tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27191220046614961642024-03-13T07:19:59.168-07:00HoosierhooplaIU sports newsPete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.comBlogger707125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-83506754601920013042017-07-25T11:49:00.001-07:002017-07-25T11:49:47.892-07:00Indiana vs. Arizona – when brothers collide<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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refreshing era of Indiana basketball non-conference scheduling, where the
Savannah States of the world could soon be replaced by …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Arizona.</span></div>
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scheduling patsies. Every power team in the country does it. You’d have to be
an idiot not to do it some, and new coach Archie Miller and veteran athletic
director Fred Glass aren’t idiots.</span></div>
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non-conference scheduling and the first example of that reportedly will be
Arizona, which happens to be coached by Sean Miller, who is Archie’s older
brother and who will never, ever coach, say, Mississippi Valley State, which
had become a recent Assembly Hall regular.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, Hoosier Nation noticed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In case you’ve forgotten, Arizona
has become a perennial national title contender under Sean Miller, although it
has not won a national title. IU has won five of them, the last in 1987, which
was so long ago Twitter hadn’t even been thought of, let alone invented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway, Archie wants to get it on
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rothstein indicated the series would
start in Arizona for the 2019-20 season, then switch to IU the following
season, then end up at a neutral site, which would mean in New York City’s
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-50123566097921146472017-07-24T10:19:00.002-07:002017-07-24T10:19:50.922-07:00Careers end early for IU’s T.J. Simmons and Camion Patrick <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By Pete DiPrimio </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">BLOOMINGTON -- T.J. Simmons had his day in the Indiana Cream ‘n
Crimson football sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Camion Patrick never did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And never will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The end has come for both players’ Hoosier careers.
Injuries were the cause. A medical redshirt was the result. That means Simmons
and Patrick will remain on scholarship for their final season, but won’t play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The announcement came Monday morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A knee injury ended Simmons’ hopes for a big finale.
He played in 37 straight games to open his career, with 35 starts. He totaled
213 tackles with six sacks and 16.5 tackles for loss. He also forced two
fumbles and recovered a fumble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But a knee injury caused him to miss all of last
season. It became apparent that the knee would not allow him to play this
season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“T.J. was a three-year starter and a
tough kid that I was looking forward to coaching,” coach Tom Allen said in a
university release. “He did everything that he could to get himself back from
his knee injury, but he was unable to reach a place where he could consistently
play.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Simmons’ playing days are over, but
not in his ability to help the program. He’ll work as a student assistant coach
in the weight room and in practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“T.J. is excited about his new role,”
Allen said. “He will be helping his teammates get better. T.J. has such a
passion for the game and this program, and I am thrilled to have him help us
breakthrough.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The “breakthrough” Allen referred to
was achieving a winning record, something IU hasn’t done since 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then there was Patrick, a potential
superstar out of junior college who could never stay healthy enough to put
substance to the hype.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He arrived at IU in 2015 and for
academic reasons couldn’t play, but looked so good in practice that then coach
Kevin Wilson consistently praised him. Although he arrived as a receiver, he
showed particular promise as a running back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He tore his ACL during 2016 spring
practice, but recovered in time to play last season. He caught six passes for
154 yards (including a 40-yard touchdown). Against then No. 3 Michigan and its
nation’s best defense, he rushed four times for 10 yards and a TD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He hurt his shoulder late in the season
and needed off-season surgery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He wasn’t able to make it back for
this season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Unfortunately, Camion dealt with
multiple injuries during his time at IU and was never able to fully recover,”
Allen said. “He has worked hard in the classroom. Camion has battled to get
back following each injury, but his body has let him down. He recognizes that.
We recognize that, and we want to help him finish strong in the classroom and
help him create a bright future for himself.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meanwhile, IU All-America linebacker Tegray Scales (pictured above) was
one of 10 Big Ten players honored in the league’s preseason list announced as
part of this week’s Big Ten football gathering in Chicago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Scales was one of five East Division players honored.
The others were Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett, Ohio State defensive end
Tyquan Lewis, Penn State running back Saquan Barkley and Penn State quarterback
Trace McSorley.</span></div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-4619545448235372222017-07-23T07:09:00.002-07:002017-07-23T08:08:25.409-07:00Recruiting high -- Indiana rolling under Archie Miller<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">By Pete DiPrimio</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">BLOOMINGTON -- Archie
Miller has ‘em pumped.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">You bet he does.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The man hired, at a hot
$3.3 million a year, to revive Indiana’s national title-winning basketball ways,
has Hoosier Nation jacked with a red-hot July recruiting roll that even generated
a buzz in the Rocky Mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Trust me. I was there. I
heard it while at elevations surpassing 11,000 feet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Anyway, Miller landed
commitments from three four-star recruits in like 30 seconds – forwards Race
Thompson and Damezi Anderson, and swingman Jerome Hunter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">OK, it was really more
like two days, but it was enough to propel IU into top-12 national class status
courtesy of Scout.com.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The 6-8 Thompson, a top-90 prospect, was supposed to
be part of the Class of 2018, but reclassified to this year, which means he
could play this year, but won’t so he can redshirt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Why do that?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">To get an early jump on
college life, academics and basketball. That could lead to maximum impact when
Thompson does start playing in November of 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">According to Scout.com,
Hunter is considered the No. 62 player in the Class of 2018. Anderson is at No.
81.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Miller has a ton of
scholarships to offer, as many as six. He might not use all of them, but he has
them, and topping the wish list is, of course, New Albany five-star standout
Romeo Langford.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yes, the class’s No. 5
prospect is a potential one-and-done guy, but what a one that could be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Beyond that, IU is
looking at standouts such as Darius Garland (an Indianapolis native now living
in Tennessee), Rob Phinisee, Moses Brown, Louis King, Jalen Carey, David Duke
and Aaron Henry (a 6-6 rising forward prospect out of Indianapolis Ben Davis).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Garland, by the way, is
the nation’s No. 8 overall prospect and the top point guard prospect.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Phinisee is another highly regarded point guard prospect.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Miller won’t get all of
them, but he might get enough to have a top-10 class in his IU debut recruiting
effort.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Add the fact Miller earlier salvaged the current freshman class of Clifton Moore, Justin Smith and Al Durham (they could have left in the aftermath of Tom Crean's March firing) and no wonder Hoosier Nation
is pumped.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">As far as the 6-7
Anderson, Miller made up recruiting ground fast, especially on Purdue, which
had made him an early target. Connecticut and Michigan also were in the mix.
He’s strong and athletic and possesses an effective three-point shot as well as
an ability to bang inside.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">As a South Bend Riley
standout, Anderson also represents Miller’s first success with in-state
recruiting, something that he has made a priority. He’s considered the state’s
No. 3 prospect via 247 Sports.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Anderson averaged 24.0
points and 7.6 rebounds last season for Riley. He was named the Northern
Indiana Conference MVP.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">How long has it been
since IU got a recruit from South Bend? Since 1976, when Tom Abernathy said yes
to then coach Bob Knight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then there is
Ohio-native Hunter, a versatile 6-7 prospect rated as a top-15 prospect at
small forward. Miller had made him a priority when he was at Dayton, and
continued the focus when he joined the Hoosiers. 247 Sports has him as the
state of Ohio’s No. 2 player.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">As a junior at Pickerington
North High School, he averaged 19.3 points and 10.9 rebounds. He can play
shooting guard or both forward positions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Add it all up and you
have a July to remember.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">To a bunch of seasons to
savor?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Stay tuned.</span></div>
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By Pete DiPrimio<br />
<br />
BLOOMINGTON – Collin Hartman is full-go, which is big if you bleed Cream ‘n
Crimson, and even if you don’t.<br />
<br />
There’s just one thing to consider -- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he won’t really be full go.<br />
<br />
Not in July.<br />
<br />
Not with so much riding on a healthy season.<br />
<br />
Still, the do-it-all senior is fully recovered from the knee injury and
surgery that sidelined him all of last season. He’s able to fully participate
in summer workouts, which means, barring another health glitch, which is no
guarantee for a guy who is far too familiar with hospitals and rehab, he should
be ready to roll when it matters, which is in November.<br />
<br />
How will he roll when it does matter?<br />
<br />
Given he can, in measured doses, play every position, it comes down to this:<br />
<br />
Do what needs to be done.<br />
<br />
Hartman can absolutely do that. He has, after all, averaged 4.1 points and 2.7 rebounds while shooting 40 percent from
three-point range over his career. He also plays solid defense, hustles, leads and cares.<br />
<br />
You win with players like that.<br />
<br />
So what does Hartman hope to get out of what will absolutely be his final college
season?<br />
<br />
“Simply put, whatever the game calls for at that point in time whether it's
guarding big or guarding a guard or scoring 20 or scoring 0 and getting
rebounds or steals or whatever,” he said. “I just want to be able to play every
position that coach needs me and be able to be a Swiss Army knife. Where he
could put me anywhere at any point in time and I can carry out my job.”<br />
<br />
Yes, Hartman did use the Swiss Army knife cliché, which should be retired
along with platform shoes with goldfish swimming in them, but that misses the point, which is he plans to fully utilize his versatility.<br />
<br />
Getting and staying healthy is crucial to that. So what is Hartman able to do now?<br />
<br />
“As we approach these team workouts, we'll be very, very smart with him,”
coach Archie Miller said. “There is no real reason to speed him up. But I think
confidence-wise, mentally and physically, he feels as good as he's felt in a
long, long time.<br />
<br />
“We'll continue to take him slow, but he's ahead of schedule just in terms
of where he's supposed to be, doing what he's going to do, and the way he's
handled things in this off-season, he's given himself a chance to kick off
October, November, full go.”<br />
<br />
In other words, just because Hartman is now cleared for contact doesn't mean he's going to get heavy doses of it now.<br />
<br />
“It is a big step, obviously," Hartman said.
