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(03/31/08 6:26am)
Washington State basketball coach Tony Bennett withdrew his name from consideration for IU’s vacant men’s basketball coaching job, according to multiple media reports published online Sunday. \nBennett told ESPN.com that he and IU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan discussed the position Saturday night, though Bennett said he was not formally offered the job. \n“I thought about it, but I’m not going to pursue it,” Bennett told ESPN.com’s Andy Katz. \nBennett was the first coach Greenspan contacted during the search, said Katz, who reported Saturday that IU hopes to name a new coach by Thursday. \nThe news that Bennett was not interested capped a four-day stretch of wild speculation regarding IU’s coaching future. \nIndianapolis TV station WISH-TV reported that if not Bennett, then former Stanford coach Mike Montgomery or University of Nevada Las Vegas’s Lon Kruger could be considered for the job. Kruger was a former head coach at Kansas State, Florida and Illinois.\nChris Korman of the Bloomington Herald Times reported IU was still pursuing Xavier coach Sean Miller, whose team was recently ousted from the NCAA Tournament after reaching the Elite Eight. \nKatz had reported Saturday that Miller’s Xavier contract includes a buyout clause, which IU might not be able to afford.\nKorman reported IU would be willing to pay the $2 million buyout if Miller was interested in the position. \nThe Associated Press reported late Sunday that former IU player and current New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas had no interest in the IU job. Thomas told reporters before New York’s game against the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday he supported interim IU coach Dan Dakich for the permanent position and believed many other former players shared his opinion. \nDuring the weekend, IU fan message boards on recruiting service Peegs.com exploded. The “Premium IU Hoops” forum set a record for most users logged on at the same time on Sunday afternoon. Some fans even monitored planes flying in and out of Monroe County Airport, tracking their destinations in hopes it could help solve the IU coaching search puzzle.\nOne plane left Bloomington for Albuquerque, N.M., which led the Chicago Tribune to speculate whether IU had talked to Hoosier great and former Iowa coach Steve Alford, currently the head coach at New Mexico State. \nSeveral media outlets reported last week former Chicago Bulls coach Scott Skiles would interview with IU for the job.
(03/28/08 6:13pm)
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(03/28/08 6:55am)
It can't help that two IU fan favorites won Thursday night (Sean Miller and Rick Pitino). But, Tony Bennett lost, which may allow the 10-member committee a chance to speak with him. What are your thoughts on Bennett? He's young and talented, but has he proven enough?
(03/24/08 5:38am)
RALEIGH, N.C. – They had hoped they could make the best out of a bad situation. They had hoped they could take all the frustration from a season gone sour and turn it into something great. They had hoped to redeem themselves.\nIt didn’t happen.\nInstead, Arkansas crushed the IU men’s basketball team Friday night 86-72, as the Hoosiers’ journey for a national championship lasted all of two hours.\nPoor shooting, sloppy defense and foul problems hampered the Hoosiers in their first-round game of the NCAA Tournament.\n“I think they were just better tonight,” IU interim coach Dan Dakich said. “It kills me to say that.”\nArkansas forward Sonny Weems obliterated any hopes IU had of salvaging a season destroyed by recruiting violations and a coaching change.\nWeems missed just two shots all night (12-of-14), led all scorers with 31 points and was at his best when it counted the most – making all eight of his shots in the second half.\n“It’s sunny days when Sonny plays the way he can play,” said Razorback guard Patrick Beverley, who scored 12 points in the game.\nAll night long, Weems was too fast, too tall and too good for the Hoosiers.\n“Pretty special night,” Arkansas coach John Pelphrey said. \n“We all aspire to have an evening like that in the NCAA Tournament.”\nWhile Weems was brilliant, IU star freshman Eric Gordon played one of the worst games of his collegiate career.\nGordon shot 3-for-15 from the field and was 0-for-6 from behind the 3-point line. He scored eight points, which ties his career low. Gordon scored eight points against Tennessee State in December, though he left the game midway through the first half with a back injury.\n“It was an overall tough game,” Gordon said.\nPelphrey said the Razorbacks tried to key in on Gordon and slow him down.\n“We wanted to stay on him and take away his 3-point shot,” Pelphrey said. “Everyone else’s job was to try and get their numbers squared up with his numbers and make him a passer.”\nThe plan worked.\nIU senior forward D.J. White led IU with 22 points on 10-of-16 shooting. White, who is typically very emotional, received an IV after the game and did not talk to the media.\nIU sophomore guard Armon Bassett scored 21 for IU, shooting 5-of-7 from 3-point range.\n“It’s a good thing Armon hit a lot of good threes for us to keep us in the game,” Gordon said.\nIU managed to avoid a slow start, which had haunted the Hoosiers toward the end of the season. The Hoosiers kept the Hogs within striking distance for the first 10 minutes of the game before Arkansas started to pull away. IU’s poor shooting from the field (38.2 percent in the first half) and its inability to guard Razorback shooters allowed Arkansas to build a 10-point lead in the first half. \nArkansas led IU 37-30 at halftime.\nIn the second half, the Hoosiers pulled within two, and had a few opportunities to tie or take the lead from Arkansas, but was never able to come back from the deficit.
