SouthSideRyan

It was ok, I wouldn't say great by any means. 16th in the nation according to Pomeroy.

The offense has looked worse because we haven't had talented guards. I think you overstate it by saying we need '05 level talent to be an effective offense. We still had a great offense without Deron or Luther in '06.

Nah, it looks great if you have an All Pro point guard running it, flanked by two pro wings. Who was running it @ Purdue a week ago? Well they weren't playing a zone. The last two teams that played zone against us have pantsed us. Which Weber would make some kind of adjustment, or hell even gameplan for it. And we shredded OSU's last year thanks to Davis and Tisdale. Davis has 2 shot attempts, that's unacceptable.

Nah, it looks great if you have an All Pro point guard running it, flanked by two pro wings. Who was running it @ Purdue a week ago?

20% from the field. 0-10 from 3

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