It has been eight years since Myles Brand and the powers-that-be fired Bob Knight from Indiana University. On Wednesday, Knight came to Indianapolis to participate in an intimate Q&A at the Arthur M.
Tom Crean took some time out of his frantic schedule to meet with reporters this afternoon. We'll have full stories in Thursday's paper (re: sanctions, AD search, recruiting and this year's team), but here are some things that didn't make it to print: Roth out with shoulder injury Senior Kyle Taber isn't the only one missing workouts this week.
Here is the article, alluded to by Zach Osterman below. Don't forget to check out Hoosier Sidelines, a podcast/audio interview in which I discuss Christian Watford and the overall IU recruiting picture with Osterman and fellow IDS staff member Peter Stevenson.
Following publishing an article on Tuesday's practice, I decided I would share with y'all what IU coach Bill Lynch said to the media after the players hit the showers. Much thanks go to my co-beat reporter Lee Hurwitz who transcribed half of this for me. Opening remarks We've had a good couple of days to get back.
UPDATE: 8:11 p.m. Our boy Jordan Cohen just got off the phone with Watford a few minutes ago, and the player himself confirmed that he's coming to IU.
By now, you've all heard that Tom Crean spent his first recruiting contact day wooing Christian Watford down in Birmingham.
Hey guys, the Hoosiers accomplished two pretty extraordinary feats on Saturday - granted they were playing an FCS school.
In today's IDS we ran a story about the "unknown Hoosiers," the 10 new players (11 if you count Jeremiah Rivers) on IU's basketball team.
IU has long been after Christian Watford (No. 34 Rivals.com, No. 72 Scout.com), so much that about six weeks ago he has was labeled as the Hoosiers' top priority.
This is the ninth installment of our summer "Getting to know" series on IU's 10 new players. Today, we focus on Daniel Moore, a 5-foot-10 165 pound guard from Carmel, Ind. Behind Daniel Moore A jitterbug guard from Carmel, Daniel Moore is like many undersized point guards.
I had an extremely abbreviated interviews with two new Hoosiers, Blake Monar and Alex Dickerson. Here's the highlights: Dickerson on having his Poway (Calif.) High School teammate Drew Leininger on campus with him -- "It wouldn't really matter whether or not I had a teammate with me.
I guess I'll use up my third allotted blog post for the quarter -- The NCAA allows live-bloggers three posts per quarter with one during halftime, and I'm using my final of this quarter to let y'all know IU has scored it's sixth rushing touchdown. Redshirt freshman Zach Davis-Walker became the fifth Hoosier to rumble over the Racers into the endzone. There may not be any more posts this game because I'm about to go suit up and get my name in the box score.
Mark Dantonio's Michigan State Spartans football team won't be the only guests in town Saturday, Sept.
Hey folks, Tom Crean was up at Lucas Oil Stadium (which is HUGE, if you haven't seen it from the inside) for the official announcement of The Hartford Hall of Fame Showcase in December, which will officially "open" Lucas Oil's basketball showcasing career.
This morning the local media got it's first chance to talk to two of IU's newest players, Devan Dumes and Jeremiah Rivers.
Hey folks, As expected, the 2008-2009 schedule is out. Not too many surprises, really. Tough tests at Wake Forest, Kentucky and in Indy against Gonzaga.
The Big Ten just put out a release announcing their 2008-2009 men's basketball schedule, which means IU might follow soon with their full slate.
Our Alaskan correspondent, and former IDSer, Dan click was able to do what very few regular readers of Inside Pitch were able to do -- see Jake Dunning play ball this summer. Click made it to one of the Goldpanners' games on June 28. Dunning singled in three at-bats with 2 RBI and a run scored.
This is the eighth installment of our summer "Getting to know" series on IU's 10 new players. Today, we focus on Kory Barnett, a 6-foot-5 200 pound forward from Rochester, Ind. Behind Kory Barnett Barnett is one of three preferred walk-ons on this year's team that were originally recruited by Kelvin Sampson and kept onboard by Tom Crean.
After his strong performance against Western Kentucky on Saturday, junior quarterback Kellen Lewis was recognized by the Big Ten for his efforts.
