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Dan Dakich took over a team on Feb.22 that was 22-4 and had already played the toughest part of their schedule.
In his 3 week term as head coach, the Hoosiers went 3-3 with surprisingly narrow wins over Northwestern, Minnesota, and Ohio State,
and losses to Michigan State, Penn State, and Minnesota.
Their RPI was 8 and has dropped to 22, worse than Missouri State's was when they got left out of the NCAA,
although no doubt IU will get an NCAA bid. Their 3-point shooting has dropped off and over the past several games is under 20%.
Had the season been even a few weeks longer, or if they had a few more games against the upper echelon of the Big Ten, then their recent play could have dropped them to, say. 12 losses, and RPI of 55.
I wonder what the NCAA selection committee made up of numerous long time buddies of both Kelvin Sampson and Myles Brand would have done then??
One more thing..........Here's Indiana's record over the past FOUR YEARS in the Big Ten Tournament:
0-4....yes that's right, in DJ White's four full years at Indiana, their team has gone one-and-done all four years.
In fact you have to go all the way back to 2003-2004 to find the only win in the tourney that Indiana has had in the last five years.
Maybe they should fire their.....oh wait, I guess they did, then did again, and now will let the present guy go as well............hmmm.....that means they'll be going on their fourth head coach since their last Big Ten Tourney win!!
...maybe, just maybe they should have stayed with the guy who recruited DJ White?
Just maybe that guy, who is likely in the NCAA coaching elsewhere wasn't so bad after all.
Maybe some of the IU boosters were only looking at the glass and seeing the half empty part...
In his 3 week term as head coach, the Hoosiers went 3-3 with surprisingly narrow wins over Northwestern, Minnesota, and Ohio State,
and losses to Michigan State, Penn State, and Minnesota.
Their RPI was 8 and has dropped to 22, worse than Missouri State's was when they got left out of the NCAA,
although no doubt IU will get an NCAA bid. Their 3-point shooting has dropped off and over the past several games is under 20%.
Had the season been even a few weeks longer, or if they had a few more games against the upper echelon of the Big Ten, then their recent play could have dropped them to, say. 12 losses, and RPI of 55.
I wonder what the NCAA selection committee made up of numerous long time buddies of both Kelvin Sampson and Myles Brand would have done then??
One more thing..........Here's Indiana's record over the past FOUR YEARS in the Big Ten Tournament:
0-4....yes that's right, in DJ White's four full years at Indiana, their team has gone one-and-done all four years.
In fact you have to go all the way back to 2003-2004 to find the only win in the tourney that Indiana has had in the last five years.
Maybe they should fire their.....oh wait, I guess they did, then did again, and now will let the present guy go as well............hmmm.....that means they'll be going on their fourth head coach since their last Big Ten Tourney win!!
...maybe, just maybe they should have stayed with the guy who recruited DJ White?
Just maybe that guy, who is likely in the NCAA coaching elsewhere wasn't so bad after all.
Maybe some of the IU boosters were only looking at the glass and seeing the half empty part...
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