[November 14, 2025] Indiana State (2-1) at #4 Duke (3-0)

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IndyTreeFan said:
At the risk of sounding defeatist, I have no interest in this game. I see no point, other than $90,000, in watching our team get humiliated so that Duke can pad their win/loss record. Yes, playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium is cool, but I would just as soon go watch Duke play some team I care nothing about, so that I don't get the embarrassment of watching a 50+ point shellacking. And I cannot see, barring some miracle outcome (and that means getting beaten by less than 20 points), how this will be a positive for our team mentally.

As always, I really hope I eat these words tomorrow, but in this day and age, I just don't see it.
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I'm the exact opposite. Given how hard it is for a MM to get games I say play any HM anywhere, anytime, and the bigger the stage (and payday) the better. I see your argument in the sense that we don't want to become Chicago St. (playing 5-10 HMs and good MMs a year because you need the money) but as MVC members that are often, at least, competitive in the MVC it's good to do one or two a year. How fun were those wins at IU, Notre Dame, Hawaii, etc as well as scaring Michigan State. Go back and watch that one. When the buzzer went off Izzo breathed a demonstrative sigh of relief and you could read lips in the handshake line when he told Shertz "You have a hell of a team."

The HMs have now figured out (and dare I say colluded) MTEs to keep dangerous MMs that would hurt their at-large chances away so getting any HM anywhere is a positive for a program like ISU and, often times, ISU can win or scare them. But probably not today.

Now off to the airport to catch the Delta non-stop to Raleigh-Durham....
 

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We are playing a team that in all likelihood will be in the final four. We should just be happy we were able to play them instead of some random Big10 school that’s more regional to us
 
I have seen two games at Cameron Indoor, both Big10 vs ACC Challenge games. Both were Duke victories
The first was versus Michigan State with JJ Reddick and Sheldon Williams starring for the victorious Blue Devils in a game Coach K describes as one of the top five games on that floor during his career. I was in an ISU sweatshirt and sat both two rows behind the Duke Bench/scorer's bench and in the second half under the Duke offensive. Basket. I was warmly received by the Duke fans, especially when I told them MSU was near the bottom of my rooting list along with IU and UNC.
COACH K called a set play for JJ or Sheldon on every possession that was not a fast break.

The second was a BLASTING of IU when Jon Shyrer was playing. Made for a pleasant drive back to Richmond, Va.
 
IndyTreeFan said:
At the risk of sounding defeatist, I have no interest in this game. I see no point, other than $90,000, in watching our team get humiliated so that Duke can pad their win/loss record. Yes, playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium is cool, but I would just as soon go watch Duke play some team I care nothing about, so that I don't get the embarrassment of watching a 50+ point shellacking. And I cannot see, barring some miracle outcome (and that means getting beaten by less than 20 points), how this will be a positive for our team mentally.

As always, I really hope I eat these words tomorrow, but in this day and age, I just don't see it.
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I mean ..your nephews manager team won...he'll tell that story for years to come. :)
 

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