Legette-Jack: Team lacked desire to represent Indiana
The IU women’s team has had other losses this year — 15, to be exact. But this one was different.
The IU women’s team has had other losses this year — 15, to be exact. But this one was different.
For the second consecutive time against Iowa, the IU men’s basketball team failed to defend on the interior.
In one sense, it could be easy to accept IU’s 64-63 loss to Iowa. It’s injuries. It’s, for whatever reason, a bad matchup. It’s a hard-fought one-point loss. As IU coach Tom Crean said after the game, this team is lacking warm bodies for practice time.
For the fourth game in a row, the IU men’s basketball team took its opponent to the final shot Saturday.
Junior guard Verdell Jones’ jumpshot as time expired hit all iron, and a desperation tip came up empty as the Hoosiers fell to Iowa 64-63 on Saturday in Assembly Hall.
The IU women's basketball team dropped their eighth straight game on Thursday night, falling to Minnesota 65-59.
After looking like they were dead in the water at Iowa two weeks ago, the Hoosiers have overcome key injuries to pick up two wins at home against ranked foes.
Following its lopsided loss to Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Jan. 23, IU appeared to be destined for the basement of the Big Ten. Things have changed.
In IU’s 60-57 win, the junior forward scored 12 points, a total by any outside observer that doesn’t seem particularly noteworthy. Add seven rebounds and it still doesn’t seem enough to write home about.
IU takes on Minnesota at 7 p.m. today.
The Hoosiers upset two ranked teams in three games
Junior forward Tom Pritchard led the Hoosiers with 12 points and seven rebounds as IU beats Minnesota 60-57.
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As if facing No. 18 Minnesota on Wednesday wasn’t enough, the Hoosiers will now have to do it without their leading scorer.
Can the Hoosiers catch a break? The injury to leading scorer Christian Watford suggests that IU can't.
Sophomore forward Christian Watford is out indefinitely after suffering a broken left hand during the Hoosiers’ 84-83 loss to Michigan State on Sunday, IU coach Tom Crean announced Tuesday. Watford had surgery to repair the injury the same day.
Although the IU men's basketball team has lost close games, you cannot fault the effort that they gave on Sunday night.
Missed free-throws down the stretch plagued the IU men's basketball team in their upset bid against No. 25 Michigan State.
The IU women's basketball team could not snap their losing streak as they lost 71-57 at Purdue.