"We have taken this process somewhat slowly. We have been very diligent in the
rehab and really staying safe, taking the time that we have. There is no need
to push into contact and risk a third injury. It has been good to take
those steps forwards and see the progress.”<br />
<br />
For a while, Hartman didn’t figure to return for a final season. But the
departure of former coach Tom Crean and the hiring of Miller created new
possibilities Hartman decided to explore.<br />
<br />
“It is a change,” Hartman said. “It is cool to be a part of two eras. I
had four great years with Coach Crean, won a (Big Ten) championship. I
have known him since I was in eighth grade. We have an extensive history
between the two of us and I am appreciative for everything he has done for me,
and I am also looking forward to what we do with Coach Miller and what we have
going forward in this year. One of the main reasons I came back was just
because I do not get another chance at this.”<br />
<br />
As far as who he talked to while making the decision to return, Hartman
said, “Obviously, my mom, my family, Coach Crean, the coaching staff and
everybody around me.<br />
<br />
“But, I really took to heart what people said who did not have their biased
opinions in the matter. Those that did not get anything out of me staying
or going. I talked to people that were neutral that gave me an insight on life.
Those are the real people that I really took in.<br />
<br />
“I love my mom more than anything, but I knew she wanted me to stay, and
that's what she was going to try to sway me to do. She did a great job staying
neutral. So I did talk to people who did not have a stake in whether I stayed
or I left.”<br />
<br />
Last season IU stumbled to an 18-16 record and failed to make the NCAA tourney for the
second time in four years. That cost Crean his job. Does Hartman wonder what
might have happened if he had stayed healthy and played?<br />
<br />
“There are always what-ifs. You cannot change it. It is what it is.<br />
<br />
“Last year I tried to do my best and communicate. We were a young team
and a lot of unfortunate incidents with OG (Anunoby) and injuries. A lot of
things did not go our way. In situations like that you do the best you can.<br />
<br />
“For myself it was just talk to these guys: keep coaching, keep coaching,
keep coaching and just be diligent in your work day in and day out.”<br />
<br />
Hartman’s return is big, but he’s not like the second coming of, say,
Michael Jordan. So what will he bring?<br />
<br />
Try toughness, leadership and an appreciation of all things Hoosier<br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
That matters.<br />
<br />
“Collin's a very vocal leader,” guard Josh Newkirk said. “He brings a lot of
things to the table that goes unnoticed, like just his hustle, just him being
out there and being a leader. So it will definitely help us."<br />
<br />
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By Pete DiPrimio<br />
<br />
Forget, for just a second, the priorities of defense and turnovers in
Indiana’s basketball world.<br />
<br />
Instead, consider the area that might ultimately be the key for an Archie
Miller debut coaching season to remember:<br />
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Players taking charge.<br />
<br />
“I feel like there won’t be any questions of leadership at all,” junior
forward Juwan Morgan says.<br />
<br />
Morgan shares a summer media gathering spotlight with sophomore teammate De’Ron
Davis. The Hoosiers are two days into team summer workouts and leadership is an
ongoing process for a team in transition from former coach Tom Crean to Miller.<br />
<br />
If you remember last season’s 17-15 mess, you know player leadership was
among the problems. The Hoosiers are working to address it. That means Morgan
and other veterans such as Collin Hartman (who has just been cleared for full
practice participation from last fall’s knee surgery), Rob Johnson and Josh
Newkirk are trying to do what needs to be done.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Personally, I think I will most
likely do that,” Morgan says. “Collin is still right there. So is Rob. Josh has
started speaking up more. I think everybody will take part in it.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The impetus, Morgan says, didn’t
come from the coaches. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That was something we decided upon
ourselves because we realized missing Collin last year, like me and OG (Anunoby)
used to joke about it, calling him the annoying guy you always hated hearing,
but you knew he was right. I think that's what we really missed last year.”</span></div>
<br />
Hartman missed all of last season with a knee injury. Without him making on-court
impact, the Hoosiers badly underachieved, although the reasons went far deeper
than his absence.<br />
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As far as the leadership issue, Johnson is confident this season will be
different.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We have multiple guys that have
game experience, that have played at a high level for the past couple years
with me, Josh, Collin and Juwan. Guys who have given valuable minutes to the
team.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“With all those guys it will help.
We’re looking to build every day.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Building starts with recognition.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Leaders have to be coaches on the
court,” Johnson says. “That's something that should be able to be reflected
whenever you watch us play.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who have emerged as leaders?</span></div>
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“Rob has always been a leader by example,” Hartman says, “but I think he has
really taken up a more vocal role in his leadership. Josh, Juwan and guys like
that have stepped up. Everybody has really matured throughout the summer
and I think we have really grown together as a group.”<br />
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And what does Miller think about all of this?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The upperclassmen have established
they have a good way about them in terms of their communication, leading by
example. But we need a group that has a loud voice.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Rob's a guy that's going to have to
step out of his comfort zone a little bit. He's done a better job this summer
than he did in the early spring. He's really, really worked hard and shown
people how it's done. But he's talking more.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Collin is a huge boost. He and
Juwan both have been fantastic in every regard of what we're doing, in terms of
them communicating, talking. You've got to have a team that can communicate
with one another. And there's got to be a sounding board, and I think those
older guys know that.”</span></div>
<br />
Knowing is one thing. Doing is crucial.<br />
<br />
We won’t know that for another five months or so.<br />
Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-65764564075116808092013-07-17T19:28:00.005-07:002013-07-17T19:28:56.117-07:00Freshmen Key For Big Indiana Basketball Success<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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By now you know the Indiana
Hoosiers are not considered the preseason basketball big dogs of the Big Ten.
That honor goes to Michigan
State and Michigan.</div>
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IU lost four thousand-point scorers -- Jordan Hulls, Christian Watford,
Victor Oladiopo and Cody Zeller -- plus valuable reserve forward Derek Elston.
A couple of veterans -- Remy Abell and Maurice Creek
-- transferred.</div>
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Much of the burden for this year will fall to veterans Yogi
Ferrell and Will Sheehey. Both got a big jump on that by playing for Team USA in the recently concluded World University
Games in Russia.
Sheehey, last year’s Big Ten 6<sup>th</sup> man of the year, displayed an improved
offense that included scoring 20 points in the tourney finale. Ferrell showed
he does have three-point range, although it must be consistent for him to be a
dominant offensive player in the manner of, say, Trey Burke.</div>
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But when it comes down to it, the Cream 'n Crimson key is the newcomer
impact.</div>
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Veteran Evan Gordon has one year to show that transferring
to his third college was a wise
move. He’s a career double-figure scorer who will provide much needed backcourt
stability, leadership and production.</div>
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Still, just how good Indiana
is this season depends on the six freshmen, who comprise a top-10 recruiting
class. Forward Noah Vonleh has instant impact potential, which is what you’d
expect from a top-10 recruit. He can rebound, block shots and play defense. If
he’s not yet Cody Zeller’s equal in offensive skill, he just might be in work
ethic.</div>
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There’s a lot of promise in Troy
Williams, Stanford Robinson, Luke Fischer,
Devin Davis and Collin
Hartman.</div>
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But since these guys train in private, we don’t really
know how they’re doing. That’s where associate head coach Tim Buckley comes in.
He has provided insight into what this freshman class could deliver.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">“I’d say this group is more highly
credentialed than any of the previous groups,” he said. “That’s why it’s
important that this group continues to keep that edge to be great, because
that’s what the other groups had. They had that edge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“They love confrontation at the
rim. They love to go after it, to try to block shots or take charges. It’s a
very competitive group."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then Buckley offered an assessment on
each freshman.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Starting with Noah. Physically,
he’s college ready. He’s very strong. He’s very powerful. He’s very polished
around the basket and explosive. He’s going to continue to develop his
perimeter game. In my humble opinion, it was a great decision on his part to
come here because that’s what we’ve been able to do. That’s where Cody will
excel in the NBA because he was put on the perimeter to drive the ball and
shoot. Those are areas he’ll continue to develop and grow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“His attitude is as good as anyone
I’ve ever seen, especially for someone as highly credentialed as he is. He
wants to learn. He wants to get better. He wants to know, what more can I do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Stan Robinson fits the motor
part. He’ll given you everything he has on a consistent basis. Sometimes he goes
too fast, but it’s a lot easier to slow guys down than hurry them up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“His skill level will get better.
