IU loses to IPFW in OT.

Submitted by mfan_in_ohio on
71-68 final score. IU certainly didn't look like the #3 team in the country. Cool that IU played in Fort Wayne; doubt they'll be back for a while.
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Baldbill

November 23rd, 2016 at 8:11 AM ^

It is good for the city, the stadium was sold out. It holds 10,500 and usually has ice on the floor if that many people are there. (Komets of the ECHL) I live in the area as well, it was fun last night to see that it was even a close game, I know a few that went to the event.

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WolverineinSB

November 22nd, 2016 at 11:30 PM ^

Really ugly loss but IU has one of these almost every year. Doesn't really change what I think of the team. OG was apparently sick and only played a couple mins and I have to think they would have won if they had their most versatile player playing despite the rest of the team being bad.



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jman077

November 22nd, 2016 at 11:50 PM ^

Obviously if you're playing a game like this you don't want to lose, but the fact is these games are pretty low-stakes. This should happen a lot more often, big schools playing mid-major in-state teams. I'd love it if Michigan played one of Eastern, Western, Central, Oakland or Detroit at their places every year. Would be fun to visit all those different stadiums, and see the team in a different environment while getting the guys a little early-season road expereince. Most years playing those teams would be better for our RPI than some of the crap early-season scheduling we've had.

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bluesalt

November 23rd, 2016 at 6:50 AM ^

Mid-majors are conferences like Missouri Valley, A-10, even the WCC at this point, in which it would surprise no one in most years if the league got one or more at-large bids. If the Summit League gets two bids, it's only because a 28+-win conference champ loses in the finals of the conference tournament, and even then that team needs to have beaten a few power conference teams at the beginning of the year.

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