Photo via Dennis Wierzbicki-USA TODAY Sports Thoughts on a 68-56 loss to the Badgers: CHICAGO — Another shot at the Badgers for Tom Crean’s Hoosiers, and a frustratingly familiar result. Indiana had its chances to finally put together the Wisconsin puzzle, ...
Thoughts on an 80-64 victory over Illinois: CHICAGO — Two D.J. Richardson free throws closed the gap to 60-52 with 8:17 to go, and you wondered: Would it happen again? Would the Illini make a late charge like they did ...
Hoosier fans have often griped about Cody Zeller’s touches this season, but a re-watch of the final minute and a half of Indiana-Michigan reveals this simple fact: IU’s last five possessions were all about getting its big man the ball. ...
Thoughts on a 72-71 win against the Wolverines: This had the makings of a disaster. The Hoosiers looked out of sorts for too long in the first half after bolting out to a 10-3 lead. Hanner Mosquera-Perea — who hadn’t ...
Indiana took a 25-21 lead on the Buckeyes after a Christian Watford left wing 3-pointer at the 4:49 mark in the first half on Tuesday night. But from there, the Hoosiers failed to register a point the rest of the ...
Thoughts on a 67-58 loss to the Buckeyes: There would be no outright Big Ten title awarded on Senior Night, no fitting ending to the group that brought Indiana back to its rightful place on top of the college basketball ...
Freshman point guard Yogi Ferrell scored a career-high 19 points in Indiana’s 73-60 win over the Hawkeyes on Saturday night. His scoring was aided by a strong night at the line (8-of-10), but Ferrell also flashed some serious skill in ...
Thoughts on a 73-60 win against the Hawkeyes: Woof. Forty minutes of basketball tonight inside Assembly Hall, and it was a foul fest — 52 combined between the Hawkeyes and Hoosiers. That’s 1.3 per minute. Blink and the whistle blew. ...
After a Victor Oladipo score with 15:42 to go in the second half, the Hoosiers found themselves up eight (44-36) and perhaps on their way to assuming control of the game for another road Big Ten victory. From there, the ...
Thoughts on a 77-73 loss to the Golden Gophers: Minnesota, fresh off a a visit from a sports psychologist and a players-only meeting over the weekend, had its mind right for No. 1 tonight in The Barn. This would not be ...
Indiana found itself down four points with under two minutes to play, but escaped East Lansing with its first victory since 1991 because it out-executed the Spartans down the stretch. A detailed look at how it went down in the ...
Thoughts on a 72-68 win against the Spartans: Somewhere between the non-calls, the joke calls, the clock not running on two separate occasions and all the official reviews — which set a strange tone, especially in the second half — Indiana found a ...
Will Sheehey finished a perfect 9-of-9 from the field en route to a career-high 22 points in Saturday’s blowout win against the Boilermakers. That 9-of-9 mark set an Indiana record for most makes without a miss. Sheehey scored on the ...
Thoughts on a 83-55 win over the Boilermakers: Another rivalry matchup against the Boilermakers, another familiar result: A beatdown in Bloomington, 83-55. Christian Watford, as he so often does, got things going early by hitting a bucket at the rim ...
In Indiana’s forgettable first half against Nebraska on Wednesday night, the Hoosiers shot just 2-of-7 from beyond the arc. The second half brought stronger returns (6-of-9) as several players got in the mix and the Hoosiers ended the evening a ...
Thoughts on a 76-47 win against the Cornhuskers: Sometimes, it just happens. You throw everything into an effort like the Hoosiers did against Ohio State on Sunday, and then you head home for a game against a Big Ten bottom ...