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actually hear me, it is Saturday, the 11th February.
Hopefully you are all having a good start to the weekend as we
get ready for another big. Weekend of college basketball.
We're almost completely clear of the Super Bowl.
Once you get past the Super Bowl, you know what that means?
Lots of college basketball for essentially the next seven weeks
and my favorite time of the year personally.
So, hopefully, everybody's excited about what's coming up
here and for the first time in a while, it feels like we've got
an Indiana basketball team, that could be a contender down the
stretch, certainly in terms of the NCAA tournament and and, you
know, while Big Ten is probably Out Of Reach at this point.
Purdue's just too far ahead Indiana's.
Got a real chance to continue on this hot streak that they've
been on for close to the last month.
And who knows at that point you always want to get hot at this
time of year. So I'm flying solo today.
We're not going to go terribly long but I didn't want to go
into the Michigan game, this evening without having something
on the podcast feed. So I'll talk a little bit about
the matchup between Michigan and Indiana.
Also, going to talk a little bracket out Oh, gee later.
As I've been putting brackets out on the Twitter feed over the
course of the last couple of weeks.
I generally don't do brackets till the first of February, it's
just a little too early to do them before then because there's
so much movement and even now there's just a lot of Shifting
around in terms of seed positioning and at large and
things like that about a couple of teams in the just in the last
two weeks. Go from not even in my bracket
projection to, you know, having single-digit seeds.
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they take on Maryland. Today, this is an interesting
game. The computers are confused about
what to do with this game. If you look at Ken pom, Indiana
is a the slightest of favorites. A 52% favorite in this game
projected to win, 75 274 if you looking torvik.
Indiana is a one point Underdog but not even a full point there,
a half Point Underdog in this game.
If you look at fpi the, the matchup predictor on ESPN,
analytics Indiana's, given a 63.7% chance of Victory and yet
the consensus spread in this game is Michigan - to at least
as of right now. So you know, you see all of
those and it's like it's really hard to predict what exactly is
going to happen. I think, you know, from the
standpoint of this game, really a lot of it comes down to a
couple of different factors you know, as we look at Indiana and
the way that they're approaching things you know they're taking
on a Michigan team that is on its best days capable of, you
know, really playing well against anybody.
But also has had some really, really bad games over the course
of the season and it's hard to really track what To think of
with this Michigan team, you look at their results and their
wins. Their best wins on the season
are as follows. They beat Maryland at home on
New Year's Day by an obscene amount of points. 35 points, 81
246. They won at Northwestern by 17,
which is a really good win this year.
Northwestern's been awesome at times, and actually, I've got
them as a single digit seed now and Bracketology, they won at
home against Ohio State. State, that's not as impressive
as at home against Northwestern on a neutral, court against
Pitt, that was very early in the season, and then they beat Penn
State at home by 10. That's all of their, Tier 1 and
tier two victories. Their losses are not bad.
For the most part. They had a really questionable
loss to Central Michigan. One of the worst teams in
college basketball back at the end of December.
They lost to Purdue, they lost her.
Virginia, both of those games, were relatively close.
They've lost a bunch of games and Road neutral sites, nothing
to be ashamed of Predictors, you know, their 51st in can Palm
their 69th and be pi and you know, they've won four games
away from home. So most of their damage this
season has been done at home. You compare what they've done to
what Indiana's done and Indiana has a more impressive resume.
Their predictive numbers are a lot better in terms of how the
computers regard the two teams and it's tempting to look at
this matchup and say, well, this is Is really, you know, as we
saw with the Purdue game last week, a matchup between two big
men who are pretty dominant, and I think there's a lot of Truth
to that Hunter Dickinson for Michigan 71.
He's given I you some fits at times versus Trace Jackson
Davis. No, Trace Jackson, Davis is
really elevated himself as a primary score who's also kind of
a point forward slash Point Center.
That's really the primary difference right now between
these two players. Trace, Jackson day, Uses more
possessions. And and yet he also grabs more
rebounds. He dishes out a lot more assists
and he blocks more shots than Hunter Dickinson which is a
surprise to some people. You look at the rest of the
teams and I think it's clear that when they're playing well I
use got a better roster of players.