Right now he’s pretty left-hand dominant, but we’re going to continue to work
on that right hand. I think he’s going to be a very good shooter once the
repetition of his shooting exceeds the pressure of the game and the pressure of
the practices. He’ll be a quality defender once he learns the schemes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Troy Williams
is a spectacular athlete, but he is as good a passer as he is an athlete. It’s
neat to watch. When he’s playing in 3-on-3 or 4-on-4 situations, he finds the
open man and he sees things maybe a play ahead. Once he gets his rhythm down
with his shooting that will improve. When he gets to point where people don’t
know whether to close on him hard or back off, that’s when he’s really going to
have the defense at his mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Devin Davis is a better player
than most people think. He’s a hybrid, a mismatch type of guy. He’s more
athletic than he looks. He’ll go up and dunk it and surprise you with that at
times. He’s also pretty good at putting the ball on the floor. He does a great
job of reading the defense as a freshman. He knows where you’re playing him and
how you’re playing him, to spin or counter with another move. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Collin is a knock-down shooter. He’s going
to continue to expand his game a little bit. One thing he can’t get away from
is making those shots when he’s open and when he’s available to take those.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Luke Fischer has gotten bigger
and stronger. He’s already put on seven or eight pounds since he’s been here.
He’s a winner. Having gone undefeated the past two seasons (in high school in Wisconsin). He’s going
to stretch and grow. He’s more likely, than the other big guys we’ve had here
recently, to step out and shoot. He’s got to get better at it, but he seems
more comfortable at it than some of the other big guys.”</span></div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-76115937620616192252013-07-14T19:16:00.001-07:002013-07-14T19:16:24.479-07:00Hoosiers Hot After Basketball Recruiting Prospects<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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So here was Tom Crean in Indianapolis,
in Philadelphia, why not Georgia, and back in Indianapolis, all in the span of five days.</div>
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When you’re seeking to land another top-10 college
basketball recruiting class, the frequent traveler miles add up.</div>
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The Indiana coach isn’t alone, of
course. Coaches from all across America just wrapped up the first of July’s three five-day evaluation
periods and there’s plenty at stake, which means every coach needs to spend
lots of time sitting on uncomfortable bleachers being visible so teenagers will
know they care.</div>
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Hey, earning millions of dollars a year has it’s glitches, not that
we’ll ever know personally about that.</div>
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Anyway, the Hoosiers have just one committed player for the
Class of 2014, and that’s guard James Blackmon, who pledged to the Cream ‘n
Crimson before his high school freshman year.</div>
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They’re after a bunch of outstanding players, both in the
Class of 2014, and beyond, and they are well positioned to land them.</div>
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They are taking a strong look at Michael
Humphrey, a 6-10 Class of 2014 center from Phoenix (peegs.com’s Jeff Rabjohns was the
first to get this). They have joined powerhouses such as Kentucky, Kansas and Louisville in offering Stephen Zimmerman, the 7-foot Las Vegas center rated No.
2 nationally in the Class of 2016.</div>
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They are pushing hard for Quentin Goodin, a Class of 2016 Kentucky guard whose family allegiance is firmly split
between Louisville and Kentucky.
They are after Colorado
forward De’Ron Davis and Colorado guard Austin Conway,
both in the Class of 2015.</div>
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And they absolutely are all over Class of 2016 guard Eron
Gordon, the younger brother of Eric and Evan.</div>
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Oh, yes. How can you pass up a chance to land a 6-10 power
forward with the name of Goodluck Okonoboh? Crean can’t, and has a strong
chance of landing this Class of 2014 standout. It certainly doesn’t hurt that
his former travel ball teammate, Noah Vonleh, is now a Hoosier freshman.</div>
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And don’t forget talented Indiana
Elite 2015 guards Hyron Edwards and Jalen
Coleman. They helped Indiana
Elite win the 16U division at Indianapolis’
adidas Invitational.</div>
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Yes, the competition for these players is strong, but IU
under Crean has proven it can more than hold its own. Figure the Hoosiers will
wind up with another top-10 class.</div>
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Of course, Crean and his staff haven’t forgotten the players
already on campus. The players are engaged in a typically energetic summer
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>strength training, conditioning,
basketball skill development and playing.</div>
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That doesn’t include Will Sheehey and Yogi Ferrell, who
helped the U.S. to a solid
-- but not medal winning -- effort in Russia as part of the World University
Games.</div>
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So how has the Cream 'n Crimson summer gone?</div>
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“It’s been amazing,” director of basketball operations
Calbert Cheaney said. “We have all six of our freshmen in and also we have (Arizona transfer) Evan
Gordon in. Workouts are going great. The kids are doing very well. They’ve
adjusted to the educational part of it. Going to class and managing their time,
so it’s been a very productive summer.”</div>
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We’ll have more on this in the next few days.</div>
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*****</div>
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Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted a blog. The reason --
too many projects, ranging from IU-related topics, to book writing (let’s just
say it’s a challenge making the ancient Roman emperor Nero kid friendly) to sports
videos to a quest to convince my son that there is a difference between
knowledge and wisdom and much more.</div>
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A cynic could say, man up you lazy SOB, but who needs
cynicism in a world that offers the Pittsburgh Pirates on pace to win
100 Major League baseball games.</div>
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Anyway, I will try to be more consistently from now on,
although there might be a break at the end of
the month when I take my annual trip to Colorado
to do manly stuff such as hiking, biking, white water rafting and, of course,
proving once and for all that Bigfoot is real and not a myth.</div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-40624203773426673902013-03-16T21:10:00.000-07:002013-03-16T21:10:02.090-07:00Does IU Deserve a No. 1 Ahead of Louisville?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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If Jordan Hulls were the Czar of NCAA basketball, he knows
exactly who he’d put as the No. 1 seed of all the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA
Tournament.</div>
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Yes, that would be the Indiana Hoosiers.</div>
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Or course, that would immediately cause an outcry and calls
for a federal investigation given Hulls is a senior guard for IU. But that
doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an opinion that starts with IU being a No. 1 seed.</div>
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“I think we are, but it doesn’t matter what I think,” he
said.</div>
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Those who matter are part of the NCAA selection committee.
Their job is to fill the 68-team tournament that is set to dominate the
sporting world for the next three weeks.</div>
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IU is in position to be the No. 1 seed in the Midwest
Regional, which almost certainly would mean opening round games in Dayton and
then, if it wins those, a trip to Indianapolis for the Sweet 16 and the Elite
Eight.</div>
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In other words, given how well Cream ‘n Crimson fans will
travel to those locations, the Hoosiers would have, in essence, four home games
to earn a trip to their first Final Four in 11 years.</div>
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“That would be a good experience to stay close,” Hulls said.
“Hopefully it does happen, but we’ve just got to get better.”</div>
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That’s an understatement after IU suffered a season-worst
68-56 loss to Wisconsin in Saturday’s Big Ten tourney semifinals. It is just
3-3 in its last six games. While the selection committee is supposed to look at
the overall body of work, it won’t miss that closing streak in its
deliberations.</div>
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REALITY CHECK: Those six games were against Big Ten teams,
which are part of the best conference in the nation. In other words, that’s not
nearly as bad as if it came against, say, Atlantic Sun competition.</div>
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Anyway, the Hoosiers have shown some vulnerability. That
puts it on equal footing with the rest of America. Parity is everywhere you
look and a dominate team doesn’t exist. The blather that Duke was unbeatable now
that Ryan Kelly had returned took a big hit when Maryland upset Duke with Kelly
in the ACC tourney.</div>
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So who is the best of the best? You could do a lot worse
than the outright winner of the Big Ten, which IU is. Still, with Louisville
winning the Big East tourney with an amazing comeback against Syracuse, the
Cardinals could supplant the Hoosiers in the No. 1 pecking order.</div>
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What would that mean? You could have Louisville No. 1 in the
Midwest, which would put it in Indianapolis for the Sweet 16. You could have IU
No. 1 in the East, which would put it in Washington D.C. for the Sweet 16.</div>
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All that assumes, of course, that there are no major upsets.</div>
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So is Louisville better than IU? Specifically, is its body
of work better than that of the Hoosiers?</div>
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Louisville has a strength of schedule of No. 8. Its RPI is
three. It has a 9-4 record against RPI top-50 teams. It is 14-5 against the top
100 in RPI and its worst loss was to Notre Dame, which is No. 36 in RPI. It has
beaten four top 25 in RPI teams, including two on the road.</div>
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Indiana has a No. 5 RPI, with a strength of schedule at No
11. It has a 9-5 record against top-50 teams, 13-5 against those in the top
100. Its worst loss was to Illinois (a No. 37 RPI).The Hoosiers also seven
victories against RPI top 25 teams, including three on the road.</div>
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If you believe ESPN.com’s Joe Lunardi, Louisville will be
No. 1 in the Midwest with IU No. 1 in the East.</div>
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The Hoosiers can’t do anything about that, but they can
improve the flaws that erupted against Wisconsin. They can defend better,
rebound better and just play tougher.</div>
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"We'll learn from it," said forward Cody Zeller.
