Only five days to Indiana Basketball’s first game of the season, and I’m getting nervous. Really nervous. The last seven months have been filled with hope and optimism that the Hoosiers will be better than under former coach Archie Miller – good enough the earn their first invitation to the NCAA Tournament since 2016. Miller getting […]
IU Basketball coach Mike Woodson is still undefeated, and so all fans see right now are reasons for hope and glory! Woodson has been on the job for almost three months, and we keep learning things about his style of leadership and ability to recruit. With seven weeks left before the team plays a pair of exhibitions […]
Indiana is now even-steven on the transfer front. Guard Al Durham left for Providence and guard Xavier Johnson has pledged to join the Hoosiers after three years at Pitt. As is the case with most sane basketball fans outside Pittsburgh’s city limits, I spend very little time watching the Panthers serve as a punching bag […]
Mike Woodson stood at the podium, told the truth, and Indiana became Indiana again. That wouldn’t be enough at most universities as they introduce a new basketball coach, and it wasn’t enough at Indiana the last two times it’s gone through a regime change. IU needed the fight song, allusions to previous and future banners, and […]
The event announcing the hire of Mike Woodson as the 30th basketball coach in Indiana University history was not designed to win over fans and media like the previous two. There were no bands, fireworks, or bold predictions. Red carpets, frenzied applause, or inspirational videos were also absent. Maybe the lack of dynamism was due to it […]
Mike Woodson as Indiana’s new coach is an atypical choice, and for that reason I love it! The last three times Indiana went about the task of finding the new best hope to bring Indiana back to consistent success, a coach was chosen from outside a fairly robust group of former Hoosiers. Not this time. In […]
Brad Stevens said no to Indiana several times. The first rebuff was ignored. We listened to the second. At least most of us did. Some are still holding out hope that some miracle occurs, and the rejections are revealed to be an effort by Stevens to disguise his rabid interest in returning home until the end […]
