Column: Sunday could decide the Big Ten POY race
Could Sunday’s game between No. 2 Indiana and No. 7 Michigan decide the Big Ten Player of the Year race between Victor Oladipo and Michigan’s Trey Burke?
Could Sunday’s game between No. 2 Indiana and No. 7 Michigan decide the Big Ten Player of the Year race between Victor Oladipo and Michigan’s Trey Burke?
Even before their stunning loss to No. 14 Ohio State March 5, on Senior Night no less, the IU men’s basketball team already had something to be proud of.
Could Sunday’s game between No. 2 Indiana and No. 7 Michigan decide the Big Ten Player of the Year race between Victor Oladipo and Michigan’s Trey Burke?
Despite posting just seven points in No. 2 IU’s upset loss March 5 to No. 14 Ohio State, junior guard Victor Oladipo was named a semifinalist March 7 for the Eddie Sutton Tustenugee award, according to a press release.
During the last four games, the IU women’s basketball team has either had a lead or been within six points at the start of the second half. The team wants to shock the world and beat Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament as a No. 12 seed tonight in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
No. 12-seeded IU and No. 5-seeded Michigan play in game four of the 2013 Women’s Big Ten Tournament tonight at the Sears Centre Arena.
Not many people wanted to talk about the actual matchup on the floor, but it was the result of the game, a 67-58 Ohio State win, that would put a damper on the night.
Derek Elston, Jordan Hulls and Christian Watford were honored during IU's Senior Night.
With an offense at times as cold as the snowy climate, IU dropped its final home game 67-58 to Ohio State.
In a Senior Night letdown, IU dropped its final home game of the season to Ohio State, 67-58 on cold shooting and offensive inefficiency.
Could you ask for a more fitting way to send off a senior class that persevered through a 22-41 record in their first two seasons than a chance to lead the IU program to its first outright Big Ten championship since 1992-93?
No. 14 Ohio State comes to town today for a 9 p.m. Senior Night tipoff at Assembly Hall, looking to avenge a home loss to the Hoosiers earlier this year.
Luckily for IU’s three seniors, last Saturday’s game against Iowa wasn’t the trio’s last game in Assembly Hall.
Tuesday may be Senior Night, but an IU freshman earned an award for his recent heroics Monday morning.
After the IU men’s basketball team lost to unranked Minnesota last Tuesday in Minneapolis, Minn., the Hoosiers fell to No. 2 in the latest AP and coaches polls released this afternoon.
IU scored just 26 points in Saturday evening’s first half, shooting a mere 28.6 percent.
After a tough loss against Minnesota, the IU men’s basketball team faced a slightly tougher road to clinching an outright Big Ten regular season title.
Minnesota’s Micaella Riche scored 17 points and grabbed 15 rebounds as the Gophers defeated IU 59-53 Sunday afternoon in Assembly Hall.
Of the seniors to be honored Tuesday evening in Assembly Hall, Derek Elston has neither the statistics nor signature moments of Christian Watford or Jordan Hulls. He has missed more than a third of this season and plays a fraction of the other two’s minutes.The senior forward’s place on the team is found in neither numbers nor film, but rather in leading goofy chants of encouragement from the bench.
Now, after four years of college basketball on one of the top teams in the country, Hulls has blossomed into one of the most prolific shooters in IU history, while managing one of the most successful IU men’s basketball teams in recent memory.