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One more lesson

By Zachary Osterman · Thursday, Jan. 29,2009 12:38 a.m.

“Heartbreaking” would be an appropriate adjective. So would “gut-wrenching.” But like anything else the Hoosiers do this season that doesn’t involve sleep or food, this two-point loss presents a great lesson: Every single possession counts.

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A columnist’s notebook for you

By Zachary Osterman · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2009 11:32 p.m.

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.

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Sampson appeals NCAA punishment

Tuesday, Jan. 27,2009 11:30 p.m.

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.

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Sampson appeals NCAA punishment

By Matt Dollinger · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2009 3:48 p.m.

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.

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Stepfather became part of recruit’s success

By Jordan Cohen · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 11:06 p.m.

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.

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Loss wasn’t so smelly

By Zachary Osterman · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:30 p.m.

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.

IU guard Devan Dumes goes up for a shot during the first half of IU's 67-63 loss to No. 21 Minnesota on Sunday at Assembly Hall. Dumes had 19 points in the game.

White-out can't help Hoosiers shake 9th straight loss

By Tom Kirby · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 4:35 p.m.

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.

Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith reacts as he watches his team play against Northwestern during the first half Sunday in Evanston, Ill.

Tubby Smith dodging sophomore slump

By Tom Kirby · Friday, Jan. 23,2009 12:29 a.m.

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.

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Momentum maturity

By Zachary Osterman · Monday, Jan. 19,2009 11:44 p.m.

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.

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Nittany Lions extend Hoosiers losing streak to longest in program history

Sunday, Jan. 18,2009 3:28 a.m.

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.

A new year, a new jersey

By Matt Dollinger · Thursday, Jan. 15,2009 11:51 p.m.

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.

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Packer, Knight to analyze NCAA

By Associated Press · Wednesday, Jan. 14,2009 12:02 a.m.

LAS VEGAS – Former IU coach Bob Knight, the winningest coach in Division I history, and former CBS sportscaster Billy Packer plan to analyze the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in a series of one-hour television programs taped at a race and sports book on the Las Vegas Strip.

IU freshman forward Tom Pritchard dunks the ball in the second half. Pritchard led IU scoring against Ohio State with 16 points.

RUNNING THE FLOOR: IU must see through the losing

By Zachary Osterman · Tuesday, Jan. 13,2009 11:45 p.m.

Back in my tender high school years, I played football, the proud second-generation Riverwood Raider that I was. My sophomore year, we went completely winless, 0-10, only pulling one victory when it was discovered that an opponent plied the use of an ineligible substitute. It was a rough year to be sure, but we hired a new coach the next March, Harris Rainbow (seriously), a young, energetic soul with real vision for the program. Old coach Rainbow, all of 25, set about trying to instill a sense of pride and toughness into our listless program. He did a good job in the preseason.

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Ohio: the home of 2 different Hoosiers

By Zachary Osterman · Tuesday, Jan. 13,2009 12 a.m.

Eric Arnett and Tom Pritchard probably could not be more different. Pritchard is the new face of IU basketball, a loyal, late-blooming commit who weathered the storm that was Kelvin Sampson and is now a likely Big Ten Freshman of the Year candidate. He’s a blossoming post presence Tom Crean may rely on for years to come. Arnett won’t even be on the basketball team another week. Brought on in the fall as an extra body in practice, Arnett makes his real living as a pitcher on the IU baseball team, and a rather accomplished one at that. Arnett could dress but not play this year for the Hoosiers, who didn’t want to count another scholarship against their limit. He’ll return to the baseball team following tonight’s game at Ohio State.

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No celebration for Hoosiers in Champaign

By Zachary Osterman · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 12:38 a.m.

There will come a time this year when the IU men’s basketball team – overmatched and undersized – will take the floor in some Big Ten city and brave the odds to beat a better conference opponent. Champaign was not that city.

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