(03/24/08 4:54am)
RALEIGH, N.C. – For the past month, IU interim men’s basketball coach Dan Dakich has said he’s just too busy to think about the situation that has engulfed his alma mater.\nHe said he hasn’t read any newspaper articles or watched the evening news. \nBut as his post-game press conference winded down, Dakich said that given everything that has gone on with the program, he should be the permanent head coach.\n“There’s no question I should be,” Dakich said.\nAbout half an hour after IU was knocked out of the NCAA Tournament with an 86-72 loss to Arkansas on Friday, Inside Indiana editor Ken Bikoff asked Dakich to give some reasons why he believed he should remain head coach at IU, though with the interim title removed. \nDakich did just that, but his four-minute response was as much a critique of the IU program as it was a job interview. \n“What I’m telling you is fact,” Dakich said. “I mean, it’s not conjecture. It’s not something drawn up by somebody that doesn’t know. I’m just telling you ... Indiana people, Indiana fans, the Indiana nation wants it done right; where there’s no embarrassment, there’s nothing but pride in all areas.”\nDakich said the only way to do that is to hire an IU guy. \n“I don’t ‘think’ – this is something I don’t wonder about,” he said. “This is something I know, period.”\nHis reason? Just look at what happened when the University hired Kelvin Sampson, someone from outside the IU family, he said. \n“It has to be somebody that understands (IU),” Dakich said. “Or else you’re going to get yourself in a situation, just like we are.”\nLast week, IU President Michael McRobbie appointed a 10-person committee to search for Sampson’s replacement. Sampson resigned Feb. 22 as a result of five major recruiting violations alleged by the NCAA. \nWhen Greenspan announced Dakich would take over for Sampson, he said he did not believe Dakich was auditioning for the permanent position, though he did think Dakich had “an opportunity to make something special happen out of a tough situation,” he said. \nIn one month as interim coach, the Hoosiers were 3-4 under Dakich, losing their only games in the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments.\n“I’m sure people can write a thousand reasons, given our record here over the last month, why there’s someone else,” Dakich said. \nIt’s not apparent whether Dakich will be considered by the committee. \nIf he’s not picked as the permanent coach, Dakich said he won’t think any differently about his alma mater.
(03/23/08 7:28pm)
Who do you hire?
