Near-perfect effort not enough for Hoosiers
It was a familiar scene watching the IU men’s basketball team leave the court after the game, only this time it was a different setting.
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It was a familiar scene watching the IU men’s basketball team leave the court after the game, only this time it was a different setting.
It’s time for IU to prove it can hang with NCAA Tournament-caliber teams – much like the Hoosiers did for one half versus Kentucky in December. In the team’s only major Big Ten test to date, they fell by 25 at Ohio State.
The t-shirts have been out there for a couple months, but at last, the Crimson Guard appears to be an official student section at Assembly Hall. No one's tickets have changed, but an effort has been made to finally unite the students.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – If a picture is worth a thousand words, it takes only one to describe the look on Jeremiah Rivers’ face moments after Saturday’s loss to Illinois: devastation. With IU coach Tom Crean by his side, the junior guard slowly walked across the court toward the IU bench with a look on his face that epitomized the clichéd words “agony of defeat.” This was not just any loss.
Found the above video on YouTube - the best angle I've seen of the last play considering we were seated behind the scorer's table on the other side of the court near IU's bench.
There are no days off in the Big Ten. Thus far, the Hoosiers have posted a 3-4 Big Ten record, which has included just two games – both losses – against two of the league’s top five teams. Before IU can turn its focus to the other road trips and all the matchups versus ranked foes, the Hoosiers have been dealt the typically difficult task of playing on Illinois’ home court.
The IU and Illinois men's basketball teams will face off again Saturday at 2 p.m. in Champaign, Ill. The Fighting Illini won the first meeting this year, 66-60.
The saying goes, you take it one game at a time. But after IU opened the Big Ten slate 3-4, it can't hurt to take a look at the Hoosiers' last 11 games -- seven of which come against the league's top five opponents.
Even if temporary and based solely on conference records, a win against Iowa would have placed IU in the upper tier of the Big Ten.
No, I'm serious.
On Wednesday, IU coach Tom Crean told members of the media that Penn State’s 0-5 Big Ten record and 8-9 overall season performance was “misleading.” The Nittany Lions had lost a number of close games.
Unlike most other teenage basketball prospects, Capobianco was never a kid of just a few words.
Here are some other recent videos from YouTube including those of 2012 targets A.J. Hammons, Hanner Perea and Peter Jurkin (follow the jump):
One of the team managers probably should have slipped some 5-Hour Energy into Verdell Jones’ water bottle late in the game, as Jones played the entire second half and overtime, finishing the game having played 40 of the 45 minutes.
DeMatha Catholic (Md.) senior and future Hoosier guard Victor Oladipo won the 2010 Spalding Hoophall Classic earlier this weekend. At 5 p.m. this afternoon, DeMatha will play Mater Dei (Calif.) on ESPNU in the final day of Hoophall Classic action.
Left the press room after 10 p.m. and don't plan on posting anything else until tomorrow, but I wanted to post the following quote before the end of the night:
Minnesota at Indiana
With 3:34 to go in Thursday night’s game at Crisler Arena, Michigan claimed a 57-45 lead. The Wolverines finished the contest on a 12-0 run, but by then it made no difference.
Technically speaking, the Hoosiers haven’t won a game all year.
As posted a couple days back, 6-foot-9 sophomore Greg Echenique has transferred from Rutgers and is considering IU as a possible destination.