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Oladipo can do about anything, but ball handling isnt a strength from what i've seen. Great win tonight for SLU. Beating Butler will be the road win they lacked to be a top 15-20 team. Basically a defensive team without any real stars. He was the primary ball handler last year in the second half of the season. He's not going to be a PG anytime soon but he is so fast with the ball that he's hard to press.

Teams can interview up to 60 players for up to 15 minutes each at the combine. If anyone finds anything, can they post it in here? Only ones I know for sure are Manti Te'o and DJ Fluker. And Lane Johnson said he has either talked to or been interviewed by every team so far.

Kromer should know first hand how much Bushrod sucks.

Do you have some fundamental inability to process bad results for Michigan? @IU @Wisky @MSU Those aren't bad results to me, they are expected. Other teams have lost games they shouldn't have over a period. Sorry that I think Michigan is better than IU Sure, in a vacuum those three losses in five games don't look bad. But we are allowed to look deeper. One of those losses Michigan was absolutely , humiliatingly throat-stomped and quit on the game (a place where IU just won). The two wins were an overtime home win against a team you just previously stated is struggling, and an eight-point home win against winless Penn State (!). For a team of Michigan's caliber, they are unquestionably struggling. There's no reason to suspect they won't snap out of this and return to top-level form -- and I think they will beat IU -- but a struggle this is. You can think Michigan is better than IU all you want -- I see little to support that, but whatever -- but I can't imagine even Michigan fans don't consider themselves in a little slump. It is ignoring that, not your opinion about who is better, that makes me question your ability to process Michigan's results. It really boils down to one thing for me....PG. There are going to be a few more teams able to give Indiana fits in the tournament than Michigan. Teams who play full court pressure D could really pose problems for Indiana come March. Louisville is certainly the first team that comes to mind, that would be a BAD matchup for the Hoosiers and likely eliminate them IMO. VCU is another team who would pose problems, they have the best on ball defender in the country. IU has a lot of ball handlers though. Yogi, Hulls, Oladipo....even Watford and Zeller can handle if necessary. Teams have occasionally tried to press Yogi but this team passes the ball really well and the bigs run the court so well that they can really punish teams for pressing. Not saying IU wouldnt have trouble with either of those teams, but I don't think they will come close to falling apart when pressured. Also worth noting is that IU really puts pressure on by inbounding the ball and getting upcourt very fast on made shots. A team thats been pressing all year like VCU has an advantage because thats how they play, but I don't think it would take a ton of time for IU to adjust and just get Zeller or Oladipo streaking to their basket consistently.

Yeah the Gophers kinda scare me next week. Reeling, near desperate team. At home in thw biggest game of their season. IU seems to be more rusty than refreshed when coming off an extended break. Plus its tough to imagine s team winning at OSU, MSU, and Minn in a row .

Even if they were mentioned.... 14 point win vs. 2 point loss on a buzzer beater < 23 point loss vs. 4 point win But yeah the point was to show that Michigan can't really be argued as better than IU. Michigan's best win is either @ Minnesota or home vs. Ohio St. by 2 in OT. IU has 4 wins better than both, including the one of Michigan.

Kind of anti-climactic with Indiana winning the rest of their games. Ha. If IU does manage to win their next three games, it will make the game at Michigan even more difficult. If that happens, IU likely will have the Big Ten locked up -- Michigan State is very likely to lose another game with their schedule -- and that game would all of a sudden mean way, way more to Michigan than IU and IU would be coming off a senior night celebration. Probably would become IU's worst performance/loss of the season. Unless you lose by 15+ to Michigan, I can't put that past the Butler game. Defensively maybe. Believe 48% by Butler was the highest FG%A by IU this year. But they scored 86 points (76 in regulation) and lost on a buzzer beater in OT. Wisconsin was probably the worst considering they were at home.

Do you have some fundamental inability to process bad results for Michigan? @IU @Wisky @MSU Those aren't bad results to me, they are expected. Other teams have lost games they shouldn't have over a period. Sorry that I think Michigan is better than IU I know I'm biased, but as a person who has called Michigan the best team in the country all year until the last couple weeks, I don't see how you can say Michigan is better than IU anymore. They got absolutely throttled at Michigan St, a place where IU just won. They also lost @ Ohio St. where IU won pretty handily. IU won head-to-head, granted in Bloomington, but IU also has better wins than Michigan on their resume. That 4 game gauntlet really sucked for them, and I'm sure they'll turn it around as they MAY win out (which constitutes as a prediction around here I guess and contradicts my other prediction that wasn't really a prediction)(.

