Zach flies solo this week and discusses Tom Crean’s comments at Thursday’s press conference, Big Ten scheduling, next year’s exempt tournament that includes Butler and also touches on the Kentucky game.

Leading off After long layoffs sandwiched around the Kentucky game in part because of finals, Indiana (7-2) now prepares for four games in the next seven days – including two in Las Vegas – and six games in the last ...

Via IU Athletics on YouTube: Also, here’s audio from Derek Elston and Jordan Hulls via Osterman: Elston [audio:Elston1216.mp3] Hulls [audio:Hulls1216.mp3]

Azur strikes again:

The following video popped up on YouTube last week and unlike many of the videos we post, it’s not a traditional highlight reel full of dunks and slick passes. It is, however, a nice mix of footage from the third ...

Several schools have begun ramping up their interest in Walter Pitchford, a 6-foot-9 power forward in the class of 2011, perhaps none moreso than Indiana. “I would call Indiana a leader, along with the Memphises and Arizona States,” his head ...

Tom Crean is continuing his push to add to Indiana’s already stellar 2014 class and on Tuesday night, the third-year IU coach made an appearance at Evansville Memorial to watch Bosse freshman Jaquan Lyle. The 6-4, 185-pound Lyle, who picked ...

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The Inside the Hall Twitter mailbag is a weekly collection of questions tweeted to us via our Twitter account, @insidethehall. Tweet us your questions each week and we’ll answer as many as we can. Now, onward … @ni3t writes: What ...

Update: According to Hugh Kellenberger of The Herald-Times, Amayo has not been offered a scholarship by Indiana. A source close to the situation also confirmed Hugh’s report with Inside the Hall. Adam Finkelstein at ESPN.com had also reported the Amayo ...

… And in doing so, also sent out a lengthy press release that detailed the new football divisions and the following on the new look for the conference logo: The new Big Ten logo was developed by Michael Bierut and ...

(Photo credit: Jamie Owens/J. Scott Photography) Throughout the season, Inside the Hall will keep you posted on how 2011 signees Austin Etherington and Cody Zeller, IU’s seven verbal commitments and other notable prospects with interest in the Hoosiers, are performing ...

Thoughts on a 81-62 loss at Rupp Arena: Oh, what could have been. For 30 minutes or so, the Hoosiers were not just in this thing — they were primed for an upset. Tom Crean paced the sidelines with a fervor we’ve ...

For those unfamiliar, here’s some background on the four factors to winning: Established by Dean Oliver, the four factors are building blocks for Ken Pomeroy’s efficiency formula. It’s important to mention, as noted by Stat Sheet, that the factors are ...

Watch Tom Crean’s entire postgame press conference following IU’s 81-62 loss to Kentucky in the embedded media players below: