With the current portal class added to last year's recruiting class? Seems like pretty low expectations.
All IU fans are saying S16 for expectations…even though they scoffed at Purdue making 4 S16s in 6 years and now 5 in 7 years —with 2 E8s, a F4 and NCRU plus 4 B1G championships and a BTT (but that doesn’t matter apparently) and 3 straight years of an overall 1 ranking that no big ten team had ever done…not even IU’s beloved Bobby Knight or MSUs Tom Izzo.
They say S16 (even though they want to say F4) because even though on paper their team seems really good…they all know woodsons their coach with a prehistoric offense that doesn’t value the 3.
Boilerzz has shown what the top portal classes did last year and the top ones (KU and UNC) had either a really good coach (Self) or an All American Guard with a preseason AA big who had averaged a double double for 3 straight seasons.
We’ve also seen the analytics on their new backcourt and the numbers show they aren’t really that much better than what they had last year. Hell, Carlyle was worse than X (although he’s a top PG in the country when healthy 😂). They’ve collected all this talent but how are they all going to play? And they aren’t really developing any high school talent as cupps and Newton will be sitting the bench and won’t see ANY significant playing time this year. I guess you could mbgako is getting developed, but he’s playing out of
Position and should be playing the 4 and reneau at the 5 since he can’t guard the 4 and fouls too much, but is an undersized 5. Not sure how Goode is going to really change anything….maybe he hits 1-2 more 3s for them but not sure that translate into being “their shooter” they needed as I don’t think he will get much impactful playing time. And if he does that means Tucker, their 5 star or Galloway aren’t getting decent minute. Plus they still need a backup big for when Reneau or Ballo get in foul trouble/need breathers.
Anyway, If Woodson magically changes his offense, then maybe things do change. But until we see that, I don’t think I can believe they’ll actually be successful to a level where they actually win something that’s notable.
