Zach Osterman was a writer for Inside the Hall during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons.

It’s just the season of The Pritch

  • Zachary Osterman 02/03/2011 8:02 am  
 

Watch that again. Watch it again. You know you want to. OK, now pay attention. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON???? Well, actually, I’ll tell you what’s going on. Indiana, and in this particular instance, Tom Pritchard, is figuring ...

Minnesota Postgame Audio: Tom Crean, Tom Pritchard

  • Zachary Osterman 02/02/2011 9:25 pm  
 

Listen to the postgame comments of Tom Crean and Tom Pritchard (12 points, seven rebounds) following Indiana’s 60-57 win over Minnesota at Assembly Hall on Wednesday in the embedded media players below: CREAN [audio:TompostMinny.mp3] PRITCHARD [audio:PritchardpostMinny.mp3] And here’s postgame video ...

Crimson Guard trekking to Ohio State on Feb. 27

  • Zachary Osterman 01/31/2011 9:16 pm  
 

The folks over at the Crimson Guard asked us to help get the word out on a road trip to Columbus at the end of February to see Indiana play Ohio State. And so help we shall. The details are ...

The art of giving up (on predicting the rest of this season)

  • Zachary Osterman 01/28/2011 6:37 am  
 

BLOOMINGTON — There’s this team I cover, and they do the damndest stuff. See, they lose to a team that is, statistically, one of the worst they’ll play this season. Lose, hell, they get walked on, tooled against the worst ...

Tough injury for Hoosiers is tougher for Creek

  • Zachary Osterman 01/17/2011 9:49 pm  
 

(Photo credit: Jamie Owens) Maurice Creek is injured again. They are the words nobody remotely interested in Indiana basketball and its success wanted to hear ever, and certainly not this season. Indeed, it was a moment of slight irony that ...

Creek has stress facture, out indefinitely

  • Zachary Osterman 01/17/2011 7:45 pm  
 

Well, this isn’t going to read well. According to our good friend Dustin Dopirak over at the Herald-Times, Tom Crean announced tonight on his radio show that Maurice Creek has a stress fracture in his right knee cap, and is ...

Win proves again that it’s all about defense

  • Zachary Osterman 01/15/2011 11:40 pm  
 

BLOOMINGTON — Execution is the common theme that runs through all of basketball. Everything a team wants to do, every goal it wants to achieve, however small or large, specific or grandiose, will be determined by its ability to execute. ...

Communication key against Michigan’s transition offense

  • Zachary Osterman 01/14/2011 5:50 pm  
 

BLOOMINGTON — Transition defense was the hot topic Friday afternoon during media availability at Assembly Hall. Tom Crean called Michigan “the best transition basketball team in the Big Ten,” and Jeremiah Rivers said he and his teammates have spent a ...

Indiana talks Northwestern before Sunday’s game in Evanston

  • Zachary Osterman 01/08/2011 5:17 pm  
 

(Editor’s Note: Audio and video of Tom Crean meeting with the media today is available after the jump. Audio of Jordan Hulls, Jeremiah Rivers and Will Sheehey is also available.) BLOOMINGTON — After 11 years under Bill Carmody, the Northwestern ...

Jones’ struggles don’t outweigh his benefit

  • Zachary Osterman 01/06/2011 6:50 am  
 

It was, for the briefest of moments, hard to recognize Verdell Jones through the lens of my television Tuesday night. He’d shaved off what was left of his usually short hair, opting for an all-bald look that made him unique ...

Rebounding, defense key in trip to Minnesota

  • Zachary Osterman 01/03/2011 3:35 pm  
 

Minnesota and Indiana enter Tuesday night’s affair kindred spirits in an unwanted way, each holding a share of last place in the Big Ten standings after a pair of conference games. Whichever team pulls itself up off the mat and ...

Consistency in “spirit” key for Hoosiers moving forward

  • Zachary Osterman 12/31/2010 10:18 pm  
 

BLOOMINGTON –- Watching Indiana basketball develop over the last two-plus years has been something akin to watching a college freshman trying to take an 400-level test while also trying to study the material. Friday night certainly seemed like another such ...

So what comes next?

  • Zachary Osterman 12/27/2010 11:20 pm  
 

BLOOMINGTON — Tom Crean appeared a man defiant in his postgame press conference Monday night. He oozed belief, while admitting that, at times, his team has lost it. He said “old scars” were still hurting Indiana, particularly in close games ...