IU BBall - Notre Dame

So I gave my tickets to some friends of my parents who are Notre Dame fans and had never been to Assembly Hall. Guess we both won after that performance.

In turn I got to watch it on ESPN with Sean McDunnough, Bill Rafferty and Jay Bilas doing the commentary.

I have been accused of being too hard on this young, inexperienced team, so I'm going to let Sean, Bill and Jay provide the analysis of the game tonight. Here are some quotes from tonight's game.

"What kind of hustle was that? Nobody ran back, they were just jogging back." - Jay

"There is no sense of urgency in IU's transition defense." - Bill

"That can't be the shot IU wanted." - Jay

"IU is an impatient team on offense." - Bill

"This is individual play... they aren't even making Notre Dame guard them." - Bill

"IU lets Cornette set up way too deep. You can't defend the post that way." - Jay

"It continues. You just can't let the player set up that deep inside." - Bill

"I've never seen a good shooter do this from the free throw line." - Jay

"Bracey was a 79% FT shooter last year. But he is only 10 for 20 this year." - Sean

"Standing back there is like an advertisement that your head isn't on straight." - Jay

"We saw much better defense from Michigan Saturday than what we are seeing from IU here tonight." - Bill

"It was a better game plan as Michigan pressured ND's guards while IU is letting the guards see the floor." - Jay

"Indiana just can't stop dribble penetration." - Bill

"That's just bad defense inside." - Bill

"It's like Indiana is sleepwalking. There just isn't a lot of energy coming from the Hoosiers." - Jay

"You can't always rely on the outside shot" - Bill

"It has been rare that Indiana has penetrated. When Tapak does, good things happen." - Jay

"Indiana has been dominated on the glass." - Bill

"That was so quick." - Bill

"They are living behind the line. In the last 2 games they have averaged 31 3 pt shots." - Jay

"Those 2 games were the 3rd and 4th highest 3 pt shot game totals in IU history." - Sean

"IU is very anxious to jack up threes." - Jay

"Wow, look at that, the crowd is leaving with 4 minutes left and IU down 12." - Jay

"Can't say that I've ever seen that here." - Bill

"They burned alot of time off the clock and then weren't prepared to foul the right player." - Jay

"Indiana did not get good shots against the zone tonight and the scoreboard shows it." - Jay

"How patient will these fans be?" - Sean

"Those boos just answered your question." - Bill

Couldn't have said it better myself gentlemen. 2 things I would like to add.

1) The bullshit chants are really nice! Especially when TV shows that the officials clearly made the right calls.

2) Great sign in the student section:

PURDUE'S NEXT - DON'T WATCH!

ND 55 - IU 45