The Hoosiers had a chance for a three-game win streak Sunday, but they lost in a low-scoring affair to a Hawkeye team with only one previous conference win.
The Hoosiers have not been favored for a single moment in Big Ten play under IU coach Tom Crean. That might change Sunday in Assembly Hall when IU faces a Hawkeye team without a road win this season.
Like a slow-cooker, it took time. But after 22 months, one coaching change and 40 minutes, IU got its first Big Ten road win since Feb. 23, 2008.
On Wednesday, IU coach Tom Crean told members of the media that Penn State’s 0-5 Big Ten record and 8-9 overall season performance was “misleading.” The Nittany Lions had lost a number of close games.
Led by a Dumes off the bench and Watford's board-crashing, the Hoosiers held off Talor Battle and the Nittany Lions, keeping Penn State winless in the Big Ten.
Halfway through the season, the Hoosiers have seen almost everything. A victory at Madison Square Garden. A loss to a nationally ranked opponent. And this past Sunday, an overtime conference win. But an away win? That’s yet to happen.
When IU fans last left the Assembly Hall stands in the 2006-07 season, a D.J. White-led team had defeated the No. 2 Wisconsin Badgers.
Unlike most other teenage basketball prospects, Capobianco was never a kid of just a few words.
Multimedia editor Sean Morrison talked with the Centre Daily Times' Jeff Rice about Penn State's Big Ten woes, Talor Battle and the Lions' plan of attack against the Hoosiers here.
IU coach Tom Crean said his team will look to improve its frontcourt defense against Penn State at 7 p.m. today in University Park, Pa.
IDS sports editor Ryan Winn responds to your comments and votes on the IU men's basketball team from the past week.
"My primary goal in all this is to get as many people in Assembly Hall as possible," said Athletics Director Fred Glass. "What this does for us, is the people in and around Assembly Hall, primarily students and faculty and staff, can watch pretty much the entire Colts game, and still get to our game. So hopefully that's significant. We appreciate the cooperation of the Big Ten Conference, the Big Ten Network and the University of Iowa."
Verdell Jones: “If the fans tried to do what they want, but I felt like it was a game that we didn’t need to.”
Sophomore guard Verdell Jones seemed as if he prayed in a free throw to trim Minnesota’s lead to 78-74, contorting his body as the basket prolonged IU’s shot at what would eventually be an 81-78 victory.
IU’s big men controlled the Gophers in its 81-78 overtime win.
One of the team managers probably should have slipped some 5-Hour Energy into Verdell Jones’ water bottle late in the game, as Jones played the entire second half and overtime, finishing the game having played 40 of the 45 minutes.
OWENSBORO, Ky. — A spokesman for Southern Indiana said Friday he was not aware of any existing medical conditions that may have caused 21-year-old center Jeron Lewis to collapse during a game and later die at a hospital.
The IDS sports editors give you their view of the court in an unadulterated take on the IU men's basketball team, exclusively for idsnews.com/basketball.
In a game that had everything, sophomore guard Verdell Jones' jumper with under 35 seconds left proved to be the winning shot in IU's 81-78 victory against Minnesota. See the initial reaction here.
With 3:34 to go in Thursday night’s game at Crisler Arena, Michigan claimed a 57-45 lead. The Wolverines finished the contest on a 12-0 run, but by then it made no difference.