(03/23/08 12:09am)
RALEIGH, N.C. – They had hoped they could make the best out of a bad situation. They had hoped they could take all the frustration from a season gone sour and turn it into something great. They had hoped to redeem themselves.\nIt didn’t happen.\nInstead, Arkansas crushed the IU men’s basketball team Friday night 86-72, and the Hoosiers’ journey for a national championship lasted all of two hours.\nPoor shooting, sloppy defense and foul problems hampered the Hoosiers in their first round game of the NCAA Tournament.\n“I think they were just better tonight,” IU interim coach Dan Dakich said. “It kills me to say that.”\nArkansas forward Sonny Weems obliterated any hopes IU had to salvage a season destroyed by recruiting violations and a coaching change.\nWeems missed just two shots all night (12-of-14), led all scorers with 31 points and was at his best when it counted the most – making all eight of his shots in the second half.\n“It’s sunny days when Sonny plays the way he can play,” said Razorback guard Patrick Beverley, who scored 12 points on the night.\nAll night long, Weems was too fast, too tall and too good for the Hoosiers.\n“Pretty special night,” Arkansas coach John Pelphrey said. “We all aspire to have an evening like that in the NCAA Tournament.”\nWhile Weems was brilliant, IU star freshman Eric Gordon played the worst night of his collegiate career.\nGordon shot 3-for-15 from the field and was 0-for-6 from behind the 3-point line. He scored eight points, which ties his career low. Gordon scored eight points against Tennessee State in December, though he left the game midway through the first half with a back injury.\n“It was an overall tough game,” Gordon said.\nPelphrey said the Razorbacks tried to key in on Gordon and slow him down.\n“We wanted to stay on him and take away his 3-point shot,” Pelphrey said. “Everyone else’s job was to try and get their numbers squared up with his numbers and make him a passer.”\nThe plan worked.\n“I think they were doing a good job in their zone of locating and squaring up on Eric,” Dakich said.\nIU senior forward D.J. White led IU with 22 points on 10-of-16 shooting. White, who is typically very emotional, took an IV after the game and did not talk to the media.\nIU sophomore guard Armon Bassett scored 21 for IU, shooting 5-of-7 from 3-point range.\n“It’s a good thing Armon hit a lot of good threes for us to keep us in the game,” Gordon said.\nIU managed to avoid a slow start, which had haunted the Hoosiers toward the end of the season. The Hoosiers kept the Hogs within striking distance for the first ten minutes of the game before Arkansas started to pull away. IU’s poor shooting from the field (38.2 percent in the first half) and their inability to guard Razorback shooters allowed Arkansas to build a 10-point lead in the first half. Weems led Arkansas with 13 first-half points on 4-of-6 shooting. Darian Townes added 11 first half points for the Hogs.\nWhite scored 11 points in the first half for the Hoosiers, despite picking up two early fouls.\nArkansas led IU 37-30 at halftime.\nThe Razorbacks’ size advantage was evident early. To compensate, the Hoosiers played physical in the paint and forced Arkansas to beat them from the free-throw line. Arkansas shot 10-for-10 from the free-throw line in the first half. IU shot four free throws and made just one.\nIU managed to pull within two, and had a few opportunities to tie or take the lead from Arkansas in the second half, but it was never able to come back from the deficit.
(03/22/08 4:01am)
The highlight of the press conference was a five-minute speech from Dan Dakich when he was asked why he thought he should be made permanent coach.
(03/22/08 2:59am)
IU will have Dan Dakich, Armon Bassett and Lance Stemler speaking at the mic. Apparently, D.J. White is receiving an IV and "will likely not be available to the media."
(03/21/08 9:25pm)
Stephen Curry is incredible.
(03/21/08 4:51am)
RALEIGH, N.C. – Several members of the IU men’s basketball team could experience simultaneous firsts and lasts when the Hoosiers play No. 9 seed Arkansas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at about 9:40 p.m. \nFor freshmen Eric Gordon and Jordan Crawford, it will be the first time they have participated in the NCAA Tournament. For IU interim coach Dan Dakich, it will be his first time back in the tournament since his playing days as a Hoosier. And, if the Hoosiers lose, it could be the last time any of them experience the tournament in the same roles. \nWhile it’s not their first trip to the Big Dance, the future is also unclear for senior forward D.J. White and sophomore guard Armon Bassett. \nGordon and White are likely to jump to the NBA after the season is over. NBADraft.net, an NBA scouting Web site, projects Gordon will be the No. 6 pick in the first round of June’s NBA Draft. The same site projects White as the No. 22 pick.\n“Of course you think about it,” White said. “Me, I’m a senior. It could be my last game. But I don’t think it will be a factor. I’m going to go out there and play like I’ve been playing all year.”