It’s the same schedule as most every other season. Health is becoming a story line as usual. Our best guard has now missed three straight games and I do not think Trace is 100%. Scoop is stepping up along with Trey, AKa The Wolf, and Miller is becoming the outside threat we had hoped for. Inside game has become the issue of late. No matter the opponent or location, this team has to BRING IT every game if we want to compete for a league title.
Bumping this thread to try and get to 100 votes. Appears the board on avg sees a 12-8 conference record at this point in the poll.
51 votes and board has us at 11.8 wins or 12-8 in league play. If you are reading this and have yet to vote, weigh in!
Bumping this back up so we can get to 100+. It would be interesting to do this annually, but do one before any games and after 2 games of B1G play every season. My guess is the polls would swing mightily depend upon timing around a win or a loss. If we beat KU, I anticipate the prediction to swing heavily toward more wins and should we lose, stay the same as now or trend a little down. If you have made it this far and still yet to vote, weigh in!
I did not look up history. Thanks for sharing. Time will tell this season. I am less concerned with the finish than I am the record. I think less than 12 wins would be considered a disappointment. 13 would be good and anything above that would be considered great. Particularly with us already sitting with one loss.
Thanks for sharing that. I had not looked it up and just went back and checked it out. Man have we been bad. Trace has not had a winning record in the league play since arriving in Bloomington. Twice we have had 9 wins. Freshman season and last season. 2 years ago we had 7 wins in league play. The wins are out there, this team just needs to step it up and go and win them!
I would say 12-8. We dont normally win on the road. We can be good but so far we really dont seem that much better than last year imo. 22-11 going into the btt for the overall record.
Maybe...a healthy JHS could change that narrative. He looked very "lottery pick-ish" against UNC.
Not all road games are equal. That was a good win for WI, but PU's road win was NB, in OT. Not as tough as Iowa or Rutgers.
The NEXT game is always the most important game!!
No, for sure not. Just making the point that Wisconsin and Purdue elevate themselves in standings most years by figuring out ways to win games like that. IU hasn't shown that they will.
Kind of doubt that. I don't think our best beats Duke or Gonzaga by 20 outside of AH. Or maybe in it.
Not sure. Our best beats Purdue's best though. Their guards/wings wouldn't be able to handle a game like we played against UNC.
I’ll say we finish with 6 losses*.
UNC has one of the best backcourts in the country, markedly better than Duke, Gonzaga, or Purdue for that matter. IU made them look scared and unfit. Purdue couldn't do that to UNC.
Anyone can say anything. Do you have actual data to backup these claims?
My eyeballs. Which sends information to my brain. Where its stored for various lengths of time...as very, very accurate personal data.
I took 12. We have not had a winning record in the big ten since 2015/2016. That's a span of 6 seasons. Very poor to be honest. I just don't see this team being dramatically better than previous squads. I do believe the pieces are there and the development of Reneau and Scoop may be the most important pieces to us having a run. Cannot expect Race to shoot like he did vs AZ on a regular basis. Prior to the AZ game, I believe he was 3-18 from three. Fino has to get and stay healthy and if Trace declines in health, we are in trouble. I picked us to win 12 games and I think given this team's dynamics and history, it's a good result, but not great. 13 would be good to see and anything above that would be awesome. I have just been down this road so many times on placing my bets on hope and not objectively looking at the team. We are now 10 games into the season and know what we have in place and what needs to improve. The things that we can control like attitude and effort could win us a few games. This team has to BRING IT every night and be hungry. I just hope we can stay healthy and win enough to get into the tourney and then go on a run. Here's to hoping! Cheers.
You know Love and Davis are shooting 25% & 27% from three respectively, right? They are a great backcourt on reputation only. Ask any UNC fan.
That includes IUs game. And they were arguably the best backcourt in the country the last 5-6 weeks of the season last year. Slow start to be sure, but it’s not like they completely forgot how to play ball. They’ll pick it back up.
They actually eclipsed that percentage against you. I think they will improve as well but there are a lot of people nationally questioning by how much. Something just seems off with both of them. Bacot is at least injured but Love and Davis…..woof!
You don't need to guard edey much if you guard the other players that feed him the ball for easy dunks. I have not seen them play this year but if he is similar to last year...he creates nothing except elbow strikes.
They may be, but they are nowhere near the ranking they had when lil bro beat them.
Yeah I joined you at 11 wins, and fourth or fifth place in the conference. I mirror earlier concerns with Trayce possibly more hurt than we know, and not really knowing when we will see JHS again.
I think that people underestimate how solid a player Indiana Mr. Basketball is. Remember when Knight had a lock on them!
In other words...ha ha. Not sure other words are needed, I made it pretty clear I didn't have any data.
Yep, esp in the first half. Thing I love most about JHS - he comes to play and he met NC’s intensity from the tip.
I chose 13 but that’s based on a healthy Trayce and JHS’ return to 100%. 10 wins, if neither of these scenarios materialize.
