Statement on Jeremy Hollowell's status
Here is the statement just released by IU Athletics about the status of freshman forward Jeremy Hollowell:
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Indiana vs. Jacksonville
There was no official pre-game press conference to preview the IU men's basketball team's game Friday against Jacksonville, but we were sent some quotes from IU Coach Tom Crean, Assistant Coach Steve McClain, freshman guard Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell and sophomore guard Remy Abell.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With the help of a full-court press and a 3-pointer from freshman guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell, the IU men’s basketball team was able to overcome a seven-point deficit in the final two minutes to push the game against Butler into overtime.Unfortunately for the Hoosiers, though, they didn’t make the comeback that mattered most.Down 84-80 with less than two minutes remaining in overtime, the Bulldogs hit two-straight 3-pointers to take the lead for good, as they knocked off the No. 1 Hoosiers 88-86 Saturday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in the Close the Gap Crossroads Classic.Butler jumped out to an early lead in the first half, ahead 9-5, but the Hoosiers stormed back on the heels of junior guard Victor Oladipo.A run that began with two free throws from Oladipo, he would go on to dish in two layups along with one of his signature fastbreak dunks that brought the crowd to its feet. The junior scored eight of IU’s 10 points in a run that put the Hoosiers ahead 15-12 with 11:04 left in the half.With that run, Oladipo finished the half with 10 points to lead IU with 4-of-6 shooting from the field as the Hoosiers went into the locker room up 37-33.And early in the second half, it looked as though the Hoosiers would have ample opportunity to stretch that lead after Butler committed six fouls in the first 4:03 to put the Hoosiers in the bonus for the remainder of the game.But from there, the tables turned.IU went cold from the field, going 5:18 without a bucket as the Bulldogs pulled ahead with the help of a 16-2 run to take the lead 66-59.During this span, the Hoosiers allowed Butler to hit three 3-pointers, and IU Coach Tom Crean said his team’s poor perimeter defense allowed Butler to creep its way back.“We cost ourselves at the end of the game defensively, and they made the plays and, they get the credit for that,” Crean said. “But we made the mistakes that got them there.”Sophomore guard Remy Abell ended the drought with 3:42 left in the game to pull the Hoosiers back within four, but with four-straight points from Butler’s two big men Roosevelt Jones and Andrew Smith, the Bulldogs were ahead by seven and seemingly in control.The pair, though would both foul out in the next minute, and from there on, Crean put his players into a full court press that he said helped reenergize the Hoosiers to work themselves back into the game.“We didn’t waiver, and we felt like we could get up and pressure these guys,” Crean said. “We saw things that we felt we could really pressure them on, and it put us in the position and made us very aggressive.”But even as the Hoosiers clawed their way back, freshman guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell fell victim to the fast pace and urgency of IU’s offense. With 49 seconds left off a 3-point miss from senior guard Jordan Hulls, the ball bounced towards Ferell, but he fumbled it off his feet out of bounds.Crean said, though, that he wasn’t worried about the mentality of his starting freshman guard, saying he’s always been a “next play guy.”So Crean drew up IU’s final possession with Ferrell as an option to take the final shot, and with just six seconds left, Ferrell’s 3-pointer fell through the net and pushed the game into overtime to cap IU’s comeback.The momentum seemed to follow the Hoosiers into the extra period, as they took a four-point lead with just over two minutes left, but Butler pulled off a few late threes of their own to steal the win from the top-ranked team in the country.Oladipo and sophomore forward Cody Zeller led the five Hoosiers in double-figures with 18 points each as Oladipo excelled from the floor, shooting 7-of-10. Zeller was Butler’s most popular target to foul, shooting 14 shots from the line, and after missing three early, he finished 10-of-14 from the charity stripe.Ferrell grabbed eight rebounds to lead the team to go along with his late 3-pointer, but his six turnovers highlighted one of Crean’s main points after the game.He said his squad just didn’t have what it took to beat a determined Butler team.“We just didn’t play well enough to win, we just didn’t,” Crean said.
