Bawa Muniru cleared to play 2009-10 season
Freshman center Bawa Muniru is eligible to play in the 2009-10 season.
Freshman center Bawa Muniru is eligible to play in the 2009-10 season.
When Grace senior forward David Swanson heard his team would be playing IU in an exhibition game, he thought it was a mistake.
Nearly everyone has talked to junior guard Jeremiah Rivers about the dances he did while sitting out last season.
In a word, one could easily say IU played “sloppily.”
The Hoosiers won their exhibition home opener today with a 96-73 victory over Grace College.
Crean was hesitant to place the Hoosiers against some of the tougher opponents available when he sat down to plan out his team’s 2009-10 schedule. On one specific occasion, he considered leaving a team off the list completely.
Wednesday’s exhibition game against Grace College will be Crean’s first game since IU’s 66-51 loss to Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament in March. Since that game, hype has grown for this season.
There might not be any true “diaper dandy,” leave-early-for-the-NBA-type talents among IU’s highly touted freshman class, but these guys are darn good.
Superman, Optimus Prime and Hannah Montana came to Assembly Hall on Saturday. At the Haunted Hall of Hoops, children trick-or-treated with the IU men’s basketball team. Dressed in costumes, children came with their parents to meet the team and watch a scrimmage afterward.
IU coach Tom Crean was at the North End Zone facility Thursday for a tip-off pep rally. Six hundred and fifty Varsity Club donors, season ticket holders and other fans came to hear him speak and meet the 2009-2010 men’s basketball team. It was the fourth-annual pep rally, but the first in the North End Zone.
It’s official: Bob Knight will not attend the ceremony inducting him into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame. The University confirmed Knight’s planned absence in a press release today.
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Dick Vitale, current ESPN analyst, tweeted earlier today that Bob Knight will not be in attendance at the IU Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony slated for Nov. 6.
Bob Knight's attorney has notified IU that the former coach will not accept the school's $75,000 offer to settle a lawsuit.
Private donors are giving $75,000 to Bob Knight to settle a lawsuit he filed against IU claiming it didn't properly defend him when he was sued by a former assistant coach.
As was evident from the scars worn by players, the IU men’s basketball team hasn’t deviated much from the staple of last season in its first week of practices. The Hoosiers began 2008 without an identity and ended with a reputation as a still learning, but hard-working, team.
Last week marked not only the official return of college basketball, but the 99th birthday of one of college basketball’s greatest ambassadors.
While last Friday’s Hoosier Hysteria marked the start of official practices for the IU men’s basketball team, the team will “tip off” the 2009-10 campaign with a pep rally at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29.
Students, alumni and Indiana residents came out to Hoosier Hysteria on Friday to see the start of the IU men’s basketball season.
As excited as the team is to get back on the court, they now have less than three weeks before their Nov. 4 exhibition game with Grace College. That means just 25 days until their season opener against Howard on Nov. 13.