You know, you look at the contributions over the course of
the season from the role players in particular, and in terms of
efficiency in scoring. And really doesn't have anybody
to compare to Trey Galloway tomorrow, Bateson Miller cop in
terms of efficiency Off the Bench or in the starting lineup
jet Howard. Whose Juwan Howard son has
certainly been a very good player and he might present a
particular challenge for IU because that's a second, big
post player that they're going to have to go up against in this
game, you know, and Howard's played a lot of minutes.
He didn't play against Purdue at home, and one has to wonder how
Michigan might have done in that game.
But If he had played but he has over the last four games played
about an average of 30 minutes of game has been pretty
efficient from a scoring perspective.
He can shoot the ball from outside and it's going to be
interesting with him and Dickinson.
How Michigan is able to play and how Indiana is going to defend
them? You know, this Michigan team is
a better three-point shooting team than a lot of what Indiana
has faced so far this season. They're not as good as Indiana.
Indiana shoots about 38%. From three Michigan shoots about
35 percent from three but Michigan, you know, has the
ability to shoot threes and they shoot threes at a much higher
rate than Indiana does 32%, of Michigan's Point distribution
comes off of three-pointers made, whereas Indiana.
It's only about 25% or so. So Indiana, really does try to
do a lot more of their damage from to.
And I think that'll be the big question.
Mark is, how how does Indiana handle what Michigan tries?
Throw at them offensively in terms of perimeter game.
And then how does Michigan try to defend Indiana in the post?
You know, Michigan overall is a pretty good offensive.
Team their 42nd in the country and offensive efficiency.
Not as good as Indiana Indiana's 18th in the country in that
we're Michigan. Really falls down in this
matchup and overall, on the season has been defensively,
they have struggled a lot in terms of at least relatively
speaking in terms of their defensive efficiency.
They Avant really stopped teams, you know, as well as Indiana has
particularly over the course of this this last month or so a
play. And, you know, and that said
when you look at what Michigan's done over the course of the,
last three games against Northwestern, Ohio State and
Nebraska, they have played three really good defensive games in a
row. So I look at this game and I say
to myself, you know, a lot is going to come down to how does
Indiana sustain offensively Even in the wind that they had
against Rutgers and the one that they had at home against Purdue.
They once again, had a long scoring drought in both games
that ended up in paralleling, their ability to win.
Now, I you deserves a lot of credit for winning those games
but I, you just placed so much better at home than they do on
the road that you worry, if they go into another one of those
types of swoons on the road, are they going to be able to come
back and, you know, put in a points on the board to win?
In these two teams are relatively similar.
In terms of how they approach things defensively, Michigan, is
kind of extreme and that they don't turn the ball over, but
they also don't force turnovers. Defensively Indiana is a milder
version of that. Indiana with about 3%, higher
turnover rate on offense, but they also turn the opponent over
a bit more. So, that's a matchup to watch
their when Indiana beat Purdue, one of the big reasons they were
able to do so, is that they forced Turnovers through
defensive play not necessarily through regions or you know, try
and individually steal the ball but a lot of running the clock
down as far as the shot Glocks concerned, that's going to be
something to watch for this. Indiana team is, can their
defensive intensity Thrive throughout the course of a
40-minute game on the road and hard to say.
At this point? It really is kind of interesting
to watch this Indiana team and what to expect from them on the
road, you know? No, you look at that Illinois,
game that Indiana played and you're like, wow, look at what
the potential is and even the Iowa game, and the Maryland game
that Indiana played on the road, those were games that Indiana
played better than I would have expected them to.
I know they lost the the Maryland and Iowa games, but,
you know, by and large statistically for the most part,
at least for the majority of the games.
I thought they played decently on the road.
And the question now is, can they build off of these two wins
and put themselves in? Addition to pick up another road
when I think Indiana needs some more Road wins right now.
The big thing for my opinion, at least holding Indiana back in
terms of seeding, is that they don't have a lot of wins away
from Assembly Hall. There, they're four and six
overall away from Assembly Hall now.
Yeah, one of those is a road win against Illinois.
One of them is a road win against Xavier.
So, you know, a couple of the winds that they've got away from
home are really good and They've really they've only lost one
game at home and that was that game against Northwestern.