Join Nathan Brown, Max McCombs and Michael Norman here for a live chat with other media personnel during the IU men's basketball team's game against Butler in the Close the Gap Crossroads Classic.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Since the evening of Nov. 6, many Hoosier basketball fans have had this Saturday’s game with Butler circled on their calendars. That night, news broke that freshmen center Peter Jurkin and forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea would have to serve nine-game suspensions handed down from the NCAA for recruiting violations.The NCAA upheld the suspensions after IU submitted an appeal, and so the players sat on the bench waiting for their college debut in the cream and crimson.And after IU has started its season 9-0, that day is finally here, as the Hoosiers take on the Bulldogs Saturday at 2 p.m. at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in the Boston Scientific Close the Gap Crossroads Classic.Associate Head Coach Steve McClain said that after playing the first nine games of the season without two of their incoming freshman, the team is ready for a new feel when Jurkin and Mosquera-Perea are on the floor.“Peter brings a length and a shot-blocker, and Hanner brings a shot-blocker who can also step out on the perimeter and guard a perimeter player and bring that length to the perimeter for you also,” McClain said. “They’re both kids who can rebound at a high level on both ends of the court and are both very skilled, so they bring a lot.”And this length and depth couldn’t come at a better time for the Hoosiers. Last Saturday, sophomore forward Austin Etherington suffered a fractured left kneecap in IU’s game against Central Connecticut State, and he underwent season-ending knee surgery Sunday.McClain also said that the team is still about one week away from seeing the return of senior forward Derek Elston, who is yet to play this season after tearing his left meniscus in the preseason.But with nine games under the belts of the rest of the team, McClain said it will take some time for both the freshmen and the coaches to get a feel of how best to work both players into the rhythm that the rest of the team has created thus far this season.“I think it’ll just be a game feel,” McClain said. “Coach has it in his mind of how they can be used, but a lot of guys get to have their first game be Coppin State, not Butler, so I think it’ll be a game feel.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With just 5.6 seconds left, down by one at home to the No. 1 team in the country, it seemed like all hope had been lost.Then-sophomore guard Victor Oladipo, while driving to the basket, lost control of the ball, and Kentucky’s Doron Lamb picked it up. Oladipo put the quick foul on him, but Lamb was an 89 percent shooter from the line, and he had two shots ahead of him.“One of our roommates, Tom, was like, ‘The game’s over. We just lost,’” IU senior Zach O’Kyle said. “I said ‘Hold on, we still have a chance.’”Lamb missed the first free throw but wouldn’t miss two.Following the free throws, junior forward Christian Watford passed it in to senior guard Verdell Jones III, who wove around a pick from freshman forward Cody Zeller.Watford trailed Jones III by a couple of steps, and when the senior dribbled just inside the three-point line, he turned around and passed the ball to Watford.The junior caught it, pulled up from behind the arc and put up arguably the biggest shot of his career. Even if he missed, it would mean IU was back in the hunt of becoming the program it once was before former IU Coach Kelvin Sampson left the team in ruins.But as Watford held his follow through and the sold-out Assembly Hall crowd held its collective breath, the shot sunk through the net as the final seconds ticked off the clock.ESPN sportscaster Dick Vitale couldn’t believe it. A sea of red soon consumed Branch McCracken Court.It was just a single shot, but to the IU basketball program and Hoosier fans everywhere, it meant so much more.***O’Kyle has been a Hoosier fan since he was young. After receiving his acceptance letter during the winter of his senior year of high school, he quickly decided to attend.The IU basketball team had stormed out to a 22-4 record with freshman star Eric Gordon holding the reins. The Hoosiers were in the middle of Sampson’s second season, and it appeared he had the program on the right track.But just days after O’Kyle made his intent to attend IU official, bad news broke when Sampson was accused of improper recruiting tactics.Sampson resigned Feb. 22, 2008, and IU Coach Tom Crean was brought in after the season to try to rebuild the once-storied program.O’Kyle still bought season tickets as a freshman, but he knew he had several seasons of rough basketball ahead of him.