The Big Ten was expected to be one of the best conferences this year, and it has lived up to its billing. The Hoosiers, however, aren't helping its prestige.
Most of the teams in the Big Ten have had a losing streak this season, but none have had it as bad as IU. As the Hoosiers enter tonight’s contest against the No. 11 Michigan State Spartans — No. 1 in the conference — they will be looking to end a six-game losing streak.
For all that is good, honorable and still respectable in today’s college game, hallelujah, an undefeated season is no longer possible for John Calipari’s southern sideshow in Kentucky.
When IU lost to No. 11 Michigan State last March, it was the team’s eighth-straight loss and the 19th in 20 games. Yet after the way the Hoosiers performed against the eventual NCAA Tournament runner-up Spartans this year, there wasn’t much with which to be disappointed.
IU coach Tom Crean is still teaching. Instead of letting his team pack it in during games such as IU’s 83-55 loss to Wisconsin on Saturday, Crean has pushed the team through the losses.
One of IU coach Tom Crean’s favorite lines explains the unprecedented circumstances he incurred when coming to Bloomington. It’s a true statement. No IU men’s basketball coach has ever had to assemble a team from scratch the way Crean has in the past two seasons. But different faces on media guides aren’t the only new thing to hit campus.
After freshman guard Maurice Creek was lost for the season, you wondered how the Hoosiers would respond.
Junior guard Jeremiah Rivers drove down the lane, and the whistle sounded. He had begun the game with a travel again, and IU started another contest on the wrong foot.
The return of freshman forward Sasha Chaplin was not enough for the IU women’s basketball team. Foul trouble plagued Chaplin and the Hoosiers (13-12, 6-8) in a 66-58 road loss to Wisconsin on Sunday.
With senior guard Devan Dumes home with the flu, the Hoosiers expected points to be at a premium.The way things went Saturday, though, no one could have saved IU.
With senior guard Devan Dumes home with the flu, the Hoosiers were expecting points to be at a premium against one of the Big Ten's best defenses. But the way things went Saturday, no one could have saved IU.
IU recently lost its fifth consecutive game but now embarks on a stretch tougher than any other this season. It starts with a 2 p.m. game against the No. 11 Badgers on Saturday in Madison, Wis. Competition within the Big Ten so far has shaken up the young team IU coach Tom Crean called “fragile” Wednesday night.
The Hoosiers’ unblemished record in February and 21 offensive rebounds fell into Iowa’s hands. The Hawkeyes pulled down 53 total boards to the Hoosiers’ 29, downing IU 71-67 Thursday at Assembly Hall.
After falling to No. 13 Ohio State on Wednesday, IU will play at No. 11 Wisconsin on Saturday and No. 10 Michigan State at home Tuesday. Outside of the Big East Conference’s Providence Friars — currently in the middle of a four-game stretch consisting of No. 7 Georgetown, No. 4 Villanova, No. 5 West Virginia and No. 2 Syracuse — no other team in the country is facing a tougher span of games than the Hoosiers. But while Providence is facing the Murderers’ Row of the Big East during a 15-day period, IU’s difficult three-game stretch is taking place in a week’s time.
The Badgers beat the Hoosiers by eight points when they played at Assembly Hall in January.
Basketball isn’t known as a contact sport, and the more passive team lost in IU’s 69-52 faltering against Ohio State on Wednesday. Similar to the first contest on Jan. 6 in Columbus, Ohio, IU struggled against the larger, more physical Buckeyes.
The Hoosiers (13-10, 6-6) will try to do something only three other Big Ten teams have managed to do against the Hawkeyes (12-11, 5-7) today: stay undefeated in February.
The NBA All-Star Game 2010 Weekend won’t begin until Friday, but Wednesday’s IU and Ohio State game at Assembly Hall had the looks of it. There was plenty of dunking – alley-oops, two-handed flushes and a near-perfect windmill attempt by Ohio State’s William Buford. There were a fair amount of 3-pointers shot.
Trumped by the Buckeyes by 25 points Jan. 6, IU lost another one to their Big Ten rivals in meager fashion, 69-52 at Assembly Hall.
FORT WAYNE — A judge has made a preliminary not guilty plea for a former Indiana University basketball player charged in connection with an ex-business partner’s multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