Signing bonuses are prorated over the life of the contract. So, if a guy gets a $10Mil signing bonus over 5 years, it counts 2Mil against the cap every year. Doesn't matter if he gets all $10Mil up front, defers half, some or all of it. Until he's cut Signing bonuses still count against the cap if you're cut though, right? Because that's guaranteed money. I believe you take the cap hit for the year you cut him. So a $10 mil signing bonus guy that gets cut after 3 years has the remaining $4 mil go against the cap all at once. What I'm not sure of is if that $4 mil is retroactive to year 3 or if it goes onto what would have been year 4. Year 4

Are you [expletive] serious?

Miami kinda looks like the 1-seed that will lose on the first weekend of the tourney. They have scored 60 or less 7 times this year.

Here's an interesting fact. 22 of the 32 teams are pretty set at QB going into next year. Another 6 likely have and incumbent starting QB likely keeping/winning their jobs (PHIL- Vick, Jax- Gabbert, TEN- Locker, OAK- Palmer, NYJ- Sanchez, TB- Freeman). Of those 28 teams, 24 of them have QBs drafted in the top 40 picks. The 4 that don't are NE (Brady), Seattle (Wilson), Dallas (Romo), and Houston (Schaub). And Schaub was traded to Houston for a top 40 pick. Presumably, 1 of KC, Buffalo, Arizona, Cleveland will get Alex Smith...adding another top 40 pick to the starting QB ranks. Another safe assumption is that at least 2 of those teams will take a QB in the first round with that QB likely to start. If Cleveland doesn't do either and Brandon Weeden is their QB again next year, there will be 29 of the 32 teams will have used a top 40 pick on their starting QB or traded a top 40 pick for their starting QB. Walter Football had an article about non-1st round developmental QBs. And I was surprised to find that strategy hasn't really worked very well. With Russell Wilson having a big year, teams may be looking to wait on a QB. But guys like Brady, Romo, and Wilson himself are the exceptions and developing a mid-to-late round QB only appears to work out once every 5-6 years.

Little would get through to the net if that were to happen....PKs are set up for position players to block shooting lanes Yeah, I know. It would just be fun to watch. Like Dodgeball with a puck.

My power play strategy would just be to blast as many shots as possible and look for the rebound.

YAY! Guess we can call that methodical.

Big Shot Wat! And it's not a "when" with Watford anymore. He's been in double figures every game since Butler. And he's not forcing shots on bad post up moves or weak drives. He's going strong to the hole, knowing he can make FTs and he's picking his spots on the 3. Yogi did a helluva job on Appling too. I said Appling would show up and be a huge difference for MSU from the game in Bloomington, but he didn't show again, including missing a big front end of 1-and-1 at the end.

Yeah, I should stop making predictions! That was a good win. Even with the referees trying to gift wrap it back to MSU on that late foul call. Calls went our way most of the night, though, I will admit. Either way, IU was the better team out there. Have won all 6 games vs. teams that were ranked at the time of the game, 4 of those were top 10 teams at the time....the last 2 on the road.

Lol, you aren't winning there, MSU, or Michigan. You're done in the big ten race. Unless you're rooting to keep the number one ranking why ever cheer for Bo Ryan? Why do u give a [expletive] who I root for? Lol, awesome. What u wanna bet IU wins 1 of Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan St on the road? Yeah, I should stop making predictions!

We are traveling our asses off! :shock:

Suckiest thing about this game is Appling was basically a no-show last game and Oladipo was near a 1-man show. With Appling not likely to get in foul trouble super quickly at home and Oladipo a little gimpy, IU is going to have to find a completely different way to win. On the positive, Zeller and Sheehey didn't really do a ton offensively, though Zeller had some big plays late. Gotta defend the 3 and keep Dawson and Nix off the offensive glass.

Signing bonuses are prorated over the life of the contract. So, if a guy gets a $10Mil signing bonus over 5 years, it counts 2Mil against the cap every year. Doesn't matter if he gets all $10Mil up front, defers half, some or all of it.

"May"

Wow has it been that long? If IU wins this game they may not lose again this year. There will be no tougher game the rest of the season even if they go to the final 4 it will wont be in an environment like tonight.

Not really he was voted to the probowl and u will see the teams knocking down the door to sign him if he becomes available. Keeping Melton may be most important though because of the lack of draft picks combined with number of needs. If u lose him u gotta go DT probably in the 1st round. And he's not going to be as good and its going to take away a pick that could be used on another position where the Bears don't have either s good or a young player which Melton is both.

No double meanings in that commercial at all.