“I remember when I was a freshman and sophomore, I had tickets, but I didn’t even go to a lot of the games, ’cause I didn’t want to see us lose,” he said.But O’Kyle was one of the 17,472 fans who came to Assembly Hall Dec. 10, 2011, as IU met the No. 1 Wildcats.“Going into the season, I was thinking ‘We’ll be a little better with Cody. I don’t think we’ll be that good, but we might make the tournament,’” he said. “Then, everything started clicking going into that game.”O’Kyle had seats in the balcony that night with a group of friends, but he said win or lose, they knew they were going to have fun later that evening.After winning trivia night at Kilroy’s on Kirkwood earlier that week, the group had access to free bottle service on a night of their choosing. They decided the night of the Kentucky game was perfect.“Our team was like ‘Let’s set it for Saturday, and if we win, it’ll be the craziest night ever, and if we lose, we’ll just drink our sorrows away,’” he said.The group was in for a wild evening.After the shot fell, O’Kyle and his friends decided instead of trying to get down to the court like most of the crowd, they would go back home, change clothes and head to KOK to celebrate.They arrived just minutes after the game ended, but mayhem was already beginning to brew in downtown Bloomington.As they began to down their first of many drinks that night, thousands engulfed the streets, piling onto cars, chanting and singing along to “This Is Indiana.”O’Kyle said that night was what he’d hoped to see when he decided to come to Bloomington.“It was the reason why I chose to come to this school,” he said. “I was waiting for a moment like that, and for it to happen my senior year with all my friends, it solidified my decision to come here.”***Just across the street, Susan Bright watched the evening unfold from inside Nick’s English Hut. Bright, the financial analyst at Nick’s for five years, normally works on game days only until the pregame crowd starts to file out an hour or so before tipoff.But she and her husband could tell this night was different.They decided to sit at the bar with some friends as the restaurant continued to fill past capacity. The normally quaint bottom floor became increasingly energetic as the game went on and the Hoosiers kept up with Kentucky.“It was so loud down here at the front of the bar that it was hard to hear yourself, which is unusual, ’cause this front room for over three-fourths of a century has been more of a quiet sit-and-talk crowd,” Bright said. “But that night became all about basketball.”When Watford’s shot went in, she wondered if the place would survive the eruption of the crowd.“It was wall-to-wall people,” she said. “People were standing on tables screaming, and I was like ‘Oh my gosh, this place is going to fall down’ because there was so much jumping up and down, and it was fun.” This wasn’t Bright’s first experience watching the streets of Kirkwood flooded with IU fans.She graduated from IU 1983 and was on-site in Bloomington to see the aftermath of both national titles in 1981 and 1987.“There was just this excitement that was there when I was in school in the ’80s,” she said. “I saw the ’81 and ’87 wins when everybody poured out onto Kirkwood, and they did the same thing. Everybody after the game just poured out onto the street, just a sea of people out there.”***For the NCAA tournamnet rematch with UK on March 23, Capt. Joe Qualters of the Bloomington Police Department said police made sure no destruction of cars or other property near Kirkwood.BPD cleared Kirkwood of all cars hours before the game and made sure to have extra personnel there in case anything did erupt.He said the first win took most of the country and Bloomington by storm because virtually no one expected IU to pull off the upset.Inside Nick’s, Bright said the place started filling up at 11 a.m. for the 9:45 p.m. tipoff. At KOK, then-IU senior Lauren Henderson said even though the bar wasn’t quite as full as it may have been for the first game against the Wildcats that season, the atmosphere was just as electric.“Going into the first game, it was kind of like ‘They’re the No. 1 team. What’s the likelihood we’re actually going to beat them?’” Henderson said. “I was like ‘We can do this. We’ve done it before.’ I think it just had everyone more on edge.”IU fell to UK 102-90.“I definitely think since we won the first time, it made it a lot more disappointing the second time,” Henderson said. “Everyone was just upset about it. You could see it on everyone’s faces as you were leaving. People just slowly trickled out of the bar and walked home, shoulders slumped, like they were visibly upset that we had just lost.”