But as Indiana comes down the stretch here, they've got four
Road games out of their last seven, and the next to that,
they've got starting with this Michigan game are great
opportunities to pick up. You know what will almost
certainly be Tier 1 Road wins against Michigan and
Northwestern without, you know, I mean, the law losing those
games won't hurt Indiana, but it would be nice to see.
See, Indiana pick up a win, at least one.
And I think I picked up wins in both that changes.
The equation as far as where they might land in the NCAA
tournament. It also increases the chance of
getting the ever-elusive, double-bye in the Big Ten
Tournament. So that's really, I think where
a lot of the importance comes from for Indiana.
And these games, obviously, just winning games is helpful.
But these are especially important games to try to win.
If you're Indiana Looking across the board for this Indiana team,
a couple of other things to note as we go into it.
You know, Indiana has shots so well, overall on the season they
are 18th in the country and effective field goal percentage
and you know, that is going to be a really interesting thing to
watch in terms of can Michigan's defense, really disrupt would
Indiana's trying to do in terms of shooting the basketball.
You know, you look at the last few games and They really
stymied Northwestern. That's really the reason they
won that game at Northwestern Northwestern, only shot 40.2%,
an effective field goal percentage in that one.
But then you go back to the previous two games that they
lost, and that was really what caused Purdue and Penn State to
be able to win those games Purdue with an effective field
goal. Percentage of 59% in the game
that they played back at the end of January and Penn State shot.
66 percent effective field goal percentage including 4:30 from
three and you know, so both teams did it differently.
Like produce shot 22 438 from to and Penn State shop really well
from three in that game, Indiana has the capacity to do either of
those things and it's something that you heard, you know, Steve
Pike will talk about. It's been talked about quite a
bit with with folks that are just observing, how this Indiana
team plays when this Indiana team is firing on all cylinders,
they've got all the benefits of having an All-American level
score in the post and Trace Jackson Davis.
But as we saw in the Rutgers game in the Purdue game, if you
just get like two of the group of Trey, Galloway, Jalen Hurd,
should be no miller, cop Tamar Bates, being able to hit
consistently from three. Suddenly, you've opened up the
offense, you make it much more difficult on the opposing team's
defense and, you know, the the the approach that Rutgers tried
and succeeded with in the first game and failed in the second
game was. Well, we're going to make The
opponent shoot from outside. We're not going to let Tres
Jackson Davis beat us on his own and they didn't have to Indiana
was able to come away with victories in that game or a
victory in that game. And that's, that's really where
I think Indiana's. Final elements are going to lie
in this one. How well do they handle being
able to kick the ball outside? You know, you look at what
Indiana did in that Rutgers game actually had a pretty bad
shooting game you know, relative to what we've seen.
Do in other games, they only shot 51%, effective field goal
percentage, you know. But they made 5 out of 12 threes
and that really did help make the difference.
And, you know, it's been interesting because Indiana
still is not shooting that much from three.
They really have been leaning heavily on post.
Play you go back to the Maryland game.
The reason Indiana lost that game was the only shot 40 point
two percent from the field in effective field goal percentage,
3411 3 and 18 for 45. From to and you compare that to
the Illinois game when again they didn't shoot that many
threes, they're only 349 but they were 31 446 from to and
shot 64 and a half percent effective field goal percentage
in that one. So all that said, you know, so
much of what Indiana has done in this streak, you know, where
they've won seven, out of the last eight has been, they've
gotten good shots and they've made those shot attempts pretty
easily and they haven't necessarily had a game where
they turn the ball. All over about.
Ironically the Illinois game which they won by 15 was the one
that they had the worst turnover percentage and the rest of the
games. Indiana has done a good job of
taking care of the basketball, much better than they did
earlier on in the season. So those are some things to
think about in this game. This is absolutely a winnable
game for Indiana. And honestly, it might be the
most winnable game left on the schedule until they play
Michigan again on senior night, on the 5th of March.
So this feels like the type of situation.
Where if Indiana can put the the high and the accomplishments of
what they were able to do at home behind them and really
focus and say, you know what, we got an opportunity here.
