BLOOMINGTON — Tom Crean has started speaking in past tense. It’s reasoned, measured and cautious, sure, but when Crean preached the rebuilding gospel that has endeared him to IU fans over the past 2 1/2 years Thursday night at the ...
BLOOMINGTON — Mostly because I just can’t get enough of datelines, I thought I’d bring you just a few of the highlights of Tom Crean’s Thursday night lecture to students and fans at the IU Auditorium. Enjoy. + Perhaps the ...
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 ...
Somewhere in my father’s attic or basement, resting assumedly under my old Legos or a bevy of rusted tools, you will find one of a pair of box-framed pictures. They bear the likeness of a man I’m told is quite ...
UPDATE: 12:17 p.m. Friday Just got off the phone with James Blackmon Sr. who said Tom Crean and Indiana’s coaching staff made his son feel “welcomed” throughout their recruitment, making last night’s decision easy. “He made us feel welcomed, answered ...
Raise your hand if you were a bit underwhelmed by Indiana’s non-conference schedule? Yea, me too, but let’s be honest: After two years November tossing the Hoosiers in well over their heads, and facing as talented a Big Ten as ...
This came across the wire a little while ago, but here’s a copy of the Notre Dame release on the subject. Purdue and Butler will play in the other match-up, and then the opponents will switch in 2012. Early impressions ...
It’s not as crazy as it seems. Yes, Gary Harris is an elite basketball recruit, particularly after what has been a successful and massively impressive summer. But there’s value, he said, in finding his escape from the hectic universe of ...
Lock up your bikes and daughters — the ginger is returning to Bloomington. Less than three weeks from this very moment that I type to you, my better half and I will (hopefully) be ensconced in our new apartment down ...
It recently came to my attention, through the technological wonder of our Disqus-powered comments section, that Beth Pritchard (or someone claiming to be Beth Pritchard, mother of Tom) dropped a note under the much-discussed open thread Alex composed about this ...
The summer is winding down for Naadir Tharpe, though you wouldn’t know it by the recent flurry of activity that’s marked his recruitment. After Tharpe’s New England Playaz took home top honors at the West Virginia Hoop Group Jam Fest ...
So piggybacking off Alex’s good work yesterday in filling the summer malaise with some solid depth chart discussion as we hit July, let us open our textbooks to chapter two. Last season’s frontcourt was something of a mixed bag, with ...
Some of you might be surprised and others not, but Bawa Muniru is leaving the IU basketball program. The details are in this release: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University men’s basketball coach Tom Crean has announced that center Bawa Muniru ...
This release just popped into the inbox from J.D. Campbell over at IU Media Relations. Normally wouldn’t be posting much about Bill Lynch on here, but under the circumstances, it can’t hurt. “We are excited to welcome the University of ...
Look: It’s Friday, the World Cup just started, Tom Izzo’s Michigan State career might have just ended and college football Armageddon is imminent, no matter who you believe. So come chat about it with us and the boys over at ...
I’ve gotten on the train a little bit later than some news outlets not too far from here, but that train — the one with “EXPANSION” written on the side and barrels of money tucked away in the hold cars ...