Defensive woes lead to loss
The IU men’s basketball team found itself in a familiar position at Wisconsin Tuesday: leading on the road going into halftime.
The IU men’s basketball team found itself in a familiar position at Wisconsin Tuesday: leading on the road going into halftime.
If college basketball games were 20 minutes, IU would be an upper-echelon Big Ten team.
IU's trend of second-half collapses continued Tuesday night against No. 14 Wisconsin with the Hoosiers' 69-58 loss.
IU travels to Madison, Wisc., Tuesday with hopes of winning consecutive games for the first time since IU’s victory against the Badgers on Jan. 14.
When IU (15-11, 5-8) travels to No. 14 Wisconsin (22-5, 9-5) for a 9 p.m. showdown on ESPN, the Hoosiers will be met by a raucous Kohl Center and a smokin’ hot Badger team.
Since losing to Ohio State at home Feb. 1, Wisconsin has won its last five games, including back-to-back road wins against ranked teams in Michigan and Iowa.
IU Coach Tom Crean said the Hoosiers came out energetic in their 61-56 victory over the Wildcats.
Leading the Northwestern Wildcats (12-16, 5-10) 56-51 with less than a minute to play, IU senior forward Will Sheehey — IU men’s basketball’s most recent addition to its 1,000-point club — iced the game with a 3-pointer from the wing.
IU proved to be just good enough to beat Northwestern thanks to balance and consistency outweighing the lack of sharpness.
It was a win. That’s all that matters.
IU Coach Tom Crean said after Tuesday night’s scheduled game against No. 15 Iowa was postponed because of a fallen piece of metal in Assembly Hall, the Hoosiers came out energetically in their 61-56 victory over the Wildcats.
IU will be host to Iowa at 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at Assembly Hall, according to a press release from the Big Ten.
The Hoosiers travel to Evanston, Ill., Saturday with hopes of earning a payback victory against a Northwestern team that forced the first domino to fall for IU.
As the old adage goes, lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice.
Glass said the engineers are confident that they will be able to repair Assembly Hall and confirm its safety before IU is scheduled to host Ohio State on March 2.
Columnist Evan Hoopfer recaps the day's events in the wake of a beam falling at Assembly Hall.
Tomorrow night's women's basketball game against Michigan will go on as scheduled, IU Athletic Director Fred Glass said.
The IU men’s basketball team (14-11, 4-8), looking to snap its three-game losing streak, will face the No. 15 Iowa Hawkeyes (19-6, 8-4) at 9 tonight.
After I rolled back into Bloomington Saturday night after witnessing the Purdue-IU beatdown in West Lafayette, I met up with some friends. The first thing they said was, “You’re really bad at predicting games.”
Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery’s third-place Hawkeye squad doesn’t have the ranking, résumé or hype of the 2012-13 Hoosiers, but the Hawkeyes have a similar makeup to IU’s Sweet 16 team from a year ago.