 gets them in (unless they beat Purdue) with the weak non con and not a great quad 1 & 2 record.

Though it does help that Rutgers is now considered a tourney team 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

6 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

IU had 0 shot of getting in the year they lost to IPFW and and ISU as an at-large    They didn’t beat 1 tournament team that year and after the first week of the season they were never mentioned in bracketology.  Last years team was in the whole year up until the 6 game losing streak 

Everyone has a way in. That just wasn't going to win the BTT and everyone knew that. 

[Uspshoosier]

5 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Everyone has a way in. That just wasn't going to win the BTT and everyone knew that. 

Of course.  That’s  why I said as an at-large 

[Hoosierfan1901]

Looks like East division is getting tighter after Lewis (12-3) won last night. While we are 1.5 games after dropping some easy games. Looks like we gotta win the next 2 win it no matter what, and hope Lewis loses their last 2. Its going to be a long week

[Hoosier1984]

Well Michigan State about to lose 5 of 6 like us….their one win. Yep. IU.

[Stuhoo]

9 minutes ago, Hoosier1984 said:

Well Michigan State about to lose 5 of 6 like us….their one win. Yep. IU.

Oof..down by 26 to Iowa

[RaceToTheTop]

9 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

Getting in going 10-10 in conference will still depend on who the games are against and what the bubble looks like at the point in the season.    Just as good as chance to be left out then it would be to make it with only winning 3 more games. 

Yep.  Hell, we could go 9-11, win a BTT game and get in.  We could go 10-10 and not.  One good thing is that there probably be a lot of bid stealers from low to mid major conferences cause there seems to not be many low to mids that will get in if they lose their conference tourney.  Exception is the MWC, Murray St in the OVC, maybe Loyola in the MVC and Davidson in the A 10

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

39 minutes ago, Hoosier1984 said:

Well Michigan State about to lose 5 of 6 like us….their one win. Yep. IU.

And have at Purdue, at Ohio State and Michigan coming up next. Could be a tough stretch for RapeU. 

[Uspshoosier]

UConn/Nova tied with 7 min to go 

[HoosierAloha]

Well Michigan State about to lose 5 of 6 like us….their one win. Yep. IU.

And that one win wasn’t even close.

We need to go on an actual winning streak now. We’ll need to show a little mental toughness in this stretch to have a chance.


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