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  • Many attributes needed for next IU basketball coach

    I wanted to respond to a couple of articles in the Bloomington paper, which you won't be able to access without a subscription, but you'll get the sense of them. Today we have an editorial, which endorsed the thinking of Dan Dakich on who should be the next coach, [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2008, 10:18pm EDT

  • Hoosiers one and done

    Well, that's a wrap. The career of the wonderful D.J. White ends up on a sour note. Dan Dakich coaches the Hoosiers to one-and-done in the Big Ten tournament, one-and-done in the NCAA's. It's interesting that the last time the Hoosiers fired a coach in mid-season, the Hoosiers banded together [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2008, 3:47pm EDT

  • Dakich, Sampson, and a coach to be named later: the basketball soap opera continues

    It's hard to avoid a persecution complex when you're an Indiana fan. Thirty years of Coach Knight: squeaky clean program, lots of wins: "But dude, he chokes his players!". Five years of Coach Davis: squeaky clean program, perfect gentleman: "Doesn't win enough games!". Now we're on to Kelvin Sampson: obviously [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2008, 9:51pm EST

  • The next 12 games

    Terry Hutchens has another good post on the remaining games, although there're a few of the "well...it'll be a close game, but the Hoosiers should probably pull it out" sort of win prediction. Here's my list, but just assume that I said something similar to the above for every [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2008, 10:20pm EST

  • Connecticut 68, Indiana 63

    This one was my fault. I apologize, Hoosier fans. When writing about the game yesterday, I let this line slip through without correction:

    I didn't really see the Huskies as a huge threat...

    Anytime a fan puts something like that out in public where it can be [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2008, 8:48pm EST

  • Connecticut players suspended

    Well, this is handy. "Obviously losing our leading scorer, our two leaders in steals, and our second and third assist men, we're basically a 6½-man team now," Calhoun said. I didn't really see the Huskies as a huge threat even before, but now...I guess we'll see.

    Last time [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2008, 11:02pm EST

  • Indiana's defensive deficiencies

    Oh, boy, Chris Korman fell right into it (Subscription required), coming out with a headline about how the Hoosiers are ranked eighth in scoring defense. He really should know that there is a big difference between being unable to stop the other team from getting points, and scoring points [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2008, 8:42pm EST

  • Indiana 65, Minnesota 60

    26 turnovers. Twenty-six! And they still pulled out the win. D.J. White and Jordan Crawford has some good efficency, using just 24 shots between them to score 33 points, but EJ was committing fouls and turnovers all night. He still scored 12 with just eight shots, but this is where [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2008, 6:23am EST

  • What we know about the Hoosiers so far

    Just about nothing. Partly because our watching them on TV has been so curtailed, and partly because the competition has been so pathetic that they haven't hardly had a game to show anything. I've gone to the last three Saturday games, and there simply just wasn't much to see. Gordon [...]
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    Posted: December 31, 2007, 10:32pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana fails to score 100 points, is outrebounded

    Well, okay, so they still won 95-71, and going away, really, as the end of the bench probably gave up a few points of the lead near the end. Gordon comes up with another 30, and the offensive efficiency is still at least a couple of standard deviations over the [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2007, 9:06pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana 111, UNC Pembroke 62

    Didn't get to hear or see much of the first exhibition - sounded more or less like what I expected. The pace combined with an amazing offensive efficiency resulted in a remarkable number of points, though.

    Interestingly, the pace in the second exhibition was extremely slow - just 66 [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2007, 9:01pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Hoosier Hysteria, and Sampson

    Well, Sampson first. Oh, man, I feel almost physically ill. Sampson is such an awesome coach - it's obvious his kids will follow him into an alligator pit if he asks them to, and the team looks prepped and ready for one of the most exciting Hoosier seasons in years, [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2007, 8:57pm EDT
    by Ben Fulton

  • Hoosierball: Year 3

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    Hey, after suffering through the last few years there's no way I won't be back with my usual uninformed opinions for the next year. I don't want to start thinking about whether the Hoosiers will win a national championship yet; or whether Hoosier fans would consider the season a success [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2007, 9:35pm EDT
    by Ben Fulton

  • D.J. White going pro?