"We'll figure out what we did wrong. We'll make the corrections and get
ready for next week because that's what's most important."</div>
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Zeller couldn’t be more right.</div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-64698306009147103252013-03-06T19:06:00.000-08:002013-03-07T10:15:47.542-08:00Indiana Necessity -- Beat Michigan, Save No. 1 Seed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The call came just before midnight. Hoosier Deep Throat,
after a long break,
needed to talk.</div>
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We met in a long forgotten basement hidden underneath what used to
be called the HPER Building, and what is now called, well, whatever.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
An obscure metal door (decorated by a faded black-and-white photo of a young Branch McCracken) led to a
stairway that must have been old when Bob Knight was terrorizing elementary
school classmates.</div>
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The basement was littered with a shattered TV, a busted
radio and torn up Sports Illustrated covers of Kate Upton in Antarctica.
Cigarette smell hung heavy in the air. A single light bulb swayed from either an earthquake or stomping feet.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Hoosier Deep Throat (above is one of the few known photos of him), it
seemed, was ticked. We knew why.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“How could they have blown that game?” he asked from a dark
shadow that revealed nothing.</div>
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“Perhaps a better question,” we said, pointing to the torn
SI covers, “was how could you do that to Kate Upton?”</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We heard a swallowing sound. An empty shot glass bounced our
way. We smelled rock-gut whiskey. Hoosier Deep Throat was really taking this Ohio State
loss hard. Or, less likely, he didn’t like our sense of humor.</div>
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“There’s no way, with an outright Big Ten title at stake,
with a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament at stake, you play like that!” Hoosier
Deep Throat shouted. A match flared. The tip of a cigarette glowed almost
as brightly as ESPN sideline reporter Sam Ponder’s diamond ring.</div>
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“Indiana
got out-toughed, out-rebounded, out-hustled, out-played, out-executed, out-run,
out everything!” Hoosier Deep Throat shouted. "It was out-scored 14-2 on fast-break points. That CAN'T HAPPEN!"</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Another empty shot glass flew past us. It smelled like
Schlitz beer, which was popular when Watergate was big news and women preferred
6 Million Dollar TV Men.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
How do we know what Schlitz beer smells like and are we old enough to remember the 6 Million Dollar Man?</div>
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<br /></div>
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You ask too many questions.</div>
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“Maybe you should look at the big picture,” we said. “Indiana is 25-5. It’s
been ranked No. 1 for a big chunk of the season. A win at Michigan
might make it the best of the No. 1 seeds. It’s been a great year.”</div>
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<br />
Hoosier Deep Throat said nothing.<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“You’re only as good as your last performance,” we added. We pride ourselves on the quality of our clichés.</div>
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Hoosier Deep Throat’s glowing cigarette end shot off
sparks of red and white.<br />
<br />
"Indiana's season is like driving the length of the field in football," he said, spitting out the words like bullets. "You get to the 5-yard line, and you knock it in for a touchdown. You don't settle for a field goal or turn it over. You finish the bleeping job. You win the Big Ten outright and earn the No. 1 seed in the conference tourney and the NCAA Tournament the right way. You don't back in because of a silly tiebreaker."<br />
<br />
He paused. Somewhere in the basement darkness, a cricket chirped three times. </div>
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“And then there was the net cutting deal!” He was raging
now. “Are you kidding me? Whose knuckle-headed idea was that? They lost a
bleeping game and a big bleeping opportunity. You wanna cut nets -- win. You wanna celebrate something -- win! Don’t
do it after playing soft down the stretch. When it mattered most, Indiana had more turnovers than a bleeping
bakery.”</div>
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Hoosier Deep Throat crushed
out a cigarette and lit up another.</div>
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“Looks like I picked the wrong bleeping week to quit
smoking,” he said. He took a deep drag.<br />
<br />
"You know those things will kill you," we said.<br />
<br />
"Watching another performance like Ohio State will do that first," he said.</div>
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The good news -- he was starting to calm down.</div>
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“According to Tom Crean, the net cutting was to honor the group that brought the
program back from the Kelvin Sampson mess,” we said. “It was earned through a
season of hard work, and school officials wanted to reward the players.”</div>
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“Reward them if they win, make them practice all night if
they lose," Hoosier Deep Throat said. "That’s what Coach K did when Duke got hammered
at Miami
earlier this season. If you don't like it, join a knitting club.”</div>
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“We’re not even going to go there,” we said. “Look, everybody
would have preferred a win, but you don’t always get what you want. Just ask
the Rolling Stones.”</div>
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“Is that supposed to be bleeping funny!” Hoosier Deep Throat
shouted so loud we thought his vocal cords would explode. We knew enough to
shut up.</div>
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“Indiana’s
been talking about winning a national championship all season,” Hoosier Deep Throat said.
“It takes a special group to do that. A tough group. A group that peaks in March and the
beginning of April rather than February. These guys ain’t been the same since
winning at Michigan
State. Maybe all the
glory made them soft. Maybe they forgot where they came from.”</div>
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He stomped his cigarette to bits; lit up another.</div>
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“You know what boils my butt. It’s a two-point game with
five minutes left Tuesday night, so make the plays and win the sucker. That’s what a national
champion does, especially at home. They didn't come close to doing that.”</div>
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Hoosier Deep Throat began
pacing, shadows swirling around him like storm clouds. So much for him calming down.</div>
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“Indiana can still win the
Big Ten outright by winning at Michigan on Sunday,” we said,
using the same soothing tone a dentist uses before tearing a tooth out of your
jaw. “It can still earn a NCAA tourney No. 1 seed, get a close early round
location, get a Sweet 16 berth in Indianapolis
and wind up at the Final Four in Atlanta.
It’s all there for the Hoosiers.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Hoosier Deep Throat stopped
pacing. Shadows thickened around him.</div>
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“I ain’t stupid. I know that. But that’s just talk. And
there’s a bunch more talk about IU clinching the Big Ten tourney No. 1 seed if Michigan State
beats Wisconsin tonight. All that does
is weaken resolve. It ain’t about somebody else losing. It’s about you winning. We need to kick Michigan's bleep!"<br />
<br />
He stomped his foot. The light bulb twirled as if caught in a tornado. </div>
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“This is head knocking time," he said. "And if the Hoosiers don’t start
knocking some bleep, they’re gonna end up a No. 2 or No. 3 seed at some place that sells
Schlitz by the bleeping wine glass!”</div>
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A deep, uncomfortable silence followed. It was the kind you
hear when an adult admits to being a Justin Bieber fan, not that we’re
admitting we know what that actually sounds like.</div>
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“Look the Big Ten is brutally tough,” we said. “Look what happened to Michigan at Penn State or Wisconsin against Purdue. The selection
committee understands that. A potential 14-4 record in a conference this strong
will go a long way with them. So will a 13-5 mark. And no matter what happens
on Sunday or in the Big Ten tourney, IU will be VERY well prepared for any team
and situation in the NCAA Tournament. All things are very much possible.”</div>
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A wine glass rolled toward us. Silence followed. Hoosier Deep
Throat was gone. His message, however, was not.</div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-9340602695235447392013-03-05T02:33:00.002-08:002013-03-05T02:34:05.424-08:00'Locked-in' IU Set To Clinch Outright Big Ten Title<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black;">Do not think, for one minute, that
Indiana
is going to blow this Big Ten opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Hoosiers understand the
opportunity. Win tonight at home against Ohio State and they earn their first outright
conference title since 1993. Win Sunday at Michigan,
where no visiting team has won all season, and they almost certainly clinch the
No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tourney.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">First, though, comes the No. 14
Buckeyes. IU smacked them around last month in
Value City Arena. They’d love to return the
favor tonight, especially on Senior Night in the final home games for Jordan
Hulls, Christian Watford and Derek Elston.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">That won’t happen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Hoosiers reached this position
last weekend after beating Iowa on Saturday,
and then, just as practice was beginning on Sunday, learning that Michigan State
and Wisconsin
had lost. That meant IU had a 13-3 Big Ten record with two games to go, while Michigan
State, Wisconsin, Ohio
State and Michigan
were tied for second with 11-5 marks. Indiana had clinched at least a
co-championship, its 21<sup>st</sup>. Only Purdue, with 22, has won more in Big
Ten history.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Crean watched Michigan
hold off Michigan
State in his Cook Hall
office as his players were warming up, then joined them with the news.</span></div>
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"We're extremely excited about the fact that we have
clinched at least a share of this going into this week, a big week obviously
with a home game against Ohio State and a road game to finish up the regular season
at Michigan,"
Crean said. "The great thing about our guys is once they learned it, they
were excited, but within minutes went right back to work inside of practice. It
is kind of a microcosm of how this season has gone. They've really been locked
into moment and what's most important, which is getting better.</div>
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"We're excited to be where we are at but we know
there's a lot more things to accomplish, and I think that's what makes it
exciting to go through with this group because they really want to improve and
get better."</div>
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That starts with beating Ohio
State (21-7 overall) to avoid having
to share the title. Michigan
State was in the same
position last year with two games to go and lost them both.</div>
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“It’s something that we’ve been working for all year, so
it’s obviously exciting for us,” forward Cody Zeller said. “But it’s only a
share of the Big Ten championship. We were right back to work to getting this
win and having it all to ourselves.”</div>
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That it would also mean a lot to the seniors, who endured so
much losing in their first two seasons, is another motivator.</div>
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“They just deserve it the most of pretty much anyone on the team,” freshman
point guard Yogi Ferrell said. “Just what they’ve gone through, to do something
we haven’t done in so many years, to win this for them is gonna feel special to
us, but to them too.”<br />
<br />
Added Zeller: “It would mean a lot, because we’ve only heard stories of all
the stuff they’ve gone through before me and Yogi were here. I know it would
mean a lot to them.” <br />
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IU’s loss last week at Minnesota
knocked it down just one spot, to No. 2 behind Gonzaga.</div>
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Crean was asked during the Big Ten teleconference if he was
surprised that such a tradition-rich program as Indiana
hadn’t won an outright conference title since 1993.</div>
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"I don't really think of it like that. I think it shows
it's a hard league and all we can focus on is what we have in the seasons that
we've been here," Crean said. "When you think about 1993, all the
things that have transpired in the league, it goes to show how great this
league has been over a period of time.<br />
<br />
"There's been a lot of great teams, and Indiana has been one of them for a long
time. Our focus has been: How do we keep doing what we've been doing and how do
we do it even better? There's not been a lot of time spent on what didn't
happen before we were here."</div>
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Crean has endured his own Cream ‘n Crimson tribulations. IU
had three straight 20-loss seasons, the worst stretch in a program history that
stretches well past a hundred years, as he rebuilt from the Kelvin Sampson
mess.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The Hoosiers went 27-9 and reached the Sweet 16 last year.
