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I’m thinking more along the lines of this. No team will play perfect ball the first few games. And they do have some B1G size and a transfer who looks to be coming into his own.Indiana 79
Eastern Meat Chicken 65
We get our first look at what IU basketball will be in the Mike Woodson era on Tuesday night. Eastern Michigan finished last season at 16-16 and comes into this season predicted to finish 11th in the MAC and with a new head coach, Stan Heath. Funny thing is his last game at the previous MAC school he coached, Kent St, was against us in the Elite 8 when we beat them to go to the Final 4 in 2002. Now he's making his debut at EMU against us. Think we start off slowly, but pull away eventually.
IU 75 Eastern Michigan 55
We think alike. I was going with 85-50. These guys lost something like 75% of their scoring from a mediocre team. TJD with 20, Kopp with 13, X with 7 assists.IU 86
EMU 49
Miller Kopp gets 21.
I'll say we win by 20 ish, in a relatively low scoring game. 70-50 type score.We get our first look at what IU basketball will be in the Mike Woodson era on Tuesday night. Eastern Michigan finished last season at 16-16 and comes into this season predicted to finish 11th in the MAC and with a new head coach, Stan Heath. Funny thing is his last game at the previous MAC school he coached, Kent St, was against us in the Elite 8 when we beat them to go to the Final 4 in 2002. Now he's making his debut at EMU against us. Think we start off slowly, but pull away eventually.
IU 75 Eastern Michigan 55
Three new starters, so not really the same nucleus. Plus the best player off the bench is probably Bates.IND 76, EMU 72.
Until I see that we don’t struggle, I can’t pick us to not struggle. The nucleus of a team that wasn’t very good last year is back. I hope Woody isn’t Arch (who rode Crean’s players into a 19 point home loss to INST in his first game).
you do realize you're referring to an EMU team from ancient history? Stan is starting with almost nothing in the cupboard. He's a great coach, but it's going to take a few years. We should torch these guys with easeThey are not a joke of a NC opponent at all in terms of history. They have a new coach, as do we, but not to be taken lightly just cause we have more talent on paper. I can think of 2-3 players on our team that would probably struggle to start for them in their conference. I do not envision a laugher of TJD just dunking on them at will the whole game. They could be very fast and take us out with shooting and a good start. Remember Earl Boykins ... that's the type of players they get ... too small, not heralded, but maybe faster than anyone we got and if they dictate play, we'll probably not look very good.
Where have you been? 3 starters were not here last year. If we struggle, it will be due to team cohesion IMO. But we should win well enough.IND 76, EMU 72.
Until I see that we don’t struggle, I can’t pick us to not struggle. The nucleus of a team that wasn’t very good last year is back. I hope Woody isn’t Arch (who rode Crean’s players into a 19 point home loss to INST in his first game).
One was here who couldn't get on the court (Stewart).Where have you been? 3 starters were not here last year. If we struggle, it will be due to team cohesion IMO. But we should win well enough.
Good call .... you got your wish.Want a 20 pt. half on D
Good call .... you got your wish.
Pretty sloppy offensively, but you have to like the defensive effort especially on the ball, and on rotations.
Guess I wasn’t so far off, was I?Where have you been? 3 starters were not here last year. If we struggle, it will be due to team cohesion IMO. But we should win well enough.
The guys playing tonight aren’t the same as last year.Guess I wasn’t so far off, was I?
In regards to how close, no. But still stand by what I said. A lot of new players on this team playing a lot of minutes. So not sure why you are trying to toot your own horn.Guess I wasn’t so far off, was I?
Enough were. TJD, Race and Phinisee are the still the nucleus (even with Phin coming off the bench), and they looked a lot like last year (foul shooting bad, couldn’t hit a 3 in the second half, and too many EMU spurts). A lot of room for improvement. And Geronimo and Galloway…yikes.The guys playing tonight aren’t the same as last year.
Right on! It was as easy as everyone thought.Man, can’t wait for this generation of IU hoops to begin. I have a good feeling that it’s going to be a generation with multiple banners… and I’m not referring to the conference champion types of banners.
IU falls behind 2-0 tonight and then cruises to a 82-48 victory.
Agree on Parker and Kopp. They had a really tough time outside of about 4-5 nice plays. At least one of them has to step up consistently. The good news is that we won a game where I am not sure we can shoot worse from 3…Enough were. TJD, Race and Phinisee are the still the nucleus (even with Phin coming off the bench), and they looked a lot like last year (foul shooting bad, couldn’t hit a 3 in the second half, and too many EMU spurts). A lot of room for improvement. And Geronimo and Galloway…yikes.
X was great. Parker and Kopp struggled big time. That’s a concern.
It’s a better result than Arch’s first game. But most of you thought we wouldn’t struggle. That wasn’t a good thought.
Missed by a basket. Not bad. 68-62. Good start.I’m thinking that it will take a few games to start hitting on all cylinders. However, there is too much talent on the IU team to lose this game. I think it’s close, but IU pulls it out, leasing by 8-10 points for most of the second half. 71 - 62.
Uh Hmmm ... really?you do realize you're referring to an EMU team from ancient history? Stan is starting with almost nothing in the cupboard. He's a great coach, but it's going to take a few years. We should torch these guys with ease
Wrong! And don't call me Shirley.Idk...Surely a 16 -20 pt win !
78 ~ 62
I meant we‘ll struggle to score for the last 10 mins and the coldest hand in the building will start scoring at will. And no laughing 😂Stan has nothing on the bench this year. Probably 3-4 years to build a MAC power, which he likely will. In the meantime IU in a laugher 97-51