Column: Men's basketball needs to build on potential
Potential. That’s the one reoccurring word that can be appropriately associated with this season’s IU squad, which defeated Hillsdale College, 79-39, Monday evening at Assembly Hall.
Potential. That’s the one reoccurring word that can be appropriately associated with this season’s IU squad, which defeated Hillsdale College, 79-39, Monday evening at Assembly Hall.
After a slow start, the IU men’s basketball team found strength from behind the arc to distance itself from the Hillsdale College Chargers for a 79-39 victory at Assembly Hall in the Hoosiers’ final exhibition test of the season.
This evening the Hoosiers face their final exhibition test against Hillsdale College at 7 p.m. at Assembly Hall.
IU Coach Tom Crean, joined by graduate student guard Evan Gordon, senior forward Will Sheehey, sophomore guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell and sophomore forward Jeremy Hollowell traveled to the Hyatt Regency for Big Ten Basketball Media Day Thursday morning.
2014's No. 4 shooting guard James Blackmon Jr. recommitted to the IU men’s basketball team Thursday night on ESPNU.
Whether any individual Hoosier brings any form of recognition back to Bloomington remains to be seen.Thus, IU’s own collection of preseason superlatives are in order, beginning with the most celebrated award of them all.
After visiting Bloomington this weekend and attending the Hoosiers’ first exhibition game of the season, 2014 forward Max Hoetzel secured his commitment to the IU men’s basketball team Sunday evening.
A bizarre feeling distinguished IU’s 83-68 win against Southern Indiana in Assembly Hall on Saturday.
Fans flocked to Assembly Hall Saturday night to see the emergence of the IU men’s basketball team’s freshmen class in the team’s first exhibition matchup against the University of Southern Indiana.
After a struggling first half from the field and the free throw line, the IU men’s basketball team picked it up in the second half to pull away from the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles, taking the exhibition victory 83-68 Saturday evening at Assembly Hall.
Shortly after IU Coach Tom Crean and the men’s basketball team released Sept. 12 that the Hoosiers would face the University of Southern Indiana in the team’s first exhibition game of the 2013-14 season this Saturday at 7 p.m., USI lost its leading scorer until at least the middle of December.
Getting the start at point guard, Rose scored 13 points on five-of-12 shooting from the field in 20 minutes.
Former Hoosiers Jordan Hulls (348 points), Christian Watford (443 points), Victor Oladipo (491 points) and Cody Zeller (594 points) accounted for 1,876 of IU’s 2,831 total points last season.
After a fateful move during the final five seconds of Friday night’s scrimmage during Hoosier Hysteria at Assembly Hall, the IU men’s basketball team has now had four of the team’s six scholarship freshmen go down with injuries during preparation for the 2013-14 season.
I never thought the IU basketball fans, known collectively as Hoosier Nation, would replicate that type of unfortunate and, frankly, childish behavior.
The dark basketball gym transitioned to a scene of paparazzi. Small beams of white light started to creep up everywhere in the audience during the banner’s two-minute rise to the top, each person looking to capture the moment of the first new banner to enter Assembly Hall since 2002.
In between the different skills competitions Friday evening in Assembly Hall for Hoosier Hysteria, highlights from the 2012-13 flashed quickly across the jumbo-tron.
Though it’s been less than a week, Crean said he’s seen the entire spectrum of success, from signs of a contending team to one that kept him from sleeping Tuesday night.
If you weren’t aware that IU Coach Tom Crean made a living coaching basketball, you’d likely assume he’s a minister or a motivational speaker.
Thursday afternoon, just a day before the first official practice, IU men’s basketball team announced another freshman injury from a workout.