Reshaping women’s basketball
Most coaches hate road games. However, IU women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack said she doesn’t mind them.
Most coaches hate road games. However, IU women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack said she doesn’t mind them.
The IU men’s basketball team heads up to Northwestern tonight, and while I’d love to regale you with witty repartee that would surely cut you all to the collective quick, well, frankly, I’m just not that good.
Kelvin Sampson wants to return to college basketball in the next five years. That much is apparent from the Indianapolis Star’s report that the former IU coach has appealed the punishment the NCAA levied on him two months ago.
Kelvin Sampson wants to return to college basketball in the next five years. That much is apparent from the Indianapolis Star’s report that the former IU coach has appealed the punishment the NCAA levied on him two months ago.
Michael Morgan has always been there for his stepson Maurice Creek. They bonded through basketball early on, whether it was Morgan doing drills with Creek out on “the hill,” watching him play at the elementary school or pitting him against older kids at the local rec center. “If it weren’t for him working me out, I wouldn’t be here right now,” Creek said in a phone interview last week.
IU junior guard Devan Dumes was arrested around 5:20 p.m. Sunday on suspicion driving with a suspended license, IU Police Department Capt. Jerry Minger said.
A near sell-out crowd in matching T-shirts, a Verdell Jones half-court basket and an early eight-point lead weren’t enough to stop IU’s losing streak on Sunday.
This one wasn’t so bad. Yes, it was at home. Sure, the crowd was raucous, perhaps even a bit desperate. Obviously, the Hoosiers had their chances and could have won the game had they made only half of their 10 missed free throws.
A near sellout crowd all donning the same t-shirts, a Verdell Jones half-court basket and an early eight-point lead weren’t enough to stop IU’s losing streak. The Hoosiers (5-13, 0-6) dropped their ninth game in a row, this one against Minnesota 67-63. The competitive game throughout came down to the Golden Gophers’ ability to execute down the stretch; and IU’s inability to.
After an emotional win against your bitter in-state rival, you can go one of two ways: You can either use the victory as momentum for the next game, or you can have a letdown. Well, at least for Thursday night, the Hoosiers chose the former.
After a respectable 20-14 inaugural season at Minnesota last academic year, former Kentucky coach Tubby Smith’s Golden Gophers are off to an impressive 16-3 start and look to be on their way to the NCAA tournament. Smith, along with second-year Michigan coach John Beilein and Iowa second-year man Todd Lickliter, follows a trend of vast improvement among Big Ten coaches in their second seasons.
It’s cold, it’s Big Ten season and the IU men’s basketball team is facing a ranked opponent – it must be time for a white-out
The IU women’s basketball team captured its first victory against Purdue in Assembly Hall in nearly a decade on Monday. With the win, the Hoosiers are now atop the Big Ten and off to their best start in 25 years, but they have much more they want to accomplish this season. The next step comes Thursday when IU (13-3, 6-1) travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., to take on the Wolverines (9-9, 2-5).
Tom Crean calls it “winning time.” That moment – or more accurately, those moments – in every game when momentum hangs in the balance, when leads teeter on the edge of extinction, when winners and losers separate.
In one of their most winnable games in conference season, the Hoosiers fell once again, losing. Losing to Penn State inside Assembly Hall for the first time in school history. The game marked IU's eighth straight loss, the program's longest losing streak since 1964.
There is no play more exciting or deflating in the game of basketball than the 3-point shot.
After four years playing college basketball, senior forward Amber Jackson got to do one thing for the first time in November. She played in front of her mother.
After the results of the two road trips in between – in which IU was knocked out early to Illinois and Ohio State by a combined score of 153-98 – being back in Bloomington can’t come soon enough for the Hoosiers.
In three seasons, Eric Gordon has gone from a man among boys to a boy among men. “Look how fresh he is!” screamed one of Gordon’s NBA teammates. “He got his draft suit on!” The former Hoosier wasn’t wearing the cream blazer he donned on draft night when he was selected seventh overall by the Los Angeles Clippers, but he was unusually dressed up.A herd of local reporters waited to interview Gordon as he changed meticulously following his hometown pro debut. If “E.J.” had his choice, he’d likely prefer to keep to himself by his locker. Instead, he was moments away from answering questions about the game-winning shot he made in double-overtime to lift the Clippers over the Indiana Pacers.
When IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack looks across at the opposite bench in tonight’s game against Wisconsin, she is likely to get a glimpse of former Hoosiers coach Kathi Bennett.