Now their 25-4 overall and positioned to win a national championship.</div>
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<br /></div>
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"The one thing that all of us have learned that came
from different programs and came to Indiana
and dealt with everything that happened is you never take winning for granted,”
Crean said. “Ever. When you lose it, it is so hard to get it back. You have to
work that much harder to get it back. Our fans need to really look at it as
there's a ton of excitement around it right now, let's remember where we were.
Let's not take anything for granted and let's keep building on what's been
happening."</div>
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*****</div>
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Big news for Indiana’s football
program: it has landed a four-star receiver in Taj
Williams from Florida. He’s part of the 2013 class. That
means coach Kevin Wilson now has five four-star players in this 23-player
group.</div>
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The 6-4 Williams is rated as the nation’s No. 25 receiver
according to Rivals.com, a national Internet recruiting service that first
broke the news. He picked Indiana over Notre
Dame, Alabama,
Florida,
Florida State and others.</div>
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<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">India</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">na</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> won a championship by doing nothing.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a manner of speaking.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Hoosiers earned their 21<sup>st</sup> Big Ten title on what was,
at least from a game standpoint, a day of rest. When Wisconsin lost a stunning home game to
previously struggling Purdue, when Michigan
State lost at Michigan,
both happening on Sunday, IU clinched at least a tie for the conference crown.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br />
Indiana, of course, did its job by beating Iowa on Saturday.<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is 13-3 with two games remaining -- Tuesday against Ohio
State at Assembly Hall; Sunday at Michigan.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ohio</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> St</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ate</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, Michigan State,
Wisconsin
and Michigan
are all 11-5.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Hoosiers haven’t won any kind of Big Ten title since 2002, when
under coach Mike Davis they went on to the national championship game, losing
to Maryland. Their last outright Big Ten crown came in 1993. They can duplicate
that by beating the Buckeyes or the Wolverines.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Beat the Buckeyes and get it over with.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">All this is great. It’s a major accomplishment given where the program was
just a couple of years ago, when Kelvin Sampson ruined things with his phone
call habits and his knack for recruiting, at least in part, the wrong kind of
guys.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only Purdue, with 22 Big Ten titles, has won more than Indiana.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So now let’s get to the big picture -- win these last two games and
clinch a No. 1 NCAA tourney seed.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s the ultimate goal. A No. 1 seed gets you to opening round games
in either Dayton or Lexington. Assuming IU would be No. 1 in the
Midwest Regional, it would then play Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games in Indianapolis.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Final Four is in Atlanta.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Hoosiers don’t want to add uncertainty by losing. If they would
lose at Michigan,
which is undefeated at home this season, and then lose in the Big Ten tourney,
that very well could knock them to a No. 2 NCAA tourney seed.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yes, you could argue that IU (25-4 overall) already has done enough to
earn a No. 1 NCAA tourney seed. It is 5-0 against ranked Big Ten teams and is
6-2 on the conference road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s especially impressive given the Big Ten is, by far, the best
conference in America.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Still, if the Hoosiers would lose at Michigan and then in the conference tourney
in Chicago, coupled with last week’s loss at Minnesota,
that would given the NCAA selection committee a chance to move another team
into a No. 1 seed.</span></div>
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<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For now, it seems Gonzaga and Duke are No. 1 locks.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gonzaga is 29-2 and 11-2 against teams in the top 100 RPI. Its only
losses are to Illinois
and Butler (on
a last-second shot at Hinkle Fieldhouse).</span></div>
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<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Duke is 25-4 and just got forward Ryan Kelly back from a foot injury.
That’s the same Kelly who scored 36 points to beat Miami in his first game back.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If Indiana stumbles down
the stretch, it could get passed by Kansas (25-4), Georgetown
(23-4), Louisville (24-5) or even Michigan
(24-5).</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The best Cream ‘n Crimson scenario is to win this week’s games and
make the Big Ten tourney irrelevant as far as the NCAA selection committee is concerned. That would mean IU would have won its last
three games and seven of its last eight, including a road victory at Michigan.
It would provide just the kind of momentum you want entering postseason play.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Hoosiers are right where they want to be. They just need to finish
the regular season job.</span></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That starts Tuesday night against Ohio
State.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">*****</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ind</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ia</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">na</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> has opened its spring football practice. Optimism
is high the Hoosiers can finally return to bowl relevance by winning at least
six games.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They return a ton of players (including quarterback Tre Roberson).
They went 1-11 in coach Kevin Wilson’s first season, 4-8 in his second. They
lost heart breakers to Ball State, Navy and Michigan
State – and that was despite not
having Roberson (he missed most of the season with a broken leg) and a
ridiculously bad defense (it gave up 163 points in its last three games and
allowed 231.3 rushing yards in every game).</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">IU will open its season on a Thursday night when it hosts Indiana
State on Aug. 29. It’s the third time
the Hoosiers have opened on a Thursday night. They beat Eastern Kentucky in
2009 and Towson
in 2010.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They also have eight home games. The others are Navy (Sept. 7), Bowling Green (Sept. 14), Missouri
(Sept. 21), Penn State
(Oct. 5), Minnesota
(Nov. 2), Illinois
(Nov. 9) and Purdue (Nov. 30).</span></div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-13247636812152048562013-02-26T02:32:00.001-08:002013-02-26T02:37:30.228-08:00Indiana Rules -- No Hypothetical If Beat Gophers; Mark Deal Honored<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black;">If you’ve seen the Big Ten
basketball standings lately, you know Indiana
rules. It has a two-game lead with four games to play. It is poised to achieve
its No. 1 regular season goal – well, an unbeaten season would have been nice,
but those days are long gone in this era of extreme parity – by winning its
first conference championship since 2002 and its 21<sup>st</sup> overall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">SMALL FACT: in a Monday column,
and because of our inability to count, we had IU with 18 Big Ten titles instead
of 20. A WHOLE bunch of people let us know the error of our ways.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, controlling your own
destiny is nice, unless you let yourself get caught up in all the excitement
and, yes pressure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Coach Tom Crean isn’t about to let
his No. 1 Hoosiers, the guys with the 24-3 record, 12-2 Big Ten mark and
four-game winning streak, to get distracted by all of that. He understands
tonight’s challenge at Minnesota, a former top-10 team
that has lost its way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“I</span>f you start focusing on
hypotheticals and where you’re sitting rather than where you’re going, you’re
asking for trouble,” he said. “(The players are) like anybody else. They know
what the standings are. They know who’s playing who. They know who’s playing
when.</div>
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“We know we’re playing (tonight) against a really good team.
These guys have done a phenomenal job of staying with that all year.”</div>
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Like Indiana, Minnesota
has had a week off since its last game. Unlike IU, the Gophers have sprung a
bunch of leaks, much of it centered on an offense that, to be blunt,
stinks.They haven’t broken the 60-point barrier in five games. They’ve
committed 41 turnovers in the last two games, both blow-out road losses.</div>
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Still, Minnesota is back home now, at
ancient Williams Arena with its raised floor. It is 13-1 at home and has such
formidable players as double-double threat Trevor Mbakwe, Rodney Williams and
Andre and Austin Hollins.</div>
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They play a variety of defense and thrive with full-court
pressure, especially when the stakes are high.</div>
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With an 18-9 record, 6-8 in the Big Ten, and NCAA tourney
prospects in doubt, the stakes are very high.</div>
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“They present a ton of problems when they’re allowed to get
out and press and spread out and get into you,” Crean said. “We’ve got to
prepared for that. We didn’t deal real well with that here. We wpent a lot of
time preparing for that.”</div>
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Crean referred to last month’s 88-1 win at Assembly Hall. IU built
a 52-29 halftime lead, then held on at the end.</div>
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“We’ve got to be good with meeting our passes, dealing with
the pressure,” Crean said. “We have to attacking the press the way we want to.