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    Terry Hutchens has an article where he considers a reader email suggesting that DJ should go pro. Now, I'm a big believer in going pro if you can. I think a student-athlete who has the potential to make millions of dollars would be crazy to turn down the opportunity [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2007, 7:45pm EDT
    by Ben Fulton

  • UCLA 54, Indiana 49

    What a thriller of a finish! After that amazingly bad first half, the Hoosiers had the game tied with a minute left as a little run of threes finally got them back into the hunt. But they couldn't get quite enough together to steal the game away.

    I think [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2007, 9:58pm EDT
    by Ben Fulton

  • UCLA 20, Indiana Hoosiers 13 at the half

    Good grief. The Hoosiers hit just five field goals in the first half, on top of missing four free throws - two of which were the front end of one-and-ones - and they're totally in it. UCLA hit just seven field goals. What is going on here?

    All this [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2007, 8:33pm EDT
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana NCAA tournament seeding

    Eeew. I don't like it, not one little bit. The Hoosiers pick up the #7 seed, which after another horrific Illinois game seems pretty acceptable, but off they fly 2000 miles to the West Coast once again for the first and second round games, so the fan support will be [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2007, 7:16pm EDT
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana Hoosiers 69, Northwestern 65

    I'm not sure what the bigger story is in this game; Wilmont's new school record for threes or the Hoosiers' second straight attempt to give the game away in the second half. They did win, so let's take a look at Wilmont: 32 points scored using 17 shots; nine of [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2007, 7:49pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana Hoosiers 69, Northwestern 65

    I'm not sure what the bigger story is in this game; Wilmont's new school record for threes or the Hoosiers' second straight attempt to give the game away in the second half. They did win, so let's take a look at Wilmont: 32 points scored using 17 shots; nine of [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2007, 7:49pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Michigan State 66, Indiana 56

    Well, the first five minutes of the second half it looked like the Hoosiers would be able to keep it up. The Spartans continued to turn the ball over and the Hoosier offense was doing OK.

    Then the wheels fell off. Michigan State went on a fourteen-point run [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2007, 10:11pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana Hoosiers 30, Michigan State 20 at the half

    The Spartans have just put up one of the most woeful offensive halves in a Hoosier opponent that it ever has been my pleasure to observe. Eighteen shots they got off, and turned the ball over fourteen times, resulting in an anemic 0.65 points per possession, a mark of ineptitude [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2007, 8:53pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Can the Hoosiers make the NCAA tournament???

    Well, yes. Duh. It boggles my mind that people are even discussing this. As we go into the Michigan State game, the Hoosiers are 21st in RPI - where they've been hanging around all year - hovering around the top 25 in the polls, and are in third place in [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2007, 1:17pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Purdue 81, Indiana Hoosiers 68

    Number of comments: 1
    It's not rocket science, is it? The Boilers forced the Hoosiers into looking like an average offensive team, while themselves pouring in points on just about every possession. Execute on offense, prevent on defense, and you'll probably come away with a win, and that's what Purdue did tonight. The Dynamic [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2007, 8:13pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana Hoosiers 65, Illinois 61

    Number of comments: 2
    I'm really not quite sure how they pulled this one out. Down three with three and a half minutes left and the Illini never scored again. There's a fair amount of luck involved in games that are close - as anyone who followed Notre Dame last year can tell you [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2007, 7:57pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Round the far post

    We're halfway through the Big Ten schedule, and the Hoosiers stand 6-3, two back of Wisconsin and Ohio State. Way better, I suspect, than anyone thought they'd be, although beating Iowa would have been nice. The second half of the season consists of a tough four-game set and an easy [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2007, 8:32pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana 71, Wisconsin 66!

