Highlights From Coach Mike Woodson on ‘Inside Indiana Basketball’ Radio Show

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Coach Mike Woodson sat down with play-by-play announcer Don Fischer on Monday evening for the weekly “Inside Indiana Basketball” radio present at Southern Stone Restaurant.

They mentioned Indiana’s current loss to Kansas, level guard Xavier Johnson’s damage, the upcoming sport towards Elon and what Indiana can do to bounce again from losses in three of the final 4 video games.

Listed here are the highlights of what Woodson mentioned on Monday.

On Allen Fieldhouse…

• “It’s the primary time I’ve ever been there so I used to be in awe a little bit bit when it comes to the environment.” 
• “It jogged my memory of Hoosiers and Hinkle Fieldhouse” 
• “It was good to be there, nevertheless it wasn’t good to be there.”
• Don Fischer mentioned Kansas followers advised him they’d by no means seen that many away followers at Allen Fieldhouse 
• “Our fanbase is super, and I applaud them.” 
• “I tip my hat to our followers. I really like them and recognize what they’ve carried out all these years … I need to carry a winner to those followers within the worst manner”

On Indiana’s 84-62 loss at Kansas…

• “I haven’t gone into many ball video games the place I’ve felt so good.” Woodson mentioned Indiana and Kansas had been even in a whole lot of statistical classes and had a great week of observe, which made him really feel this manner.
• “I felt like, man, that is going to be a hell of a sport, and we didn’t present up, which was disappointing”
• “I’ll take the warmth for that … I gotta get ’em comfy after we go on the highway and we play high tier groups.” 
• “We did’t play Indiana basketball, and that’s one thing I’ve bought to repair.”
• “While you go on the highway, it’s a must to have a unique mindset, and I’ve to search out that with our group.
• Woodson mentioned he noticed this mentality at Xavier, however not at Rutgers, towards Arizona in Las Vegas or at Kansas.
• Woodson was annoyed with Indiana’s 23 turnovers. “Eight of these I assumed we had been taking part in collectively. We had been giving them the ball.” 
• “We had been throwing the ball all around the health club once I first began. and we turned among the best groups at not turning it over.” 
• Woodson mentioned he advised Kansas coach Invoice Self after the sport, “I’m sorry I didn’t provide you with a greater sport.” 
• “We stunk that evening.”
• “[Kansas] type of did what we did to North Carolina … Our protection was so stifling within the North Carolina sport they couldn’t transfer the ball and get of their units.”
• “While you get smacked like that, that group confirmed why they received the nationwide title final yr and our group remains to be determining win.”
• “[Kansas] had a pleasant sport plan. and it wasn’t nothing stunning … We labored on some issues we thought they’d do and we didn’t execute.” Woodson mentioned Indiana has to make pictures round Trayce Jackson-Davis and never throw the ball away.
• “I take delight each time we step out on the ground from a defensive standpoint and our rotations had been brief. The pictures would go up and we had been by no means in positions to place our bodies on individuals to dam out.” Woodson mentioned the 23 turnovers led to a whole lot of simple buckets for Kansas.

• “Nicely proper now we’re nonetheless evaluating him,” Woodson mentioned. “He’s type of day-to-day to only to type of see the place he’s proper now. I feel we’ll know extra in all probability – he received’t play tomorrow [against Elon] – so we’ll know extra in all probability Wednesday to see precisely the place we’re with him.”
• “We’ll wait on X if he ever will get the possibility to come back again based mostly on the place he’s proper now, and we’ll know extra Wednesday. We’ll take him again, however proper now we have to maneuver ahead with what we have and provides different guys a chance to play.”
• “He’s annoyed as a result of I’ve been there in these sneakers, man, as a senior once you go down. That is type of like his final go round. I imply, he cannot be redshirted, he cannot come again due to a covid yr. He is put his time in, and so he is very annoyed. However it’s my job, it’s his household’s job to maintain his head, hold him upbeat, man that is what it is all about as a result of finally in time all the things heals and he’ll be again on the basketball ground taking part in. However proper now the uncertainty when it comes to the place he’s is the issue.” 
• “I’ve at all times thought subsequent man up, man. That is why I inform gamers on a regular basis, you have to at all times keep prepared as a result of you do not know the unknown. He is out, subsequent man has bought to step up and play. I simply bought to determine a unique rotation. That is all we will do, and hold grinding in observe to get higher.”
• “Nothing modifications. I nonetheless be ok with our group and the place we’re going.”
• For the complete Xavier Johnson damage replace article, CLICK HERE.

On Indiana’s rotations…

• “I nonetheless suppose we’re studying a little bit bit. I’ve bought to determine [Jordan] Geronimo and Malik [Reneau] extra in our rotations as a result of I feel they may also help us.” 
• “Kansas wasn’t a very huge group, and that’s why I assumed we matched up so properly towards them.” Woodson mentioned Geronimo didn’t matchup properly towards the Xavier and Arizona forwards.
• “I feel [Reneau] remains to be looking out and looking for himself, and I’ve been on him loads these days.” Woodson mentioned the Kansas sport taught Indiana the extent it’s a must to play at. 
• “[Reneau] is a gifted child that may do a whole lot of issues on the ground, however I’ve bought to get his motor going increased than it’s proper now … We out performed [UNC] as a result of we performed more durable.” 

On Indiana’s management…

• “I can’t actually complain, I simply suppose I’ve bought to get extra from a taking part in standpoint. You at all times flip to your veterans to present you extra.” 
• Woodson mentioned he advised the freshmen they need to study loads faster than most freshmen. “They had been actually good highschool gamers, however it is a totally different sport. The sport is quicker, the blokes are larger and there’s a whole lot of issues we’re throwing at them from a basketball standpoint.”