If we play well to pick up a huge win to get our ninth
victory in the conference and to really put ourselves in the
driver's seat. In terms of what happens over
the course of the last six games of the season, one just has to,
you know, you the big question for this IU team has been
mentality. How does I use mentality work in
situations like this where they've had some Prosperity?
We've seen Indiana struggle in those situations for so long.
It's hard to get really fired up about the idea that they're
going to be able to handle it here, but I keep getting
surprised by this IU team, and it really feels like after that
Penn State lost mentally, this team turned a huge Corner.
Really? I really I would almost say
halftime of the Wisconsin game, you know, which was a pretty
close game at Halftime. And then Indiana, really just
turn the screws on the Badgers. The second half.
And since that point, I've been really impressed with the
mentality that this Indiana team showed, this is going to be a
huge test. You know, fortunately, I think
enough time has passed from the Rutgers game Indiana's, not
going to take anything for granted necessarily and you
know, you just all you have to do is think about, okay, how is
Indiana fared in the past against Michigan and you realize
that Indiana has had some problems last year against
Michigan at home. I got absolutely obliterated.
Now, they did turn around and beat Michigan in the Big Ten
Tournament, but had to come back.
But, you know, essentially in the last 10 minutes, to do that
Michigan, for whatever reason has really done a good job of
creating problems for Indiana and I'm really curious to see
how Indiana mentally comes out and approaches this game.
Weird tip x 6 o'clock on a Saturday.
We've had a lot of weird tip times for television purposes
here, lately, but should be a fun one.
To watch. So, hopefully the Hoosiers come
out, successful in this contest. And if they do, you know, they
got another tough one right afterwards against Northwestern,
but you can go into that game to some degree knowing that you've
already gone on the road against a similar level opponent and
Come Away with the victory. Let's go ahead and switch gears
will talk some Bracketology on the men's basketball side.
I've been putting some brackets out and it's been really
interesting kind of watching things rise and fall.
Let's start with Indiana and kind of talk through where
they're at, as far as I'm concerned and I feel like we're,
I've got them right now is pretty much in line with where a
lot of other people have Indiana, which is right there on
the border between the four seeds and the five seeds.
This Indiana team right now. They have a lot of things going
for them and that, you know, there's there's really kind of a
shelf I think in terms of where teams are between like
essentially kind of the the teams that are in the mix for
three, four and five seeds. There's a couple of teams in the
six seed range and then you've got a bunch of teams that are
significantly below that so Indiana like what's helping them
stand out right now. You know, why is the team that
17 and seven knocking on the door of what we would call?
Call a protected seed which would be essentially a four seed
or better. A lot of it is because Indiana
has both a very impressive overall resume using any of the
metrics that you are used there. Whether that's K Pi or Sor or
the jng report and they're also very good in the predictive
statistics. When I say predictive
statistics, what I mean by that is Ken, Pomeroy be Pi Segar and
this is where essentially, they take the Games overall
performance. And they try to project how that
team would play against other teams using the same
performance. And right now, Indiana's 21st
and Ken Palm, but their 14th and BPI, their 14th, and Sega, and
they're a little lower and torvik their 25th.
But overall, you know, they're they're solidly a top 20 team,
if you average, most of the main ones out.
Indiana with for Tier 1, winds, right now they beat Purdue at
home. They've won at Xavier.
They want at Illinois. And they beat Rutgers at home.
They have for tier 2 victories and those are the home games
against Michigan State, North Carolina, Ohio, State, and
Wisconsin, almost all of their losses are in the tier one
category. The only one.
That's not as the Northwestern loss.
That's a tier 2 loss, but no tier 3 losses, no tier 4 losses.
So no bad losses at all right now.
And really Indiana won't have a bad loss.
The rest of the season they could literally lose every
remaining game. And all of those would be I
think at worst a tear to loss. How does that compare to the
teams around them? Right now?
Indiana for me on my board is the best 5th seed.
They are really tight with TCU and I've gone back and forth
about whether TCU should be ranked ahead of Indiana.
Or behind, ultimately, when I was looking at it this morning,
I said to myself, I'm going to rank TCU slightly behind
Indiana, largely because TCU does have a really bad loss on
their resume. They have a tear for loss
against Northwestern. Western State.
Now, that's not a horrific loss. Northwestern State would be an
auto bid right now out of the Southland, but the predictive
Czar better for Indiana and Indiana's.
