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IU Playing small vs size in the Big Ten


Its no secret that IU will be playing small this year and hoping that our interior players can hold their own. With that in mind I looked at each B1G team to consider what teams have a significant size advantage vs IU.

Badgers - Frank the Tank, Dekker & Hayes appear to be on the best team AND their size could cause IU problems.

OSU - returns a strong post player in Amir W, lost LaQuinton Ross but brings in experienced transfer A Lee from Temple. Might be tough.

Iowa - returns 3 good interior players in A White, Oleseni & Uthoff - did loose 1 in Basabe.

Purdue - AJ Hammons will have a distinct size advantage.

On paper those teams have enough inside power to create match-up problems for small ball IU.

Michigan lost McGary, Horford, Morgan and Big Dog Jr. They may have Freshmen recruits but I do not see any size issues.

MSU lost Payne and kicked K Kaminsky to the curb. They have serviceable interior players but their size will not be the issue.

Nebraska - has decent interior players but they will not dominate with size.

Illinois has Egwu who is pretty good and they bring in a front court Freshmen but again sheer size should not be the issue vs them.

Minn has improving M Walker inside with some help but again should not be able to dominate the interior.

Maryland - who knows they lost half their team and have a bunch of F recruits - which F live up to expectations. I doubt size will be a dominant issue.

PSU - was guard oriented and lost their best Guard. No size advantage here.

NW rebounding was lead by a wing that graduated. I don't see size being a major factor.

Rutgers - has 2 6-9 players that are at the top of Scoring & rebounding stats BUT they didn't win games last year so how effective can they be?

So size may be a significant disadvantage in 6 B1G games and should be about even in 12. I think whether we correct the turnover issue may be a more important issue.

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