The Non-Measuring Stick Statement Game

IU's coach Mike Davis needs to learn how to keep his mouth shut. On tonight's game against Duke:

"This isn't a do-or-die situation for us and it's not a measuring stick for us because we know where we are as a team,'' Davis said. "We just want to come out and have some carryover from game one to now. Every game we play, we try to make a statement that we're getting better.

"But we're way past circling teams on our schedule. We've worked too hard to circle anyone. And everyone on our schedule wants to beat us bad, so that makes every game a statement game."

So while tonight's game isn't a measuring stick to see how IU plays against a quality opponent, it is a statement games since everybody wants to badly beat IU.

I am looking forward to finally seeing an IU game. It's my first opportunity to have my question answered: Can Mike Davis really coach?