***Though Kentucky eventually cut down the nets in New Orleans, the Hoosiers are on top of the nation one year later.IU sits at 9-0 as the nation’s No. 1, and Kentucky has fallen out of the top 25.Their team unranked less than a year before being annointed No. 1, fans say a similar culture change occurred in the Hoosier fan base much before talks of a No. 1 ranking began.“You have a common aspect to share with everyone on campus,” said senior Justin Hillman, who watched the first Kentucky game from inside KOK. “You can ask someone else random ‘Where were you at the Kentucky game?’ and they’ll tell you. It’ll be something you can share with the whole IU community. I think it’s something that brought us closer together.”Henderson said she’s also noticed a change this year in the support of students at games.“I think people are taking their season tickets more seriously and actually showing up,” she said. “Like the preseason game, there were people in line at 7 a.m. for GA tickets, and it wasn’t even a game that mattered. Had it been last year, no one would have showed up that early. No one would have cared.“It doesn’t matter who we’re playing or if they’re any good. They’re excited to see us play, and they’re excited to see us win.”Brooks Chumley, an IU senior last year who had tickets to witness IU’s win firsthand, said although there certainly is an aura around IU basketball this season, this atmosphere as been building since he stood on the floor of Assembly Hall after storming the court last year.“We went into that game not expecting to win, really, but knowing that we had a chance,” he said. “It got everyone excited about basketball season, and it brought back Indiana basketball to something that everyone looks forward to. I feel like, especially with the fans, they’re kind of more or less expecting to win games now, where last season when we were playing UK, we weren’t expecting to get that win.”
After winning the team's eighth national title by defeating Georgetown 1-0 in the College Cup final on Sunday in Hoover, Ala., the IU men's soccer team will return Sunday evening for a celebration with fans.
After falling awkwardly last night while playing defense in the first half of the IU men's basketball team's 100-69 win against Central Connecticut State, sophomore forward Austin Etherington had to be carted off on a stretcher with what was diagnosed as a left knee injury.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s basketball team may be the No. 1 team in the country, sophomore forward Cody Zeller may be the Preseason National Player of the Year, a Preseason All-American and the Preseason Big Ten Player of the Year and the Hoosiers may have two former Indiana Mr. Basketball’s on their starting roster.Saturday night, though, as IU (8-0) hosts Central Connecticut State (4-3) at 6 p.m. at Assembly Hall, the Blue Devils can boast something that no other team in the country can claim.Guard Kyle Vinales is the nation’s leading scorer this season, averaging 25.9 points per game.The 6-foot-1-inch sophomore has scored 20 or more points in each of the last six games for CCSU, picking up right where he left off last year as the nation’s top-scoring freshman, with 17.9 points per game.He was named the Northeastern Conference Rookie of the Year, and his 520 points were the most-ever scored by a CCSU freshman.Luckily for IU, though, the team has had a full week to prepare for Vinales, and IU Associate Head Coach Tim Buckley said his players should be prepared to face the best scorer in the country.“I think he can score in a variety of ways,” Buckley said. “ He can keep up the dribble, he can go right or left, he can shoot the pull up and he has a step back to his game.“You’ve got to keep him outside the elbows, and you’ve got to keep your chest in front and give him no open looks.”Along with Vinales’s scoring prowess, the Blue Devils also boast the top free throw shooting team in the country, shooting 83.6 percent from the charity stripe.Yet even with Vinales’s shooting from the field and CCSU’s strength from the line, Buckley pointed out that the Blue Devils’ starting five carries the bulk of the load.All five players average at least 29 minutes per game so far this season, and each player averages at least eight points per game. The rest of CCSU averages fewer than 10-combined points per game thus far.Buckley said that in watching game tape to prepare for Saturday’s matchup, he is yet to see any of the Blue Devils get tired or winded, even the five who get 10 minutes rest or fewer each game.But Zeller said he looks forward to seeing if the Blue Devils can keep up against the Hoosiers Saturday night. He said his teammates like to think that they’re the most well-conditioned team in the country, and Saturday he hopes that a mix of running the court and utilizing the full-court press whenever necessary will start to slow down the efficient Blue Devil offense.