SouthSideRyan

Uhhh no, Avery Bradley is not.

That's very unfair to Lin. Tebow simply sucked, Lin is a guy projected to suck who has had some good games. Get back to me when Lin wins a playoff series.

que? David Robinson supporting Texas

Ed DeChelis is not amused.

Not trying to make this about IU, but I was just thinking the other night how IU went 2-0 without Elston, 4-1 without Sheehey, and are now 2-0 without Jones. Those wins included over UK (no Elston), over Ohio St and Michigan (no Sheehey), and the last 2 over Purdue (road) and Illinois with out Jones. Of course, they lost 5 of 7 with all of them healthy during conference season. 2 of those guys are terrible.

Nice hairline Demp.

Downsides: injuries to the rotation and Castro, Soto repeating 2009/2011 levels of performance, less power on this year's team, LaHair being a 4A player and Rizzo regressing. I could easily see this team being worse than last year. Really, Castro might not be able to do what he has done? I look at Castro and I see Grace, Carter, Madlock, Santo, Williams and Banks. Castro will probably have a better career than all those guys.(Also, I have no clue how you decided to lump those 6 guys together.)

Worth it to secure Harris's commitment. Do you think Tom Crean showing up to see him unexpectedly, like a freakish stalker, had a negative impact? Oh did he not commit to Indiana? My mistake. Someone should've told him they have a team.

Which is insane. If Savannah State committed violations, would they actually reward them?

Worth it to secure Harris's commitment. Do you think Tom Crean showing up to see him unexpectedly, like a freakish stalker, had a negative impact? Oh did he not commit to Indiana? My mistake.

Worth it to secure Harris's commitment.

1. BFD 2. I WONDER WHY 3. Funnier than the postseason ban. 4. How often are all coaches used for recruiting? How long was this "punishment" for? If it came about when the Sampson stuff came out, this was a 2 month punishment? If it was before the season when the other stuff happened(Senderoff maybe?), then it had nothing to do with what Indiana was being punished for. 5. That sounds like a reward for Indiana So Indiana got restrictions on phone calls (It's just phone calls!!) and saved $500,000.

Was playing Daniel Moore part of the sanctions? One of those make-a-wish foundation things?

Self-imposed punishment meaning what exactly? Not re-admitting players who had failed out of school? Not forcing recruits/players who were weirded out by Tom Crean to stay at Indiana?

Right, the NCAA felt bad for Indiana because their team all left, so they gave them no punishment. I'm curious how long it took them to stop laughing when they added the postseason ban.

We have all pointed out the facts before. IU was clearly the more aggressive team. Layup attempts clearly don't tell the story, especially when most of the FTs were due to players driving to the hoop. The daggers in the game were Hulls getting to the baseline, finding Zeller for a dunk and 1. And then him getting in the lane and hitting Watford for the 3. IU made a legit effort to get to the rim on almost every drive in the 2nd half. That should be pretty clear from anyone watching the game. It also should be common sense that that's how most basketball games are officiated. The aggressive team gets the calls. If you guys want to complain about the ticky-tack calls that got IU in the bonus in the 2nd, I also think IU was called for several of those in the 2nd half, albeit later in the half. To be fair, watching the game, I noticed that at the beginning of the second half, IU was extremely aggressive in getting to the basket and there were a lot of fouls called. It was a more tightly called game than in the first half, and it seemed the refs made a conscious effort to tighten up the game. And in a tightly called game, that strongly favors the more aggressive team. If the Illini fans in general weren't so crappy towards IU and hadn't been so disrespectful the last couple of years, I might be able to be more objective. Oh, a thousand pardons sire. How awful of us to pick at IU for no reason.

IU has played six home games and is coming off a game with an, admitted, huge disparity in free throws. It's hard for me to consider numbers from six games very dispositive. Further, IU has played Ohio State, Michigan State, Michigan, and Wisconsin on the road -- which no other team has -- meaning IU's road stats likely are skewed in the other direction and will change. I would like to see the full-season numbers, and then numbers from previous seasons, before any actual conclusion is made. It's hard to claim a trend based on an unbalanced six games from one season. That said, outside of the most irrational, I doubt you'll find IU fans that don't believe Assembly Hall offers an advantage in this regard. In the Big Ten, every team receives such an advantage. Is IU's advantage more significant? I'd say most likely because officials -- actually humans in general, as studies have shown -- react to crowd noise and extraneous factors when making decisions. And Assembly Hall is probably/possibly the loudest stadium in the Big Ten (anecdotally, it seems that way to me . . . but I haven't been to Nebraska . . . haha). Just FYI, those are the season numbers, not conference only. It bears out what I was saying, Illinois generally doesn't go to the line a lot, but nobody goes to the line as much as IU did last night. OK, my mistake. I think my point still stands that it's still a relatively small, unbalanced sample size (IU played a ton of patsies in the non-conference season). Who do you think the rest of the Big Ten was playing?

I don't see anything on there saying it's for conference games only.

Maybe the Indiana fans have woodchip on ignore?

Pay no attention to the man behind the statsheet.

And Iowa!! REMARKABLE

Don't mess with "The Big Handsome". Like calling a huge guy Tiny or a one-armed guy Lefty.

I did and that claim seems to be, well, literally false. Yeah, but he just made you waste 5 minutes of your day, so point sulley (and 2 free ones for IU)

That's what really needs to be focused on from last night. Just how ugly Cody Zeller is. The rest of this is pretty trivial.

That was the problem with last night, Illinois didn't get enough fouls called on them.