Column: Winning isn't everything
A great man once said, “If you’re not first, you’re last.”
A great man once said, “If you’re not first, you’re last.”
IDS columnist Avi Zaleon and Purdue Exponent columnist Anil Rao say just what they think about the other's basketball team in anticipation of the Saturday game.
IDS columnist Avi Zaleon and Purdue Exponent columnist Anil Rao say just what they think about the other's basketball team in anticipation of the Saturday game.
First and foremost, IU (5-18, 0-10 Big Ten) will try to end its 10-game losing streak. The other streak IU will try to break is its five-game losing skid to Iowa (12-10, 4-5) since Jan. 4 2009, the last time the Hoosiers beat the Hawkeyes.
Even with an 0-9 conference record, the IU women’s basketball team has had its chances.
It was Michigan’s freshman guard Trey Burke — not IU’s Cody Zeller — who made the necessary plays to lead his team to victory.
IU Coach Tom Crean was not happy with the way his team began Wednesday night’s game, calling the starting lineup "a joke."
Indiana lost. I know I’m supposed to write bad things about this team when that happens.
In a game where IU was down by as many as 20 points in the first half, the Hoosiers could not get over the hump Wednesday evening.
It hasn’t been pretty for the IU men’s basketball team early.
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The IU men’s basketball team will try to put a blemish on Michigan’s 5-0 home record in conference play when the teams face off at 6:30 tonight in Ann Arbor, Mich.
As the men’s basketball team prepares to travel today to Ann Arbor, Mich., to take on the Wolverines, IU Coach Tom Crean shares some insights and observations about the Hoosiers’ next opponent.
To hand the Wolverines their first loss at home this season, IU will have to stop the best-scoring backcourt in the Big Ten with Tim Hardaway Jr. and Trey Burke. IU’s on-ball defense will need to be sharp.
Following a loss to Wisconsin on Thursday and a victory against Iowa Sunday, the Hoosiers remained in the Top 25 in both the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN Coaches polls.
Sporting a freshly shaved head, sophomore guard Will Sheehey took on a different role for the IU basketball team Sunday evening.
In simultaneous agreement, the more than 17,000 in attendance at Assembly Hall rose and gave their appreciation.
Coming into Sunday night’s game, junior forward Derek Elston had yet to be a part of IU’s offensive equation in conference play. In just 68 seconds, that changed.
With 47 seconds left in Sunday’s game at Northwestern, the IU women’s basketball team was down by only three points. The team’s first conference win this season was only a couple shots away.
Whatever offensive woes the IU men’s basketball team had Thursday night at Wisconsin appear to have subsided.