Overall, resume ranking is better than TCU.
So even though tcu's got a couple of awesome victories,
they want to add Kansas and they want at Baylor, you know,
they're not that much more impressive than Indiana that you
would ignore the averages of the overall rankings.
You know. It's going to be interesting
because I think these two teams are going to kind of be in a
dogfight, the rest of the way. Both of them at the exact same
record at 17 and seven. Cans are huge.
Me TCU has six Road neutral wins Indiana's only got four and
going back to what I was talking about earlier that is why this
game is so important today for Indiana's like you need more
games on the road or a neutral sites to help improve your
overall resume. And the way that you look in the
eyes of the committee Indiana's strength of schedule overall is
is slightly better their 17th. In the country is drank the
schedule. All their 20th in the net.
So there's a lot of things where you look at the way that this
Indiana team is stacked up and they're in pretty good shape.
Now, I still do have them behind a bunch of teams that it's going
to be hard for them to get above unless Indiana runs the table or
those teams really struggle. So, for instance, on my board
right now, in what would be called the S curve where you
rank, all of the teams that are in the field.
One through 68, the four teams that I've got in front of
Indiana right now that have the 44 seeds.
Marquette, Kansas State, Connecticut, and Iowa State.
Then you look at those teams to Iowa State's a good example,
Iowa State, only for Road in neutral, wind, same as Indiana,
but the the depth of wins that they've got at the top and the
lack of anything other right now than a tier 1 loss, makes it so
that. Iowa State still just sit
slightly had, I mean, Iowa State right now, has seven Tier 1
victories. Three of them are at home,
Kansas Texas. Us and Baylor.
They want at TCU, they beat Kansas State at home.
They won on a neutral court against North Carolina and they
won at Oklahoma. They have the fourth toughest
strength of schedule in the country right now, and their
predictive Czar about the same as Indiana a little bit worse,
but their resume rating is slightly better.
And so you look at that and, you know, Iowa State's probably
going to end up with at least one tier, two loss.
Thanks to that loss. That they had at Texas Tech.
But it isn't there yet you look at some of the other teams that
Indiana is in the mix with and Yukon is another one that you
look at. And you say well that's that's a
team that's kind of in the same area as Indiana Yukon with six
Tier 1 victories. And they've got a couple of
neutral Court victories. That are pretty awesome.
They won on a neutral court against Alabama.
They want a neutral court against Iowa State, they do have
one questionable law. That happened about a month ago
against st. John's.
But they've only got six total losses.
They have a pretty good strength of schedule and their predictive
Czar. Awesome.
Like if you look at Ken, Palm Yukon is still six because of
how efficient they were earlier on in the season.
So my point in saying, all that, I'm not going to go through each
of the teams. But my point is, if Indiana
wants to get to protected, cede territory, if they want to get a
four seed, they're going to have to win, you know, not just the
majority of the remaining games, but they're going to have to win
some road games. Yes.
And they're going to have to essentially take care of
business against a team like Illinois, who's in the general
mix of where Indiana is at within the seed field right now,
you can afford to lose that, Purdue you can afford to lose at
Michigan State, but I think if Indiana Harbors dreams of being
a four seed or better, they probably need to win the other
games that are on their schedule.
And hope that some of the teams above them lose some games,
inexplicably, kind of like Texas Tech losing or, you know,
beating Iowa state, that helps In that equation, st.
Mary's who I'd had above Indiana up until very recently, they
lose that Loyola Marymount. And suddenly their resume
doesn't look quite as good. Not to the point where you would
just slot them into a four-seat ahead of Indiana right now.
I've got them behind Indiana by a couple of spots and so it's
not impossible that Indiana would get, you know, a for I
think it's definitely within the realm of possibility.
I even think Indiana if things broke right for them, could get
to a three seed, but it would require them jumping all Four of
the teams that I mentioned plus jumping one of Tennessee,
Virginia, Gonzaga and Xavier. That seems a bit unlikely given
that gonzaga's not likely to lose another game until they get
to the the West Coast Conference tournament.
Virginia is really established themselves as a very solid team
Tennessee's almost Untouchable from a resume perspective, it's
hard to see them dropping out of the three line, and they could
be a to. So that leaves Xavier who Even
explicably, lost a bizarre game to Butler last night.
