July 2010 Archive

Report: Kenny Kaminski picks Michigan State

  • Alex Bozich 07/31/2010 12:32 pm  
 

The speculation that has been building for weeks was correct: Medina (OH) forward Kenny Kaminski will take his game to East Lansing. Evan Daniels of Scout.com reports, via a source, that Kaminski has given a verbal commitment to Tom Izzo ...

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Video: Guy-Marc Michel, Victor Oladipo, Will Sheehey

  • Alex Bozich 07/30/2010 5:36 pm  
 

Incoming freshman Victor Oladipo and Will Sheehey along with junior college transfer Guy-Marc Michel met with the media for the first time on Friday at Assembly Hall. Watch and listen to the trio of incoming Hoosiers in the embedded media ...

Audio: Guy-Marc Michel, Victor Oladipo, Will Sheehey

  • Alex Bozich 07/30/2010 3:39 pm  
 

Incoming freshman Victor Oladipo and Will Sheehey along with junior college transfer Guy-Marc Michel met with the media on Friday at Assembly Hall. Listen to what the trio of incoming Hoosiers had to say in the embedded media player below ...

There are changes afoot, and they are, dare I say, quite exciting

  • Zachary Osterman 07/30/2010 7:07 am  
 

Lock up your bikes and daughters — the ginger is returning to Bloomington. Less than three weeks from this very moment that I type to you, my better half and I will (hopefully) be ensconced in our new apartment down ...

Northwestern’s Kevin Coble to forgo his senior season

  • Alex Bozich 07/27/2010 9:43 pm  
 

… And not for the NBA Draft. According to a release on Tuesday evening from Northwestern, Kevin Coble, who missed last season after suffering a foot injury in preseason practice, has decided to skip his final season in Evanston. Coble ...

Report: Eric Gordon makes Team USA cut

  • Alex Bozich 07/27/2010 7:00 pm  
 

According to a report published today in The Indianapolis Star, former IU guard Eric Gordon made the cut from 19 to 15 players competing for a spot on the Team USA roster for the 2010 FIBA World Championships in Turkey: ...

Video: Hanner Perea’s ridiculous athleticism

  • Alex Bozich 07/27/2010 7:53 am  
 

One player near the top of Indiana’s 2012 wishlist that we didn’t get a chance to see in Indianapolis or Louisville is Hanner Perea. (The highlights below are from Perea’s first game at the adidas Invitational, the only game he ...

A brief treatise on loving and losing

  • Zachary Osterman 07/26/2010 1:52 pm  
 

It recently came to my attention, through the technological wonder of our Disqus-powered comments section, that Beth Pritchard (or someone claiming to be Beth Pritchard, mother of Tom) dropped a note under the much-discussed open thread Alex composed about this ...

The latest on Aaron Thomas

  • Alex Bozich 07/25/2010 8:35 pm  
 

It was not long ago that Cincinnati Aiken’s Aaron Thomas spoke as if he might be the next piece to Indiana’s 2011 recruiting class. But in a story published today by Brian Snow of Rivals.com, Indiana was not mentioned among ...

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Around the Hall: Recruiting, anyone?

  • Staff 07/24/2010 11:44 am  
 

Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. So go ahead, get your read on. + We’ve updated our 2011 Recruiting Board and 2012 Recruiting Board. A more comprehensive update will come after July. + A ...

Measuring success in 2010-2011

  • Staff 07/22/2010 11:40 am  
 

If our calendar is correct, 85 days remain until Hoosier Hysteria. Which means it’s time to start thinking about the 2010-2011 season. Over the next few months, we’ll have no shortage of previews: An in-depth look at each Big Ten ...

Report: Dan Dakich joining ESPN as TV analyst

  • Alex Bozich 07/21/2010 2:48 pm  
 

According to a report by Rick Bozich of The Louisville-Courier Journal, former Indiana interim coach Dan Dakich is joining ESPN as a television analyst. Dakich currently hosts The Dan Dakich Show on ESPN 1070 in Indianapolis (and it’s expected that ...

Around the Hall: Maurice Creek returns to the court

  • Alex Bozich 07/20/2010 8:31 pm  
 

Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. So go ahead, get your read on. + Dustin Dopirak of The Herald-Times chats with Maurice Creek about his return to pickup games. The Indiana sophomore guard says ...

Tharpe picking up offers, IU still keeping tabs on him

  • Zachary Osterman 07/20/2010 6:07 am  
 

The summer is winding down for Naadir Tharpe, though you wouldn’t know it by the recent flurry of activity that’s marked his recruitment. After Tharpe’s New England Playaz took home top honors at the West Virginia Hoop Group Jam Fest ...

Indiana leading for B.J. Young?

  • Alex Bozich 07/19/2010 7:54 pm  
 

Matt Norlander, the editor of College Hoops Journal and a contributor to the Dagger at Yahoo Sports, reported earlier today via Twitter that Indiana is the top school for 2011 point guard B.J. Young. Here are Norlander’s tweets: PG BJ ...

July evaluation period: 2012 class (part two)

  • Alex Bozich 07/18/2010 10:03 pm  
 

Inside the Hall hit the recruiting trail for the start of the July evaluation period and made stops at the adidas Invitational in Indianapolis and the Kentucky Hoopfest in Louisville. Here are our notes on prospects in the 2012 class ...