The IU women’s basketball team announced its schedule for the 2010-2011 season Monday.
IU Athletics released the 2010-11 men’s basketball schedule. Basketball reporter Ryan Winn analyzes the schedule on the Hoosier Hype for the third season of the Tom Crean era.
At first glance, 6-foot-11, 205-pound center Peter Jurkin might look like an all-too-familiar sight to Hoosier fans — and one they didn’t want to see again. But Jurkin’s no Tijan.
The five banners draping from the Assembly Hall ceiling — and the 21 Indiana Mr. Basketball winners (including current guard Jordan Hulls) that have suited up for the Hoosiers since the award’s inception in 1939 — matter most to the players coming in and trying to make the line of the Indiana fight song “for the glory of old IU” ring true once more.
Tom Coverdale’s mother lost her eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s this May, and Coverdale and his family have decided to do something proactive for the destructive ailment, by starting the Coverdale Family Auction to Fight Alzheimer’s.
Former Indiana guard Todd Leary averaged 5.4 points, 1.9 assists and 1.3 rebounds per contest and booked a career average of .460 shooting from beyond the arc while he donned the cream and crimson from 1989 to 1994. He can now add two more stats to his list of accomplishments: at least 18 months of jail and his 18th felony charge.
Tom Crean wasn’t shy about his opinions in late April on expanding the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. In fact, when the NCAA announced it would be expanding to 68 teams, Crean wanted more.
After spending all but three games of her freshman year injured, sophomore Jasmine Davis will be leaving the IU basketball program.
As Stuart Gray watched Indiana Pacers mascot Boomer venture around College Mall and engage passers-by with handshakes, handstands and photos, the former Pacers center couldn’t help but chuckle at the feline who has been Indiana’s official mascot since 1991.
Indianapolis was the place to be for both coaches and recruits as the July free period kicked off with the annual adidas Invitational. The tournament, which took place in gyms located all around Indianapolis and its suburbs, drew in several big-name coaches, such as Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, UNC’s Roy Williams, Kansas’ Bill Self, Butler’s Brad Stevens and IU’s Tom Crean. The coaches watched several of the top-ranked players for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 recruiting classes, as well as several who have offers or interest from the Hoosiers.
Teams and individual players alike used the 2010 NBA Draft as a springboard for professional careers, preparation for perhaps the biggest offseason in NBA history and even a fashion show.
All the speculation of the tight scholarship situation the Hoosiers were in for 2011 can now end, as sophomore center Bawa Muniru has decided to leave the program.
Austin Etherington of Hamilton Heights High School in Arcadia, Ind., and Jeremiah Davis of Muncie Central High School are currently participating in the NBA Players Association Top 100 Camp in Charlottesville, Va., this week.
For the past nine days, Izzo has been trying to decide whether to leave the place that has been his home since 1983 and jump to the NBA to perhaps make $6 million — doubling his salary — and possibly coaching one of the best basketball players in the world.
Michigan State's highly respected coach visited the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday to get a firsthand inspection of a franchise undergoing a major makeover as it prepares to try and re-sign LeBron James, the free-agent-of-a-generation.
Michigan State's coach plans to visit the Cleveland Cavaliers to discuss becoming the their coach, a person familiar with the visit told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The IU men’s basketball team improved its academic standing enough to prevent further NCAA penalties, according to the Academic Progress Rate report released Wednesday by the NCAA.
Jeff Howard, a 6-foot-8 forward from Westfield, Ind., announced he will join the Hoosiers as a walk-on freshman this fall.
John Wooden, college basketball's gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ever, died Friday night. He was 99.
Nathan Altenhofen wears the “defensive-minded coach” badge proudly. And given the emphasis IU women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack has placed on defense, the team’s new assistant coach feels that’s where he can help jump-start the program