\nThough a senior, White could apply for a medical redshirt after missing most of his sophomore season with a broken foot.\nGordon didn’t want to think hypothetically. \n“We don’t concentrate on losing in any game,” Gordon said.\nNeither Bassett nor Crawford have addressed whether they have considered transferring from IU after the season. Both declined to address their future with the team after former coach Kelvin Sampson resigned in February.\n“I’m just concentrating on trying to win this game and hopefully play the winner of the next game,” Bassett said when asked if he’d considered his time at IU could be coming to an end. \nAs for Dakich, the situation is slightly more complicated. He has publicly stated his hopes to remain as head coach at IU beyond this season. Meanwhile, the University has compiled a 10-member committee to conduct a nationwide coaching search for Sampson’s permanent replacement. The committee is expected to consider Dakich, though IU’s 3-3 record since the interim coach took over is disappointing by this season’s standards.\nLike a sponge, Dakich is trying to soak up the NCAA experience this week, his first as a head coach. About an hour and a half before the Hoosiers took the court for an open practice, Dakich walked onto the floor and challenged fans in the crowd to a free throw shooting contest. \n“It looked like they were bored,” Dakich said of the crowd waiting to watch North Carolina practice. “That was a contest that I never lose because I cheat, quite frankly. If I miss the first free throw, it’s a practice one. It’s about the only thing I can do well in basketball still is shoot free throws.” \nHe said he tried to handle the situation like he handles the rest of his life; he just tries to have fun. \n“There wasn’t any security to keep us off of there,” he said. \nIt might have been a brief respite for Dakich, who said he’s spent most of his waking moments the past week preparing for Friday’s game against the Razorbacks – so much time, he says, that he doesn’t really have any emotions about the whole situation. \n“I guess I need to go get some, but I haven’t really had any,” he said. “Ask me tomorrow, win or lose, and I’ll give you some emotions.”
(03/20/08 8:12pm)
That's it for practice. Nothing really noteworthy, to be honest. It really seemed like more of a practice than a show. The team managed to block out the distractions.
(03/20/08 7:26pm)
That's it for the press conferences. Next up, open practice. Stay tuned...
(03/20/08 1:29pm)
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(03/20/08 7:45am)
With a national search for a men’s basketball coach already underway, many student leaders wonder whether their input will be considered for the high-profile hire. \nSome student leaders said years of campus indifference have led administrators to largely discount the student voice. Low voter turnouts at IU Student Association elections and organizations’ widespread inability to unify interests have left students without a seat at the table, leaders said. But IU officials claim students’ opinions will still be heard, even though they believe students don’t have the necessary experience to sit on such a committee.\nThe 10-member basketball coach search committee does not include a student.\nInitially, IUSA President W.T. Wright was troubled by the lack of student representation, but after correspondence with IU President Michael McRobbie, Wright softened his stance on the issue.\nOn Tuesday, Wright sent an e-mail to McRobbie, who appointed the committee, to express his disappointment that a student is not on the search committee. \n“I was certainly excited this morning to read the announcement of the formation of a 10-member committee to search for a new basketball coach; my only concern is there has been no announcement of a student representative on said committee,” Wright wrote to McRobbie.\nIn a phone interview Tuesday, Wright said he hoped students might still be able to sit on the committee.\n“At this point, I think this is a legitimate concern for students that there is no student representation on this committee,” Wright said.\nBut on Wednesday, shortly after he received a response from McRobbie, Wright said he was pleased with the way the administration was handling the situation.\nIn his e-mail, McRobbie said he welcomes all student input into the selection of a new basketball coach. \n“My goal in forming this committee has been to keep it small and for it to consist of people with the expertise necessary to carry out this search,” McRobbie wrote, adding he believed the students were adequately represented on the University Athletics Committee, on which Wright sits. McRobbie asked search committee and University Athletics Committee members James Wimbush and Bruce Jaffee to meet with Wright and other student leaders.\n“I’m satisfied that they’re reaching out to students,” Wright said. “I commend them on that.”\nUniversity Chancellor Ken Gros Louis said he was surprised no student was selected to assist the committee.