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Around the Hall: Conference foes kick off exhibition play

by in Opponents | November 2nd, 2011

Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. In today’s case, it’s a sampling of what’s going on around the Big Ten. So go ahead, get your read on. 

+ In Champaign, a Meyers Leonard-led Illinois overcame a slow start to beat Wayne State in an exhibition. In West Lafayette, Robbie Hummel scored 18 points in 15 minutes to lead Purdue in an exhibition win over Northern State. And in Minneapolis, Trevor Mbakwe’s double-double helped the Golden Gophers get past Bemidji State in another exhibition contest.

+ Illinois sophomore guard Crandall Head has been suspended four games for a violation of team rules.

+ With an announcement scheduled for tomorrow, AnnArbor.com looks at the potential impact of a Mitch McGary commitment for Michigan.

+ Ohio State beat writer Bob Baptist shares his thoughts on the Buckeyes after getting a chance to watch practice on Monday.

+ Michigan State junior forward Derrick Nix approached Tom Izzo after Sunday’s practice and offered to give up his starting spot for sophomore Adrien Payne.

+ Bill Carmody enjoys playing Mortal Kombat.

+ First-year Penn State coach Patrick Chambers has introduced the “attitude club” to the Nittany Lion program.

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2011-2012 All-Big Ten Preview: Robbie Hummel

by in Commentary | September 26th, 2011

With the college basketball season inching closer, we’ll be taking a long look at the conference at large as well as Indiana’s roster over the next few weeks. Today, we complete our look at our preseason All-Big Ten team with Purdue’s Robbie Hummel.

For Purdue fans, it’s hard to not to think of what may have been the last two seasons with a healthy Robbie Hummel.

When Hummel tore the ACL in his right knee against Minnesota on February 25, 2010, the Boilermakers were 24-3 and riding a 10-game winning streak. Sans Hummel, Purdue immediately dropped a crucial home game to Michigan State and then suffered an embarrassing 27-point loss to the Golden Gophers in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament. A season that once looked like it could end at Lucas Oil Stadium instead finished with a loss to Duke in the Sweet 16.

Hope was renewed in the fall of 2010 as Hummel was deemed healthy to return and Matt Painter’s club also welcomed back E’Twaun Moore and JaJuan Johnson for their senior seasons after flirtations with the NBA Draft.

That optimism was short lived as the Valparaiso native re-tore his right ACL on the first day of practice. Many preseason prognostications had Purdue among the country’s top three teams with a healthy Hummel. Without him, Purdue went on to a 26-8 season and a loss to VCU in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

So what should we expect from Hummel as he attempts to regain his form for one final run in West Lafayette? Quite a bit, if he can remain on the floor.

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Big Ten power rankings: Week 10

by in Commentary | March 2nd, 2011

(Photo via AnnArbor.com on Flickr)

The waters have begun to settle around the Big Ten contenders and pretenders, both in terms of conference title credentials and NCAA aspirations.

Michigan might have played its way in down the stretch if not for a trademark Wisconsin bank shot to win at the buzzer. Illinois and Michigan State stand on precarious ground, but could be in with strong respective finishes. Penn State is almost surely out, and poor Minnesota — for whom nothing ever seems to go as planned — is probably done as well. *sigh Tubby Smith*

So let’s rock and roll:

Inside the Hall Big Ten power rankings: Week 10

I Think This is the Final Stop at No. 11. Indiana – NR; 12-17, 3-13; 33 total points

It’s easy to tell where things have gone wrong for the Hoosiers after an impressive run of play in the middle of the conference schedule. The problem is simply that it would take too much time. The incessant fouling is one glaring problem. That’s a good start, but it’s hardly the end of the list of this team’s flaws as currently constituted.

It’s The Same Old Song At No. 10: Iowa – NR; 10-18, 3-13; 30 total points

There’s definitely a case to be made for a brighter future in Iowa City. We just can’t really make it right now. Fear not, Hawkeyes fans: Spring football begins soon. But then maybe that’s not exactly the most exciting proposition either.

Still On the NIT Bubble at No. 9. Northwestern – NR; 16-12, 6-1; 27 total points

It always comes back around to this for Northwestern, doesn’t it? Bill Carmody’s Big Ten finishes: 11th, seventh, 10th, tied for fifth, eighth, tied for eighth, 10th, 11th, ninth, seventh, which comes to an average of right around 8.5. So this seems about average.

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2010-2011 ITH Season Preview: Purdue Boilermakers

by in Commentary | November 3rd, 2010

SPOKANE, WA - MARCH 19: Head Coach Matt Painter of the Purdue Boilermakers watches the game against the Siena Saints during the first round of the 2010 NCAA men's basketball tournament at Spokane Arena on March 19, 2010 in Spokane, Washington. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)It’s time for Inside the Hall’s team-by-team breakdown of the Big Ten Conference. Today: The Purdue Boilermakers.

