IU out
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Michigan beat the PUkes ass hard, and the PUkes look like they are running on fumes at this point. Hell, IU beat their ass. UM is clearly playing better and better than the PUkes. I'm amazed and puzzled.
Does this mean we’re not gonna make that Elite 8 run to send Woody off on a high note?!?!
Well..... I only have two things to say.... one positive and one negative.
1. We should have won more games and let us decide if we were in or not,,,, not leave it to a Committee,
2. Is this the NCAA Committee's final "Screw You finger" over RMK's Grave???
1. We should have won more games and let us decide if we were in or not,,,, not leave it to a Committee,
2. Is this the NCAA Committee's final "Screw You finger" over RMK's Grave???
I think there’s always been a Keady/Painter lovefest at play here amongst the NCAA basketball committee members. After Bob Knight’s ignominious exit, scorned as a bad person, it’s easy for them to dismiss IU. Any basketball fan across the country old enough to remember still loves to hate IU basketball.
Ballo's last presser showed the mood of the team. The team has been broken for a long time. The committee could have paired us up against a mid major to embarrass us in a play in game, but luckily they didn't. The committee rightfully left us out even though our body of work should have gotten us in.
Question is…who bit you? Mom and wife jokes don’t qualify. Was it the 4-4 record against Woodson?
For some reason we had no room to spare vs Texas and UNC. Just barely ahead of both heading to conference tourneys. Then we lose and they both beat higher seeds and that's it folks. Lunardi called it. We don't deserve anything and need to mercifully end the season officially now, send Woodson packing and hopefully make a great new hire. The state of our program is pathetic.
Woodson did this year what Woodson does every year. The true litmus test of the year was in the Bahamas. When we came out of that thing cooked, chewed up and spit out, I knew it was over.
Don’t care to contemplate why Xavier and Texas and UNC were among the last-4 in and IU had slipped to the 2nd team of the first-4 out. Poetic justice for a lousy staff and program.
Now, the new era begins. Burn it down like they did football. Go after a good coach who sets standards and doesn’t settle. Have a program that is fundamentally sound, tough and plays with a chip on its shoulder.
Hey, we may even get to see a 2nd round game of Purdue vs. The Great Brownell!
Lunardi had us back in in his final bracket. Along with 89 other bracketologists out of 113.
That’s kind of head-turning. Makes you wonder what criteria the committee was using that the vast majority of bracketologists were not.
This is pure gold!
(and they deserved to be boo’d. You make big money, you get big boos!)
They beat two medicore teams in conf tourney.. Would be like IU beating Minnesota and USC
Getting in as a four was not unexpected. It was hardly unexpected as it had been predicted by bracketologists for a while. IU's failure was less certain, at least to many posters here and many bracketologists. The lesson that should be learned is to step up your non-con schedule because the terrible one usually played bit you big-time. With a better non-con, you likely made the cut.
I remember clearly the claims here that your NIL warchest was going to make IU dominant. That has turned out not to be the case. Might want to re-think the strategy.
Glad we're still on your mind if not in the tournament, though there was never really any doubt.
Nobody here ever said any Woodson-run team would be "dominant". lol
Hell half the board wanted him gone last year, the other half just accepted it was his last season.
That sounds good, until you look at the non-con schedule of Xavier. Biggest non-conf game was a 25-point loss to Michigan.
had nothing to do with it ..
The blow outs screwed our metrics. Lose those games by 10 or less instead of 15 or more and the NET is in the low 30s.
Purdue as a four had been expected for at least 2 weeks. Also, if you look at the preseason expectations in the polls, Purdue was ranked around 14-16. That puts them as a 4, which is what it turned out to be. So how is that lucky? It turned out as expected.
Expectations occurring isn't really breaking news.
I would argue losing 6 of 9 to end the regular season, including getting pasted by Michigan in the BTT, is a better gauge than anything that happened in November.
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