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The NCAA announced on Monday that it will move the 2021 men’s basketball tournament to a single geographic area. While the NCAA stopped short of declaring that the location will be Indianapolis, which was scheduled to host the Final Four, ...

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Jason Smeathers got accustomed to receiving a certain postgame text last season. It was from Joey Brunk. Once the team returned the locker room beneath the Assembly Hall seats, shortly after the final whistle of Indiana’s games, the message would ...

Indiana will broadcast a “virtual” Hoosier Hysteria on Wednesday, Nov. 18, the program announced on Thursday afternoon. Here is the full release from IU Athletics: BLOOMINGTON, Indiana – The Indiana University men’s basketball team will hold a virtual Hoosier Hysteria, ...

Indiana sophomore forward Trayce Jackson-Davis has been named to the Big Ten’s preseason all-conference team, the league announced on Monday morning. Here’s the full release from the Big Ten: ROSEMONT, Ill. — Iowa senior center Luka Garza has been chosen as ...

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced the preseason watch list for the 2021 Karl Malone Award, which honors the nation’s top forward, on Thursday. Indiana sophomore Trayce Jackson-Davis was one of three Big Ten players named to the 20-player list along with Ohio ...

The new KenPom.com ratings are out for the 2020-2021 season and Indiana will begin ranked in the top 30 nationally. IU is No. 26 in Pomeroy’s ratings, which is eighth-highest for a Big Ten team. Last season, Indiana was No. 34 ...

ESPN events announced Monday a cancelation of several early season college basketball events that were scheduled to be played at Disney’s Wide World of Sports near Orlando, Florida. “ESPN Events set out to create a protected environment for teams to ...

Chuck Crabb pauses mid-sentence, just for a second, to carefully choose his words. After 43 years as the Indiana basketball public address announcer, he’s seen a lot. But never an Assembly Hall anomaly quite like this. No one has. What ...

Indiana’s captains for the 2020-2021 season will be seniors Al Durham Jr. and Joey Brunk, junior Rob Phinisee and redshirt junior Race Thompson, the program announced on Thursday evening. Here are the full details from IU: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana ...

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The official start of practice is here and the #iubb tag on Twitter will be heating up as the weather outside gets colder. As we like to do on an annual basis, Inside the Hall has updated our guide for ...

One of the most notable college basketball yearbooks published annually, the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, was released this week. After being picked to finish seventh in the Big Ten by Lindy’s Sports, Blue Ribbon projects the Hoosiers to finish eighth ...

It’s just after 2:30pm Eastern time when De’Ron Davis dials a number on his phone. He just got off a call with his mother, who’s living Colorado and in a time zone that’s seven hours behind Davis. It’s already dark ...

On Monday, the men’s and women’s Division I basketball oversight committee reaffirmed its position on scheduling for the 2020-21 season. In men’s basketball, the maximum number of games a team will be permitted to play is 25 or 27 (if ...

The NCAA released health and safety guidelines for college basketball on Friday afternoon. Of note in regards to COVID-19 testing, the NCAA states the following: Training and competing in basketball require frequent, sustained close contact among players, coaching and other ...

2021 four-star power forward Bryce Hopkins is set to cut his list from nine schools to five this weekend, he announced on Twitter. Hopkins is currently ranked as the No. 30 prospect nationally in the 247Composite. The Oak Park, Illinois ...

Andy Katz of NCAA.com is bullish on Indiana and the Big Ten ahead of the 2020-21 season. Katz released his preseason power 36 rankings on Tuesday afternoon and had seven Big Ten teams in his top 18. Illinois (No. 4) ...