PORTLAND, Ore. — Indiana fans gathered at the Nines in downtown Portland to send the team off to the Rose Garden for tonight’s NCAA tournament game with New Mexico State. Watch two short high-definition quality videos from just outside the team hotel in the embedded media players below:
HD Video: Indiana players preview New Mexico State
PORTLAND, Ore. — Watch and listen to what the IU players had to say inside their locker room of the Rose Garden as they prepared for Thursday’s NCAA Tournament game with New Mexico State. High-definition quality video is available in the embedded media players below:
HD Video: Tom Crean reacts to NCAA Tournament draw
by Justin Albers in Video | March 11th, 2012
Coach Tom Crean met with the media this evening to discuss Indiana’s draw in the NCAA Tournament — Thursday against No. 13 seed New Mexico State in Portland, Ore. — and more. Watch the video in the embedded media player below:
Quotes after the jump.
HD Video: IU players react to NCAA Tournament draw
by Justin Albers in Video | March 11th, 2012
Cody Zeller, Christian Watford and Remy Abell met with the media this evening to discuss Indiana’s draw in the NCAA Tournament — Thursday against No. 13 seed New Mexico State in Portland, Ore. — and more. Watch the videos in the embedded media players below:
HD Video: Hollowell, Shelt react to LC’s loss to Pike
by Joe Eberhardt in Video | March 10th, 2012
Jeremy Hollowell led Lawrence Central to the program’s first sectional title since 1998.
And for a time on Saturday morning inside historic Hinkle Fieldhouse, the Mr. Basketball candidate and IU signee looked to be putting his team in position to play for a regional championship.
But Hollowell and the Bears (17-7) couldn’t overcome the hot second half shooting of Pike’s R.J. Hunter, who finished with a game-high 27 points, and fell 74-68 in a Class 4A regional semifinal. Hollowell finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds.
Inside the Hall caught up with Hollowell and Lawrence Central coach J.R. Shelt for postgame reaction:
Wisconsin Postgame Video: Tom Crean, players
Coach Tom Crean, junior Christian Watford, junior Jordan Hulls and freshman Cody Zeller met with the media following the Hoosiers’ 79-71 loss to Wisconsin in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament on Friday afternoon.
Watch the complete press conference below, courtesy of IUAthletics on YouTube:
Complete transcript below.
Q. Did you guys sense the absence of Verdell Jones today?
JORDAN HULLS: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Having a good player like Verdell not being able to play for us, it’s pretty difficult, but a lot of years have been the next guys stepping up, and we fully have the guys on the bench who can fully do that. But you can’t replace directly a guy like Verdell, but we just gotta adapt to that.
Q. How difficult is it to top a Wisconsin team when they’re shooting like that and seems like everything is falling from beyond the arc for them early?
CHRISTIAN WATFORD: It’s difficult, but we did some crazy stuff. We just wasn’t playing intelligent on the defense end and made some shots.
Q. Cody, you only finished with one rebound. What were they doing defensively, keeping from you pulling down some of those rebounds?
CODY ZELLER: I mean, some of it has to do with them shooting 3s, but a lot of it had has to do with me. I gotta catch up at the boards harder. I gotta give better effort.
