Listen to the comments of Indiana head coach Tom Crean following Indiana’s 100-66 win over Northwestern State in the embedded media player below: [audio:CreanNWST.mp3] And watch what Verdell Jones (24 points), Victor Oladipo (12 points) and Maurice Creek (14 points) ...
BLOOMINGTON — I’m sitting here in front of my computer, and trying to figure out what to write, and it is next to impossible. We could touch on Tom Pritchard’s impressive day (Five blocks? Dang.), or Maurice Creek’s return to ...
BLOOMINGTON — Let it be pointed out that, on the night Tom Crean cemented his first-ever 3-0 start at Indiana, his team struggled. The Hoosiers shot barely over 38 percent, Verdell Jones had more turnovers (7) than points (5) and ...
Notes on a 71-54 win over Mississippi Valley State: There was trepidation among the ITH faithful before this one. We worried Sean Woods, a Rick Pitino disciple, would have his Delta Devils — about as fantastic a team nickname as ...
BLOOMINGTON — Some of the old weaknesses remain. Surely, you remember them: the endless string of frustrations, the turnovers and sloppy offensive sets and lack of low-post production. It helped that no one seemed interested in defending Verdell Jones within ...
Indiana head coach Tom Crean, Verdell Jones and Victor Oladipo met with the media following the Hoosiers’ 67-44 win over Wright State on Sunday night at Assembly Hall. Watch Crean, Jones and Oladipo address the media in the embedded media ...
Notes on a 67-44 Sunday night win over Wright State inside Assembly Hall: First 10. Wright State took away the 3-pointer from the Hoosiers. Couple that with its impressive ability to draw charges — and IU’s penchant for silly turnovers ...
Musing on a 88-60 IU win over Florida Gulf Coast: Them threes is back. As I wrote after IU’s first exhibition game, there’s enough 3-point shooters on this team to really do some damage. But as we saw against Ferris ...
Here’s my two quick chats with Verdell Jones and Maurice Creek from Big Ten Media Day. Come for the latest on their injuries, stay for my stammering and finger being in front of the lens.
It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Matt Roth. Suddenly, we’re talking about Indiana’s depth at guard, and how reliable it is less than three weeks from the start of the season. And ...
Tuesday, 8:00 AM Update by Alex Bozich: Tom Crean confirmed the ankle sprain on his Twitter account via this series of tweets: “Now we have to deal with different injuries. Verdell is suffering from a ankle sprain he got defending ...
A couple of more Hoosier Hysteria videos, courtesy of The Palestra and The Big Ten Network:
It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Verdell Jones. So about a year and a half ago, I wrote a column that I cannot currently locate, which said that I thought Verdell Jones ...
BLOOMINGTON — Mostly because I just can’t get enough of datelines, I thought I’d bring you just a few of the highlights of Tom Crean’s Thursday night lecture to students and fans at the IU Auditorium. Enjoy. + Perhaps the ...
This photo has already circulated around the Web, but Athlon Sports passed along their season preview cover with Maurice Creek, Purdue’s Robbie Hummel and Butler’s Matt Howard. The Hoosiers were picked to finish 8th in the Big Ten and Verdell ...
We were unable to make today’s availability, but IU Media Relations posted the following videos of Verdell Jones, Bobby Capobianco, Jordan Hulls and Derek Elston meeting with the media at Assembly Hall: