Most of the booing is aimed at Woody and staff. Although they have three 5-star guys, this is a poorly constructed team, a poorly coached team that lacks any kind of leader or hustle. The 3 assistants are supposedly ace recruiters…They sure as heck are not teachers of the game, that’s obvious!!!
Woody continues to play 2 bigs, who clog up the lane on offense, so driving is limited, which they need to do cuz they sure can’t shoot from 3 (32%). Woody hasn’t been able to get one good shooter in the portal since Kopp and even left a scholarship open this season knowing the one shooting guard he had coming in was coming off major knee surgery as a HS Senior. Not surprisingly, the young man has missed the whole season. Guys like Dalton Knecht, Jamison Battle and others (doubt he even bothered with Langborg, who should have been on their radar) were all on campus last spring only to go elsewhere (probably because they could see this was an inside oriented offense). He badly judged that X and Galloway (both good defenders when healthy) could carry the load offensively.
Lack of hustle on the defensive end, getting beat to 50/50 loose balls 80% of the time, often cuz the IU guy doesn’t get on the floor and poor defensive rotation/off ball D have been huge issues all year.
No IU grad/fan I know expected this to be a great season, but 10-11 wins in conference wasn’t asking much in this year’s league with the assembled talent and highest NIL in the league. Instead, not even going to be close to 10 wins.
How not good has this team been? Coming into today’s game at PSU, only 3 of their 12 losses have been by single digits, have lost 8 of 10, have a 3-game home losing streak and have lost, I believe 5 home games.
