Zach and I are here at Assembly Hall for the first IU-Minnesota basketball game of the night. While the men's team prepares for action at the Barn, I'll keep you posted as the women take on the Golden Gophers and look to improve to 4-2 in the Big Ten.
The No. 9/10 (AP/Coaches) Hoosiers face its third Big Ten road test when the team travels to Minneapolis to take on the Golden Gophers.
E.J. made an appearance this morning on ESPN's first take. Here is a link to the front page of ESPN's college basketball section.
I'll have a preview story in the paper tomorrow about the Minnesota game, but as promised by Zach in a previous post, I'll give you an update on the Minnesota game with some other news and notes from practice today. Minnesota is a good team and it should be a good test for IU.
After a long layoff, I figured now is a good time to make my much anticipated return to blogging. Thanks to Zach for holding down the blog lately.
Todd McShay, of ESPN and Scout.com, just came out with his most recent mock draft. Junior wide receiver James Hardy, after declaring for the draft a week and a half ago, is projected to go 30th overall to the San Francisco 49ers.
I'd like to think that the Hoosiers are going to win on Thursday night. I'd like to think that they are going to be 18-1 heading into the Wisconsin game.
Thanks to the good folks at the Big Ten Network, I grabbed a link to this video, which features BTN announcers Mary Murphy and Mark Neely witting their ways about last night's IU-Purdue game.
Now that the Big Ten has expanded to an 18 game schedule, each team will play two opponents only one time (down from four opponents). For the Hoosiers, Michigan and Purdue only show up on the schedule once this season.
Just a quick hit before I get to bed. I wasn't able to get anymore links from iuhoosiers.com, so it looks like the box score will be about it for tonight.
Hey folks, Well, IU got one back. The Hoosiers went up to West Lafayette and avenged their loss at home to Purdue in a big way tonight, beating the Boilermakers 66-54.
Jay Seawell and Jacob Kriese did a great job putting together this photo gallery of IU's 62-58 victory Sunday afternoon against Illinois.
You can READ HERE what IU coach Bill Lynch thinks about the upcoming offseason, but here on Under the Rock the only opinions that really matter are yours. What position or players would you most likely see Lynch and the Hoosiers target in recruiting?
From the Big Ten Website: White averaged 18 points, 16 rebounds, and two blocks in leading the Hoosiers to their first 3-0 conference start since the 2002 season.
So, here's a rundown of how I talked to DeShaun Thomas. Before tip-off of the IU-Illinois game, I walked down from media seating to where DeShaun Thomas was sitting.
Bassett sinks the second. Game over. IU wins 62-58. On a side note, Weber left the court without shaking any IU players' hand. Bassett grabs a loose ball on a wild play and get fouled.
DeShaun Thomas, the top player in the class of 2010, is sitting behind the IU bench right now. He told me he opened up his committment and is on a recruiting visit here in Bloomington.
Sitting here in a very crowded IU basketball press room in Assembly Hall. Apparently this is a high interest game.
Pritchard fouls out with 4:35 left in the game. He finishes with 9 points and 4 rebounds. He had a lot of foul trouble, which reduced his minutes.
The match-up everyone wanted to see this season is finally upon us. Regardless of what players and coaches have said, there will be extra intensity Sunday when Illinois and IU face off at Assembly Hall - Bloomington. I previewed the game and Mike wrote about the EJ saga for Friday's paper.