Don’t get back on our heals.”</div>
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As far as the week of preparation, Crean said it was spent,
“Getting ready, not only for Minnesota, but to sharpen our game up and make
sure our skill levels continue to rise. We’ve had a good week of practices. Minnesota will be
another one of those high energy, high intensity Big Ten battles.”</div>
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Here’s the bottom line. After tonight IU hosts Iowa and Ohio State,
then ends the regular season at Michigan.
The Hoosiers seem a lock to win their final two home games -- or at least as
much of a lock as you can get in the rugged Big Ten. So if they win tonight,
they basically clinch a conference championship.</div>
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Basically.</div>
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Just don’t expect to hear that from the Hoosiers. They’re
too busy doing what needs to be done.<br />
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***** <br />
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Nobody is more passionate about Indiana
than Mark Deal, a former Hoosier assistant football coach and player. The
current assistant athletic director for alumni relations with the football
program is set to be inducted
into the IU Football Hall of Fame in December.</div>
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Here’s the official release:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">BLOOMINGTON</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, Ind.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> - Former Indiana football player and assistant
coach Mark Deal will beinducted into the state of Indiana Football Hall of Fame
on May 5, 2013. Deal is currently an assistant athletic director for alumni
relations with the IU football program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Deal’s brother, Mike, is also a member of the induction class and
their father, Russ, was inducted in 1976.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prior to his current position, Deal served as an assistant director of
development with Indiana’s
Varsity Club. He played from 1975-78 and coached in 1979 and from 1996-99 for
the Hoosiers.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Deal played center and began his coaching career as a graduate
assistant in 1979 under head coach Lee Corso. The 1979 squad finished with an
8-4 record, including a Holiday Bowl victory over Brigham Young
University, 38-37.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1980, Deal was named the linebackers coach at Wabash College.
He spent four years at the Division III school, including the 1983 season,
which he spent as the team’s offensive coordinator and offensive line coach.</span></div>
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<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mike played on IU’s 1967 Big Ten championship and Rose Bowl team. He
played from 1966-69 and served as a graduate assistant in 1970. </span></div>
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<div class="basicparagraph" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Former Hoosier Randy Beisler (1962-65) will join the duo in the class.
Beisler was a first-round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles and played nine
seasons with the Eagles and San
Francisco 49ers.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today we’re going to
solve, once and for all, the mystery that is, for want of a better term, Package Gate.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yes, we mean the
drama swirling around Tuesday’s late-game contact between Indiana’s
Cody Zeller and Michigan
State’s Derrick Nix.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Was it just
inadvertent contact, as the officials decided after reviewing a monitor replay?
Was it something sinister, as the Cream ‘n Crimson faithful shout? Or, was it
something sneaky or devious, as some Spartan
supporters and radio personalities suggest?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It all comes down to
a video and perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The ESPN video replayed
during the game indicated
Nix initiated the contact, which left announcer Dick Vitale pontificating that
a grave injustive had been done to Zeller and that there’s no place in college
basketball for such behavior (Vitale later tweeted that he went too far).
Another video, which received HEAVY emphasis Wednesday afternoon by ESPN
announcer and Indianapolis
radio host Dan Dakich, showed Zeller grabbing Nix’s arm, pulling it toward him
and then, well, perspective is everything.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It looked like Zeller
pulled on the arm and Nix’s hand bumped Zeller’s sensitive area. Zeller buckled
in a scene familiar to any guy who has ever had his, well, sensitive area hit.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That’s when
controversy broke out. Some insisted Zeller intentionally caused the contact
trying to draw a foul. Others insisted it was Nix’s way of retaliating for an
earlier drive and contact by Zeller.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No way, Zeller said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span>If you’re a
guy and you’ve ever been hit in that area, you’re not going to want to hit
yourself in that area,” Zeller told Gottlieb.</div>
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Zeller added that, “I guess that stuff happens. I’ve just
come to expect it because I’m kind of the marked guy.”</div>
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To find the truth, we had a national expert in such matters analyze
the video. For security purposes, we’ll call him Jack Bauer. Here’s the transcript
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of our ABSOLUTELY true interview.</div>
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HH: Did you look at the video?</div>
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JACK BAUER: When will I get my check? My fee is $10,000,
plus expenses.</div>
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HH: It’s in the mail. Did you see the video?</div>
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JACK BAUER: Of course. But I need to talk to the players. I’ll
get the truth out of them.</div>
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HH: How will you do that?</div>
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JACK BAUER: Let’s just say I invented the CIA’s “enhanced
interrogation techniques.”</div>
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HH: That’s way too extreme. The NCAA tourney is coming up. You’ll
have to base it on the video.</div>
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JACK BAUER: If you look at the facial expressions, it’s
obvious Zeller was in real pain and Nix was really surprised. Nix’s hand is
unclenched. If you’re going to hit a guy there, you’ll make a fist. There was
no fist. Therefore, there was no intent. For him, at least, it was an accident.</div>
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HH: So you’re saying Zeller did this intentionally?</div>
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JACK BAUER: No. Only a provocative person, or a highly
biased person, would say that. Zeller grabbed Nix’s arm, which probably
happened a couple dozen times in the game. You can tell he pulled on the arm.
Again, that probably happened a couple of dozen times before. But this time,
Nix’s hand accidentally hit Zeller’s private area. There was no intent from
Zeller. There was no dirty move. </div>
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Here's the bottom line. There was no conspiracy. The no call was the
correct call.</div>
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HH: So you’re saying this was just a bunch of hot air or,
perhaps, a radio publicity stunt?</div>
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JACK BAUER: Not exactly. If you look in the background, on
the court behind Zeller, you’ll see who the REAL instigator is. </div>
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HH: Who is that?</div>
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JACK BAUER: Look at the<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-TxaPP0h-uQ"> video.</a></div>
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And then he was gone.</div>
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Yes, we know that you know that Victor Oladipo is really
good. His performance in Tuesday night’s win at Michigan State
was yet another example of that. He had 19 points, nine rebounds and five
steals. He went over 1,000 career points.</div>
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But mainly, though, Oladipo was the catalyst for the victory
that stamps Indiana as THE national title favorite.</div>
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Let’s face it. You win at the Breslin Center,
which is so hard on opposing teams that the Hoosiers hadn’t won there since
1991 before Tuesday night, and you’ve made a major statement.</div>
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The Hoosiers did, and Oladipo gets plenty of credit. He’s
one of the nation’s top defenders. What makes him so good? Here is a coach Tom
Crean response from one of his recent radio shows:</div>
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“It’s instincts. It’s continuing to build his knowledge. It’s continuing to
build his knowledge that go into his instincts. It’s determination. There’s no
question it’s athleticism. He’s got a strong determination, will. He wants to
be great at that.<br />
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“He’s a very good anticipator and is getting so much better off the ball.
The athleticism and the ability to move his hands, his head, his feet and keep
his body in front, and then have that quick mind that comes from his instincts
and then adding knowledge from film work is really a big part of it.”<br />
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Here's the bottom line in all of this: Oladipo will win Big Ten player of the year. It's a no-brainer.<br />
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As for national player of the year, he's become a front runner, although when asked about it after the Michigan State game, he deferred to Zeller (who also went over 1,000 career points in the game).<br />
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“It’s a blessing,” Oladipo said. “But at the same time, I already know who the Player of the Year
is, and that’s Cody Zeller. There’s no question. Without him, we
couldn’t win. Without him, I wouldn’t be successful. Nobody here would
be successful. Indiana basketball wouldn’t be back without Cody Zeller.
He’s the Player of the Year in my eyes.”<br />
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Zeller basically said the same thing about Oladipo. <br />
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“He’ll be the Player of the Year. He can have it. .
He would think that I would want it, but I think he deserves it.”
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<span style="color: black;">Victor Oladipo is gonna play at Michigan State.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">No way the junior guard misses
this game, which just might very well determine the Big Ten champion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Yes, he sprained his ankle late in
the first half against Purdue. Sure, he didn’t play in the second half, but
that was the smart thing. Indiana
didn’t need him against the Boilers. The Hoosiers will absolutely need him at Michigan State on Tuesday night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Oladipo seemed fine after the game,
and the Hoosier medical staff, including veteran team trainer Tim Garl, will
ensure he’s fine for Tuesday night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Here’s what coach Tom Crean had to
say:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“I would say right
now I would go between precautionary and day-to-day in the sense of just wait
and see. He did some things in the back, and I just don't think that any of us
were comfortable enough to say, ‘Let's go do it’.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“I don't think he…he
sprained his ankle, which you saw there…he wanted to go back in, but we just
weren't going to do that at that point. I don't think anybody felt medically
that it was the best thing to do at that point.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“I hope he is going
to be okay. He think he is going to be okay, but it's going to be a lot of time
spent in this building getting it back to where it needs to be. So wishful
thinking would be that he will play, but we've got to wait and see how the
next…I'd say the next 24 to 36 hours or so…how those turnout.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Here are the stakes.
