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Early Season College Basketball Notes

IU beats Lafayette

Coach Sanctions didn't have his Hoosiers ready to play early versus a tough Patriot League opponent on Monday night. The Lafayette Leopards were within 3 points until right around the 10 minute mark in the second half when the Hoosiers athleticism put the game away. Playing to a half-empty Conseco Fieldhouse for the Pre-Season NIT Regional round, the Hoosiers clearly no longer seem to be the darling of the Indiananapolis sports fans that they were during Bob Knight's tenure in Bloomington. Speaking of...


Knight's at it again

During TT's big win over a scrapy Gardner-Webb squad, Knight (not coach Knight, not Mr. Knight) "pushed the chin" of one of his players (Freshman, Michael Prince) to get him to look "the A-hole ball coach" in the eye. As all-around great guy, Bob Knight, edges closer and closer to Dean Smith's career coaching wins mark, one has to wonder, how many more times will we see this? Texas Tech, fans, athletic department and players (most importantly), don't say no one warned you...

Butler beats Notre Dame

More Pre-Season NIT regional action from Conseco- Butler beats UND...not that big of a deal really since Butler's respectable and UND isn't that great, but I love seeing Notre Dame lose; no matter when it occurrs.

By the way, have you heard that Notre Dame had this player named Rudy who blah blah blah blah and their genius football coach ran a play for a kid who was dying and blah blah blah blah...