5 of Next 7 Games on the Road

[chaboom]

Next 7 games:
@Maryland
NEBRASKA
@Purdue
@N'western
MICHIGAN
@Rutgers
@Mich St
I'm going somewhat out on the limb and say we'll win at N'western and Rutgers and home against Nebraska. I'd put the games at Purdue and home against Michigan are probably 50/50 but winnable. If we can pull one out tomorrow night at Maryland we'll have a pretty good chance of winning 6 straight before going up to Lansing on Feb 2. We're 1-3 on the road thus far the lone win coming at Penn St. What say you?

 

[Fro]

Next 7 games:
@Maryland
NEBRASKA
@Purdue
@N'western
MICHIGAN
@Rutgers
@Mich St
I'm going somewhat out on the limb and say we'll win at N'western and Rutgers and home against Nebraska. I'd put the games at Purdue and home against Michigan are probably 50/50 but winnable. If we can pull one out tomorrow night at Maryland we'll have a pretty good chance of winning 6 straight before going up to Lansing on Feb 2. We're 1-3 on the road thus far the lone win coming at Penn St. What say you?

Even if you give us the 4 games you give us and that the other two games are "50/50", it's a 25% chance of winning both @Purdue and Michigan at home.

 

[chaboom]

Would it surprise you if there was a 25% chance of rain today... and it rained?

 

[frikkenfrakken]

We're in for a tough stretch. I think we'll be under .500 in conference after that MSU game, and then we'll go on a tear through that soft second half of the schedule, and rally to finish 4th or so at 13-7.

The Big is surprisingly good this year--and we've had too many guys miss too much time to still call ourselves a dark horse for the conference championship race, unfortunately.

 

[BannerYear]

Would it surprise you if there was a 25% chance of rain today... and it rained?

I'd be 75% surprised.

 

[ufo33]

Need Rob back to compete on the road in the B1G.

 

[hookyIU1990]

Need Rob back to compete on the road in the B1G.

Why?

We should compete just fine without him. If you want to say we need him in order to win, maybe, but not for every roadie coming up.

I personally think we beat Northwestern, Nebraska, Rutgers, purdue. Struggle at sparty like we and everyone else always seems to do and beat UM at home in a close one. I'm more worried about tonight's game at CP than any of the others.

Anything less than 4-3 wold be disappointing and 5-2 would be great.

 

[Hatchets7times]

Until I see this team show some toughness.And makes 70% at the line. And make's just a few three's..
4-3 could be iffy..

 

[MrBing]

Next 7 games:
@Maryland
NEBRASKA
@Purdue
@N'western
MICHIGAN
@Rutgers
@Mich St
I'm going somewhat out on the limb and say we'll win at N'western and Rutgers and home against Nebraska. I'd put the games at Purdue and home against Michigan are probably 50/50 but winnable. If we can pull one out tomorrow night at Maryland we'll have a pretty good chance of winning 6 straight before going up to Lansing on Feb 2. We're 1-3 on the road thus far the lone win coming at Penn St. What say you?

4-3 minimum. 5-2 hopefully. 7-0 in my dreams.

 

[fkfootball]

Injuries have hurt the depth we need.

 

[chaboom]

The injured players hopefully returning as we move through these games will result in us getting stronger as a team as we go

 

[BusdriverE]

Why?

We should compete just fine without him. If you want to say we need him in order to win, maybe, but not for every roadie coming up.

I personally think we beat Northwestern, Nebraska, Rutgers, purdue. Struggle at sparty like we and everyone else always seems to do and beat UM at home in a close one. I'm more worried about tonight's game at CP than any of the others.

Anything less than 4-3 wold be disappointing and 5-2 would be great.

I'm more worried about the game tomorrow night rather than the one tonight

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

Likely 3-4 at best in those 7 games.
If we don’t play hard and have the continued slow starts it could be 2-5 or 1-6.

5-2 would be an outstanding job and 4-3 would be decent.

 

[hookyIU1990]

I'm more worried about the game tomorrow night rather than the one tonight

Yeah that one too
nice catch

 

[dbmhoosier]

Rob isn't playing tomorrow and may not play anytime soon.

 

[frikkenfrakken]

We beat Northwestern by 2, at home, with Phin and Davis playing.

We're going to go to Welsh-Ryan and beat them easily? Seems unlikely. We will be an underdog in every road game listed except maybe Rutgers. I think we beat Rutgers, Nebraska, and maybe snake out on other one. Michigan at home is a coin flip.

 

[mohepa]

Rob isn't playing tomorrow and may not play anytime soon.

has this been announced?

 

[hookyIU1990]

We beat Northwestern by 2, at home, with Phin and Davis playing.

We're going to go to Welsh-Ryan and beat them easily? Seems unlikely. We will be an underdog in every road game listed except maybe Rutgers. I think we beat Rutgers, Nebraska, and maybe snake out on other one. Michigan at home is a coin flip.

Northwestern has been trending down over the last 6-8 games.

 

[Halfbaked30]

has this been announced?

