IU's offensive ineptitude can all be traced back to a lack of consistent outside shooting. What woes us is the following:

Since February 1, Miller Kopp and Parker Stewart are a combined 28/91 from three, which is good for a 30% clip.

If even one of those two can find some consistency from the three-point line tomorrow night, I like our chances.

If not, I see Saint Mary's packing the lane, sagging off shooters, and daring us to try to beat them from beyond the three-point line.

This team and I love them. Our shooting is as bad as our defense is good. As that's the way it is.

these guys shoot pretty good

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There once was a fellow O'Doole
Who found little red spots on his tool
His Doctor a cynic said Get out of me clinic,
And wipe off that lipstick you fool!



There once was a girl from Hoboken,
who swore her cherry was broken,
from riding her bike,
on a cobblestone pike,
but it was really broken from pokin'.


You may think these limericks are crass
and throw me a comment to sass
but I will agree to some degree
and I’ll still show you the crack of my ass




and a hick...

I heard her interviewed today and realized I had never featured her in a "throwback"...she's worth a look..

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and today..........

Head Coach Eric Echelbarger has done an excellent job building the program and developing a recruiting pipeline in the Indy area. The Cougars have gone 91-20 since he became the head coach before the 2018-19 season. The team has only been around since the 2012-13 season, but before Echelbarger arrived had a record of 62-125. Former Butler player and current Butler assitant Roosevelt Jones was an assistant coach at IUK under Echelbarger for 2 years, and was replaced by former Kokomo Wildkat and Evansville stand out D.J. Ballentine this season.

Butgers.

Looks like seeding was designed to get Zags v AZ final. Nine teams, but little respect nor much discussion about B1G teams. ACC champ is an 11! Conference tourneys not worth the sweat? Maybe our wins there allowed IU to slide in.

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Can he make it 3 for 3 game winning daggers against the Big 3 Indiana Colleges this season. Is it just me or does Harper Jr have that Ron Jeremy (aka The Hedge Hog) "Porno Stache" going on. LOL
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if JG had played against Iowa and PU(Championship) after we beat Iowa.

The NCAA needs to attack the back down problem. The NBA had a time that was a common event and I quit watching. Watching 8 players stand still as one guy tries to sumo his way in against another is BORING.

If the defender is set, and not flopping, what differentiates it from a conventional charge? Is it the speed, does that mean slow players can charge at will? Is it the fact the offensive player is backwards, does that mean acrobatic players can turn around in mid flight and collide backwards and avoid a charge.

It has been a complaint of mine for a long time, but watching Wyoming last night makes it more appearant a change needs made.

Private flight from Dayton to Portland tonight. Shoot around, eat, try to sleep and then wait all day to play. If we get past this weekend, we will most defiantly earn it.

I don’t have cable or satellite. Very limited WiFi for tv. So if it is not on CBS, I need a source to listen on radio.
Been doing it that way all year, unless on a National game on Fox or CBS.

This is the official live thread of the pre practice press conference for Indiana in Portland for the NCAA Tournament.

I will be joining the zoom call to provide coverage and quotes.

We will hear from Xavier Johnson, Trayce Jackson-Davis, Race Thompson, and Mike Woodson before Indiana's official practice time.

Press Conference begins at 7:15 ET. Practice for the Hoosiers is at 7:55 ET.

#iubb

Let's make some money! I gotta pay Borden!

Was on their website and saw that 8 of their players are foreign with a bunch from Australia/New Zealand. Interesting.

What I’m picking up thus far is the have 4 players (3 guards and a forward) averaging 10-12 ppg. But as a team they’re shooting just 35% from 3. They play a full shot clock sort of O and do seem to fairly good on D.

Off the top I can’t see why they’re favored tomorrow. Just like last night we should dominate inside. And given they’re shooting just 35% from 3 it would appear the 3 guards will try to dribble penetrate. Hard row to hoe against are D! I like the matchup!

A rant about the stupidity of our current gun laws and the agency who enforces them.

Long story short, a company (Diversified Manufacturing) was selling a solvent trap kit that could be machined into a suppressor. It's legal to make your own suppressor, you just need to submit a Form 1 to ATF, describe what you're doing, pay the NFA tax, register the suppressor and abide by all the other NFA regulations governing the item. Fast forward to 2020 and the ATF decided the kit itself is a suppressor and raided the business, despite the fact that it's essentially an aluminum tube and solid blocks of aluminum that fit into the tube. You literally can't fire anything through it because it is made up of pieces of solid aluminum.

Yesterday, ATF sent everyone who had submitted a Form 1 (regardless of whether it came from Diversified or not) a denial. The reason for the denial is that they have an illegal suppressor and it can't be registered because it was never transferred to them via a Form 4 as an NFA item, despite the fact that it wasn't considered an NFA item at the time they'd taken possession and then followed the regs to legally make a suppressor.

Everyone that got one of these denial letters has essentially ratted themselves out as being in possession of an illegal NFA item. The Form 1 includes name, address, SS#, a description of the item you're manufacturing, where you purchased the materials, etc... Possessing an illegal NFA item is bad juju and everyone who got the blanket denial letter is now in possession of an illegal NFA item.

"Violations of the NFA are punishable by 10 years in prison, forfeiture of all devices or firearms in violation, and the individuals right to own or possess additional firearms in the future. In addition, there is a penalty of $10,000 for each of certain violations.

In addition, a willful attempt to evade or defeat a tax imposed by the National Firearms Act is also a felony which is punishable by up to 5 years in Jail and a $100,000 fine under the tax evasion statutes. This penalty could be increased to $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for corporations."

People shouldn't ever wonder why there are law abiding gun owners who hate the ATF.

From someone who got a denial letter:

Yep, got my "denial" yesterday afternoon.
I have an unmodified JK Armanent "solvent trap" that was perfectly legal, now being told that in it's unmodified form, is according to the ATF, a suppressor, so I can't do a form 1 to modify it, according to the rules, because it is already considered a suppressor.
And technically, I can't form 4 it, because I already have it in my possession and it wasn't transferred via a form 4 when I bought it, when it was legal to own it without transfer.
And just because I have it, it is "illegal".
What a bunch of ********.

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Here is the link to the preview and it gives some scouting notes on Xavier. Perkins, Brehmer and Kraft are scheduled to be on the mound for games 1, 3 and 4, respectively. The game 2 starter is a TBA. Modugno didn't make it out of the 1st inning in his Troy start and had control problems, so I don't know if he is being demoted from the weekend rotation or maybe he has some kind of injury that brought about the poor outing against Troy. If Modugno is not the pitcher for game 2, I'm not sure who they will go with. The game tomorrow cuts into IU basketball game with Saint Mary's, so I will be concentrating on that while keeping an eye on this game.