March Madness roared into Indy last night as Indiana completed the most unlikely comeback in Big 10 Tournament history, beating Penn State 74-73. With four minutes left, Indiana trailed by 18 points. It looked like the Hoosiers’ tourney run might end, and its tenuous place on Joe Lunardi’s bubble quite insecure. The typical malaise infused basketball that IU has […]
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Indiana lost 34-27 today in Happy Valley and Hoosier fans are celebrating. All over social media, IU fans are talking about how far this team has come and how this loss shows the progress the program is making. That’s the same thing they’ve done for the last half century of mediocre to poor Indiana Football. […]
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James Blackmon Jr. hit a hell of a shot last night to save the Hoosiers bacon after they allowed Penn State to erase a 13-point deficit in the last five minutes of the game. Then he went “Shhhh!” I tweeted about it. Didn’t like it. Most agreed, some didn’t, and those who didn’t reminded […]
So there I stand at Drake’s on 82nd Street in Indianapolis picking up some carry out, and the Indiana game against Penn State starts. A guy I met because he listens to my radio show asks, “Are you sticking around for the Indiana game?” “Nope, just picking up some food,” I tell him. As I […]
by Kent Sterling Hanner Mosquera-Perea injured his knee yesterday, and is expected to miss the next two to four weeks. People believe this will present a hardship for Indiana’s basketball team, because Mosquera-Perea is the tallest and most athletic of the Hoosiers. During the first 90 seconds of the past two games, Mosquera-Perea committed two […]
by Kent Sterling Trying to find a word that fairly and generously describes Indiana’s failed effort to hold onto an 11-point lead with two-and-a-half minutes to play is difficult. The best I can muster is “inept.” Yogi Ferrell made Indiana’s final field goal of the game with 5:16 left, and the Hoosiers turned the ball […]
by Kent Sterling I saw a TV spot for the Big Ten Network this morning that listed “elite coaches” as part of the magic of its basketball coverage. Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan, Michigan’s Jim Beilein, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, and Ohio State’s Thad Matta made the cut. Tom Crean, Matt Painter, Fran McCaffery, John Groce, Chris […]