Orangezoo
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in the past twenty years IU has endured the kind of drought that would make all of us nuts. This so called blue blood has had 4 sweet 16 appearances and two advances past that round ( one of those is at year 20 in 93). Outside of the past two years revival, they had the run in 2002 - otherwise they have had a number of early ncaa exits , nit appearances and no post season years. In that same time frame SU has a title, title game loss, 7 sweet 16's and one elite eight.
I first say we have to realize what that would feel like. Even though they were a juggernaut up through 93 and of course beat us- the drought they have been through since is not one of a blue blood. In many respects our programs share some common themes in the past few decades considering there were a lot of good players and good talent.
So i say lets just understand where their frustration is coming from if the roles were reverse we would be just as confident considering there has not been a team for them to be so confident about in a very long time vs our recent squads who have been so successful. I hope we crush them but as fans of IU over the last 20 yrs I feel for them a bit. They had a few good years after Smart's shot but after 93.. wow what a tough go.
I first say we have to realize what that would feel like. Even though they were a juggernaut up through 93 and of course beat us- the drought they have been through since is not one of a blue blood. In many respects our programs share some common themes in the past few decades considering there were a lot of good players and good talent.
So i say lets just understand where their frustration is coming from if the roles were reverse we would be just as confident considering there has not been a team for them to be so confident about in a very long time vs our recent squads who have been so successful. I hope we crush them but as fans of IU over the last 20 yrs I feel for them a bit. They had a few good years after Smart's shot but after 93.. wow what a tough go.