The seedings are in, and the Hoosiers are the No. 7 spot in the West region. They will play No. 10 Gonzaga - the same team that ended their season in the second round of the tourney last year - Thursday in Sacramento, Calif. A few notable things here: -- The Hoosiers have a chance to avenge last year's loss.
The selection Sunday show on CBS is just about wrapping up. If you haven't heard yet, IU snagged a No.
This is good to see, if you're me and you are charged with traveling wherever IU is slated to play Thursday: SI.com's Stewart Mandel just put together his bracket projections, and the Hoosiers have a pretty nice draw. Mandel has IU in the West region, playing in Sacramento (It's California; I'll take it). The Hoosiers are the No.
I've finally made it to my Spring Break location, where the beer flows like wine and the woman flock instinctively like the salmon of Capistrano.
POSTGAME: After one overtime period, the Hoosiers lost to Illinois 58-54 tonight. With the Illini's win, they took the season series 2-1 and ended IU's Big Ten Tournament run. As the result suggests, Illinois was incredibly tough on the defensive end the entire night.
The No. 6 seed Illinois Fighting Illini. Illinois barely held off Penn State 66-60 tonight in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago.
POSTGAME: The Hoosiers win going away tonight, 94-63. The second half sort of devolved into an Assembly Hall love in, with cheers and chants and screaming galore.
Here's a CSTV-produced video on Kelvin Sampson's first season here at IU. Pretty good stuff. Enjoy.
POSTGAME IU wins 69-65. Rod Wilmont hit nine three-pointers tonight, setting an IU school record in the process. It's a taste after 3:30 a.m.
POSTGAME: Victims of a huge second half Spartan comeback, IU dropped its third straight Big Ten road game tonight, 66-58. We have to hustle down to the media room for press conferences now, so this will be short and sweet, but the main difference (without a final scoresheet in front of me) was turnovers.
POSTGAME Hoosiers win 71-59. As a fellow media member just said, this game was "a just win, baby" for the Hoosiers.
POSTGAME: Michigan 58, IU 55 Well, the Hoosiers kept it close in the final minutes of the game. But it was Michigan that hit the big shots when it counted.
Welp, that's that. IU falls to Purdue in West Lafayette, 81-68. That score doesn't quite tell the whole story; the game was much closer than that throughout, and late foul shots sunk the Hoosiers further into the late deficit. IU won't have much time to sit on this one.
We heard rumblings of a postponement earlier in the day - after all, just about everything in Bloomington is shut down right now - and the IU athletics department has made it official: the IU-Purdue game in West Lafayette is rescheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. Here's the IDS brief: Due to inclement weather and a concern for public safety, the IU men's basketball team's matchup against Purdue in West Lafayette will be postponed until Thursday night at 7 p.m. Both IU interim Media Relations Director Jeff Keag and Purdue Athletics Director Morgan Burke confirmed the postponement. "We spent a majority of the day gathering facts," Burke said in a statement.
POSTGAME Wow. What an intense second half of basketball that one was. It seemed as if the Illini might have been on their way to handing IU its first home loss of the season, but somehow, someway, the Hoosiers crawled back into the lead and won 65-61. It's hard to collect my thoughts with all the action, but here are some thoughts in no particular order: *Rich McBride did not score in the second half after dropping 13 in the first.
It seems we've sort of beaten this topic into the ground so far this season, but people are still buzzing about it, including myself.
POSTGAME: IU loses a long, plodding game today at Carver Hawkeye, 81-75. The Hoosiers continued their rebounding woes in the second half and ended up with a -17 rebounding differential.
Unless you were in the stacks studying last night, you are probably aware: IU won a huge game at home vs.
Well Hoosier fans, get ready to celebrate one more thing tonight. According to the Contra Costa Times, three-star recruit Eli Holman, a 6-foot-10 center from California, was reinstated today and will be able to play this season for Richmond High School.
POSTGAME If you don't know, you better know. IU 71 Wisconsin 66 After I collect my thoughts on this one, I'll throw up a post tomorrow discussing the game.
