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Seriously, this. Both teams were feverishly trying to give the game away. I'll take the ones we can get.

You seem overly defensive about this. Ryen Russillo is not an "asshat". You can agree with him or not but he's a multimillionaire and - in my opinion - one of the best voices on cfb and the NBA that there is going today. I'm happy to revisit this with you after the playoffs where I'm assuming that the SEC will dominate.

He's shooting poorly enough and turning it over often enough to keep my expectations somewhat in check. He's already so fucking good on D, though. And hasn't shown anything to think his decision-making and shotmaking won't improve. On the game as a whole (I don't have a ton - I was multitasking the first half and some of the 3Q): - Collins was quietly kind of good. The clutch 3 obviously but he had 12/7 plus 3 dimes a swipe and a block. Turned it over once. Only had one foul. Shot 5/7. which brings me to my next point... - If BASSEY can take some pressure off of him and get a backup 5 competition going I think situationally they could both give us good mins going forward. -Barnes and CP dragged us to this W. But they can't do this all season. We need to both get healthy and get better around them. - Champagnie shouldn't be starting for a playoff team but he's played his way into 7-8 years in the league I think. He's long and plays hard and can shoot - and doesn't make terrible decisions. I'm done with going on harangs about Branham for now. There's no point in getting worked up about it. Apparently the staff has felt over the past two years that he unimpeachably deserves 15 minutes a game despite every metric out there saying he's one of the worst 5 players in the league. I appreciate that he can at least hit an open 3 now. Maybe Treway being back will eat into his minutes but I am expecting to see him get 12 minutes rain or shine and will try and limit the bitching about it in every game thread. 7-8. Not bad. GSG

How many boxscores does our coaching staff need to look at where Branham is a team-worst +/- before they stop playing him entirely? Do they need another 150 games - 3 seasons? 4 seasons? I mean KJ is a headcase but he had 22 and 6 3s tonight at least.

PICK SGA UP YOU FUCKING MORONS Good Lord this 4Q Thank you CP and ZC Keldon go sit in the corner

That challenge may have won them the game. Massive reversal there. And KJ is trying to make sure of it.

Gonna be hard to close this out. Gonna need a few big shots to complete the steal. Nice start by Barnes there. Hit these throws playa.

This lineup is going to choke it away. Put Barnes and KJ back in.

Collins pissing his pants in the 4Q. Great.

Oh good Branham is back in. Where's the tylenol?

I think Harrison Barnes may have 5 of these efforts in him all season. Picked a good night to burn one.

You're putting a lot of words in people's mouths and I'm not sure you've done much of a deep dive on some of the scheduling stuff. In fact, you're pretty much awarding Indiana a high ranking BECAUSE they're schedule is dogshit. What do you think IU is sitting at if they had already played Clemson, Bama, Texas, Tenn, Ole Miss, Kentucky and Florida? Penn State has lost to the one good team they've played. Ohio State is 1-1 against quality opponents. Indiana hasn't played ANYBODY. Some of the B10 scheduling is a joke this year with those teams. Sure - so is the SEC Nov FCS shit - but outside of Texas all of the 2 loss SEC teams have had a much tougher slate than any B10 team in the top 10. Let alone fucking Miami who the CFP has 8. Are you going to sit here and with a straight face tell us that Indiana is still better than all of the 2 loss SEC teams if they lose to Ohio State? I'm not sobbing over the SEC. I'm looking at this objectively - like an adult - and seeing where a lot of these teams sit in the most predictive metrics and concluding that this set of rankings sucks.

Like I was saying (and fellow sicko @Kermit has picked up on it) - play Bassey more. Also trade Wemby and Sochan. They were clearly holding these guys back. And drug test KJ.

Huh? Dinich is just as cute as Nicole. I mean they're both kind of office/mom-next-door hot but still.

ACC? Miami is overrated. Past that they have the highest G5 team ahead of the 1st place team in the ACC. They are telling us that the B12 and ACC each get 1 bid. Which - outside of BSU's bs ranking - I don't think the ACC or B12 should be necessarily getting more love. I think the main - glaring - issue is the B10 and ND being slotted ahead of all but the #1 SEC team when those teams are playing candy-ass fucking schedules.

Nonsense. According to The Committe Notre Dame would at worst have gone 5-1 against Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Florida and Kentucky. Oh and Clemson. 6-1. Do not question The Committe.

I mean #4-#13 in general is just awful. What is Boise State even being ranked that high for? Losing to Oregon? Congrats. They don't have ONE P4 win. Explain to me why they are ranked ahead of teams like Colorado or Clemson. Let alone BYU and SMU. Just checked - BSU doesn't crack the top 20 in FPI, Sagarin or SP+. BYU isn't very highly rated advanced-metrics wise but they are still a 1-loss P4 team with an OOC win over a top 15 team.

I can't imagine anyone with a functioning fucking brain thinking that Indiana, Notre Dame and Penn State are all better than BOTH Bama and Georgia. (fixed) We need divisions or pods or something in the P4. Especially if this is how lazy the committee is going to be with W/L records.

Sargent has obviously been fantastic with Norwich I just want to see it for country. Are we sure he can't play CB?

Who do you think Sargent plays for? Aston Villa? Sure we'd all like Pepi to play more but he's having a major impact off the bench for a top ~30 team in the world. Norwich isn't even a top 30 team in England right now. I think Pepi vs. Balogun is a better argument than Pepi vs. anyone behind him, frankly.

That's a hell of a take. Pepi has been much better for the NT than Sarge and is younger. I think Pepi is pretty firmly the 2 and there's a bunch of guys fighting for the next 2 spots.

Russillo got pretty spicy yesterday. Did y'all realize Indiana has played 0 games against the top 7 in the B10? Can't say I disagree with much he had to say.

That doesn't bother me but the tailgating an NFL game has to be some sort of red flag.

I thought he tried too hard to place the first chance he had. Just needed to put pace on it and make it difficult for the keeper. 2nd one looked like he just didn't catch it clean.

Nice result. Don't love the concessions but there isn't a lot Poch can do with what he's been given back there in such a short time. Hopefully we develop in the right direction and keep improving as a team along the back. The starting lineup in attack is filthy. Also like how Turner looked this window.