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Abraham to make recruiting visit to IU
Indiana is very much a player in the recruitment of Moses Abraham. After meeting with IU coach Tom Crean in Washington D.C. Tuesday night, Abraham has agreed to visit the Indiana campus, possibly as early as Tuesday. Abraham, a 6-9, 237-pound center...
DC recruit Abraham to visit IU
Indiana is very much a player in the recruitment of Moses Abraham. After meeting with IU coach Tom Crean in Washington D.C. Tuesday night, Abraham has agreed to visit the Indiana campus, possibly as early as Tuesday of next week. Abraham, a 6-9,...
Tourney time? Indiana's Crean left to tweet about it
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Basketball still rules in Indiana. Even if the Hoosiers no longer rule basketball in the state They’re not even in the top three. For the 20th time in the past three decades, at least three teams from the state of...
IU blanks Central Michigan
Indiana University sophomore left-hander Drew Leininger scattered eight hits over nine innings in a 9-0 victory over Central Michigan at Winter Haven, Fla. Alex Dickerson , Micah Johnson and Ethan Wilson homered for the Hoosiers (5-8). Star reports
Power forward seriously considering IU
Indiana University is out of the NCAA Tournament, but the Hoosiers could get some good news on Selection Sunday. Moses Abraham, a 6-9 power forward from Nigeria who is playing in the Washington, D.C., is planning to make his decision today, according...
Rice hires Greenspan as athletics director
HOUSTON — Rick Greenspan is the new athletics director at Rice. Greenspan, the former AD at Indiana, was introduced Friday. He replaces Chris Del Conte, who resigned in October to become the AD at TCU. David Sayler, a senior executive athletics...
Indiana's season ends in first round
One of the reasons Indiana snapped its 11-game losing streak by beating Northwestern five days ago was that the Hoosiers attacked the basket and controlled the tempo. Thursday, against the same Northwestern team in the first round of the Big Ten...
IU's season over after falling to Northwestern 73-58
INDIANAPOLIS — Northwestern’s Michael Thompson scored 11 of his 16 points during a late run Thursday, leading the Wildcats past Indiana 73-58 in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. Seventh-seeded Northwestern (20-12) wrapped up the...
Creek likes what he sees in IU's future
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The frustration of losing finally caught up with injured guard Maurice Creek after last Wednesday’s defeat at Purdue. As his Indiana teammates shuffled into the locker room, Creek sat down, put his head in his hands...
Crean fires IU assistant McLeod
The contract of Indiana assistant basketball coach Roshown McLeod will not be renewed and McLeod will not help coach the Hoosiers in this week’s Big Ten Tournament, the university announced Sunday. McLeod, who coached IU’s big men, was...
Freshmen help IU end loss streak at 11
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The seniors might have given the speeches Saturday, but it was clearly freshman day at Indiana. Jordan Hulls scored a career-high 24 points, including eight 3-pointers. Derek Elston had a career-high 17 points. Christian...
Freshman Elston finishes with flourish
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Derek Elston chalked up his recent success to a trust he believes Indiana coach Tom Crean has in him. It was just two weeks ago Elston completed a stretch of five games in which he scored a total of eight points. In the past...
IU seniors fought through 'trying times'
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A tumultuous two-year career at Indiana is coming to an end for Devan Dumes. The former Decatur Central High School standout, who played at Eastern Michigan as a freshman and then played junior college ball at Vincennes for...
IU's shooting trouble results in first-round defeat
Her teammates call her “Grandma” because Illinois senior center Jenna Smith moves a bit like an older woman. It’s deceptively effective, though. How else can a hobbled player, admittedly the slowest down the court with tendinitis in...
Hoosiers haunted by their own mistakes
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The little things continued to plague Indiana on Wednesday night in a 74-55 loss to No. 7 Purdue at Mackey Arena. Too many fundamental mistakes, both in footwork and ballhandling, led to 18 turnovers. Too many shooters...
Turnovers costly to young IU team
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Indiana turned the ball over eight times in the first 10 minutes Sunday. The result — a quick 17-4 Iowa lead — was to be expected. When it was over, IU committed 20 turnovers that resulted in 23 points in...
10 straight losses feel awful to IU
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean said he thought his team showed much more fight Sunday against Iowa than it did the first time the teams met in late January at Assembly Hall. The scoreboard told a different story. On a...
Iowa hands Indiana 10th straight loss
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa fans haven’t had much to cheer about while watching the inexperienced Hawkeyes learn on the job. In their home finale, though, they saw the Hawkeyes hard work pay off with a decisive and well-deserved win. Sophomore...
IU looks for elusive 10th win
When Indiana basketball fans look back at another disappointing season, there will be a couple of games that stand out. The 78-75 home loss to Purdue was big because the Hoosiers missed three one-and-one free throw attempts down the stretch. The...
Hoosiers routed, Crean tossed
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Tom Crean’s frustration with Big Ten officiating has been building over two difficult seasons at the Indiana helm. Thursday night, it reached the boiling point — and then some. Upset over a series of no-calls...
No. 17 Wisconsin rolls past Indiana 78-46
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Trevon Hughes scored 17 points and No. 17 Wisconsin rolled to one of its most impressive wins of the season, 78-46 over Indiana on Thursday night. The Badgers (21-7, 11-5 Big Ten) shot 54 percent from the field and had five...
Role of IU's Hulls increases with his confidence
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — If there’s one thing Jordan Hulls has learned, it’s that he can have a successful career in the Big Ten. It’s just going to take a lot of work. But that’s the easy part for the consummate gym rat....
Indiana University basketball center to be named for Bill and Gayle Cook
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University’s new basketball training complex will be named after billionaire entrepreneur Bill Cook and his wife. The IU Board of Trustees on Friday approved naming the 67,000-square-foot building Cook Hall in...
More trouble for struggling IU
Minnesota jumps on Hoosiers early, never lets up in rout MINNEAPOLIS — The script for Indiana’s eighth loss in a row was reminiscent of IU’s struggles of late. Get behind early. Get dominated inside. And hit a low percentage of...
Crean goes small, this time with 4 guards
MINNEAPOLIS — Indiana coach Tom Crean has employed three-guard lineups consistently throughout the season, generally when he hasn’t been happy with the production he has received from his frontcourt players. Saturday, he took it a step...
Westbrook, Minnesota dominate IU 81-58
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota is refocused and recharged. Maybe this mini-surge is too late for the Gophers to make the NCAA tournament, but they’re at least having fun again. Lawrence Westbrook bounced back from a bad game with 20 points, including...
All this losing wears on young Hoosiers
Sixteen losses and counting. Seven in a row, with the last victory coming nearly a month ago. One life lesson after another. That’s Indiana basketball in a nutshell as the Hoosiers (9-16, 3-10 Big Ten) travel to Minneapolis today to face...
Bills hire IU assistant
Indiana University offensive line coach Bobby Johnson was hired as assistant offensive line coach by the Buffalo Bills. . . . Jay Hood was promoted from defensive ends coach to defensive coordinator for Ball State, following the retirement of Doug...
Hoosiers discover 2s count more than 1s
Better free throw shooting overshadowed BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana, the worst free throw shooting team in the Big Ten, outscored Michigan State by 20 points at the foul line Tuesday night. The Spartans, alone in first place in the conference,...
No. 11 Michigan State pulls away from Indiana
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Draymond Green scored 14 points and Kalin Lucas added 13 to lead No. 11 Michigan State past Indiana 72-58 on Tuesday night. It was the second straight win for the Spartans (21-6, 11-3) who took over sole possession of first...