“We’ll see how good of shape they’re in tomorrow, cause we always think that we’re the best-conditioned team,” Zeller said. “We’re definitely going to push the tempo and see if we can wear them down when they’re playing long minutes. We’ll see how it plays out tomorrow.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When the IU men’s basketball team started slow out of the gates, shooting 0-of-9 to start Saturday evening as the team faced the Coppin State Eagles at Assembly Hall, IU Coach Tom Crean said he wasn’t worried. He knew his team could adjust to the Eagles’ defense and own shooting woes on the court.Most fans would think of halftime as the period to make adjustments in defensive schemes and offensive sets, but Crean said he has learned from successful professional sports franchises and his brothers-in-law, Baltimore Ravens Coach John Harbaugh and San Francisco 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh, that the time to make changes is during the action.“When I think of my brother-in-laws and the way they coach, and I think of the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers and the programs you watch closely, they don’t make adjustments at halftime,” Crean said. “Halftime is too late. They make adjustments the next series.“We talked about that today, and we have to become that type of team. If we’re just adjusting at halftime and making changes at halftime, it gets a little harder.”After falling behind 9-2 in the game’s first five and a half minutes and failing to score a field goal until 14:27 was left in the first half, Crean’s Hoosiers caught fire the rest of the way in, shooting 10-of-17, 58.8 percent, in the rest of the half as well as 21-of-34, 61.8 percent, in the second half to defeat the Eagles 87-51.Crean added the Hoosiers were getting off quality shots, but they just didn’t seem to fall at the beginning of the game. His players stayed focused, made a few adjustments and went on to play one of the best games he’s seen all season.“When we can adjust on the fly from a timeout and maybe a possession, but especially at a timeout, that’s where we’ve got to go, because you can have the greatest game plan in the world, but there’s gonna be something that comes up different in that game, and you’ve got to adjust to it,” Crean said.“If you don’t have a smart team, and if you don’t have a team that shares the basketball, if you don’t have a team that will cover for one another, that gets really hard, and this team is learning how to do that.”Crean also said he owes much of what he learned during his nine years coaching at Marquette before coming to IU in 2008 to former coach and ESPN analyst Rick Majerus, who passed away Saturday evening.Majerus started his coaching career at Marquette from 1983-86 before stints at Ball State from 1987-89 and Utah from 1989-2004. He then worked for ESPN as a game and studio analyst from 2004-07 when Crean said he often gave Crean, then at Marquette, secret advice.“He did a lot of TV games back when we were at Marquette, and he never wanted anybody to know he was giving me some tips and advice, but he was,” Crean said. “He was a brilliant guy. I could call, and he would give me a couple ideas, and it was good.”Crean said one of the most important things he ever took from the late coach was the importance of a mother’s love. Majerus resigned from a coaching job with Southern California in December 2004, just five days after taking the position, and would later reveal the true reason was so he could take care of his ailing mother back home in Wisconsin.“He said something one time that I’ve always used,” Crean said. “He was on a show back there on a Sunday night and said the last unconditional love you ever have is that of your mother. I never forget that. I always use that with our teams. He was a brilliant coach.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The rumor at Assembly Hall before the IU men’s basketball team took on North Carolina was that 26 NBA scouts were in the crowd around Branch McCracken Court.Victor Oladipo must have known.The junior guard exploded with 19 points, including 13 in the first half, to go along with a thunderous dunk and block that kept the energy high in IU’s 83-59 victory against the Tar Heels in Assembly Hall.After sophomore forward Cody Zeller supported IU’s offense during the first three minutes of the game, scoring seven of his team’s first 11, Oladipo took control.He scored 11 of IU’s final 25 points of the half, a span in which the Hoosiers lengthened their lead to nine points from just two at 21-19.Both teams had traded baskets midway through the first 20 minutes, with UNC even taking a brief lead at 19-18, but Oladipo’s energy helped IU’s transition