July 2007 Archive

Random YouTube vid: Eric Gordon owns some dude

  • Alex Bozich 07/31/2007 12:52 pm  
 

Here’s a confession: I usually wouldn’t promote a high school kid getting posterized. However, since it’s our boy Eric Gordon doing the posterization (is that a word?), I’m going to make an exception. A couple of things about the following ...

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Bud Mackey loves Indiana University

  • Alex Bozich 07/30/2007 4:29 pm  
 

Hoopsreport.com, a site I’d never heard of until today, has an interview with 2008 recruit Bud Mackey. The interview is not bad, sans the question to Mackey asking him what it was like growing up in Kentucky. Since Bud didn’t ...

Big Ten expansion: Bring on the Cardinals

  • Eamonn Brennan 07/30/2007 12:57 pm  
 

Brian at MGoBlog has a great breakdown of all of the prospective teams the Big Ten may look to add in the next couple of years, which ranges from the very awesome and yet unlikely (Texas) to the far more ...

All-Big Ten preview: Raymar Morgan

  • Alex Bozich 07/30/2007 12:01 am  
 

As we told you last Tuesday, Inside the Hall will be counting down the days to Midnight Madness by giving you our preseason look at the 2007-2008 Big Ten Men’s Basketball season. For the next five weeks, we’ll reveal one ...

White the “go-to guy” for Pan Am team

  • Alex Bozich 07/29/2007 11:43 am  
 

If it feels like you’ve been reading a lot of posts about D.J. White lately, well, you have. For the second straight game, D.J. scored 22 points (he also grabbed 13 rebounds) in a U.S. victory. This time, it was ...

D.J. explodes for 22 as U.S. surprises Argentina

  • Alex Bozich 07/28/2007 1:19 pm  
 

Although the U.S. will not medal in the Pan American Games, Indiana Basketball fans certainly have something to be excited about. That something would be the play of D.J. White. With his team out of medal contention following disappointing loses ...

D.J. White is some sort of fancy car, I think

  • Eamonn Brennan 07/27/2007 3:06 pm  
 

As we’ve said before, it’s never too early to preview the college basketball season, especially not for someone as, well, enthusiastic as Dick Vitale. Which is why Vitale has already posted his All Rolls-Royce Team for 2007 (the equivalent, I ...

U.S. Pan American team falls again, won’t medal

  • Alex Bozich 07/26/2007 9:55 pm  
 

In a not so shocking development, USA Basketball has once again failed to medal in an international basketball competition. While not as embarrassing as a group of professionals losing in the Olympics, it’s clearly not something that should be easily ...

D.J. shines in first Pan Am game; SI discusses Samspon and cheating

  • Ryan Corazza 07/26/2007 11:36 am  
 

+ Oh America, what to do with you. Continuing the trend of U.S. basketball squads faltering on the international scene, the American Pan Am team lost its opening round game to Uruguay 81-72 last night, despite leading at halftime. The ...

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IU targets lighting up Vegas

  • Alex Bozich 07/26/2007 12:01 am  
 

It’s perhaps the biggest week of the year in terms of college coaches evaluating talent and that’s why it’s no surprise that Kelvin Sampson, Rob Senderoff and Jeff Meyer are all in Las Vegas this week taking in the AAU ...

Recruit game info, Live Bloggin’ coming your way

  • Alex Bozich 07/24/2007 10:46 pm  
 

We’ve received lots of questions about the upcoming IU recruit barnstorming tour — and here’s what we know, by way of the event directors. The 2007-08 incoming Indiana University recruiting class — including Indiana Mr. Basketball Eric Gordon, Jordan Crawford, ...

Yes, but will we see the games?

  • Eamonn Brennan 07/24/2007 5:36 pm  
 

We’ve done a solid amount of work here in the early goings of the new IU athletics season — most of it done by the prolific Big A — but among our notifications and analysis, we’ve been ignoring one crucial ...

Five Big 10 newcomers to watch in 2007-2008

  • Alex Bozich 07/24/2007 12:01 am  
 

Even with the realization that we’re around 80 days from Midnight Madness tipping off across the Big 10, it’s never too early to start talking about the year to come. As the countdown to October 12 (yes, I’m already counting) ...

Monday roundup: D.J. adds a move, Mackey surfaces in Vegas

  • Alex Bozich 07/23/2007 6:33 am  
 

– The praise for D.J. White for his performances with the United States team leading up to the Pan American Games continues to come rolling in. Haverford, a blog that is following the team, has the latest on IU’s top ...

Recruiting game going younger every year

  • Alex Bozich 07/22/2007 10:52 am  
 

If you haven’t noticed, the kids giving verbals pledges to the school of their choice are getting younger and younger. In today’s Louisville Courier-Journal, recruiting guru and our good friend, Jody Demling, takes a look at the issue. Of course ...

Devin Ebanks selected for Boost Mobile Hoops Classic

  • Alex Bozich 07/20/2007 12:33 pm  
 

IU’s top verbal commitment for the class of 2008, Devin Ebanks, has been selected to play in the second annual Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic. The event will be held August 24 at Rucker Park in New York. Here’s ...