Travis Carroll, and Patrick Bade. Purdue fans, let me introduce your new best friends.

It would be folly to say that Purdue’s season is doomed without Robbie Hummel, who re-injured his right anterior cruciate ligament in practice a couple weeks ago and is, yet again, lost for the season.

Purdue is filled with talent, and experience, and has the essence of reliability at both guard positions and down low. If JaJuan Johnson can play an effective four, (he’s been a five his whole career because of his shot-blocking prowess, though he hardly has the body for it) then it gives Purdue more versatility in its front court, because it moves Johnson around well. Dude doesn’t do so well exclusively as a banger, though he’s added weight.

That said, Purdue isn’t exactly busting with size either. Hello, Carroll and Bade.

First, let’s talk about Patrick Bade. The Franklin Central product is 6-foot-8 and looks about 13, and he didn’t look at all impressive against real competition late last season filling in for Hummel. He scored 17 points in the last 19 games of the regular season, including a home win over West Virginia, and even when he saw more playing time in place of Hummel looked uncomfortable and often over-matched.

One positive Purdue fans and pundits swore the Boilermakers could take from Hummel’s injury was the playing time it got freshmen like Bade and D.J. Byrd. They didn’t look good then, but maybe they would this season. Matt Painter and Co. need that to be the case with regard to Bade.

Carroll’s is a different situation, but probably not a more encouraging one. Carroll is a 6-foot-9 freshman center from Danville who plenty of Indiana fans like to remember as the player Cody Zeller owned in the state semifinals in March. According to Rivals, his only other offer was from Indiana State, but he stands to get plenty of minutes this year. Unless he was wildly undervalued during the recruiting process, it’s hard to see Purdue attaching much expectation to Carroll, beyond body minutes.

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ITH Super Happy Fun Time All-Big Ten Preview: Robbie Hummel

by in Commentary | September 22nd, 2010

PORTLAND, OR - MARCH 21: Robbie Hummel #4 of the Purdue Boilermakers celebrates after defeating the Washington Huskies during the second round of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament at the Rose Garden on March 21, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. The Boilermakers defeated the Huskies 76-74 to advance to the Sweet 16. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)Hoosier Hysteria is on the horizon and it’s time for Inside the Hall’s preseason All-Big Ten team. Today: Purdue’s Robbie Hummel.

So what should we honestly expect from Robbie Hummel?

In what must either be a case of much ado about nothing or the biggest test of head vs. heart Purdue fans have had to endure since … well I don’t even know when, the 2010-11 season remains one massive enigma for the Boilermakers’ best player.

(In case you have the memory of my cats or, you know, lived in a cave circa last February, Hummel is returning from an ACL tear suffered in late February. This is his senior year and there was obviously no chance for any sort of medical redshirt, making this his last chance to team up with fellow classmates JaJuan Johnson and E’Twaun Moore and carry Purdue into the Final Four.)

On one hand, Hummel’s numbers speak for themselves. He’s never averaged less than 11.4 points per game in a single season and finished last year close to 16. He’s never shot worse than 36.4 percent from behind the arc — a fine number for a forward of his skillset — and he’s generally regarded as probably the most complete offensive player in the Big Ten, now that Evan Turner makes money for his basketball.

Johnson is the size, (though not the muscle) and Moore the most pure shooter, but Hummel is the straw that stirs the drink for the Boilermakers. His ability to spot up and shoot or drive the lane in equal measure, combined with a deceptive athleticism that’s useful against larger defenders, makes him Purdue’s best offensive weapon on paper. It would also be fair to say he’s no slouch on defense, and he’s a reliable rebounder.

Of course, that other hand is troublesome.

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All-Big Ten Preview: Robbie Hummel

by in Opponents | October 30th, 2008

hummel-carried-off.jpgThe All-Big Ten preview is ITH’s look at our picks for the top players in the Big Ten this season. Today: Robbie Hummel of Purdue.

In one year under Matt Painter at Purdue, Robbie Hummel has done everything one could have expected, and more: He’s made First Team All-Big Ten as a freshman; he made the list of finalists for both the John Wooden and Oscar Roberston national awards; he started 31 times and averaged 11 points, six rebounds, and two assists a game. For all intents and purposes, Robbie Hummel was The Man last year.

As impressive as Hummel’s accomplishments were how quietly he went about them. I’ll be honest: Purdue is in the same state as our Hoosiers, and not only was I only vaguely aware of Hummel, I was often viscerally bored by him. I say that less to insult him and more to criticize my own basketball intelligence, but it’s true: Watching Robbie Hummel is never interesting the way, say, watching Eric Gordon, or even a roughshod banger like Tyler Hansbrough, is. But if Hummel can expand on his success — he was named Big Ten preseason player of the year this year — I doubt he, or Painter, or Purdue fans will much care.

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