IU and Michigan State are tied for the Big Ten lead with
11-2 records. IU is 23-3 overall and ranked No. 1. Michigan State
is 22-4 and ranked No. 8. The Hoosiers already have beaten the Spartans once,
so another victory would give them the tiebreaker edge, which means, in
essence, they’ll have a two-game lead.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Indiana</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and Michigan State
already have a two-game edge on the rest of the field, so there’s a built-in
margin for error.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As far as who has
the toughest remaining schedule, it’s hard to judge. After Tuesday’s game, IU
is at Minnesota, hosts Iowa
and Ohio State,
and is at Michigan.
Michigan State
plays at Ohio State
and at Michigan, then hosts Wisconsin and Northwestern.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Big Ten
championship, and the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tourney, perhaps even a No. 1
seed in the NCAA tourney, could come down to Tuesday night’s game. Yes, that’s
a lot at stake.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">IU will need to be
at full strength to beat Michigan State. It will be.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Victor Oladipo is gonna
play.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There once was a
time when Tom Crean was winning at a Roy Williams pace.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In his last seven
seasons at Marquette,
he never won less than 19 games. He had three seasons of at least 25 victories,
including the 27-6 Final Four squad of 2005 led by Dwyane Wade.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Then Crean came to the
train wreck that was Indiana
in the aftermath of the Kelvin Sampson sanction-filled era and everything blew
up. Players left. Players were kicked off. Players, well, let’s just say nobody
could have won with what Crean was left with.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And he didn’t win.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">IU went 6-25 in his
first season, 10-21 in his second, 12-20 in his third. It was the worst
three-year stretch in school history. It was enough to make a coach consider a
career in telemarketing, although to be fair, given Crean was making $2.1
million a year, that switch probably wasn’t happening.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Last year, things
turned around fast. IU went 27-9 and reached the NCAA tourney’s Sweet 16. This
year it is 23-3 and ranked No. 1. It has positioned itself for a Big Ten
championship, and a lot more.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Hoosiers are
50-13 in the last 15 months. That’s enough to even Crean’s Indiana record at 78-78.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He’s going to win a
lot of games in the seasons ahead. He’s too good a coach, too good a recruiter.
He won’t let the program slip again.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Those are our
thoughts. Here are his:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“When you're a
younger coach and you look at those things and you do know what you're
averaging win-wise for your program and things, but coming in here and dealing
with what we dealt with, I got over personal goals really quick because if I
didn't I was going to be depressed…and I wasn't looking for that. I have no
trouble being driven and motivated by the fact that we had such tough times
early on. <br />
<br />
“I do think to get it back there it's nice, but coming in to Indiana I gave up on all those things that…winning
percentages…and individual goals…and will you win X amount of games in this
amount of time.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“There was a time
when I was interested in that. We had it going at Marquette. If we would have stayed there, my
odds are good we would've kept building those wins, but we didn't. We chose to
come here, and when you get into it you do it for what is most important, which
is making sure that you're developing a program, getting it back where it needs
to be, and that every player continues to develop. <br />
<br />
So in one sense it's nice. It says a lot about the fact that this group has won
50 games in the last year-and-a-half. But again, when it comes down to me
personally, I gave up on that…somewhere along the line in that first year I
realized that wasn't going to be important anymore in my career.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> Tom Crean has had one heck of a
last couple of days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">First, his Indiana Hoosiers beat
then No. 1 Michigan in as thrilling a college basketball game as you’re likely
to see in as spectacular an atmosphere as you’re likely to experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then, his two brothers in law --
Jim and John Harbaugh -- went at it in the Super Bowl. Jim coaches the San Francisco
49ers. John coaches the Baltimore Ravens.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Ravens held on to win as
dramatic a Super Bowl as the sport has ever had.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Finally, the Hoosiers regained the
No. 1 ranking they’d held for the first five weeks of the season. IU is 20-2
overall and, at 8-1 in the Big Ten, and has a one-game lead over Michigan, Michigan
State and Ohio State at the midway point of conference play.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Crean and his family flew down to
New Orleans, the site of the Super Bowl, on Sunday morning. His wife, Joani, is
the sister of Jim and John Harbaugh. They met with Joani’s parents, Jack and
Jackie.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Crean’s spent Sunday night in
New Orleans watching the game and celebrating afterwards with John,
commiserating with Jim. Crean flew back to Bloomington Monday morning and
attended IU’s practice that afternoon. He had given the players Sunday off,
although given the hard-working nature of his players, most of them probably worked on their own.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Even during the most hectic
moments of the last few days, Crean didn’t lose sight of his preparations for
yet another big basketball week -- IU plays at Illinois on Thursday and at No.
10 Ohio State on Sunday. He watched film on the plane ride to New Orleans and
again on the plane ride back to Bloomington.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Still, Crean made sure he enjoyed
the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“It’s so unique,” he said. “It’s
been a short night. You’ve got one family member you’re overwhelmed with
happiness for. There is such a great joy and pride. You’ve got another one that
it’s close to heartbreak that you can feel. It’s difficult. It’s hard for Joani
and her parents.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Crean is friends with Boston
Celtics coach Doc Rivers. One of his sons, Jeremiah, played for Crean at IU a
few years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Doc R</span>ivers sent me a text
last night,” Crean said. “I gave it to Jack. It said, ‘As a parent you’re only
as happy as your unhappiest child.’</div>
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“That’s an amazing statement. It’s one of the most profound
things I’ve ever heard, and it probably fits what Joani’s parents are going
through.”</div>
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Still, the opportunity to attend one of the world’s great
sporting events, the chance to have access few people will ever get, left Crean
absorbing as much of the experience as he could.</div>
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“It could be a once in a lifetime thing,” he said. “There is
incredible joy in being able to be part of it, to see it. I got a chance to be
around some great people. My children and wife got to participate in something
that was incredible. They got to be around some great people. It’s something
that will be full of incredible memories.”</div>
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Through it all, Crean’s didn’t lose focus on his coaching
duties, and the quest to find an edge that could put the Hoosiers into Final
Four territory. </div>
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“Your mind is never too far from what’s next,” he said. “I
had my notes in my back pocket. I got five to six pages of notes ready to put
into form when I get back to Indiana.
It’s been unique.”</div>
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In the end, you see, Crean used the Super Bowl as a learning
experience.</div>
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“Absolutely,” he said. “No question,” he added. “Having the
vantage point we had, to have the access we had, to be behind the scenes and be
on the field, was incredible. I could watch how the Ravens and 489ers do it and
how they prepare.</div>
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(Former Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks coach) Pat
Riley was there. I got to spend a minute with (former NFL coach) Bill Parcels
(who just got selected for the Hall of Fame). Those are two of my coaching
idols. I’ve gotten to know both through coaching. They were coaches I always
looked up to long before I became a Division I coach.</div>
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“Something like this gives you a chance to pick brains of
leaders -- business leaders, political leaders. It inspires you to think more
creatively, to look at things differently, to pick up the interactions.</div>
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“We were in the commissioners’ box when the power outage
came on. I watched the Commissioner (Roger Goodell) deal with that with such
grace and calmness under pressure … it was amazing. That all
applies to everything we do in life. No question things like this can only make
you better.”</div>
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<span style="color: black;">*****</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Who said Cody Zeller is slumping?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Indiana sophomore forward
bounced back from a couple of sub-par games with a pair of big ones last week.
He led IU over Purdue and Michigan, averaging 19.0 points and 10.5 rebounds.
