Thinking not only cover but outright win.
IU +5.5
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With this team, anything is possible. Winning any road game in the B1G is incredibly hard for most all of the teams. Especially a Nebraska team that is currently projected as a tourney bubble team.
I will say, Nebraska is great at defending the 3; however, IU doesn't often know we're allowed to shoot 3's. IU is often lower in volume of possessions, but we score with high efficiency within that low volume.
Nebraska also moves the ball really well and shoots 3's on almost 50% of their possessions and well.....IU doesn't like to defend against those. So although Nebraska only shoots 33% from three, IU enjoys watching teams shoot open 3's on our way to adding 20% to our opponents 3p%. If Nebraska is hot from 3 and or even if IU just needs a few games to get Xaiver Johnson back in the fold, this could easily get ugly.
I am hoping you're right though. I hope Nebraska is off, our defense is stout, Ware and Reneau are getting buckets/to the line and IU wins a MASSIVE 2nd road game in the conference.
I will say, Nebraska is great at defending the 3; however, IU doesn't often know we're allowed to shoot 3's. IU is often lower in volume of possessions, but we score with high efficiency within that low volume.
Nebraska also moves the ball really well and shoots 3's on almost 50% of their possessions and well.....IU doesn't like to defend against those. So although Nebraska only shoots 33% from three, IU enjoys watching teams shoot open 3's on our way to adding 20% to our opponents 3p%. If Nebraska is hot from 3 and or even if IU just needs a few games to get Xaiver Johnson back in the fold, this could easily get ugly.
I am hoping you're right though. I hope Nebraska is off, our defense is stout, Ware and Reneau are getting buckets/to the line and IU wins a MASSIVE 2nd road game in the conference.
I agree but to be fair, IU did win a game like this at Michigan, and they may tonight. Regardless, road B1G games are tough. Ask Purdue who lost to Northwestern, who lost by like 30 last night to an Illinois team who lacks their beat player by a long shot.
The year 3 narrative is so dumb and lazy as it assumes a new coach recruited 12 freshman in year 1, immediately eliminated all the upperclassman from the previous staff, and that every season thereafter should equal or exceed the previous seasons results without taking into account context.
This was a young and fairly inexperienced group at the start of the season replacing a group last season that had much more game experience.
The trajectory of improvement throughout the season is what matters with this IU team.
Completely agree. You can look at ups and downs of any great coach over the years. And Indiana does not currently have the talent and experience of the top programs. Any poster who says by year 3 we should be doing [insert stupid statement] can and probably should be completely ignored.
Name a great coach who hasn’t lacked something at different times throughout their time. All programs and coaches go through stretches where they lack shooting, scoring, size, athleticism, or any number of things for a number of reasons.
Who knows what will happen and anybody that bets on your advice is going to be poor.
I’m definitely not a fan of the year three narrative either. To me, it’s do the best with what we have at this juncture. That said, I do feel as though we should have picked up a perimeter oriented guard in the transfer portal last summer, but we didn’t. So, we are left with a team that has in my opinion a really good front line, but a very poor backcourt. Add to that Xavier Johnson being hurt, as well as Newton being out, and we are hurting at the guard spot. Hopefully, we get Johnson back and very soon. And hopefully, he is the guard that he was for about an 8-10 stretch few years ago. Cleary, the three-point shot is not something we can rely on this year, so we need to be better at defending it for sure! I love Woody as our coach, and believe that we will get better as the season progresses. I think we squeak out a close victory tonight!
liking how you are thinking! It will be a challenge. need some good guard play!
I'm not buying Nebraska's hype. They lost to Minnesota and beat MSU. Creighton destroyed them. They haven't played UConn or Kansas level teams. I feel our non P% competition has been better than theirs.
X and Ware are supposed to play. X may be rusty, but it will be good to have him on defense. I expect to win this game. It's Nebraska!
X and Ware are supposed to play. X may be rusty, but it will be good to have him on defense. I expect to win this game. It's Nebraska!
Over / Under on Tominaga made threes is 29. I'll take the over. Just the type of player and game where he goes off. 29 is extremely sarcastic, but my prediction in making that statement is he goes off tonight. I never feel good about IU's chances, particularly on the road. X or no X. I predict
Huskers 79
IU: 71
Hmm espn thanks I'm right
Nebraska 86-70 Indiana (Jan 3, 2024) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Indiana Hoosiers NCAAM game, final score 86-70, from January 3, 2024 on ESPN.
Hmm espn thanks I'm right
Nebraska 86-70 Indiana (Jan 3, 2024) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Indiana Hoosiers NCAAM game, final score 86-70, from January 3, 2024 on ESPN.www.espn.com
72% chance Nebraska wins.
Doesn't have the talent? They have 3 five stars. How many do you need to have the talent"?
I do agree year 3 is not some magic number
And don't forget you had 2 players drafted in the NBA. No talent? Really?
Well I would have lost taking the points and his recommendation. Just to confirm I was more accurate than him that his advice would be a loser. We got killed unfortunately but I will be at game tomorrow night cheering like crazy the Hoosiers to beat OSU. Maybe he will he give us his prediction and I consider doing the opposite. Cavanaugh you are betting man what do you think.
I loved being at the women's game last night to see them go 15 for the first 15 and pretty much ending the game against Michigan. I wish the men's team could hit maybe 10 of their first 15 and keep it rolling from there.
I’m gonna bet more than normal on us tomorrow. Statement kinda game. AH should help, I hope….
X can’t play worse, that is a plus.
Learn to read nut-tard. I said talent and experience. What talent we have are all freshmen and sophomores. With X out all we had was Galloway and Walker with any experience whatsoever. Last year we had talent and experience and were injuries to X and Race away from winning the Big Ten.
Hey, this one was pretty accurate. I like to give credit where credit is due. I get a lot of things wrong over the years and I am much better at owning my good and bad choices. The biggest mistake I still see a lot of posters doing is posting during any one game and making broad-brush statements and generalizations that show the way the rest of the season will play out. For as big a turd we played at Nebraska the home court and solid guard play plus Renau got us over the hump last night. Gunn played by far his best game as a Hoosier. His steal and dunk were my play of the game, but he also hit some big shots and overall played good defense and was a disruptor. X was a leader.
My biggest downside was a continued lack of blocking out and defensive rebounding. Three pointers lead to a lot of long rebounds and OSU got almost everyone. The rebounding disparity almost cost us the game.
Next, we go to Rutgers where we have struggled mightily the last several years and they are a caged animal who has not won in the Big Ten yet so they will be fired up to take us down. I am not sure that the maturity of this team is ready for that challenge yet but as always hopeful that we start turning that corner.
Go Hoosiers
The huge positive I come away with is in Woodsons mind we lost the game to Nebraska because of turnovers. He said it 100 times after the Braska game and before OSU.
It sure seems like he hammered home to the team we got to take care of the ball. 18 to 4 is an insane improvement. I am guessing rebounding was not focused on.
Now, if this team can learn and improve in one area so dirasticly, why can’t it in another? This team is blessed with size, length, and athletic ability. It needs to learn to use it when rebounding.
Being so young (especially in our front court) we have always known it will take time to get to where we want them to be. Some major signs of learning last night, and great improvement in the area of concern. Great sign for the rest of the year!!
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