SouthSideRyan

Bill Cole and Jordan on the court at the same time can't happen.

Quit trying to dunk every put back Brandon.

This doesn't make sense, it's Davis and Tisdale's best attribute is their 15 foot jumper which is a zone killer. Instead they're just standing around watching McCamey and Paul play catch.

We're playing like Iowa

For somebody who is supposed to be so experienced in the motion offense, Bill Cole really sucks at it.

Way too mucuh standing around on offense.

The guy was clearly fouled. I wasn't paying close enough attention to the replay on the non-call of the missed dunk. It was after the ball was released, I usually hate when refs swallow their whistles, but that was a heave that was nowhere close, then after he releases he gets hit on the hand, and the guy flops like Kramer.

He was giving him a piggy back ride, it was crazy, and then he just dumped the guy on his ass after he hopped off

Haha, did anyone see the Tennesse guy literally on top of the Kentucky guy's back on that shot?

One hell of a screw job in the George Mason/Northeastern game

Sure wish they'd switch off the ND game.

That explains all the point guards we have been looking at in the '10 class. Scares the hell out of me.

I understand what you're saying Exile, but IMO, the most important thing for IU is to change the perception of their program. As we mentioned earlier, even a couple more wins this season, makes them look a lot better to potential recruits. If you have 3-4 more kids leave this year, and you're once again short-handed, without a lot of help coming from the '10 recruits, you're looking at the possibility of another single digit win season with blowout losses along the way. Indiana might still be a name to some kids in Indiana, but that doesn't matter if there aren't any signs of progress. You're not going to pull a Dawson or a Marrero or a Teague when you don't have anything on the court to sell them while going against Louisville, Kentucky, Purdue, OSU, IL, ND, etc. The other thing, is who's the best fit to transfer? I'd say Capobianco is the guy on your team that brings the least to the table, now and for the future, but frontcourt is where you need the most help. You wouldn't want to lose any of the guards (Hulls, Jones, Creek, Rivers or RotH) so it winds up leaving you even more undermanned in the front court than this year. That and big men notoriously take time to develop. What happens when Muniru or Elston take off, and it turns out in 2 years they're a solid Big Ten level player? My opinion is IU should be building toward the '12 class. It's stacked in the state of Indiana, and you already have 3 open scholarships for that year. You take Creek back, you hope for development from Watford and Hulls, you hope Jones stops being such a chucker when he gets somebody else on the team that can shoot, and you aim for 500 overall and 6 wins in conference. Is that alone enough to bring in the top kids? Of course not, but you hope to have established a nice connection with the kid, you hope the name Indiana means something to him, and maybe you resign yourself to taking the 4 stars out of that class rather than shooting for the moon when going up against a Cal or a Matta. Don't get me wrong, I hope whatever plan IU enacts fails miserably, but I don't see how opening up 2 or 3 more scholarships for '12 is going to help matters, when it might be enough of a struggle to get the top kids to fill those 3 voids.

I thought it was rumored that Williams wasn't happy with Story(his roommate and best friend maybe?) being shown the door, so he followed him out. That may have been Illinois fan rumor mongering to make Crean look bad though.

Kevin Millar can play third about as well as I could. When I die.

The problem is that Crean is already talking about a couple of the kids on the team needing to get the boot for lack of effort. You can't run kids off and then bemoan the lack of depth. You also can't glue kids like Muniru and Elston to the bench and be upset about your lack of size inside. How nice would it be to have a Nick Williams on the team this year to step up once Creek went down? IU does not have the talent to be a tourney team right now, but there are enough D1 level players to provide the depth to prevent the breakdown that has happened.

The Big Ten injury rate has been brutal this year. I'm waiting for McCamey to have a blimp crash on him.

A moment of silence for Nightcrawler's ACL

Fogeyism

If Hummel's not back by then, I bet PSU beats Purdue to cost them the title

Well that was just an awful call by Hightower, the ref right in front of the play knows better than you Ed.

I'm pretty sure they still get in comfortably but holy crap, if you can find an at large team with 2 worse losses than UNI. Evansville and Depaul???? Seriously?? I'm sure they'll get in as a single digit seed thanks to RPI, but as you said they have 2 horrendous losses, and don't have a single good win to balance them out. Old Dominion and Siena is what they're basing their resume on? The bubble looks weak this year, and I'm sure when I check them out, I'll have them in as well, but yeesh, not pretty

I wanted Fontenot to get reps at SS down the stretch last year, but it sure as [expletive] wasn't so Kevin Millar could be on the team

I like Griffey, but Davis had a pretty good game, coming through with some big tough boards. Decent D against a matchup that doesn't really bode well for him. Michigan shot a shade under 25% Incredible He could have, again was just able to follow on my phone. I wish last years' Mike Davis would show up in time for the tournament. He's at least shown up the last 2 games compared to his complete disappearance in the previous 10. Still not close to last year's level though. This team needs Davis and Paul to be at their best to make any kind of noise

I like Griffey, but Davis had a pretty good game, coming through with some big tough boards. Decent D against a matchup that doesn't really bode well for him. Michigan shot a shade under 25% Incredible