Thoughts on a 73-72 win over the Blackbirds: Outside shooting is no longer an advantage for this team. At least not at this point in the season. So the Blackbirds, a smart, disciplined team — one that’s gone dancing the last ...
Thoughts on a 100-72 win over the Cougars: Alex lined this game up as one that promised to be foul-heavy. It delivered. The Cougars and Hoosiers combined for 56 fouls and 82 total free throws attempts. Indiana shot 45-55 from ...
Thoughts on a 79-39 win over the Chargers: I. Tom Crean voiced concerns about his team heading into this contest, and it was all on display to start. Indiana turned the ball over again and again — with freshman Troy Williams ...
Thoughts on an 83-68 win over the Screaming Eagles: I. With so much scoring gone, and so many unknowns with this young group of kids, Yogi Ferrell’s been pegged as a guy that’s going to need to step up and ...
Thoughts on a 61-50 loss to the Orange: The dream dies tonight. No Banner Six from this group, no march onwards to the Elite Eight for a matchup against Tom Crean’s former Marquette team. In a season filled with so ...
Thoughts on a 58-52 win against the Owls: They did it. Finally. The Hoosiers, in a grind-it-out game reminiscent of losses this season, got over the hump in a low-scoring affair and willed themselves to victory in crunch time. It was ...
Thoughts on an 83-62 win against the Dukes: This was how it was supposed to go. Indiana did not mess around, did not let the Dukes for a second think an upset was brewing. Yogi Ferrell, with JMU perhaps keying ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...