Before 2016 Foothills Christian (Calif.) power forward T.J. Leaf planned his first-ever visit to Indiana University, he heard the hype from his parents.
He heard the most about IU from his father, Brad, who grew up in the Indianapolis area and played at Evansville from 1979 to 1982. He heard how beautiful the campus was; how great the lifestyle was.
"But once we set the visit, he kind of kept quiet and waited for me to actually go there to experience it," Leaf told Inside the Hall on Wednesday evening after finishing a one-day, unofficial visit to IU earlier in the day.
His thoughts after experiencing the IU program for a day?
With the official start of practice less than four weeks away, Inside the Hall and UM Hoops have partnered to bring you a preseason breakdown of the top 25 players in the Big Ten for the 2013-2014 season. Our selection process involved much deliberation ...
With the official start of practice less than five weeks away, Inside the Hall and UM Hoops have partnered to bring you a preseason breakdown of the top 25 players in the Big Ten for the 2013-2014 season.
Our selection process involved much deliberation to arrive at a list that we hope will provide plenty of reaction and debate.The series will be broken into five parts (25-21, 20-16) and our third installment of players 15-10 is available below:
15. Drew Crawford, Northwestern (6-foot-5, wing, senior)
31.8 mpg, 13.5 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 1.7 apg, 1 spg, 47 eFG percentage (10 GP)
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Jordan Littman
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Sep 3, 2013
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Tyus Battle has visited Indiana twice already this year, most recently arriving in Bloomington last Tuesday and leaving last Friday afternoon. The Gill St. Bernard's (N.J.) sophomore shooting guard told Inside the Hall after his most recent visit that "They're definitely one of the leaders. Indiana is probably recruiting me the hardest right now, too."
But that doesn't mean he is any close to a decision. As his father, Gary, noted, Tyus "is not in a rush to grow up."
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Jordan Littman
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Aug 30, 2013
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Meeting with the media for the first time as part of the Indiana basketball team Friday afternoon, IU’s freshmen agreed on what aspect of the college basketball life had surprised them most. “The conditioning,” Troy Williams simply put it. Though ...
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Alex Bozich
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Aug 30, 2013
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All six Indiana freshmen – Collin Hartman, Devin Davis, Luke Fischer, Noah Vonleh, Stanford Robinson and Troy Williams – met with the media on Friday afternoon to discuss their progress since arriving in Bloomington earlier this summer. Among the topics ...
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Alex Bozich
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Aug 30, 2013
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Devin Robinson’s rise from fringe top 100 to a five-star prospect nationally was one of the top recruiting stories of the spring and summer. Now, the Christchurch School (Va.) senior forward is ready to begin the next step of his ...
With the official start of practice less than five weeks away, Inside the Hall and UM Hoops have partnered to bring you a preseason breakdown of the top 25 players in the Big Ten for the 2013-2014 season. Our selection process involved much deliberation ...
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Jordan Littman
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Aug 29, 2013
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In case you missed it, Indiana announced its entire 2013-2014 schedule on Thursday afternoon, including its 13-game non-conference slate. Now that we know each opponent, here’s a deeper dive into what the Hoosiers will face before the start of Big ...
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Alex Bozich
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Aug 28, 2013
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Indiana University announced the complete men’s basketball schedule for the 2013-2014 season earlier this afternoon. Nearly the entire non-conference schedule had already been revealed, but now the finalized schedule with all Big Ten dates is out. Start times, broadcast information and an ...
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Alex Bozich
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Aug 27, 2013
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Robert Johnson returned home to Richmond, Va., from his official visit to Indiana late Monday night and on Tuesday afternoon, he provided a brief, but telling, comment on his first official visit. “It was one of the best experiences I ...
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With the official start of practice less than five weeks away, Inside the Hall and UM Hoops have partnered to bring you a preseason breakdown of the top 25 players in the Big Ten for the 2013-2014 season. Our selection process involved much deliberation ...
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Alex Bozich
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Aug 27, 2013
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Indiana sophomore guard Yogi Ferrell will be on a regional cover of the 2013-2014 Athlon Sports college basketball preview that will hit newsstands around the state next month. Ferrell, IU’s second leading returning scorer, will be joined by Butler’s Khyle ...
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Jordan Littman
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Aug 26, 2013
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As Victor Oladipo entered the Assembly Hall media room Saturday morning for a scheduled press conference, it was like he had never left the Indiana basketball program to pursue an NBA career. That is, until he found Indiana coach Tom ...
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Alex Bozich
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Aug 25, 2013
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Check out 10 photos by Kelly Kline and Under Armour of Indiana recruiting targets Isaiah Whitehead, Goodluck Okonoboh and Stephen Zimmerman from last night’s Elite 24 in Brooklyn in the embedded photo gallery after the jump.