Wait, whoa ... where's the Eric Gordon picture?

I was thinking the same thing.

me too postmanr, me too. sniff.

No offense to EJ, but he's not the most attractive fellow in the world. The dude in this photo is much better looking.

Wait a second ...

Jordan Crawford suspended do to a violation of team rules ... here's guessing he missed study tables or something.

Just heard the news about Crawford. This is a very bad precedent. AJ still out (till who knows when). Now Crawford joins him on the sidelines (ESPN said the suspension is indefinite).

OK, so maybe it's worse than study tables.

stemler should not be shooting. ever.

Why is Mike White suited up if he was red shirted?

Is that mike white playing

oh crap

Man Im at work and cant watch what is this that happened to Crawford. I though seeing Stemler in so early and M.White being in he was trying to send a message because of last game but apparently not

what happend to the live game blogs i missed that

Brian, not sure. The TV folks said Crawford isn't playing thanks to an indefinite suspension for breaking a team rule. Don't know what rule, or how it was broken, but hopefully we find out sooner rather than later.

herald times says he was suspened 3 games

says IU released a statemnt minutes b4 game and said sampson would have no further comment about it

I'm watching this game live on a Sopcast feed routed through Hong Kong and I live in Israel!
LETS GO HOOSIERS!!!

thx im gonna have to chk that out so i can maybe watch games at work

guys call me crazy but I think Eric Gordon made a lot of bad passes. I thiink he had poor shot selection. On a positive note it seems that D.J. is more aggresive and demands the ball and is converting.

watching the play-by-play on foxsports, this has been the longest 20 second timeout ive ever seen. At least Crawford will be back in time for Kentucky but its gonna really hurt on the road vs So. Ill

Yeah, what would really help all the ITHers out is if a sopcast user hooked up a BTN feed. I don't think there is one on there yet.

http://www.sopcast.org/

Not that I'm condoning pirating TV channels via the Web or anything ... I would never do that. (Wink, wink.)

Jaime:

I agree. A couple passes were a bit erratic. I'm loving that we established DJ early tonight. Gordon is going to get his points no matter when they come.

Is there defense looking at all any better?

Brian,

We'll try to do some more live blogs as the season goes on. I just got home and didn't see the first half. How have we looked, ITH'ers?

@Brian:

No. Not at all.

Hoped they would have learned something from last game. Gives me a sick feeling in my stomach especially with the next 2 games. I work with alot of kentucky fans since i work in Louisville. If they beat us in Bloomington, I literally cannot imagine a bigger humiliation. As much as they always bring up the Rupp era and tehir record against us the past 15 yrs they would also have that to hang over our heads and who knows when they would play their again or us at Rupp. God I'm feeling shaky....I don't feel so good

As long as that 3rd guy (Ellis) is contributing, our offence should be fine but we have a lot of things to work on.

whats funny is that joey shaw transfered thinking he wasnt going to get PT, but what he didnt realize is he would have been gettin plenty...

I'm sick to my stomach. The only cure? More defense!

I really don't like our offense....i like Mike Whites energy.....

Mike White is slow out there and should be bullying people. Are you watching the same guy?

I can't believe how much playing time Mike White is getting. Not that he's been horrible. He's played OK. Not good, not great. I'm just surprised, that's all.

We don't have an offense... it's just dribble till you have a shot.

I agree with Luke, the past games have looked like the just run dribble make a pass or two then shoot they dont look like they try to set up plays too much.

We should not be ranked. We look lethargic on both ends. Is Mike Davis running the offence and inbound plays? I thought Sampson was supposed to bring defense and toughness? I really hope we can improve on this or its going to be N-I-T!

what happened to bassett this game? 4 pts?

I'm hating how we think we have to be a one on one type offense. Like the movie " how many times are we going to pass. Five. what? Five!... Five!" the defense is getting a little bit better. I think we should paly zone sometimes until we solidify the man on man. I think this is D.J. White's best game. He was always assertive in this game. Out of all the teams that are higher ranked, I think we have the most upside. We will get better as the season goes forward. It's just going to be dificult to watch some games.

I think Mike was going after rebounds and being active...no one ever said he was a track star but he is doing far more than DT, I will take what I can get...

Mike Davis ran a better offense than IU...SERIOUSLY. At this point with my H.S. and Middle School coaching experiece I could coach against IU's offense....

"OK guys it is simple, they won't set screens, they won't back cut...just wait til they dribble 30 seconds, play D for 15 seconds and then deny Gordon the ball.....defense on 3...123 defense"

I don't know what Jordan Crawford did but he really hurt the team and could hurt them this weekend...we have NO other freakin' guards.

I will take this win and look towards Saturday.

I do believe Mike White can still redshirt though...

For those of you who like to read about recruiting, Stephan Van Treese was directly behind the bench tonight alongside Ray McCallum Jr.

I saw him ...in "red" mmmmmmm

Nice pic. She is my favorite cheerleader....