Thoughts on Guy-Marc Michel

Btown Banners would like to welcome Gary Sweeney Jr. as a featured writer. If you'd like to see more columns from Gary, please let us know in the comment section below!*Credit to iuhoosiers.cstv.comBy now you're aware of the fact that the NCAA Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee has denied Indiana University's appeal regarding Guy-Marc Michel's eligibility. As a result, Guy will not be allowed to play for the Hoosiers. So, what does this mean for IU? Pondering the situation I can't help...

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Coach talks Boston College

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Do you love IU bball?

If so, and you have a passion for writing, drop your e-mail in the comments section or e-mail us at btownbanners@gmail.com if you'd be interested in being a featured blogger.  You will have free reign on what you write, you will just submit it to us and we can get you posted on our site.  It's a great way to get your thoughts out there and build up a following of IU sports fanati...

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Game 6: Northwestern State (+/-)

This was the story of two halves on Friday night.  Overall the Hoosiers came out on top and played a great game.  I'm excited about this team advancing to 6-0.  Let's see where we can keep going with this momentum! Before we get into the stats, we'd appreciate you becoming A follower of the site at the left and always leaving us comments below to help us get stats out in a better way and open up dialogue on how people interpret these stats.  With that mini advertisement, here...

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Hoo's Next: The Demons

Today, the 5-0 Hoosiers face the 3-2 Northwestern State Demons. NW State is led by both Will Pratt (22.4 ppg) and Devon Baker (18 ppg). The Demons are a fast paced, high scoring team averaging 86 points per game, scoring over 100 points once this year. NW State has played two “big-name” teams this year in both Memphis and LSU. They lost to MU by 15 and to LSU by 9. NW State shoots 39% from beyond the arc and 64% from the charity stripe. They make around 8 3-pointers per game and almost 18 free throws a game. Baker, the team’s best free throw shooter, hits 81% of the time from the line. Northwestern...

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Game 5: NCCU (+/- Analysis)

Great win for the Hoosiers tonight as they advanced to 5-0 for the first time since 2002. It's great that this team is building some early season confidence and hopefully they can carry this confidence forward into their first real tough matchup @ BC. It's time to dig into the numbers!MORE ANALYSIS TO COME LATERNCCU Game Stats:Overall through 5 Games:Best and Worst Lineup of the Night:Trend Analysis:Lineups Us...

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vs. Hoo's Next: The Eagles Up next for your Indiana Hoosiers are the 1-2 North Carolina Central University Eagles (NCCU). The NCCU Eagles are coached by LeVell Moton. Moton is a former standout at NCCU and was named the head coach in 2009. Prior to becoming the head coach, Moton was an assistant coach for 3 years with NCCU. NCCU is no stranger to “big name” universities having played two of them in the first three games in Oklahoma University and the University of Miami. The Eagles come to Bloomington...

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Thoughts from the Student Section (Evansville)

The state of Indiana must be on threat level red, because Tom Crean has this place on lock-down. While still reveling in recent news of Cody Zeller’s commitment and ongoing buzz about Park Tudor guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell’s future decision, the Hoosier nation was blind-sided with unexpected and great news regarding two other top Indiana players. After a Hoosier victory over Evansville last night, both Devin Davis (Warren Central) and Colin Hartman (Cathedral) gave their verbal commitment to Coach Crean. Add these two to the tally, and Crean now has nine in-state commits for the next four years...

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Game 4: Evansville Purple Aces (+/- Analysis)

Welcome to the 6th edition of the +/- Player Analysis.  This have been changing at a crazy pace around this site.  We are currently developing a new site at www.btownbanners.com which will provide us a much better avenue to deliver the information you want and crave.  Blogger has been good to us so far ,but we are looking for bigger and better things.  Please help us out by clicking to follow the blog on the left side of the screen and make sure to bookmark the blog to come back...

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INDIANA IS OFFICIALLY LOCKED DOWN

2013 Commit Devin Davis 2013 Commit Collin Hartman  When Coach Tom Crean was hired, he said it was going to be his priority to get top Indiana high school players to come to Indiana.  Coach has turned that statement into a fact over the last few months and especially today.  Multiple sources are confirming that the Crean and the Hoosiers have picked up two verbals from top 2013 talent. IU had both Devin Davis (6'5" SF, Warren Central) and Collin Hartman (6'6" SF, Indianapolis...

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Hoosier Gameday Predictions!

It's that time again Hoosiers, What's your final prediction for the IU vs Evansville game? 67 vs. 54 Staff Picks Jason E. -     wins 75-47 Josh S. -     wins 85-52 Jake S -      wins 68-50 - Game 4 Winner!Stefanie E - wins 79-62 Leave your predictions down in the comments section!  Go Hoosie...

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Hoo's Next: The Purple Aces

The Indiana Hoosier’s next opponent is Marty Simmons' Purple Aces from the University of Evansville.  Simmons is in his fourth year as head coach of U of E with a combined record of 37 wins and 56 losses.  In 2009, he led U of E to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament, the team’s first post season appearance since 1999. The Purple Aces come in with a 2-0 record, recently beating the University of Texas-San Antonio 77-73. U of E was lead by sophomore Colt Ryan G/F (15 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 assists) and junior F/G Denver Holmes (15 points, 5 rebounds, and 6 assists). On the season, U...

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Game 3: Mississippi Valley State

Welcome to the 5th +/- Player Analysis. As many people suggested in the last article on this, I have dropped the first two exhibition games from the statistics. These now rely 100% on the three games played so far. With that said... here we go. Here are the Stats for the Miss Valley St game: As you can see, Victor continues to dominate these stats. Bobby C has also followed up a solid effort from Friday with another > 1.0 performance. Creek and Pritch obviously struggled and gave up more...

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Game 2: Wright State

Overall it was a pretty good win for this team.  I thought the game was going to be much closer than the final score showed.  Overall the stats were about what you would expect and seem consistent with the last few games.  I'm trying out some new charts to show the players over the 4 game stretch so let  me know your thoughts on if I should continue using those. > Wright State Stats: Through 4 Games: I also thought it would be interesting to see how each player has done...

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Game 1: Florida Gulf Coast

Florida Gulf Coast Game Stats Overall, CTC put 27 different lineups out there with an impressive 20 of those lineups being positive or even for that stint. Here are the numbers for the Game:  Things of Note: 1. Moore, Pritchard and Rivers are our three highest for the game (who would have guessed that?) 2. Bobby C was the only negative player on the day and surprisingly only got 6 minutes of PT. 3. Elston had a nice game and helped his average out a little. 4. VJ3 obviously struggled...

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