Get out your calenders and save the date. Six incoming IU players (Eric Gordon, Jamarcus Ellis, Eli Holman, Jordan Crawford, Brandon McGee and DeAndre Thomas) will be coming to a gym near you for the annual IU recruit barnstorming tour. ...
There weren’t two guys on last year’s Hoosier team with more charisma than Rod Wilmont and Earl Calloway. (Mike White was a close third. Wink.) They were flashy; they were fun to watch. On a given night, Wilmont would transform ...
Most recent reports list four schools, in no particular order, as the leaders for the services of 6’11” Washington center Tyler Zeller. Those schools are Purdue, Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina. However, there is one school that isn’t mentioned quite ...
Less than four months removed from his playing days at Indiana, Errek Suhr is already back into basketball. Suhr has returned to Bloomington North, where he graduated in 2003, as an assistant coach. Suhr talked to the Times Mail about ...
No Fourth of July celebration would be complete without fireworks, so that’s what we’re bringing you, straight from our old friend Coach Knight. The following YouTube vid is an ESPN compilation of Knight’s top 10 sound bytes. Among our favorites: ...
If you haven’t heard the name DeShaun Thomas yet, it’s about time you get educated. Thomas, a 6’7″, 210 lb. sophomore-to-be at Ft. Wayne Bishop Luers, is regarded by many recruiting analysts as the top player in the class of ...
Your friend and mine, Doug Gottlieb over at the World Wide Leader, recently ranked the top prospects for the 2008 NBA draft. (Free Insider!) And, he’s got our boy Eric Gordon at No. 1 on the list. 1. Eric Gordon, ...
We’ll have more on IU’s latest to join the 2008 class, Devin Ebanks, in the upcoming weeks. But for now, thanks to Michael David Smith at the AOL Fanhouse, we’ll take our first look at the No. 11 player in ...
Much of the talk by Hoosier fans in recent weeks has been regarding the eligibility of incoming freshman Eli Holman. We know that Holman has recently arrived in Bloomington. What we don’t know is whether or not Eli will be ...
Yesterday, we heard comments from Eshaunte Jones’ AAU coach, Eric Vaughn, regarding a decision made by Jones to de-commit from Indiana and evaluate his options. In a story by Greg Jones in today’s Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, Jones spoke out ...
Apologies to those of you out there looking for a home-and-away series with the Boilermakers this season. It ain’t happening. From Goldandblack.com: GoldandBlack.com has learned that Coach Matt Painter and his Boilermakers will play Indiana and Minnesota only once during ...
According to a report on Rivals.com, Eshaunte Jones has re-opened his recruitment and will re-evaluate his options over the summer. “He said it has nothing to do with coach (Kelvin) Sampson or (assistant coach) Ray McCallum. Bear just wants to ...
It’s hard to imagine a scenario where an IU fan would actually be happy about a five-star recruit choosing Kentucky as his college destination. Yesterday, when DeAndre Liggins from Washington High joined the long list of Chicagoland kids who have ...
To say that IU fans are looking forward to next season would be an understatement. In fact, most of us can’t wait for October, when the season officially kicks off with Midnight Madness at Assembly Hall. With the start of ...
Draymond Green, a top 100 recruit in the 2008 class, will announce his college decision Thursday. Green, a 6’7″ power forward from Saginaw, Michigan, has narrowed his possible destinations to Michigan State, Michigan and Indiana. Green originally committed to Kentucky, ...
It’s never particularly easy to lock up top talent from another state. It’s even harder when that state has a university rich with basketball tradition and a bunch of crazed lunatics fan base that treats its basketball team like royalty. ...