Maurice Creek Archive

Good, Bad and Ugly: Ole Miss

  • Ryan Corazza Nov 19, 2009 3
 

THE GOOD: FIRST FIVE MINUTES. This is what this Hoosiers team can be. Running the break efficiently, not letting teams get set up on D, pushing the pace, getting controlled buckets in transition with Jeremiah Rivers and Verdell Jones leading ...

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For seven minutes in Puerto Rico, Indiana looked capable of hanging with Ole Miss. And just like that, the Rebels reeled off a 28-5 run en route to a comfortable 89-71 win in the opening round of the O’Reilly Auto ...

The Morning After: Hey, That’s Doc Rivers!

  • Eamonn Brennan Nov 17, 2009 3
 

Did anyone else get a minor chill seeing Doc Rivers in Assembly Hall? I can’t explain this at all. I don’t really like Rivers. I’m not sure he’s a great NBA coach so much as a decent NBA coach who ...

Winning ugly: Hoosiers beat USC Upstate, 69-61

  • Alex Bozich Nov 16, 2009 3
 

It wasn’t pretty, but Tom Crean and the Indiana Hoosiers won for the second time in four days, laboring past USC-Upstate 69-61 Monday night in Assembly Hall. IU committed 18 turnovers and hit just 16 of 30 free throws, but ...

In front of a near capacity crowd Friday night at Assembly Hall, a trio of Indiana freshmen each turned in a debut to remember. Leading just 20-18 with 7:03 remaining in the first half, Maurice Creek and Derek Elston sparked ...

Indiana head coach Tom Crean, Tom Pritchard, Christian Watford and Maurice Creek met with the media following Indiana’s season-opening 83-60 win at Assembly Hall over Howard. Listen to their comments in the embedded media players below: Tom Crean [audio:CreanHoward.mp3] Tom ...

Hoosier Hysteria Audio: Maurice Creek

  • Alex Bozich Oct 16, 2009 3
 

Indiana freshman guard Maurice Creek met briefly with the media before Friday night’s Hoosier Hysteria. Listen to Creek’s comments in the embedded audio player below: [audio:CreekHH.mp3] Update: Creek also talked after Hoosier Hysteria and here are his comments: [audio:CreekHH2.mp3]

Tom Crean met with the media Thursday and we’ve sifted through his comments and posted some highlights below. A full transcript is available here and you can listen to the audio from the H-T/Hoosier Scoop here. On Jeremiah Rivers: “As ...

Hoosier Hysteria is on the horizon and it’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2009-2010 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Maurice Creek. To get a good idea of the impact Tom Crean expects Maurice Creek to have on the ...

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Given the situation inherited, the argument can be made that the 2009 recruiting haul made by Tom Crean and his staff was as impressive as any class in the country. Before ever coaching a game at Indiana, Crean held on ...

As you know, 2010 DeMatha wing Victor Oladipo was in Bloomington over the weekend for an official visit. He was spotted at the football game and now a video has surfaced on YouTube of Oladipo throwing down some dunks with ...

It’s not often that Tom Crean tweets in all caps, but the news he just passed along via Twitter needed that distinction: The Restoration job here just took a very large step. MAURICE CREEK HAS BEEN CLEARED BY THE NCAA ...

Scouting notes from Saturday’s Elite Camp

  • Alex Bozich Aug 30, 2009 3
 

The following are notes submitted to Inside the Hall from someone that attended IU’s Elite Camp this past Saturday in Bloomington. It’s important to note that this information is not from anyone affiliated with the university. These notes have been ...

New Herald-Times IU beat reporter Dustin Dopirak is wasting no time getting himself acclimated to the workings of Hoosier athletics. Dopirak was on hand for Wednesday night’s IU Tailgate Tour stop in Indianapolis with a pen and notepad in hand. ...

Maurice Creek says he’s headed to Bloomington

  • Alex Bozich Aug 17, 2009 3
 

The last time we were able to speak with Maurice Creek was at the at the Kentucky Derby Festival Classic in late April. At the time, we were under the assumption that Creek would arrive with the other IU freshmen ...

Fan Report: Bawa, Pritchard, Dumes and Verdell

  • Alex Bozich Aug 14, 2009 3
 

If you’re following us on Twitter, you know by now that Bawa Muniru is in Bloomington and Maurice Creek should be there shortly. And if you’ve browsed the various IU message boards, you may have read some reports of Bawa ...