On Indiana’s sport towards Elon on Tuesday…

• “[Elon coach Billy Taylor] is aware of us properly, and so they have a younger ball membership that’s good and play each ends of the ground” Taylor was most just lately an assistant coach at Iowa underneath Fran McCaffrey.
• “I deal with it one sport at a time … I’m simply pushing our guys to come back out and carry out” 
• Woodson mentioned the rotations would possibly change, “Somewhat bit, I do. The truth that Xavier’s not going to play, I’ve bought to tinker with a unique beginning lineup for certain after which the place I’m going with our rotation.” 
• “I’m anxious to see the place we’re with our ball membership.” 
• “I base issues on observe. Should you present me in observe which you could play, then I’ll play you.” 
• “X isn’t going to be there, so it give one other participant a chance to step in and play a component.”

On physician Henry Feuer, who gave Woodson again surgical procedure in faculty…

• Woodson was all smiles when Fischer famous that physician Henry Feuer was at Southern Stone restaurant on Monday evening for the radio present. Feuer gave Woodson again surgical procedure throughout his senior season in 1979-80.
• Indiana was No. 1 within the preseason AP ballot, led by Woodson, Butch Carter, Ray Tolbert and freshman Isiah Thomas. Woodson missed a bit of his senior yr after requiring again surgical procedure, however he returned to guide Indiana to a Massive Ten title. Averaging 19.3 factors per sport, Woodson was named Massive Ten Participant of the 12 months regardless of taking part in simply 14 video games.
• “I thank him each time I see him. No actually, I didn’t know physician once I was despatched to him when all the things appeared to fail for me on the time, and I used to be in determined mode.”
• “I used to be in there for 20 minutes, and he advised me I wanted again surgical procedure. Woodson mentioned his response was, “Man, you’re loopy as hell … And he was proper.” 
• “He’s a gifted man together with his fingers as a result of he’s helped lots of people.”
• “I’m a residing witness to it as a result of I got here again in 8 weeks.” 
• “I used to be a determined younger gamers, and that was 42 years in the past, and hell, you continue to look you’re 42, physician.” 
• “It was a great run, however I ran out of juice. I simply didn’t have a lot on the finish.”

On how Indiana is dealing with an prolonged break over Christmas…

• After a house sport towards Kennesaw State on Dec. 23, Indiana has a break till a highway sport at Iowa on Jan. 5, which indicators Massive Ten play the remainder of the way in which.
• “If I may kidnap them the entire time and by no means allow them to go residence, that’s what I’d do.” 
• Woodson mentioned he talked to Quinn Buckner about how they by no means bought a break for Christmas after they had been gamers.
• “We spent Christmas collectively.” 
• “If it was as much as me they’d be spending Christmas with me and working towards.” 
• Woodson mentioned the papers have three or 4 days off then it is again to work. 
• In a typical week, the group has at some point off per week. “That one other factor we by no means bought…which is loopy.” 
• Woodson mentioned he and the energy coach will ship gamers a plan with workouts to do over the break, and so they’ll have a conditioning check after they return to Bloomington.
• “I’ll be right here, i’m not going wherever.” 

On what it takes for Indiana to get it is confidence again…

• “You gotta win. That offers you all the arrogance on this planet.” 
• “The large ten is what it’s, man … Our group is aware of it’s there, and we’ve bought to get via Elon.

• XAVIER JOHNSON INJURY UPDATE: Indiana basketball coach Mike Woodson mentioned on his weekly radio present “Inside Indiana Basketball” with play-by-play announcer Don Fischer that time guard Xavier Johnson won’t play on Tuesday towards Elon. CLICK HERE
• INDIANA DROPS IN AP POLL: Indiana did not come able to play at Kansas on Saturday in an 84-62 loss, so the Hoosiers fell to No. 18 on this week’s Related Press High-25 ballot. Right here is the whole ballot with 4 Massive Ten groups. CLICK HERE
• TOM BREW COLUMN: Indiana wished to check themselves towards one of the best in December, however double-digit losses to Arizona and Kansas have confirmed that they’re Remaining 4-caliber groups, and Indiana is not. The objective is to study from it and get higher. If that occurs, then possibly we’ll suppose otherwise about this group down the highway. CLICK HERE
• GAME STORY: Indiana wished to beef up its schedule to see the place it stands towards Remaining 4-caliber groups, however the Hoosiers bought thumped for the second straight Saturday, dropping at Kansas 84-62 in an unpleasant sport with 23 turnovers and a number of other defensive lapses. CLICK HERE
• KANSAS DEFENSE ‘BEST IT’S BEEN’: Kansas turned 23 Indiana turnovers into 28 factors and held the Hoosiers to 37.7 p.c taking pictures. Coach Invoice Self mentioned the Jayhawks’ protection was one of the best it has been this season, resulting in an 84-62 win over No. 14 Indiana on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. CLICK HERE
• INDIANA SCHEDULE: Right here is Indiana’s full 2022-23 males’s basketball schedule, with dates, opponents, sport instances and TV info, plus hyperlinks to all of the tales from video games performed thus far. CLICK HERE
• JACKSON-DAVIS MOVES UP TO NO. 8: Trayce Jackson-Davis had 13 factors towards Kansas and moved as much as No. 8 on Indiana’s all-time scoring checklist on Saturday, passing Hoosier legends Kent Benson and Damon Bailey. Here is the place he stands on the checklist of scorers. Alan Henderson up subsequent. CLICK HERE