\nBrian Bulgatz, creator of Facebook group “The Hall Monitors,” which advocates more student involvement at basketball games, said he was troubled by the lack of a student voice. \n“I was absolutely disappointed to see there was no student represented,” Bulgatz said. “Am I surprised? No. The IU administration seems to have a knack for ignoring the IU student leaders.”\nMcRobbie declined an interview request with the Indiana Daily Student through IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre, but MacIntyre said McRobbie carefully crafted the 10-member panel. \n“He doesn’t shoot from the hip,” MacIntyre said. “The President recognizes that this particular position is one that everybody in Indiana (and) all of our alumni will be paying attention to, and he really wants to get it right. A lot of the people on the committee have a lot of expertise on hiring and searches and what our traditions are.”\nWright said Wednesday he did not believe any student had the experience necessary to serve on that committee. \nIt’s the second time in less than two years students were not included in the search committee for a high-profile hire. Last year’s Presidential Search Committee, the group that picked McRobbie to succeed Adam Herbert, did not include a student from the Bloomington campus. Michael Renfrow, a graduate student from IU-South Bend, was the lone student to serve on that committee. \nFormer IUSA President Betsy Henke led an unsuccessful charge to try to seat another student on that search committee. \nMacIntyre insisted McRobbie is interested in hearing the student voice. McRobbie works closely with a student planning group called the Student VOICE Project, hosts several open office hours during which students can approach him and answers all student e-mails, MacIntyre said.\n“When he became president, he deliberately set out to make sure he was in contact with students and in tune with the student voice,” MacIntyre said. “But he intended to do that on a much broader spectrum than just the basketball coach.”\nStudent trustee A.D. King said he hopes students can demand similar representation regarding academic decisions and used last year’s presidential search committee as an example. \n“That’s where our vigilance should be,” King said. \nThe three IUSA presidential candidates said they all believed the lack of student representation was unfortunate, but they all attributed the lack of student representation to apathy on campus. \nWith IUSA elections next week, all candidates stressed the need for the administration to hear students’ voices. \nLuke Fields, presidential candidate for the Big Red ticket, said he believes IUSA needs to galvanize students and engage them in University matters. \n“I’m surprised in that the University continually struggles to give us any voice,” Fields said. “But at the same time, I think this is part of the problem of student apathy on campus where we aren’t voicing our opinion where we should be.”\nFellow IUSA Presidential candidate Joe Weis of the Kirkwood Ticket agreed that student apathy might play a large part in the lack of student representation in University matters. \n“The University is here for the students,” Weis said. “If the students show their interest, I think the administration will have no choice but to listen to the voice of the students.”\nDavid White, IUSA presidential candidate for the INdiana ticket, said he believed the decision to name the next men’s basketball coach is an executive decision, but that doesn’t mean students can’t help. \n“I think it’s a good example of a way that IU could really improve communicating,” White said. “It’s too easy to involve a student in this not to do it.”\nUltimately, it’s that lack of student interest and expertise that keeps students off such committees, King said. \n“I’ll be honest, I want the best and most knowledgeable people selecting our next basketball coach,” he sa id. “Right now, I don’t know if there are a lot of students in that position.”\n-Special projects editor Brian Spegele contributed to this report
(03/18/08 3:04pm)
There is no student on the search committee for a new men's basketball coach. There also was no IU-Bloomington undergrad on the search committee for a new University president.
(03/17/08 5:47pm)
From an IU news release:
(03/17/08 4:36am)
- 10.6 seconds \nWith Minnesota up 57-55, IU senior forward D.J. White blocks a potential layup by Golden Gopher Dan Coleman.\nThe Hoosiers immediately call timeout to draw up a play.\nIU inbounds the ball 94 feet away from the basket. Freshman guard Eric Gordon takes the ball and slowly dribbles to center court. With about seven seconds left, he turns on the jets. He zigs in and out of the Minnesota defense en route to the basket. He leaps but is bumped by a Gopher defender. He sends a shot into the air that hits off the backboard and bounces off the rim. The shot is off, but Gordon is going to the line.
(03/14/08 9:37pm)
Illinois 74, Purdue 67 FINAL
(03/10/08 10:52pm)
IU senior forward D.J. White was named Big Ten Player of the Year on Monday, both by the media and by conference coaches. White was the unanimous choice of all coaches in the Big Ten. Here is a link to all the Big Ten awards.