But overall, even though I, you beat Xavier at Xavier, Xavier
has had a more impressive season overall in terms of what they've
been able to accomplish. So I think at this point, if
you're a not you fan, unless I you runs the table if they, you
know, they win at Purdue, they win the big or get to the Big
Ten Tournament championship game.
Certainly, in that scenario, I think it's possible that they
could make a movement up to a three-c, but I think right now,
four or a five? For is probably I think the
ceiling right now for Indiana and less things really break
their way and they win a lot of games.
And certainly it's possible for Indiana to drop back.
If they lose a bunch of games down the stretch here and the
teams that are in the mix with them, don't I could see them
dropping down to a six or even a seven and a bunch of things
broke wrong but it's important to keep in mind that this is a
Continuum. And overall, when you look at
the way that brackets have broken over time, rarely are you
operating? In a vacuum, there's always
something happening elsewhere. That's going to have an impact
on where you sit within the overall rankings and Indiana's.
A good team. I mean, they are, are they a
great team? I would say no, but I don't know
that there are a whole lot of great teams, really.
I mean, I would, I would even argue that there's, there's
three teams that are clearly from a resume perspective, at
least, in my mind above everybody else, and that right
now is Purdue Alabama and Houston after that.
Even for that. Fourth number one seat, it is a
bit of a challenge to figure out like, is it Kansas?
Is that Arizona? Is it Texas is at UCLA, you
know, it's just Baylor deserve to be in the conversation, just
Tennessee deserve to be in the conversation and then there's a
bit of a morass after that as you try to figure out like, how
do you ranked teams 9, through 20?
And a lot of it just depends on what do you prefer last year.
Indiana, you know, one of the reasons why they barely made it
and they end up being in the play-in game is because they
didn't have a lot. A lot to recommend them as far
as the tournament selection committee was concerned, you
know, they didn't have Road wins of note, they or wins away from
Assembly Hall of note. They did most of their work at
home, their best win away, from a someone who last year was in
order Dame and their best road win in the Big 10.
I guess was Maryland. And then of course, you know,
they beat Michigan and maybe the Illinois.
And that was what got them in a lot of people, if you'll
remember last year, thought Indiana was a lot further into
the field than they were. You?
Look at that result and it's like, gosh if they hadn't beaten
Illinois, they probably weren't in the tournament at all.
That's not this year's team. Now this year's team they've
wanted Illinois. That's very helpful.
They want Xavier. That's incredibly helpful.
Those are going to continue to age really well.
And now you look at the last seven games and this is the
difference between a good regular season and and really
kind of a Redemption story regular season for this Indiana
team. And that's what's going to be
really fascinating to watch all of the teams that Indiana plays
in can Palm from this point forward.
Word, the worst ranked team is 51st, and that's Michigan, you
know. So they've got everything from
the 5th ranked team and Purdue up to the 51st ranked team in
Michigan, seven games against some of the best that you've
seen in the Big Ten so far this season.
And it's going to be really fascinating to watch a lot of
unique and different types of matchups.
It's going to require versatility from this Indiana
team to capitalize. But if they shown us everything
or anything over the course of this, last eight games, it's
that they do have the ability to capitalize.
Is and to play different styles, and to have success against
different types of teams. So, we'll see what happens.
Anyway, that'll wrap it up for the show today at this.
I promise you, I was going to keep it short.
So we will be back, probably on Sunday to recap, what happened
in the IU? Michigan game.
And we will also talk a little bit about the week coming up.
It's like two games a week. The rest of the way a lot of
basketball, not just with Indiana, but with the entire
Big, Ten should be a lot of fun if you like college basketball
and I'm guessing if you Listen, you do so my thanks to our
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Listen, you do so my thanks to our friends at the back home
network, be sure to check out the assembly call for the
postgame wrap-up show. They'll be going on, are
immediately after the game against Michigan.
Be sure to check out the Crimson cast, women's basketball show
with Amanda Foster and check out home field apparel our thanks to
them. As always for sponsoring the
network, I'm Galen. Clabby will catch you folks on
the flip side, bring back the Bison.
So long, everybody.