Archie on if Rob is on track to play tomorrow:
“As of right now, he’s not. He’s continuing to, I guess, get further along some of the stuff that he’s doing on a daily basis. He hasn’t had any setbacks. I’m encouraged to watch him participate more in practice, but he has not been cleared to do anything full contact yet, and he’ll have another day today where hopefully we can get him moving in the right direction. But as of right now, there’s no indication he’ll play for us on Friday.”

 

[chaboom]

Archie didn't sound too optimistic about Davis playing either. Said something like he's been able to do some things in practice buy not everything

 

[cryano]

Good gawd...what a bunch of low-bar setting cowards...Crean could’ve coached for 30 more years had you guys given him similar expectations

Check UL schedule from Jan 30 on...
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/97

5 of 8 games vs top 15 teams
4 of the 8 games are road games
3 of the 4 home games are vs #1,4,12

Thats a tough UL schedule. Not the schedule IU faces over the next stretch. The stretch IU faces is that if any Power5 schools on a regular basis.

 

[IU Scott]

Until I see this team show some toughness.And makes 70% at the line. And make's just a few three's..
4-3 could be iffy..

I think we have shot over 70% from the line the last 3 games

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

Good gawd...what a bunch of low-bar setting cowards...Crean could’ve coached for 30 more years had you guys given him similar expectations

Check UL schedule from Jan 30 on...
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/97

5 of 8 games vs top 15 teams
4 of the 8 games are road games
3 of the 4 home games are vs #1,4,12

Thats a tough UL schedule. Not the schedule IU faces over the next stretch. The stretch IU faces is that if any Power5 schools on a regular basis.

Would you prefer the posters to say we’ll be 7-0? What is “setting the bar low” even mean when it’s obvious that the team is flawed and has a bunch of people out?

 

[cryano]

Likely 3-4 at best in those 7 games.
If we don’t play hard and have the continued slow starts it could be 2-5 or 1-6.

5-2 would be an outstanding job and 4-3 would be decent.

3-4 for IU in the B10 in any stretch is almost enough to be maddening...

 

[IU Scott]

Good gawd...what a bunch of low-bar setting cowards...Crean could’ve coached for 30 more years had you guys given him similar expectations

Check UL schedule from Jan 30 on...
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/97

5 of 8 games vs top 15 teams
4 of the 8 games are road games
3 of the 4 home games are vs #1,4,12

Thats a tough UL schedule. Not the schedule IU faces over the next stretch. The stretch IU faces is that if any Power5 schools on a regular basis.

So you expect a team without 5 scholarships players to go out and win every road game. what was your expectations for this team going into the season? I think some fans problem is that there expectations are base solely on tradition from the past and not what this years team can actually accomplish.

 

[cryano]

So you expect a team without 5 scholarships players to go out and win every road game. what was your expectations for this team going into the season? I think some fans problem is that there expectations are base solely on tradition from the past and not what this years team can actually accomplish.

My expectations for Archie are to outperform the expectations placed on Crean...

 

[IU Scott]

My expectations for Archie are to outperform the expectations placed on Crean...

My expectation is what I feel like this team can do and before the season I thought we would finish 4th or 5th in the conference. I also I thought we could make the sweet 16 and all of these things are still possible. these expectations has nothing to do with Crean since he has not been here for two months. Also when I had those expectations it was with a healthy roster and I thought Hunter was going to be a big contributor.

 

[Tasmanian Devil]

Injuries have hurt the depth we need.

And development.

 

[SuperHoosierFan]

Archie didn't sound too optimistic about Davis playing either. Said something like he's been able to do some things in practice buy not everything

Seems like every single game this season we’ve had some combination of at least 3 players not playing due to injury.

 

[Courtsensetwo]

Archie on if Rob is on track to play tomorrow:
“As of right now, he’s not. He’s continuing to, I guess, get further along some of the stuff that he’s doing on a daily basis. He hasn’t had any setbacks. I’m encouraged to watch him participate more in practice, but he has not been cleared to do anything full contact yet, and he’ll have another day today where hopefully we can get him moving in the right direction. But as of right now, there’s no indication he’ll play for us on Friday.”

All bets are off until Rob gets back. Davis out makes it even worse. Not a pretty scenario.

 

[fkfootball]

I am never suprised when a team at Indiana loses. Only suprised when they when.

 

[dbmhoosier]

I am never suprised when a team at Indiana loses. Only suprised when they when.

I hope we when tomorrow.

 

[nafui1965]

1-6 and I hope I’m wrong.

 

[Al Bino]

My expectations for Archie are to outperform the expectations placed on Crean...

IMO, he is.

 

[Cutter1973]

I hope we when tomorrow.

I like when we when!

 

[mattndallas]

I like when we when!

I like win we when to.

 

[Tasmanian Devil]

I hope we when tomorrow.

When tomorrow? Or when today? Eastern or Central time . . .

 

[hondo314]

My expectations for Archie are to outperform the expectations placed on Crean...

we're still on track for a 5 seed during an injury ravaged year...very un-crean like.

 

[cryano]

we're still on track for a 5 seed during an injury ravaged year...very un-crean like.

James Blackmon

 

[nafui1965]

1-6 and I hope I’m wrong.

Looks like I AM going to be wrong. 0-7.