Tom Crean didn’t care what the box score said, his 13th-ranked Indiana Hoosiers didn’t play 40 minutes against Wake Forest. This three-day stretch was regression, not progress.
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“When Coach Rice recruits his players, this is what he tells us”, Ben Carter said. They go because it’s a prestigious tournament with star-studded fields, and to look in the mirror to find out who they truly are, he said.
“We won our first game and there’s not a lot of time to celebrate”, Manning said.
“This is a great tournament to learn about that in”. We don’t have the front line that we thought we were going to have, so we’ve got to get that down.
Wednesday’s result ended a week that could hardly have gone worse for the Hoosiers. He had an easy explanation for his improvement from one game to the next.
IN was the 60th best team in the country in turnover percentage in 2014-2015, but the regression through six games is defining this season through six games. UCLA is averaging 80 points per game and they are shooting 45.6 percent from the floor while defensively they are allowing 80.2 points and their opponents are shooting 42.7 percent.
Prized freshman Thomas Bryant has been solid on the offensive end, but he’s not rebounding at almost a high enough rate for a big man and his perimeter defense is a major liability due to his lack of foot speed. The Runnin’ Rebels then went on a 12-1 spurt, with McCaw scoring seven of the points, including a run-closing 3.
Is it too early to diagnose the woes of IU? They’ve dropped five straight and are in danger of going 3-9 in each Dave Clawson’s first two seasons.
Wake Forest got two players back from suspension and lost one to the flu. “But it’s always good to see guys shoot like that”. Center Adam Woodbury showed touch around the rim on his way to 10 points and seven rebounds. “Unfortunately we missed Bryant, our key point guard, so someone had to step up handling the ball, so that’s what I did”. The senior tallied 18 points and 15 rebounds – his fourth double-double in six games this year – and he also added two blocks and two steals.
DENTON, Texas – Christen Cunningham scored 26 points, Darius Jones-Gibson added 21 and Samford beat Idaho in the championship game of the Mean Green Showcase. All five starters scored in double figures, led by junior sharpshooter Peter Jok’s 20 smooth points. Duke, for all of its problems, rings up nearly 31 points per game and is far more unsafe now that dual-threat QB Thomas Sirk has returned. “Forty-two free throws to 14”.
The Demon Deacons had to play without starting freshman point guard Bryant Crawford, who was sick.
Forward Collin Hartman took the ball out of bounds. The UCLA Basketball team might have been in this game for the first several minutes, but that did not take long as the Jayhawks’ size, skill and discipline had put up 59 on the Bruins in the first half on their way to a 92-73 victory. “We will celebrate on the bus but once we get to the hotel property we will be getting ready for Vanderbilt, another good team”.
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It was the Hoosiers’ second loss in three days. When will Crean realize that specific defense doesn’t work properly? “I think that’s how it played out”.