    They pulled it off. Neither team managed much of a lead throughout the first half, and in the second half it was 40-40 when the Hoosiers reeled off eight in a row, and just when we all thought we could coast home, Kammron Taylor started blasting in three-pointers, and the [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2007, 8:05pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Wisconsin thoughts

    Just a couple of notes on the last three games: First, opponents have shot 83 free throws in those games, the Hoosiers 45. I'm not quite sure why that is, but it's been a season-long pattern, and not every team is going to miss them as obligingly as Connecticut did. [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2007, 8:43pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana 71, Iowa 64

    Number of comments: 2
    It's becoming routine. How cool. The Hoosiers took out the Hawkeyes in workmanlike fashion in this game. The last tie was at 10-10, then Indiana went on a 9-0 run and pulled away steadily after that. They were up 19 with seven minutes to go before a loss of intensity [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2007, 8:07pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana 85, Purdue 58

    Something interesting about the last two games: Purdue and Michigan State combined for 83 field goal attempts, and made 38 turnovers. The Hoosiers have been forcing a turnover almost for every two shots the opponents attempted. Pretty impressive.

    In fact, the last 80 minutes of ball Indiana has played [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2007, 7:37pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Ohio State 74, Indiana 67

    Know what? You just don't win on the road in the Big Ten. When the home team is a top ten team and has Greg Oden on their team, you just don't don't win on the road in the Big Ten.

    Here's what tOSU offense did tonight when they [...]
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    Posted: January 02, 2007, 8:57pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana 71, Ball State 57

    Number of comments: 1
    Ball State kept it close until late in the first half, when Coach Sampson decided to sprinkle his magic powder and the Hoosiers ran off twelve straight before halftime. Ball State never challenged after halftime, and the 14-point final margin was as close as the Cardinals ever got. Errek Suhr [...]
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    Posted: December 30, 2006, 9:38pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana 57, Southern Illinois 47

    For all we heard about SIU's defense, their defense was really no more than average against the Hoosiers, while Indiana absolutely smothered the Salukis. On top of that, Southern Illinois most impressive defense was at the free throw line, where they held Indiana to just 19 of 31 free throws. [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2006, 8:53pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • SIU thoughts

    Number of comments: 1
    What I'm hearing is that this might be a pretty tough game, and that the Salukis play some tough D. But people sound very impressed by the fact that the Salukis have only given up 65 points in one game so far this year, which by itself doesn't mean they [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2006, 8:22pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana 74, Charlotte 57

    Number of comments: 2
    Coach Sampson shook up the starters this game, rewarding the guys who played so well in the Duke second half with starts. So Errek Suhr, Joey Shaw, and Armon Bassett all were on the court at the start of the game. The result, not really surprisingly, was six turnovers in [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2006, 7:39pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Duke 54, Indiana 51

    After last year's Duke game I posted a list of things that I thought might have gone Indiana's way and caused them to win the game - they only lost by eight against a darned good Duke team. This year they came within a whisker, with Errek Suhr having [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2006, 9:59pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Duke 33, Indiana 21 at the half

    All along Kelvin has been telling us that we're gonna have to wait on this team; that they have a long way to go; that he has to get used to them and them to him. Now, under the first real pressure of the season, I understand what he means: [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2006, 9:06pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Butler 60, Indiana 55

    Yeah. Well, this game was pretty much a repeat of last night's; a gazillion ticky-tack fouls being called, massively distorting the gameplay and the final stats. The Hoosiers managed to build a twelve-point lead midway through the second half, and then proceeded to collapse offensively, playing an absolutely disastrous final [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2006, 9:31pm EST
    by Ben Fulton

  • Indiana 91, Lafayette 66

    In the last games there wasn't much to be learned because it was all very straightforward. In this game, there wasn't much to be learned because it was all too freaky. Look at these numbers:
    • Fouls on the Hoosiers: 28
    • FTA's for the Leopards: 29
    • Hoosiers shooting percentage: 57.8%
    • Earl Calloway's shooting percentage: [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2006, 10:11pm EST
    by Ben Fulton
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