Comments on: 2011-12 ITH Season Preview: Penn State Nittany Lions

By: Glawton12

Glawton12 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:11:00 +0000

The games against PSU should be two guaranteed wins. Penn State’s only two wins at AH came in Crean’s first year and last season as, what would turn out to be, a tourney team. Additionally, the Bryce Jordan Center may as well be a neutral court, one which IU has recently won on. I hate to toss around absolutes, but these will be wins.

By: iubase

iubase — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000

Chambers made it to the ncaa tourney last yr (boston univ) and lost to kansas. They beat my Vt team to get there. They improved over the season and considering what PSU has they got a decent coach. They will be better in 3-4 yrs – but by that I mean 8th instead of 12th in BT.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:45:00 +0000

12th place without a doubt. I don’t think they could compete in a lot of one bid conferences this year. Going to be a long year in Happy Valley.

By: CoachB

CoachB — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:03:00 +0000

Chambers intro speach sounds like a bunch of catch phrases for coaches. Of course you want to do those things, who doesn’t. Lets play fast and shoot only lay-ups, looks great if 5 v 0 drills, a little tougher to do against Big Ten D.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:23:00 +0000

Indiana basketball will not be fully back until, we are regularly beating Northwestern and Penn St by 20+ at home, and by 10+ on the road. What Wisconsin does to us in football, we need to be doing to these two in basketball. I think Cook Hall is probably bigger than Northwestern’s gymnasium (calling it an “arena” is an insult to arenas), and Penn St has one of the largest alumni bases in the world and can’t sell half their tickets. Those programs are not supported like ours, and deserve to get blasted when they play us. I understand for now at least a win is a win, but we are basketball royalty, and I don’t think any of us should be satisfied with a 6 point home win to Penn St. Just like Wisconsin or Ohio St fans would be upset and worried with a 3 point win over us in football…..

By: MillaRed

MillaRed — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:28:00 +0000

Yikes. Hoosiers 2008 comes to mind.

By: InTheMtns

InTheMtns — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:25:00 +0000

Hmm, I noticed that in Coach Chambers’ long list of “we’re going to’s” that he didn’t mention winning. The Hoosiers definitely should be able to sweep Penn State this year.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:58:00 +0000

If that is the style of game he wants to play they better have the right talent for it, which they won’t for a couple of years at best. Not sure that’s the route I would go with a talent deficient team. A team like Wisconsin who can execute the opposite will absolutely own them. IU should win both if it wants to make the tournament this year.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:19:00 +0000

“Sophomore guard Tre Bowman, who was involved in a fight with Buie in late February, won’t be available to play until January as a result of his involvement in the altercation.”

He’s gone…transferred to a Juco in Texas.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:16:00 +0000

We really haven’t had any “easy” wins during the Crean era and I’m certainly not about to start expecting certain games to be easy, especially in Big Ten play. But hopefully this will be a pair of games that IU can win even if they don’t play their best. We could use all the help we can get.