In this morning's weekly Big Ten teleconference, IU coach Tom Crean addressed the nagging question about the status of sophomore guard Matt Roth.
The return of redshirt freshman forward Sasha Chaplin was not enough for the IU women's basketball team. Foul trouble plagued Chaplin and the Hoosiers (13-12, 6-8) in a 66-58 road loss to Wisconsin Sunday. Fouls were a problem for both teams.
UPDATE: Redshirt freshman forward Sasha Chaplin is active tonight. As the IU women's basketball team prepares for its road game against Wisconsin in Madison, the question remains how soon redshirt freshman forward Sasha Chaplin will return to action. Chaplin, who has been sidelined since early January with a foot injury, dressed for the Hoosiers' Thursday home loss to Iowa.
The IU women's basketball team looks for revenge as it travels to Madison to do battle with Wisconsin at 7 p.m.
If you haven't realized it by now, each game we host a live blog/chat with the Herald-Times' Chris Korman and Dustin Dopirak, InsideTheHall's Alex Bozich and a number of other guests. Rather than me trying to make sense of everything that went wrong on Saturday, I'm letting the live chatters do the talking with some excerpts from our live blog (don't shoot the messenger): Pre-game: Snowboardman: We can't let them get to a 7-0 or 9-0 start or we will be watching the last two games on re-run 1st Half 19:28 - 3-0 Wisconsin Chrishardergolf: uh oh 17:20 - 9-2 Wisconsin Luke72: Unforced turnovers!!!! 14:54 - 14-2 Wisconsin MaimLarry: This season is tearing them apart.
The scoreboard once read 0-0 in IU's game against Wisconsin on Sunday. Less than five minutes had run of the 20-minute first half before that total changed to 14-2. For the third consecutive game, IU got off to a slow start.
IU softball has a started a little blog of their own, so that you can read about daily activites from the team's players. The website to read these blog posts are on: http://iusoftball.wordpress.com/ For example, the current blog post on the website is junior catcher Cassie Gogreve talking about what goes on in the roadtrip to Kennesaw, GA this weekend. Blog posts will be up soon from me on Softball's first weekend series of games.
The Kohl Center is not where you want to end up if you're a team with on Big Ten road win. This stadium is nationally known as one of the toughest places to come out with a win. Bo Ryan's team plays smart and tough no matter what, but they get an extra boost from the tens of thousands who fill these seats every week. The No.
IU coach Tom Crean told the media Friday that senior guard Devan Dumes would not make the trip to Madison for IU's 2p.m.
Final: IU 67 , IOWA 71 The Hoosiers relinquished a 7 point lead with just over 5 minutes remaining in the game, to an Iowa team that would just not give up.
A quick aggregation of reports as the IU women's basketball team welcomes Iowa to Assembly Hall today at 7 p.m.: The Hoosiers (13-10, 6-6) look to remain unbeaten in the month of February against the Big Ten leader in 3-point field goals per game, writes Candice Rohrman in the Indiana Daily Student. Andrew Wyder writes in the Bloomington Herald-Times about how junior guard Andrea McGuirt has given IU a solid option off the bench. Iowa sophomore guard Kamille Wahlin suffered a concussion and will not play against the Hoosiers, paving the way for freshman Trisha Nesbitt, writes Jordan Garretson in The Daily Iowan. Ryan Suchomel writes in the Iowa City Press-Citizen about how Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder "really tried not to like" Nesbitt before recruiting the freshman guard.
IU football offensive line coach Bobby Johnson is leaving his position to take the assistant offensive line coach job with the NFL's Buffalo Bills, a source close to the situation confirmed. Johnson has not signed a contract with Buffalo yet, but IU has released him from his contract with the University. Johnson spent five years with the Hoosiers, commanding an offensive line anchored by NFL prospect Roger Saffold.
Louisville coach Rick Pitino reportedly has shown interest in the New Jersey Nets coaching position, sources told the New York Daily News. As our friends over at the H-T have pointed out, if Pitino were to leave for the NBA it would almost certaintly impact the recruitment of five-star junior Marquis Teague. Teague, the No.
We have now seen three of America's best players play at Assembly Hall this year. In December, it was John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins of Kentucky.
Titus Knight was again named Big Ten Swimmer of the Week. He placed first in three events against Purdue.
IU's women's swimming and diving team was named to the College Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar-Athlete All-America list. This team had an average GPA of 3.25.
This coming from the Associated Press: FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A judge has made a preliminary not guilty plea for a former Indiana University basketball player charged in connection with an ex-business partner's multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. The plea was entered for 39-year-old Todd Leary of Carmel during an Allen County court hearing Tuesday. Advertisement Leary's attorney, Ginny Maxwell, said today it was too early in court proceedings to comment on the allegations against him. Prosecutors say Leary once worked for a title insurance broker who pleaded guilty to several charges in a $2.7 million scheme and that Leary conspired to divert more than $1 million from the partner's title company in Fort Wayne. Leary played for Indiana during 1989-94 and had been an analyst for IU's radio broadcasts for several years.
Earlier today, USA Basketball revealed the names of the 27 players who will make up the 2010-2012 USA Men's National Team. The list includes 11 members of the 2008 Gold Medal team such as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard and Carmelo Anthony. New to the roster, among others, are five second-year NBA players including former IU guard Eric Gordon.
