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Today, ESPN's Dana O'Neil has a very nice feature about Indiana's highly ranked 2009 recruiting class, and their collective goal of rebuilding Indiana basketball after its apocalyptic six-win season in 2008-09. Most of it is the standard stuff: One day at a time here, playing for the fans there. You get the picture. Indiana's freshmen are confident but guarded; they know turning around six wins in one year in a tough Big Ten is the definition of unlikely.

But IU's Bobby Capobianco -- a 6-foot-8 freshman bruiser from Loveland, Ohio -- went above and beyond. Take it away, Robert:

"I know this: We won't be scared or intimidated by anyone," Capobianco said. "We won't be out there with pee running down our legs. We want to be the team where people are sitting in the stands thinking, 'How in the world are they winning this game?' We want that stunned silence, like people can't believe what they're seeing."

Yes, you read that right: Bobby Capobianco knows where the bathroom is. And he's not afraid to use it before and after games. So there.

Anyway, Indiana fans will love the confidence, especially coming from a 6'8, 220-pound guy rocking the Scott Pollard mutton-beard look. Get Capobianco a big pickup truck, a can of Cophenhagen, and a Peyton Manning jersey: He's a Hoosier now.

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