It’s time for Inside the Hall’s team-by-team breakdown of the Big Ten Conference. Today: The Illinois Fighting Illini. First thing that sticks out about Brucey’s boys? They’re a team with strong seniors and talented underclassmen — a recipe for success. ...
Notes on a 78-65 overtime win against Ferris State: Vic does it again. On a night when IU shot the ball poorly and were without last year’s go-to crunchtime player in Verdell Jones — he again sat due to his ankle ...
It’s time for Inside the Hall’s team-by-team breakdown of the Big Ten Conference. Today: The Ohio State Buckeyes. Entering his seventh season as Ohio State’s head coach, Thad Matta will be gunning for his fourth Big Ten title in 2010-11. ...
A few scattered thoughts on IU’s 89-37 win over Franklin College in their first exhibition game of the 2010-11 season: No Guy for you. After all the positive chatter surrounding Guy after Night of the Living Red, I’m sure I ...
Here’s my two quick chats with Verdell Jones and Maurice Creek from Big Ten Media Day. Come for the latest on their injuries, stay for my stammering and finger being in front of the lens.
Video of Tom Crean’s press conference this morning at Big Ten Media Day at the Crowne Plaza in Rosemont, IL:
It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Bobby Capobianco. What did we learn about Bobby Capobianco in his freshman season of 2009-2010? Like all youngsters, there’s room for improvement. Capobianco provided some nice ...
It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Jeremiah Rivers. I’ve watched a fair amount of the Chicago Bulls this NBA preseason. In particular, new coach Tom Thibodeau has his team running plays in ...
It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Mo Creek. I’ll be honest: It wasn’t until working on my piece for Maple Street Press’ Hoosier Tip-Off 2010-11 — available now! — and chatting with ...
It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Guy-Marc Michel. Last week during IU’s media training session, the Hoosiers talked about their desires to no longer get bullied by their Big Ten opponents. Will ...
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports tweeted a short while ago that Rajon Rondo was cut from Team USA’s roster. Such a cut brings the roster down from 13 to the final number of 12, meaning former Hoosier Eric Gordon will ...
I’m in New York for a couple days for the World Basketball Festival. During today’s media session at Radio City Music Hall, I snuck in a question to USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo about what he’s seen from Eric Gordon, ...
I only caught part of the Africa-Latin American third-place bout tonight at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavilion. But one thing that stuck out to me about Jurkin beyond his obvious size? He was impressively fast, and smooth, running down the ...
IU sophomore Christian Watford is a college counselor at adidas Nations this weekend in Chicago. I intercepted him for a quick interview while he was on his way over to chat with IU commit Austin Etherington, who was taking in ...
Just walked back up to my place after brief chats with IU recruiting targets Cody Zeller (2011) and Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell (2012) at the Swissotel here in Chicago in conjunction with adidas Nations. First up: Mr. Zeller. Let’s get this ...
The Associated Press reports on Friday that Todd Leary has plead guilty to charges associated with the mortgage fraud scheme he was charged in. Thirty-nine-year-old Leary of Carmel pleaded guilty in court Thursday to a felony charge of misappropriating title ...