Iup basketball

[IUPbigINDIANS]

IUPatty’s was a complete nothing burger this year. The only items making the Gazette crime and punishment section were the usuals and not linked to the event. As a resident, all I can report is a few more kids than usual wearing green and being visible for longer portions of the day. On Sunday morning more than 400 of the hooligans got together and cleaned up.

Apparently a guy from Florida ended up here driving while whacked out on meth and apparently hadn’t slept for five days! A little chase ensued and he’s now in the county clink. Nothing to do with IUPatty’s but that takes going on a bender to a whole new level.

Maybe he was in a hurry to watch Tort Spring Ball '24 ?

[EyeoftheHawk]

IUPatty’s was a complete nothing burger this year. The only items making the Gazette crime and punishment section were the usuals and not linked to the event. As a resident, all I can report is a few more kids than usual wearing green and being visible for longer portions of the day. On Sunday morning more than 400 of the hooligans got together and cleaned up.

Apparently a guy from Florida ended up here driving while whacked out on meth and apparently hadn’t slept for five days! A little chase ensued and he’s now in the county clink. Nothing to do with IUPatty’s but that takes going on a bender to a whole new level.

[IUP24]

It became lame and sterile years ago. If it wasn't in the newspaper most wouldn't even realize it was going on.

That entire event - thankfully - had a short shelf life. At least in terms of it being to the level that it was. Basically 2013-2016. It hit its crescendo in 2014, which would have been my junior year. That was the "riot" year.

I vividly recall the 2013 edition when the PSAC tournament fell that weekend. That was back when they played the semifinals on Friday night and the championship on Saturday - which I'm personally partial to. There have been a lot of big games in the KCAC. Not sure that any quite have had the "juice" that the Saturday night PSAC championship game against Slippery Rock on IUPatty's weekend had. No marketing was needed to get people there. It was Slippery Rock. It was a Saturday night. It was IUPatty's and the students were hammered. The student section was also FULL.

It's funny how time kind of morphs how you view things. I fortunately never took part in the chaos that ensued in 2014 on South 7th Street. But I remember being 21 and laughing at the videos. You look back and you realize it was an elderly couple in one of those cars that got stopped in that madness. That could have gone wrong in a hurry. I remember coming back for that weekend in 2016 the year after I graduated. I looked around at what were likely underaged high school students walking on the street heavily intoxicated and thought to myself, "What am I doing here?" The next year they turned it into a police state and it's been dead ever since. That was a negative light on the school and I'm glad that's been cleaned up.

[Fightingscot82]

That's right. Didn't the admin try to purposefully schedule spring break over St. Pat's to quell the storm? (Only to have it pop up a week later)

That's how these alternate drinking holidays started. The students collude with the bars to have another day that isn't St Patricks Day when the students are around.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Re: IUPattys, the university -- after the "riot" incident of 2014 -- should have taken over ownership of the IUPattys name. Copyright it. It instantly becomes lame and sterile.

Also, former New Castle High School all-stater Jonathan Anderson, Mercyhurst true freshman, entered the portal yesterday. He played about every minute of every game his senior year -- wonder if Joe knows that? (also clanked a few free throws late in the MU OT win over IUP this year.)

It became lame and sterile years ago. If it wasn't in the newspaper most wouldn't even realize it was going on.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Stewart would have been a nice luxury as a 6th or 7th man next year but it's understandable he wouldn't want to come off the bench as a senior.

Word was he and the Big Guy weren't on the best terms so this is probably a mutual break-up.

[IUPalum]

Re: IUPattys, the university -- after the "riot" incident of 2014 -- should have taken over ownership of the IUPattys name. Copyright it. It instantly becomes lame and sterile.

Also, former New Castle High School all-stater Jonathan Anderson, Mercyhurst true freshman, entered the portal yesterday. He played about every minute of every game his senior year -- wonder if Joe knows that? (also clanked a few free throws late in the MU OT win over IUP this year.)

Doesn't mean Joe wants him.

[hawks16]

Re: IUPattys, the university -- after the "riot" incident of 2014 -- should have taken over ownership of the IUPattys name. Copyright it. It instantly becomes lame and sterile.

Also, former New Castle High School all-stater Jonathan Anderson, Mercyhurst true freshman, entered the portal yesterday. He played about every minute of every game his senior year -- wonder if Joe knows that? (also clanked a few free throws late in the MU OT win over IUP this year.)

[IUPbigINDIANS]

James Patterson, the PF from St. Thomas Aquinas who smoked IUP this past year, has entered the Portal.

I remember that game ... thinking that dude should be in the P5 (Joe said the same).

He's going to be highly coveted (and not end up at Towson or similar).

[IUPbigINDIANS]

That's right. Didn't the admin try to purposefully schedule spring break over St. Pat's to quell the storm? (Only to have it pop up a week later)

It's actually calmed down a lot the past several years. They turn the town in to a militarized zone with horseback patrols, helicopters flying all weekend and a really ramped up police presence. Add to it this socially awkward current generation would probably prefer the event be virtual.

Remember, per the President of IUP, it's "not an IUP event" and because it's (mostly) off-campus it's not their problem.

The event still exists but it's nothing like it was several years ago. It was insanity in the early years.

[Scrub]

It's actually next weekend (they are on Spring Break right now).


So, the local Yinzers gets St. Patrick's Day all to themselves.

That's right. Didn't the admin try to purposefully schedule spring break over St. Pat's to quell the storm? (Only to have it pop up a week later)

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Happy IUPatty's all you Crimson Hawks out there. And if you still live in Indiana, be sure to batten down the hatches!

It's actually next weekend (they are on Spring Break right now).


So, the local Yinzers gets St. Patrick's Day all to themselves.

[Scrub]

Happy IUPatty's all you Crimson Hawks out there. And if you still live in Indiana, be sure to batten down the hatches!

[boatcapt]

Hard to say. That program lives and dies with transfers. The next batch is already in the works. He did get some starts due to injuries.

From what I've been told, it's not just a minutes thing with Tomiwa. He apparently just doesn't really like it there.

Like I said, if he doesn't graduate this semester, this discussion doesn't matter regardless. He's obviously already used his free transfer so he can only come back as a graduate student.

If I was betting, I'd say there's a 50/50 shot he'll be back in Indiana.

His return would be fantastic but this could be the carrot dangling in front of the rabbit.

There are some others with probably much higher probability. One, if true, will shock everybody -- in a McCoy joining the Hatfields kind of way.


I suspect Joe is wrapping his season-ending player sit-downs, and some will be told it's time to move along. We should see a couple names hit the portal this week. He has a good bit of salary cap space available to shop with this off-season so it should be exciting.

For the love of God, however, please only sign guys who have already redshirted. Joe would get a starter from Duke and somehow justify slapping a redshirt on him.

He took his beatings this year. I think they will bounc back pretty big.

Now that Towson has lost in the CAA Semis, not really anything holding Tomiwa back from entering the portal. That is unless you have to actually have your diploma in hand to enter the portal. Heck, I don't even know if a player has to formally enter the portal to transfer.

[Ship69]

Saraj Ali (formerly of Mansfield) is probably worth checking out.

He was PSAC Freshman of the Year in '22-'23 and was 2nd Team All-East this season.

He's a 6'5" small forward. Very athletic. Fast. Runs the floor well and has good hands. Tough rebounder and defender.

Not an outsider shooter (just 5 of 15 this year) but provides an instant upgrade at IUP's most troublesome position. He's very strong around the basket and requires attention from the other team. Proven scorer in the PSAC.

I imagine he'll be checked out by several schools.