offense to match the Tar Heels brisk offensive pace.With just more than two minutes left in the first half, Oladipo helped continue a string of three-straight IU fast break dunks when he slammed one home off a steal from senior guard Jordan Hulls, finishing with his signature yell, chest pound and stare into the Hoosier crowd behind the basket.Oladipo’s slam followed an equally thunderous dunk from Zeller, both of which brought the packed house in Assembly Hall to its feet and continued a 28-6 IU run.At halftime, Oladipo tied Zeller to lead all scorers with 13 points, and though he didn’t quite keep up the same scoring pace in the second half, finishing with 19 points, he certainly left his mark.Oladipo opened the second half for the Hoosiers with their first bucket after he missed a layup to begin the half just 12 seconds in.Both the Hoosiers and Tarheels missed their next three baskets before Oladipo got IU out of a mini slump, stretching IU’s lead to double digits for the first time in the game.Minutes later in the half, after the Hoosiers had stretched the lead to 56-37 coming off an Oladipo tip-in, he jumped high to deny UNC forward James Michael McAdoo a bucket, sending the blocked shot into the stands and the fans in the crowd to their feet.Fellow junior, forward Will Sheehey, said with that block, along with Oladipo’s dunks and energy, the win against UNC was all his.“If you go back and watch the game film of this game, there was one guy that brought it tonight, and that was Vic,” Sheehey said. “From the get-go, he was going to the boards, he was getting deflections, he was getting stops. When you see one guy out there bringing it, you’ve got to bring it too.“When you remember this game, it was Vic’s game. He played phenomenal and really brought the energy on both ends of the floor and set the tempo for the game.”IU Coach Tom Crean took Oladipo out with four minutes remaining in the game to a standing ovation from Hoosier crowd. Before he took a seat, he had a message for Tar Heels and Hoosiers alike.“We some bad boys, we some bad boys,” he said.Oladipo said after the game that he always tries to be a positive person, and when he gets pumped after having a game like last night’s, he’s not afraid to let it show.“I was just so hyped,” Oladipo said. “Sometimes the juices get going, and the adrenaline is running, and things come out of your mouth you don’t even realize you’re saying.”He said it wasn’t just about his confidence, but boosting the confidence of his teammates.“We some bad boys, we some bad boys. Whatcha gonna do?”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Just a little more than two years ago, sophomore forward Cody Zeller had yet to decide which college basketball program he would grace his presence with.Two of his top three choices, Indiana, North Carolina and Butler, had been to the National Championship in the past two seasons, including a title for UNC in 2009. The Tarheels were also home to his older brother, Tyler Zeller, who had won a championship ring his freshman season.The younger Zeller decided to pave his own path, choosing to come to an IU program that would go on to win just 12 games that season and had won just 16-combined during the previous two years.Zeller said he saw an IU program that was on its way but needed some more time to develop into the team that is now ranked No. 1 in the country.“I had confidence in what Coach Crean was doing with the guys who were already here, and Remy and I and Austin who were coming in,” Zeller said. “Everyone was working hard, and everyone was improving constantly. It just hadn’t quite gotten rolling yet, but I had confidence that this was the best place for me.”For Zeller, the choice wasn’t easy. He said during his visit to North Carolina, he enjoyed meeting several of his brother’s friends, including Kendall Marshall, who he roomed with during his stay in Chapel Hill, N.C.But Marshall, along with Tyler and other fellow Tarheel teammates Harrison Barnes and John Henson, left for the NBA draft last summer, leaving the younger Zeller with few players he still knows well outside of fellow sophomore forward James Michael McAdoo, who Zeller faced off against in a few AAU games as well as the McDonald’s All-American Game during their senior year.“A lot of things have changed even since the last time I was down there with Tyler,” Zeller said. “Obviously the coaching staff, I have a lot of respect for them and how they treated me and Tyler.”Zeller added that he won’t treat Tuesday’s matchup against UNC any differently than any other game, even with his recruiting past and the time his older brother put into the program.“They were in my top three, and I have a lot of respect for everything they do,” Zeller said. “Their coaching staff is great. Tyler enjoyed his time there, but at the end of the day, I just thought IU was the best place for me, and I have no regrets from that.