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GO HOOSIERS!
Couldn't agree with you more. As I researched the Gophers yesterday, I noticed all those no-names on their schedule. They're not ready for prime time. Hoosiers by 8
IU 79 Minny 68
The plus side of this team is this.....Yes there will be bad shooting nights, but they still can get to the cup, DJ White is a difference on both ends and they ALL won't have a bad shooting night at the same time.....oh and EJ plays for IU
There is also a big difference between going to a relatively young Iowa and Michigan and beating them on the road versus playing at a more experienced Minny. And let's not count out the fact who is coaching Minny - that counts for something, whether or not we want to admit it.
Sure, we're more loaded than Minny. We always seem to have more talent than Minny every time we play at the Barn and more times than not we lose. That and everything listed above is why I'm worried about tonight's game.
Hoosiers win it 68-56
Hoosier Daddy shows some concern and says, "Son, thats not a good idea."
"Why, Pa?" the kid asks.
"Well son," he confides, "If she ain't good enough for her own family, then she ain't good 'nuf for ours."
Seriously, hilarious. A regular Dane Effing Cook over here.
Now be gone.
The time for wakeup calls has past. It's the Big Ten season now. It's mid-January. In 2 months, we'll be analyzing NCAA seeding and Big Ten tournament chances.
Y'all need to realize it is no longer the non-conference season. It's go, go, go from here on out, and we need to ride the ups (killing UK) and downs (can't believe I'm listing beating UI by 4 as a down) and win EVERY GAME.
Take a look at the Colts if you don't believe me. They got their wakeup call vs. the Bolts earlier in the season. Then they lacked confidence vs. them in the playoffs. Don't you think the Patriots' confidence from just plain winning is valuable to them?
Feeling mortal just isn't an asset in a grind-it-out league like the Big Ten. Save the wakeup calls for the Big Least teams.
Timmy seems to be the problem with about 25% of bloggers and blog commenters. Unfortunately, this 25% (a gross estimate) tends to be the loudest and most obnoxious.
This group of inter-nuts over think things, whittling sequoias down to toothpicks. I'm not sure I've ever seen a loss help someone. In the words of Herm Edwards, "You play to win the game. Hello?"
One of the joys I've found on this site is that it's in-depth without overthinking, a true fan site while keeping a healthy and accurate outlook on what real college basketball is, and what that means for Indiana.
I had a taste of college athletics, albeit playing a different sport at a Division III school. And I'll tell you what, I don't think any coach, player or administrator ever thought it might be a good thing if we lost a game--to wake us up.
Kelvin seems to be serving his fair share of Humble Pie, and grounded stars such as DJ and EJ won't let this team think for one second that anything will come easy. I, for one, will be hoping we win every game.
IU 77, Minn 68. I think it'll be close at the end, but IU pulls away on free throws.
Seriously, though. I think we pull it out, but I'm going to be stressing the whole game. I want to see some solid defense. I think we've been lacking that this year. Teams with any semblance of an offense have scored on us too easily.
Ellis triple double tonight? I'm feeling it for some reason...
When all is said and done I don't think the gophers have enough to pull it out, but don't poo-poo the affect the Barn will have on the Hoosiers.
Gopher Nation
Just throwing that out there
They need to take care of the basketball - If they can do that I think the Hoosiers keep streaking. If they're as careless as they were against Tool of I and the Georgia Tech game a while back, I like Minnesota.
(And I know this has nothing to do with anything, but as a White Sox fan, I just assume anytime one of my teams goes to Minnesota for anything they're going to lose...'cause the White Sox can never win in the Metrodungan.)
I don't think they're coasting or in need of a wake-up call, I just think their struggling with Basset's injury, getting Ratliff up to speed, and normal freshman growing pains.
IU WILL NOT LOSE TO MN! Barn or whatever...experience or whatever. Bottom line: IU has more talent at (nearly) every position. MN is playing sound basketball because they have a good coach. So does IU. If MN matched up well in any facet, I could see the "upset talk". But really, MN is not very good and the Hoosiers are very good. And while nothing is guaranteed on the road (see UNC and Duke last night), esp. in the Big 10, if the line on the game were off, where would you put your money?
And that pretty much goes for the rest of the games on the schedule. IU won't be this much better than everyone left (Wisc., MSU, OSU), but we will be better. So really we should win every game...or at least expect to win. It's been a long time since I've been able to say that (for any of my favorite teams). Feels good.
"Au revois Gopher!"
IU-67 Minn-59. The Barn environment will get to the Hoosiers but at the end of the day you just have to remember that its full of Canadians and other obscure Northerners from MinnesOLta... so at least we got 'em there.
The heckya mean?
Never gets old.
1. DJ played in the Uconn Game; (He HELD Adrien, 6-7 and 240lbs, to 15 pts and 12 rebounds).
2. 6-9 Robinson scored 21pts on us as a freshman
3. 7-3 Thabeet weighs 270 lbs now
4. DYson, Wiggins and Price can all guard Gordon as well as Illinois or Xavier ie 17 pt range
Yo should get his facts straight before he chats. I say again, forget Minn, a win or a loss tells us little about our team. But no respect for Uconn will result in a loss at HOME. That will speak volumes for both teams.