against Maryland this afternoon? He was in the ref's face and was yelling like crazy. Mike Woodson doesn't get those kind of breaks.

I bet on them to cover as part of a three leg Super Bowl parlay with Cincinnati and the under…

I’ll hang up and listen.

We've beaten it to death here and we all know our free throw shooting is p*$$ poor and unacceptable. What I don't understand is why our kids, who have terrible mechanics, aren't taught, coached...heck even forced to change those mechanics. It's not like I'm a coach or anything, but even a moronic novice knucklehead like myself can look at the shooting mechanics of many of our players and see they aren't built for success. Trey Galloway's wrist looks like it's moving sideways before he follows through. Xavier's push shot should have been discontinued in the sixth grade. Trayce doesn't bend his knees at the free throw line and just flicks the shot with his wrists.

I love Woody, but I hate...ABSOLUTELY HATE...what he said in the presser yesterday after the game about having to "get the kids more confident" about making shots.

Maybe I'm crazy but for many of our players, I don't think it's an "emotional" thing like confidence. I think it's a very teachable, coachable mechanics thing that has to be fixed. The sooner the better...Just coach them. Teach them. That's what you're paid to do!

My kid had a game today so I just tried to watch highlights on you tube right now. It pulled up the 1992 iu vs mich state game at first. Just amazing the ball movement and cutting etc we had on that team. They were just a machine of a team. For now I guess this is all we got but man wish we could get that back at iu.

Up 29-28 today with 1:30 left in first half. End the half down 37-30.

Down 54-51 with 9:30 to play in game. Score all of 7 points the rest of the game to lose 67-51. And that was with a meaningless bucket at the end of the game. So we managed 7 flipping points, in a chippy, hugely important, return game for the suspended kids…the final 9 minutes???

Enough blame to go around. Not gonna try and pin any on anyone.

I find it incredibly ironic though that the 2 guys we might be missing more than anyone, to help in these regards, are Rob Phinisee…and Al Durham. Rob has been a part of a couple of these debacles. But he is a guy, possibly our only guy, that’s capable of creating for himself and making outside shots. That shouldn’t be necessary when we have the two bigs we have…but here we are yet again. And then Al Durham…watched their game against DePaul tonight. His nickname now, evidently, is Mariano fricking Rivera…AKA the closer. Providence is 21-2, and they ride Durham nearly every possession late in games. He was something like 12-12 from the line, most of them late in the game.

It’s crazy how much better those 2 are overall than guys like Kopp and Stewart.

....................and suit up for Woodson.
Looking at the box score from yesterdays game left me apoplectic. Our guards either didn't shoot, or when they did (look at PS's line) they missed.
Do the Soul Trotters still suit up a team like they did in the 70's and 80's? We could use them

Coach Woodson showed a lot of character sitting through that abomination of a shooting display. It was air balls from the field and clangers from the free throw line. My high school coach would have been drinking in a bathroom at half time just to be able to sit on the bench during the second half.

I can't remember a D1 game with so many badly executed shots-they must be running shooting drills in practice on 9' rims. The collection of shot mechanics I saw in this game were nothing less than a D1 horror story. Shots that hit the bottom of the rim or bottom of the backboard were high five shots.

So I have heard a few pundits say woodson is trying to run an nba offense but we dont have the horses to make it work. Say you need superior talent and athletes for it to work. I dont watch the nba at all so I am not sure but it seems nba guys like penny or Hoiberg arent doing so well in college. So is this accurate or all bs.

I don't mean coaching !

IU could really use a ''Steve Alford'' player though, problem is if we do find some phenom to elevate us he will leave in a year or two. Imagine having a 2 time 1st team AA from instate that can actually shoot? One that isn't running to the NBA so you could actually build around them? Calbert wouldn't stay 4 yrs in today's world . We were blessed with so much in state talent that fit the system back in those years. I don't see major improvements any time soon. Race is the team's best player , We don't even have a Juwan Morgan on this team.

Go Culture!

1-9 FG’s
1-7 Three’s
1-6 free throws

Woof! Remember when he was hitting 53% of his threes and near the top in the country in 3pt FG %? Very tough day for him today.

That's all I see for IU. A Maryland win is likely, other than that I just don't see it with this team. Par for the course as IU limps to the finish line and gets knocked out first round of B1G tourney. All that equals NIT. I really thought this year would be different, how foolish of me. Crean, Archie, Woodson, really doesn't matter all the same results.

Hoped to see more energy and hustle. It's one thing to be chippy, it's another to deliver. We simply aren't beating anybody without putting it into an extra gear every game...we're just not that good.

that IU basketball IS NOT what is was for years and may never be the BETTER you'll sleep at night!

Is it now safe to say that game is a must win or no? I know when I called northwestern a must win some laughed at me.

should start in place of Parker Stewart. The kid stepped up today. Nothing from Stewart or Kopp again. Sound familiar? 6 tough games left, could we possibly finish the season on a 9 game losing streak?
Just my thoughts!

Our last two classes, Leal, Lander, Galloway, Geronimo and Duncombe might be the worst two back to back classes ever or it looks like that to me.

We ain’t making the tourney. Ease your pain. Stop the mental gymnastics. The all aboard is a laugh. We could build a shit brick house but the bubble is bursting with a sour flavor. We don’t have the back court. About time to cash out. Ended the game on a 25 to 7 run. In a game we were starving for. Rinse and repeat.

Please recruit shooters.

But IU can not shoot.
So it doesn't matter.

nt

ANYONE

I understand a little home cooking when it comes to officiating but jeezus does it have to be an all you can eat buffet? Doesn't help that MSU is 15 of 16 on FT and IU is 3 of 7.

Just win

Indiana looks to avoid a three-game skid as it travels to East Lansing to take on the Michigan State Spartans.

MSU is also coming off of two straight losses.

All 5 suspended players will be back and 'available to play' today.

Tip in about an hour.