“At the end of the day, it’s about who scores the most points.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Last season, before the much-hyped matchup featuring IU Coach Tom Crean’s men’s basketball squad and visiting No. 1 Kentucky, students began congregating four days early in front of Assembly Hall, tents and sleeping bags in tow, hoping to get the best seats for one of the biggest games in Bloomington in recent memory.During the game, IU’s raucous crowd often over-powered Assistant Athletic Director for Facilities Chuck Crabb, who was calling the game inside Assembly Hall. As Christian Watford’s last-second 3-pointer dropped as the buzzer sounded, giving IU the 73-72 upset victory, fans charged the court as a sea of red engulfed the floor.Last summer, IU and UK representatives weren’t able to continue the rivalry game for the near future, but Crean said he thinks Tuesday night’s game against North Carolina in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge will bring the same type of atmosphere to Assembly Hall.Crean said he arrived at Assembly Hall Monday morning to the sight of sleeping bags and fuzzy slippers at the general admission entrance. Students were already camping out for Tuesday night’s game against North Carolina. He said he knew Tuesday’s crowd would be special.“I think it will be unbelievable,” Crean said. “I think it will be incredible. I think it will be like the Kentucky atmosphere, but there won’t be the buildup because of the week in between.”Sophomore forward Cody Zeller said he knows since the schedule was released Aug. 30, students and fans have been eying this game against UNC as the marquee game of the non-conference season.This year, the Hoosiers enter this game as the top-ranked team in the country, rather than trying to knock off last season’s eventual national champions in Kentucky.Zeller said Tuesday’s game involves different preparation than last year’s big non-conference game. He added that for Crean and the players, this game is just another one on the schedule.“Obviously the expectations were a lot different,” Zeller said. “I think the fans and the students are all excited about this game kind of like they were for the Kentucky game. Everyone has had this game circled on their calendar, but for us, it’s just another game. It’s another game to improve.”But for the two freshmen currently playing for the Hoosiers, sophomore guard Remy Abell said this game will help them adjust to playing at the college level.Last season, when Abell was a freshman alongside Zeller, he said the game against Kentucky was a learning experience, but it helped him get used to the loud atmosphere that surrounds Assembly Hall during the Big Ten season and the Hoosiers’ trip to the NCAA tournament.“Playing against Kentucky last year helped prepare you for another big game,” Abell said. “But for the freshmen, I’m just going to tell them to go out there and have fun, play hard, and keep your composure.“It’s going to be an intense game, and there’s going to be a lot of emotions, but you have to trust in your teammates and play your game. I think everybody will be fine.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After yet another slow start for the IU men’s basketball team, the Hoosiers (6-0) pulled out another double-digit victory against Ball State (2-2), the team’s first of two in-state opponents on its nonconference schedule.With just a 10-8 lead six minutes into the game, the Hoosiers took over, beating the Cardinals 101-53.So far this season, the Hoosiers have either trailed or held just a two-point lead midway through the first half in five of their six games, yet IU has an average winning margin more than 30 points per game.Senior guard Jordan Hulls said he and his teammates simply haven’t been ready to play a full game yet this season, and in these first few games, he said it’s showed.“We’ve just got to get off to a better start,” Hulls said. “If we want to continue to win, we have to play the full 40 minutes.”Hulls himself started slow Sunday night, failing to take a shot until 5:35 left in the first half, where he said he played a little too cautious.But from there, the senior caught fire, scoring 12 of IU’s final 18 points in the half, going 5-5 from the floor, including 2-2 from beyond the arc.As a team, the Hoosiers ended the half on a 40-11 run to go into the locker room with a 50-19 lead.Even with the 31-point lead, the Hoosiers never let up, and that’s just the way the coaching staff has told them to play, Associate Head Coach Tim Buckley said.