The Morning After: That’s that

Monday, March 24th, 2008

College basketball seasons are long and dynamic things. They’re not like college football seasons, which require drilled excellence from the outset and where a midseason loss can kill your chances at winning a truly screwed-up national championship. They’re not like NFL or NBA seasons, where each team is basically what they are starting in training […]

Video highlights of IU’s 86-72 loss to Arkansas

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Props to CBS Sports for getting with it and releasing highlights of every game via YouTube:

Around the Hall: Reaction to Arkansas loss

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Here is an all-encompassing link dump for your reading pleasure on the morning after IU’s embarrassing 86-72 loss to Arkansas:

Loss puts stamp on roller coaster season (Indiana Daily Student)
Hoosiers’ season of drama ends with a whimper (Indianapolis Star)
IU’s season is over; now the work begins (Indianapolis Star)
Put a fork in these Hoosiers — They’re done […]

The nightmare is over: Hoosiers bow out in 1st round

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

A season that started with promise and aspirations of a run to San Antonio ended Friday night as Indiana fell to Arkansas 86-72 in the first round of the East Regional in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Hoosiers (25-8) started the season 17-1, but went just 3-4 in their final seven games including three straight losses.
D.J. White […]

Game Thread: Indiana vs. Arkansas

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Opponent: Arkansas
Date: Friday, March 21, 2008 | 9:40 EST
Arena: RBC Center (19, 722) - Raleigh, North Carolina
Line: Indiana by 2
All-time Series: Indiana leads 1-0
TV: CBS (Jim Nantz and Billy Packer)
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Todd Leary and Joe Smith)
Probable Starters:

Arkansas (22-11): Gary Ervin, Patrick Beverly, Sonny Weems, Vincent Hunter, Darian Townes
Indiana (25-7): Armon Bassett, […]

Positive positivity going into tonight

Friday, March 21st, 2008

I don’t think it takes any sort of expert in the field of season definition to tell us the overriding adjective to describe IU’s 2007-2008 season. If Big A were to put up a poll over on the right sidebar there, I have a feeling “disappointing” would win going away. This has been a disappointing […]

Keys to the game: Arkansas

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Strong out of the gate: In each of IU’s last three losses, they’ve trailed at halftime and in two of the games (Michigan State and Minnesota), they’ve trailed big early. Playing from behind is not advisable for anybody in the NCAA Tournament. And for a team that has struggled as badly of late as this […]