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Indiana loses at Wisconsin

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IlliBraves

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In a top 25 match up, Indiana finds themselves down 16 on the road to Wisconsin. Looks like more Karma for the Hoosiers.

Also, NC State leads Duke on the road early in the second half, 49-46.
 
Indiana is WAY OVER-RATED.

Their best win on their resume is a neutral floor win over Illinois St.

Next is Ga Tech who is 3-3 in the ACC right now. Then followed by a road win at SIU.
 
MacabreMob said:
Indiana is WAY OVER-RATED.

Their best win on their resume is a neutral floor win over Illinois St.

Next is Ga Tech who is 3-3 in the ACC right now. Then followed by a road win at SIU.
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Thank you!! I thought if I said it, you'd say I was biased, which I am out of pure hatred for the Hoosiers. But almost anyone can see that they've had trouble playing anyone who's non sight impaired. Also, they have the worst strength of schedule in the B10.
 
When you realize the only two good players IU has are DJ White and Eric Gordon,
and Sampson didn't legally recruit EITHER!!!

He inherited DJ from Davis, and he broke rules to get the other one!


Here is a great story from an IU writer.....
first he rips on Indiana as a bunch of self-appointed stars who play no team ball,
"And what in the name of Jimmy Chitwood has happened to Indiana basketball? No motion, no movement, no one who can shoot straight. The Hoosiers looked more like an NBA developmental unit, with lots of individuals trying to make individual plays but with little success."

Then he rips on the Big Ten as a terrible conference....
"The Big Ten race this season is more about finding the best looking pig than a basketball team capable of competing for a national championship.
The conference just isn't what it used to be, or at least what it was just a year ago.
Two of the league's best teams ??” by way of record and ranking ??” mudwrestled at the Kohl Center on Thursday in hopes of separating themselves from the rest of the pack.
Success was not realized, on either front."

http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/APC0201/802010718/1892
 
Anyone else watch the game??
The two Chicago Westinghouse guys, DeAndre Thomas and Jamarcus Ellis, both via Chipola juco, and Lance Stemler
absolutely did NOT demonstrate much to dispel the idea major schools should NOT go after the jucos, and should leave them to the mid-majors where they belong.

DeAndre Thomas looks to have regained all the weight he reportedly lost, and must weight 325!!
He was only in the game 6 minutes, fumbled the ball away every time he touched it and committed four fouls. No wonder IU has to play DJ White 38-40 minutes....in the end it'll burn out White and ruin postseason chances.

Jamarcus was billed as a triple double waiting to happen....so I wonder what happened?
He does grab a lot of rebounds, almost as if he has nothing else to do, but all night he was getting beat, playing defense from behind, picking up fouls (4), and launching shots that looked more hopeless than most of Lance Stemler's.

Speaking of Stemler.......good for him that he's getting to play for a near-Top 10 team, but he again struggled and was 1-6 all from 3-pt range with a few of those shots looking awful and getting some comments from the broadcasters about how bad they looked even tho Lance was as wide open as he could get since most of the defenses key on Gordon.
For 26 minutes, 3 pts/one assist is a pretty thin stat line for a guard.
His 3-pt shooting is 36% this year but still 29% on his career. I used to hear the line that it was the rebounding he added that offset his bad shooting, but he only averages 2 rpg, fewer than Eric Gordon gets.

Most of the opinions on the IU boards say they really don't want to go for any more juco kids.
 
On that IU team, Stemler is nothing more than a spot-up shooter. He basically makes no assists and never turns it over - mostly because he either gets a wide open three or doesn't touch the ball.

His rebounding is acceptable if you consider him a SF, which you can when he's in the game with Jamarcus Ellis (who is basically a rebounding 6'5'' PF that can also pass). Stemler is probably in the best situation he could possibly be in, as his rebounding is too weak for most teams to use him at PF and his ballhandling is too weak to play SF. On almost any other team he'd be a liability, but he fits pretty well on that IU squad.
 
On a side note, IU is gonna have almost no experience next year outside of their starting backcourt. Here's their returning players (assuming Gordon leaves):

G Armon Bassett (28 mpg)
G Jordan Crawford (25 mpg)
F Jamarcus Ellis (32 mpg)
F Brandon McGee (7 mpg)
C DeAndre Thomas (11 mpg)
C Eli Holman (seeking medical redshirt)

Here's their freshmen for next season:
PG Terrell Holloway (4 star)
SG Matt Roth (3 star)
SF Devin Ebanks (5 star)
C Tom Pritchard (3 star)

Unless Holman can really come on with almost no experience, IU will be very "thin" up front, despite the decidedly un-thin DeAndre Thomas. To make things worse, Thomas has a serious issue with foul trouble - he's averaging 5 fouls per 23 minutes.

IU better hope they can rack up the wins this year, as I see them dropping back towards the middle of the Big Ten next season.
 
Gordon is as good as gone. His style is so much more condusive to pro ball then college. He really has nothing else to prove except maybe that he is coachable perhaps.
 
I have to disagree with you on DJ White being a "good" player. He can be good, but.... He's very inconsistent and has gotten burned on the defensive side of the ball any time he plays a decent big man, aka last week vs. UCONN. Also, he often shoots 15 foot jumpers, which is not really what his position is designed to do.
 
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