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Yeah, don't pick Columbus or Nashville. Putting it in Big Ten basketball terms, picking Columbus would be like picking Nebraska and picking Nashville would be like picking Wisconsin.
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Why not? This is a team that should have lost to Pitt and nearly lost to Purdue and BYU. ND never trailed Purdue and was without their QB against BYU. I'm not sure what the obsession is with those games. You're bragging about never trailing Purdue? Ha ha, that says it all. (No offense Smack, you guys still dominated IU.) I'm not bragging. I'm saying they didn't 'almost lose'. You act like I brought this up. OK, you're "rationalizing" only beating Purdue by three points. Ha ha, that says it all.
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Why not? This is a team that should have lost to Pitt and nearly lost to Purdue and BYU. ND never trailed Purdue and was without their QB against BYU. I'm not sure what the obsession is with those games. You're bragging about never trailing Purdue? Ha ha, that says it all. (No offense this time Smack, you guys still dominated IU.)
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Why not? This is a team that should have lost to Pitt and nearly lost to Purdue and BYU.
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That wasn't good? Really?
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It's a road win. At a place, against a team, IU has struggled with recently. I'll take it. Feel better now than after IU's three non-home games on the pre-conference schedule.
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Yeah, it's just that there's a lot of factors that go in besides just assuming that Luck was transcendent in the fourth quarter. My own guy Sam Bradford had quite a few excellent fourth quarters but he played uneven in the other three periods. I don't think this means he has a knack for clutch play at all. Oh, I'm not disagreeing there weren't other factors. Nor am I even certain it's sustainable in future years. But, this year, it was a factor.
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I was very impressed with how they played Duke @ Cameron and I love DeShaun Thomas I agree in that I thought they played very well against Duke, and would have won if not for an unusually abysmal shooting performance by Craft (though Duke is garnering a lot of credit for wins that sound better than they are -- Kentucky when Kentucky couldn't beat anyone and Louisville without Dieng). I'm less in love with Thomas though (I've had that feeling since his early high school days). Per my eye test, Ohio State is not much better or worse than a handful of teams in the league. We shall see.
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I don't think so. I think its just a mediocre team that has won an inordinate amount of close games. Because, in large part, of excellent quarterback play in those close games. The close games (many against bad teams) mean that this Colts team is not very good. Without doing any research, I suspect this is by far the worst 11-5 team ever (look at the overall point differential). However, the Colts achieved the 11-5 record based on Luck's arm (and, quite often, his arm late in games). It sure wasn't the crappy defense, crappy running game, or crappy offensive line.
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By playing an easy schedule. Well, yeah. And yet, even against that easy schedule, I have no idea how they managed to win those eleven games. Luck just knows how to win. I know you're being facetious; but, considering his performance late in close games there may be something to that. This isn't baseball, despite your implicit insistences otherwise.
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By playing an easy schedule. Well, yeah. And yet, even against that easy schedule, I have no idea how they managed to win those eleven games.
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I still have no idea how this Colts team won eleven games (they're somehow 3-2 against playoff teams, at that). I'm thrilled to be wrong about how many games they'd win; great season no matter what happens in the playoffs.
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This is the point where not having any pre-conference road games haunts IU. Iowa by eight. Ohio State winning the league? Curious . . . I'm not seeing that, at all. Their best win is Washington (Pomeroy No. 110). I don't think they're certain to finish in the top three.
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Not counting Maurice Creek, Illinois has as many 4-star-or-above players as Indiana (although IU has two 5-stars in that group). That and this year's start really speak to how poor of a job Bruce Weber did.
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i wasn't talking about IU talk, i was talking about the dissecting of every painfully minute detail of IU's season. OMIGOD CREAN WAS WEARING BROWN SLACKS LAST NIGHT WHATSITMEAN? there can't even be that many IU fans that care about whatever it is you animals are discussing. can you start a new thread for "IU talk no one, not even IU fans, cares about"? Ha . . . well, whatever slacks Crean was wearing, they were about three sizes too big as per usual. As for the topic at hand, Hollowell was a top-40 recruit with NBA potential, so that seems pretty relevant. Oh well.
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Considering the amount of posts about IU on this board -- quite a few coming from non-IU fans (including, I suppose, your post too?) -- I'd say a number of people.
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Great signing. But, hey, some of us wanted Jackson last year . . .
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Crean didn't really say, but I think he did mention that it wasn't a grade issue. Had to be something though for him to not even make it into the game. Something had to be wrong. As to what, who knows -- could be grades or other disciplinary action or lack of effort or sickness or injury. But one does not go from in the rotation to not playing at all in a 39-point blowout without some reason. Especially considering it's a player that needs playing time/seasoning.
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Presumably counting his money. Uh, sure. The criminal, former pro football player likely saved and invested his money very wisely . . .
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There's absolutely no reason that Illinois should be considered a heavy underdog at home to Indiana.
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First College Cup appearance since 2004 (having won the championship in 2003 and 2004). However, after that, the Mike Freitag years were poor -- outside of the title in his first year with Jerry Yeagley's leftovers -- and the team slowly deteriorated. In what really endeared me to Fred Glass, Glass correctly did not renew Freitag's contract and preemptively stopped the rot (unlike what had previously occurred in other IU programs). While I think most fans were perhaps hoping for Caleb Porter, Todd Yeagley was a good choice and is off to a great start (obviously). Eight National Championships, pretty good.
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Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoosiers!
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Of relevance to a previous discussion: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-what-it I'm sure this is just a conspiratorial form of Creaning the entire student body, though.
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Well, sure. Neither of those guys were big factors, but it was still a joy seeing them enjoying winning and in the tournament after the crapfest of their first three years. I wasn't trying to imply that they "developed" into integral Sweet Sixteen players (they were marginal role players). I think that's sort of the point, I was as happy for those guys, probably more so, than guys like Cody Zeller and Christian Watford.
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I think if it's the exception, not the rule, then it's not sanctimonious. I am excited for Noah Vonleh next year, who is expected to be a one-year player. I was excited for Trey Lyles, who is a great player. If the entire team was made up of such players? Well, I don't know how I would react, but I'd prefer not to find out. You don't need a team of one-and-done's to win the title either; Kentucky just won, but I'm not sure they win if Terrence Jones, Doron Lamb, and Darius Miller weren't around too.