ESPN college basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb told the IDS that on paper, IU and Louisville look like the two best teams in the country.
Christian Watford's buzzer-beating three pointer against Kentucky on Dec. 10, 2011, was voted ESPN’s Play of the Year at the ESPY’s Wednesday night.
Indiana men’s basketball Head Coach Tom Crean has elevated the titles of four members of his staff, the IU athletic department announced Wednesday.
Students clamoring for season tickets for the 2012-13 men’s basketball season have caught the attention of IU Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass.
When clocks across the country turned to midnight and Thursday, June 14, became Friday, June 15, the phones of many male high school basketball players rang incessantly. The NCAA changed the way men’s college basketball coaches recruit when it lifted limits on phone contact from coaches to the student-athletes they are courting.
The inaugural Junior All-Star matchup between Indiana and Kentucky came to an end Saturday at North Oldham High School with a girls’ sweep for Indiana and a split in the boys’ games in the home-and-home format.
As the college rivalry between Indiana and Kentucky seems to be ending, a new, younger version began at 8:15 p.m. Friday with the inaugural matchup between Indiana and Kentucky Junior All-Stars.
2012 IU Commit Jeremy Hollowell scored nine points and finished with nine rebounds, three assists and two blocks in 16 minutes during the finale of the 2012 Indiana-Kentucky All-Star Series at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. He energized the crowd with his defensive effort and transition baskets during a 30-5 Indiana run in the second half that put away Kentucky for an 83-73 victory.
The Kentucky All-Stars gave the Indiana All-Stars all they could handle before Indiana pulled away late for a 90-85 victory.
In preparation of facing their counterparts from Kentucky, Indiana’s Junior and Senior All-Star teams suited up Wednesday in front of a near-capacity crowd at Pendleton Heights High School’s Arabian Arena in the second of two scrimmages, with the seniors winning 121-96.
2012 IU Men's Basketball commit Ron Patterson scored 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting, including 2-of-4 on threes, to help the Indiana Senior All-Star team fend off an energetic Junior All-Star team 104-97 Monday at the Lloyd Scott Gymnasium in Seymour, Ind.Patterson added three assists, four rebounds and two steals to lead the trio of 2012 IU commits on the Senior team. Jeremy Hollowell struggled from the field, scoring just 5 points on 1-for-7 shooting, while Ferrell scored 11 and grabbed seven rebounds but struggled running the point, committing six turnovers to one assist.
Following a successful debut in 2011, the athletic directors at Butler, Indiana, Notre Dame and Purdue universities have agreed to a two-year extension that will keep college basketball’s Crossroads Classic at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis through 2014.
Fairfax, Va. shooting guard Stanford Robinson became the fourth member of the 2013 recruiting class to verbally commit to IU when he did so late Wednesday.
The Hoosiers will play North Carolina in the 2012 ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Tuesday, Nov. 27 in Assembly Hall.
1. Indiana The Hoosiers find themselves at the top of almost every preseason poll on the national level, and the same is true in the Big Ten. IU returns every player who scored against Kentucky in the 102-90 Sweet Sixteen loss. A nationally ranked recruiting class joins the five returning starters, and Tom Crean’s fifth season in Bloomington has the makings of a deep run into March Madness.
The IU men’s basketball season came to a close Thursday night at Assembly Hall with its first awards ceremony open to the public.
IU men’s basketball forwards Christian Watford and Cody Zeller announced that they will return to school next season and put their NBA dreams on hold. The two were IU’s leading scorers and rebounders in the 2011-12 season.
Former Indiana basketball player Isiah Thomas was fired this past weekend as the head coach for Florida International.
Per an IU Athletics press release, freshman forward Cody Zeller and junior forward Christian Watford are staying at IU for next season instead of going to the NBA.
I saw an analogy the other day I found rather clever. Yahoo! Sports columnist Pat Forde compared the NCAA Tournament to a pizza: It is never awful but sometimes merely passable compared to others.
