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    Shouldn’t take this long to build it

    The 1989 & 2012 teams were overachievers in the regular season and bowed out in the Sweet 16. The 2002 squad was unranked in the final AP Poll, but was only #22 in the pre-season poll. They never were ranked higher than #20, but did spend the last few weeks of the season ranked before falling...
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    Last year IU ranked 11th of 87 high major teams in Def. Reb. fell to 72nd this year

    This is why looking at raw rebounding totals and including Quad 3 and 4 opponents can be deceiving. As long as Torvik is free, I'll be using his site because it is so functional.
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    Last year IU ranked 11th of 87 high major teams in Def. Reb. fell to 72nd this year

    I like the "it's not what you do, but how well you do it". My only quarrel would be that, if your most dependable backcourt players are built like extra tall Big 10 tailbacks, there might be some tinkering necessary relative to how you want to pressure the ball. In other words, roster makeup...
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    CAV - when you get a chance give us a run down on Bates season.

    I actually like our team next year. By tournament time your only using 7 or 8 guys and I think we'll look pretty good with a couple of decent bigs from the portal. I like the backcourt of X, Galloway and Bates with Gunn and the frosh as insurance policies for Bates. I still think Bates will...
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    Last year IU ranked 11th of 87 high major teams in Def. Reb. fell to 72nd this year

    Leaking out more to get into transition more frequently (a philosophical choice) is what I presumed. Obviously, many other factors can push and pull a bit on the averages, but typically if a big, strong team like IU underperforms on the defensive glass, I just assume that the main reason is...
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    Last year IU ranked 11th of 87 high major teams in Def. Reb. fell to 72nd this year

    If you do the Torvik sort, where you only include Quad 2 or better, last year the opposition got an Off Reb on 26% of misses, while this year it was 32.8. The worse your % is the more variation, so teams like IU (this year) are far more prone to nights like last night. Anyway a fall from 11th...
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    Last year IU ranked 11th of 87 high major teams in Def. Reb. fell to 72nd this year

    This is using Bart Torvik and excludes quad 3 and quad 4 opponents (only excludes a small part of our schedule). We added a 5 star big and plummeted. How is this possible? I think it has to be a philosophical change in how we defend. I've seen a lot of people blame the players for poor block...
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    Is #1 seed PUke losing to #16 FDU the worst loss in the history of sports?

    In my opinion, the only upset that even comes close is when Chaminade beat #1 Virginia with Ralph Sampson. Even then, Chaminade was a very highly ranked NAIA team (maybe #1 themselves) and followed up the upset of UVA with more upsets over the next few seasons. It seems like they might have...
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    Are Creans 2 sweet 16s.

    Somebody may have already mentioned it, but our current #4 seeding is in a 3-way tie for the 2nd highest seeding since Calbert and crew played here. So, even with the disappointments, this has been as good as it gets for IU (outside of 2013) in three decades.
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    Kent State analysis

    One thing about the Kent State matchup is that the Golden Flashes are very similar to Northwestern (at least from the perspective of statistical profile), and, even though IU was swept by the 'Cats, It seemed like the Hoosiers finally adjusted to playing against them in the 2nd half in Evanston...
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    Since field of 64, IU's first round tip time's

    Awesome... and hilarious that you don't remember last year. I thought I was blessed with a good memory, but I wouldn't have remembered any of those. I doubt I'll ever forget about Portland though, because everybody was talking about what a rip it was to play in Dayton on Tues, then have to...
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    So face it guys, the recruiting has been subpar and I am being kind

    Justin Smith averaged 17.75 pts and 8.25 rebs his last 12 games with the pigs, and played 450 of 480 possible minutes down the stretch. Al Durham averaged 13 pts 3 rebs and 3 assists in conference play. He was selected to the Big East All-Tournament team and was also named to the NCAA All...
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    Hoosier basketball fans tend to be delusional.

    Why must ya keep saying "Give the man a chance"? Outside of non-IU lurkers, we all love Mike Woodson here and want to see him cutting down some nets. Woody is living the dream right now and has already had some great moments. It's all gravy for old #42 from here on out and we all want to...
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    Penn St and Pickett can’t throw it into the ocean today!!!

    Purdue has also corralled 21 of PSU's 23 missed shots
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    What 4/5 and 1 do you not want to see.

    I still think Purdue is deserving as long as they don't lose to PSU, but I think it'll be really interesting to see what the committee does with Houston. The Cougs have been way out in front in predictive metrics for a while now, but their resume is as soft as Charmin. I always like to look to...
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    What 4/5 and 1 do you not want to see.

    I think it will take intervention by Reynolds for IU to get a 4 seed. They aren't seeding IU ahead of Xavier, K-State or Iowa State, I don't think. I see 1 spot available of the Top 16 seeds, and I think San Diego St. would be much more likely than IU. As you said, if they do snub SD State...
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    So face it guys, the recruiting has been subpar and I am being kind

    I'm not so sure about IU's talent being an issue. This is now the 3rd straight year that one of our transfers have played starring roles on teams which have spent time ranked in the AP Top 10. Justin Smith was an enigma at IU, then transferred to Arkansas and was awesome on a Razorback team...
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    This Style of Basketball HAS to Change

    it's mathematically true, but it's much more difficult to get good looks from 3 as the level of competition increases and the variance can be wild. In the 2 NCAA Tournaments since the 3 point line was moved back, teams have hit 191 of 680 three point attempts in Sweet 16 games for 28%. That's...
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    It baffles me we never run any action to open shooters up

    Nothing about the offense matters because we can't guard or defensive rebound. In IU's last 3 losses the opponent has had one of their easiest offensive days of the year. Today PSU scored at a 1.18 points per possession clip. That was their 5th best day of the year (not counting the games...
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    Legit Final Four Contenders

    The ray of sunshine for IU is that for a lot of games IU would fit the criteria. The Hoosiers almost never play like the #45 defense. About half the time IU's defense plays like a Top 10-15 D, but the rest of the time they play like the #125 defense. The IU D is very matchup dependent (it...
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