IU 79 Savannah St 57

I don't think we learned anything new from this game.  A lot of the same old stories:

* Another slow start. IU allowed a pair of threes and a dunk to find themselves down to 1-8 Savannah State by a score of 7-8 in the early going.  Even once IU got it going, they allowed Savannah St to hang around and only held a 7-point lead (33-26) with 4 minutes to go in the half.  The Hoosiers closed out the half nicely and were leading 44-28 at halftime.  The second half was never close.

* Same old story for Verdell Jones III.  A nice scoring night with 18 points.  And a great job on the boards with 8 rebounds.  But still had 5 turnovers.  That makes Verdell's game-by-game turnovers of 5, 6, 7, 4, 2, 5, 4, & 5.

* Bobby Capobianco was in a walking boot -- sprained ankle.

* Guy-Marc Michel was on the bench in his normal IU gear.  He will be allowed to continue to practice with the team.  That doesn't make any fucking sense either.  If what he did was SO WRONG to warrant a 62-game suspension, I would have guessed he was also looking at jail time.  I mean, he did take some college-equivalent courses after all.  We can't have people like that walking amongst us.  But no, the NCAA says he can do everything he would normally do, except play Division I basketball games.  Makes perfect sense.  Nice job, NCAA, you really fuckered this one up.  But I enjoyed watching Cam Newton play today and it makes sense that Josh Selby will be able to use scholarship money to pay back the thousands of dollars in improper benefits that he received.  How about some common sense?

* For the second game in a row, IU threw down some impressive dunks.  Victor had a beautiful driving posterizing dunk.  Pritchard had the best dunk of his career.  And Sheehey had a nice dunk on a break-away.

* Creek and Hulls were hot from the arc in the first half.  Creek hit 3 of 4.  Hulls was a perfect 3 for 3 including a deep one with a guy in his face at the shot-clock buzzer. 

* Ted Valentine officiated tonight's game.  It was his first visit to Assembly Hall since "the incident".  He sucked as usual.

* I will say this about our Hoosiers.  They are 7-1 and are taking care of business against lesser opponents.  That is a welcome sight after losses in the previous 2 years to the likes of Northeastern, Lipscomb, Boston U, George Mason, and Loyola (Md). 

* IU has a week to prepare for their visit to Lexington.  But I am looking at it like they have 2 years and 1 week to prepare for their next visit to Lexington.