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[tower912]

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Stolen from the Wisconsin Scout board. 

[klyrish]

It should have a partially-cut-down net on it somewhere, too.

EDIT: Standby while I 'shop this.

[klyrish]

Bam.

[tower912]

Spell 'Indiana' correctly, por favor

[klyrish]

Spell 'Indiana' correctly, por favor

Crap. Fixed!

[keefe]

Bam.

Classic. And sadly very true

[MUFlutieEffect]

If you really want to get authentic, I think it would have to read "TOM CREAN and his Indiana Hoosiers."  After all, this isn't any striped-pants-wearing squad - this is HIS striped-pants-wearing squad.

[4everwarriors]

 Tommy Crean, the zone bustin' coachin' machine.

[Otule's Glass Eye]

Crap. Fixed!

I love how Ton Crean is huge while "and the Indiana Hoosiers" is nearly invisible.

[keefe]

I love how Ton Crean is huge while "and the Indiana Hoosiers" is nearly invisible.

Uh, that's kinda the point

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I love how Ton Crean is huge while "and the Indiana Hoosiers" is nearly invisible.

You ain't from round here, is ya?

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Love the fact that it's red!

[keefe]

Love the fact that it's red!

Given the gutless way Crean left town it should be yellow

[Chicos' Buzz Scandal Countdown]

In all seriousness didn't Crean promise a banner for the team this year? Thought IU only hung championship banners?

[Dr. Blackheart]

I think PRN said this at the time, but in retrospect this may be true:  the banner escapade with the B1G Championship ceremony at home with the tOSU loss sure backfired and seemed to deflate the team.  They ended the year 5-4.  They scrapped back and beat Michigan but they lost something down the stretch.

[Lennys Tap]

I think PRN said this at the time, but in retrospect this may be true:  the banner escapade with the B1G Championship ceremony at home with the tOSU loss sure backfired and seemed to deflate the team.  They ended the year 5-4.  They scrapped back and beat Michigan but they lost something down the stretch.

With the exception of 2003, TC's teams have not been great finishers. His teams tend to peak too early.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

I think PRN said this at the time, but in retrospect this may be true:  the banner escapade with the B1G Championship ceremony at home with the tOSU loss sure backfired and seemed to deflate the team.  They ended the year 5-4.  They scrapped back and beat Michigan but they lost something down the stretch.

Compare that disaster to what Louisville did. They refused to cut down the nets after the BE tourney, didnt want the regional nets, either. They only wanted the Net after the final.

In my memory, I can't recall a team cutting down nets after a loss. It's just completely bizarre and the wrong message, IMO. Why would you want the net from a basket used in a game you lost? For all time, people will look at that net and ask why it was cut down. I completely understand wanting to recognize a Big Ten championship in some manner, but NEVER cut down a net after a loss! It makes no sense! This is the kind of stuff Crean started doing once he got comfortable at MU. Give a weirdo a little political capital and weird things will begin to happen. By the way, once he started this at MU, I believe the general public began to see the real Crean. Indiana will, too.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

With the exception of 2003, TC's teams have not been great finishers. His teams tend to peak too early.

Joanie has the same beef.

[Spotcheck Billy]

from the 30 for 30 episode Survive and Advance, the 1983 Wolfpack team practiced cutting down the net all season long, now that's just another approach



jeez, people post like cutting down nets before winning the championship is a jinx

[ChicosBailBonds]

With the exception of 2003, TC's teams have not been great finishers. His teams tend to peak too early.

I guess I would want to understand how that is defined.  Context is everything...who you play, where you play

In the 2002 season, we finished the season 15-4.  Yes, the last 10 were 6-4, of course one loss was at #4 Cincinnati by 1 point.  The other loss was #5 Cincinnati in the CUSA semi-finals of the tournament.  The other a 2 point loss to Tulsa in the NCAA tournament.   

In other years, like 2007-08, third round of the Big East Tournament....our losses down the stretch were to #10 Stanford in OT, #15 Pitt on a neutral court, #11 Georgetown, and at Syracuse. 

Similar to some other years.  In some cases, agree, we limped to the finish, but in other years it comes down to who you are playing, how we played, where we played.

[MUFlutieEffect]

Joanie has the same beef.

Early front-runner for Comment of the Off-Season award.

[HoopsMalone]

Compare that disaster to what Louisville did. They refused to cut down the nets after the BE tourney, didnt want the regional nets, either. They only wanted the Net after the final.

In my memory, I can't recall a team cutting down nets after a loss. It's just completely bizarre and the wrong message, IMO. Why would you want the net from a basket used in a game you lost? For all time, people will look at that net and ask why it was cut down. I completely understand wanting to recognize a Big Ten championship in some manner, but NEVER cut down a net after a loss! It makes no sense! This is the kind of stuff Crean started doing once he got comfortable at MU. Give a weirdo a little political capital and weird things will begin to happen. By the way, once he started this at MU, I believe the general public began to see the real Crean. Indiana will, too.

Some of my friends who went to IU are beginning to doubt that he will make them forget about losing Bob Knight.  They are convinced he is a recruiter though and is probably never getting fired any time soon.

The seed of doubt has finally been planted though.  Crean has big school expectations with some political capital for coming there in bad times.  He probably shouldn't do something like show up to midnight madness in a karate outfit.  He should focus on winning or else his act will get old really fast.

[klyrish]

An IU buddy of mine didn't want to believe it, but after I showed him the flowchart to the Tom Crean-era Hoosiers (http://royhobbson.tumblr.com/post/40682987705/the-crean-era-hoosiers-in-flow-chart-form), he finally realized after a few games how true it is and has made comments of the bizarre/douchey behavior on a number of occasions now.

[mu-rara]

Anyone know the definitive reason why RMK will not set foot in Bloomington?

[klyrish]

With the exception of 2003, TC's teams have not been great finishers. His teams tend to peak too early.

I wouldn't say we were a great finisher in 2003. We totally shat the bed in the Final Four.