With the start of college basketball season on the horizon, we’ll be taking a long look at the conference at large as well as Indiana’s roster over the next month. Today, we continue our look at the Big Ten with the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Despite reaching the 20-win plateau five times and the NCAA tournament three times over six seasons, Minnesota relieved Tubby Smith of his duties on March 25 and immediately began a search for a new head coach. Nine days later, after whiffing on its top choices, Norwood Teague hired 30-year old Richard Pitino, who had just completed his first season as a head coach at Florida International. Whether or not Pitino works out in Minneapolis, his hiring was a bit of a reality check for a program that had the belief that it could nab an elite young coach like Shaka Smart. As Pitino gets settled into his first major head coaching job, the reality of the task that lies ahead is beginning to sink in. Three elite talents from Minnesota in the class of 2014 — Tyus Jones, Rashad Vaughn and Reid Travis — are likely to leave the state. And the graduation of Trevor Mbakwe and Rodney Williams left the Golden Gophers relatively bare in the frontcourt for the upcoming season.
After a Victor Oladipo score with 15:42 to go in the second half, the Hoosiers found themselves up eight (44-36) and perhaps on their way to assuming control of the game for another road Big Ten victory. From there, the ...
With a chance to clinch an outright Big Ten championship at home within its reach, Indiana went to Minnesota on Tuesday night as a five-point favorite and exited with a 77-73 loss. Here’s a look at five takeaways from Indiana’s ...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Tom Crean met with the media following Indiana’s 77-73 loss to Minnesota on Tuesday night at Williams Arena. Watch and listen to his postgame comments in the embedded media player below: Thanks to J.B. Bauer of LateNightHoops.com ...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Jordan Hulls (17 points) and Victor Oladipo (16 points, five rebounds) met with the media following Indiana’s 77-73 loss to Minnesota on Tuesday at Assembly Hall. Watch and listen to their postgame comments in the embedded media ...
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 ...
Rules are here, for those unfamiliar. Standings through fourteen games are here. (Note: Everyone who made a pick the first game was added to the spreadsheet even if they didn’t get the pick correct. After that game, only new people that ...
Indiana juniors Victor Oladipo and Will Sheehey met with the media to preview Tuesday’s game at Minnesota. Watch and listen to their comments in the embedded media players below:
Indiana coach Tom Crean met with the media this afternoon to preview Tuesday’s game at Minnesota. Watch and listen to his comments in the embedded media player below:
Indiana returns to action for the first time in a week on Tuesday night with a trip to Williams Arena in Minneapolis to take on Minnesota. The Golden Gophers are just 6-8 in conference play, but are 5-2 at home. ...
No secret here: Once the Golden Gophers turned up the full-court pressure on the Hoosiers after halftime on Saturday afternoon inside Assembly Hall, their length and athleticism caused some problems. Yet, Minnesota actually never recorded an immediate, quick score after turning Indiana ...
It was pretty for one half and ugly for a good part of the other, but the No. 5 Hoosiers withstood a rally from No. 8 Minnesota on Saturday afternoon to prevail 88-81 and moved to 15-1 and 3-0 in ...
Tom Crean met with the media following Indiana’s 88-81 win over Minnesota on Saturday afternoon at Assembly Hall. Watch and listen to his postgame comments in the embedded media players below: Quotes after the jump.
Tubby Smith met with the media following Minnesota’s 88-81 loss to Indiana on Saturday afternoon at Assembly Hall. Watch and listen to his postgame comments in the embedded media players below: Quotes after the jump.
Check out 28 photos by Jamie Owens from Indiana’s 88-81 win over Minnesota at Assembly Hall in the embedded photo gallery after the jump. Purchase prints from J. Scott Sports.
Thoughts on an 88-81 win over the Golden Gophers: I. The first 20 minutes of this one was Indiana at its finest: Finally back behind a raucous student section coupled with the rest of the Assembly Hall faithful, it was ...