“In order to be a championship-caliber program, that’s the way you have to play,” Buckley said. “You can’t take any possessions off. Every possession is just as important as the last possession.”The Hoosiers continued to sprint up and down the court, sporting several unconditional lineups to allow guys deeper on the bench to gain some playing time and experiment with new roles, Buckley said.Ten of IU’s 13 players who saw minutes against Ball State scored at least two points, which Buckley said shows just how deep the Hoosiers are.“Guys that are coming in off the bench, whether they’re a couple rotations down, they know that that’s their time to get meaningful minutes, and that’s what we’re about,” Buckley said.Coming off the bench, junior forward Will Sheehey led all scorers with 19 points off an 8-9 shooting night from the floor.After missing his only three-point attempt with 10:06 left in the first half, Sheehey hit his final six shots, including several mid-range jumpers close to the baseline.Buckley said Sheehey, coming off two games in Brooklyn, N.Y., during the Progressive Legends Classic where he scored only eight total points, came back to Bloomington last week and spent a long time practicing, and it showed.“Will probably didn’t shoot it as well as he would have liked when we played in Brooklyn, and he got in the gym and he worked,” Buckley said. “He got shots up and shot free throws. He did all the things you have to do to try and get better, and that’s the only think we know is work.”Four other Hoosiers scored in the double-digits as well, including a double-double performance from senior forward Christian Watford, who scored 11 points to go along with 10 rebounds.Hulls scored 17 points, shooting 7-10 from the field. Sophomore center Cody Zeller, 15 points, and junior guard Victor Oladipo, 13 points, followed, each shooting 5-7 on the night.Yet, even with five players in double figures and the 48-point victory, Buckey said the Hoosiers still have room to improve in taking care of the ball and starting to play a bit too fast as the lead began to pile up. He said, that he enjoyed his team’s intensity even midway through the second half, which he said they need for a full 40 minutes if the Hoosiers are going to have success in Big Ten play.“I think the culture is such that every practice has the intensity of a game — everything we do has that intensity,” Buckley said. “I think our guys know they want to be great, and in order to do that, we have to push and continue to get better and better.”
Sunday, the IU men's basketball team will take on Ball State in the team's first of two non-conference in-state opponents this season. The Hoosiers come in with a 5-0 record, including two wins in Brooklyn, N.Y. this past week against Georgia and Georgetown at the Barclays Center to take home the Progressive Legends Classic.
I got the chance to talk to Bobby "Slick" Leonard of the 1953 national championship team last week before he and his teammates were honored at halftime of the Hoosiers' win against Sam Houston State.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The NCAA has ruled to uphold the length of freshmen forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea and center Peter Jurkin’s nine-game suspensions, the athletic department said in a press release on Friday.The NCAA ruled that the pair received impermissible benefits from an alumni, Mark Adams, who the NCAA considers an IU athletics booster after his ex-wife made donations totaling $185 over a six-year period starting in 1986.All payments were made before either player was born. Adams served as a legal guardian to both Jurkin and Mosquera-Perea after they immigrated from Sudan and Colombia, respectively.“Earlier today, we received notice that our appeal for a reduction in the withholding penalties for Hanner Perea and Peter Jurkin was denied," said Fred Glass, IU Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, in the press release. "While we are disappointed with the denial, we are even more disappointed in the case summary as communicated by the NCAA public relations staff."This case continues to be about $185 in Varsity Club contributions over 20 years ago, notwithstanding the NCAA National Office’s troubling references to activities that are permissible or would have been permissible but for the minor donations. Having said that, we accept this as the NCAA’s final word on the case, and we will have no further comment on the matter."
Friday, the IU athletic department released that the NCAA has ruled to uphold the length of freshmen forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea and center Peter Jurkin's nine-game suspensions.
Cody Zeller and Jordan Hulls were named to the Progressive Legends Classic all-tournament team after the Hoosiers defeated Georgetown 82-72 in the finals Tuesday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.