That earned him co-Big Ten player of the week honors with Michigan’s Trey
Burke.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It was Zeller’s first conference
player of the week award this season and the second of his career.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">*****</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ah, the drama we must deal with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Now there’s the Twitter-fueled
controversy about whether Michigan’s Glenn Robinson III punched Jordan Hulls
late in Saturday’s game.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Robinson’s hand/fist did hit Hulls
in the jaw. The Indiana senior guard did get staggered for a few seconds, but
was not seriously injured.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Video replays indicated contact
between Christian Watford and Robinson might have inadvertently led to Hulls
getting hit. There didn’t seem to be anything vindictive or nasty or
unsportsmanlike about it, although some will disagree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, the Big Ten will likely
look into it. Crean didn’t address that topic during his Monday night radio
show. It was probably a good move.</span></div>
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He's got enough on-court drama to deal with.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cody Zeller is a
funny guy.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Let’s qualify that.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He isn’t funny like
Rodney Dangerfield was funny in his “I get no respect” ways. He lacks Richard
Pryor’s intense language or Robin Williams’ zaniness. And he certainly doesn't come close to the "funny guy" Joe Pesci implications in the movie "Good Fellas."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Still, you get the picture.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Zeller's humor is in more of the subtle, laid-back style. Take, for instance, his thoughts on the advantage of playing late games, of which Indiana seems to get more than its share.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“We get more time to
nap,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yes, when you're an elite basketball player juggling a demanding academic schedule (the guy is set to graduate in 2 1/2 years), sleep is a big deal. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Anyway, IU has had a couple
of late starting times this season, which is a direct result of its national
popularity. There was the 10 p.m. tipoff against Georgetown, the 9:30 tipoff
against North Carolina and the 9 p.m. tipoffs against Wisconsin and Michigan.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You might think
Zeller wouldn’t like waiting all day to play, but that’s not how he thinks.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“I wish every game would
be at 9,” he said. “Then I could nap a couple of hours.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Zeller is more than
just a 7-foot nap waiting to happen, of course. He has regained the dominant form that
once made him a favorite to win national player of the year honors, and if that
standing has slipped slightly, it doesn’t mean he’s any less effective. A strong finish could earn him that honor, and a lot more.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the last two
games Zeller has averaged 19 points and 10.5 rebounds. He had a couple of monster
dunks in Sunday’s win over No. 1 Michigan. Even when he doesn’t score to his
16.3-point average, he distorts defenses, creates openings for his
teammates and plays solid defense.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Take those Michigan
dunks, for instance.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“They were huge,”
teammate Victor Oladipo said. “That’s what he does. He makes big plays at big
times. That’s why he’s the big fella. He made those big plays because we needed
them.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Take his long
crunch-time rebound, when he out-hustled a pair of Wolverines to get the ball
and restart the offense that led to a pair of crucial Yogi Ferrell free throws
in what became an 81-73 victory.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“I was trying to
keep the ball alive and make a play down the stretch,” Zeller said. “I always
pride myself on hustle plays -- plays that anyone can do.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Except, of course,
that most people don’t do them, especially big guys.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cody's loose ball
rebound late on our end offensively was unbelievable,” coach Tom Crean said. “He'll
have some SportsCenter dunks, but that loose ball rebound was just…that's why
he's such a special player.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Crean has known that
for a long time, which is why, years ago, he made recruiting Zeller a priority.
That paid off with a Sweet 16 berth last year. This year a lot more is
expected, and in so many ways, Zeller and the Hoosiers are delivering. They are 20-2
overall, 8-1 in the Big Ten. They are poised to return to the No. 1 ranking.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Zeller is, of
course, a big part of that, but he’s still just a key contributor on a roster
that includes Oladipo, Jordan Hulls, Christian Watford, and more.</span></div>
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<b>“</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I think the
more that guys like Cody and Victor and Christian and Jordan …know that they
are the product of their teammates…and they've all got their roles and they all
do different things, but they are the product of…their success is the product
of their teammates…the better we are,” Crean said. “That is the way we have got
to keep focusing.”</span><br />
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Focus means aggression on defense and movement on offense.
It means paying attention to the scouting reports and playing with passion and
commitment and, yes, having fun.</div>
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It almost certainly will produce a No. 1 ranking this afternoon when the polls are released. When the No. 3 team, as Indiana was, beats the No. 1 team, as Michigan was, right after No. 2 Kansas losing to Oklahoma State, well, the outcome seems obvious.</div>
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The Hoosiers were No. 1 at the start of the season, but lost
it when they lost to Butler during December’s Crossroads Classic in
Indianapolis.</div>
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They’ve learned from that loss, and from the one to
Wisconsin last month at Assembly Hall. Keeping the top ranking won't be easy given that Duke, Louisville and Michigan also couldn't hold onto it, but that's a topic for another day.</div>
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“We’ll keep playing like we’ve been playing,” Oladipo said.
“We’re playing with <span style="color: black;">a chip on our shoulder. We’ve
played with a chip on our shoulder since I got here. We’ll continue to do that.
We’ll continue getting better and keep playing for each other and staying together.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It starts, and certainly doesn’t
end, with Zeller.</span></div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-48053701196182914122013-02-01T18:21:00.005-08:002013-02-01T18:38:13.039-08:00Indiana, Michigan, Bald Heads and Sex ... Sort Of<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black;">By now you know Indiana will play
Michigan tonight in a battle that will determine first place in the Big Ten
and, perhaps, decide the fate of the world economy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Yeah, it’s that big.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Michigan is ranked No. 1. IU is
No. 3. This will be the first top-three battle in Assembly Hall history. The
previous ranking best came in 1993, when No. 1 Indiana edged No. 4 Michigan
93-92.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">ESPN’s GameDay will be in town.
No, that will not include Bob Knight (unless the Grim General pulls off the
surprise of the decade), but it will include Dick Vitale.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Let the impressions begin, baby!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This is the kind of game to
restore youth to an old man, hair to a bald one, laughter to a sad one, sexual
vigor to …</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Sorry. Sometimes, for big games,
we get carried away.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, if the Hoosiers want to
win the Big Ten title and earn a No. 1 NCAA tourney berth -- and you know they
do in the worst way -- they have to beat the Wolverines. They just have to.
They’ve lost once at home. They can’t afford another.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">To understand why, let’s look at
the schedule.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">February is an absolute beast.
You’ve got Michigan at home, then trips to Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State
and Minnesota.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Yes, Illinois is fading -- again --
to the point where it might not make the NCAA tourney. Apparently new coach
John Groce borrowed an unwanted page from old coach Bruce Weber’s coaching
handbook. Still, if the Illini get hot from three-point range (and no conference team launches more from beyond the arc), they can beat
anybody. They had Michigan State in big trouble Thursday night at the Breslin
Center, and that’s very hard to do.</span></div>
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<br />
In the end, the Spartans won, the Illini lost and Big Ten order remained undisturbed.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, IU is a good bet to beat
Illinois. The other three February road games are less certain. And to fully
understand the situation, let’s add the March 10 road game at Michigan in the
regular season finale. That means the Hoosiers’ final four road games will be
against the No. 11, No. 13, No. 23 and No. 1 teams in the country.</span></div>
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Nobody will win out against that.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Realistically, IU’s best scenario
is to go 2-2 in those games. If it does, if it wins the rest of its home games,
it can finish 15-3 in the Big Ten. That almost certainly would win the
conference title and guarantee a No. 1 NCAA tourney seed no matter what happens
in the Big Ten tourney.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Yes, we know, there are no
guarantees anymore, but it’s time once again for dangerous sports writing.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">A 14-4 record might win the Big
Ten title. Heck, 13-5 might do it, as happened last year, given how strong the league
is top to bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But Indiana can’t count on that,
which is why beating Michigan at Assembly Hall is absolutely vital. The Hoosiers can't afford to give the Wolverines an edge they might never regain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Speaking of that, Indiana cannot
let Wolverine superstar point guard Trey Burke penetrate into the lane. Let’s
repeat that. Burke cannot get into the lane. The best person to stop that from
happening is Victor Oladipo. The second best is Will Sheehey, although some
will argue for freshman point guard Yogi Ferrell, who defends beyond his years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It’s certain coach Tom Crean will
mix things up defensively. Christian Watford, all 6-9 of him, might get some
cracks at Burke. But Burke will get lots of Oladipo, especially at the end of
the game.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Does this mean we’re telling Crean
how to coach?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Well, we did lead a youth
basketball team to ONE victory while subbing for the head coach more years ago than we care to admit, but this is no time to boast or demand a $3.1 million a year salary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, the best thing for the
Hoosiers will be for Burke to get into major foul trouble, as Michigan State’s
Keith Appling did last week in Assembly Hall. Appling played just 19 minutes
and had three points, no assists and four turnovers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Keep in mind, Appling is one of
the Big Ten’s best players and is a HUGE part of the Spartan attack. IU totally
neutralized him and still only won by five, which tells you how good Michigan
State is and how big a win that was for the Hoosiers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Can Indiana do the same thing to
Burke? The Hoosiers will try. They’ll use lots of ball movement and
penetration. They’ll attack the rim and try to draw fouls. They are, in so many
ways, the nation’s best in doing that. If they could foul out Burke and a few
other Wolverines, life would be a lot easier.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And if that seems obvious, well, did
we mention we are 1-0 as a youth basketball coach?</span></div>
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*****<br />
<br />
BET THE HOUSE, PART II: For those of you who might have forgotten, we assured everybody to bet the house on IU beating Wisconsin in Assembly Hall a few weeks ago. The Hoosiers, of course, didn't win, which research shows was part of a conspiracy that reached to the highest levels of the government and Donald Trump's bachelor pad.<br />
<br />
Anyway, we have addressed those issues, spent big bucks on gypsy fortune tellers and have established that, without question, you should bet the house on IU beating Michigan tonight. No way the Hoosiers lose. No way.<br />
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So bet the house, the kids college fund and your retirement account on a Cream 'n Crimson victory. And if, by some strange twist of fate, the Hoosiers DO lose, well, we'll get back to you.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Are you like us? Did you see the
news-breaking story that Heidi and Spencer reveal how they blew $10 million and
ask yourself, who the bleep are Heidi and Spencer, and who gives a bleep about
their irresponsible spending habits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Sorry. We sometimes get carried
away in these giddy times, when Indiana appears set to rule the college
basketball world.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">GameDay is coming to Bloomington
on Saturday. So is No. 1 Michigan and the odds are that ranking won’t last the
night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">You won’t hear that from Tom Crean
and his No. 3 Hoosiers, of course. They’re WAY too smart and mature for that,
but we don’t have that burden. In a month or so we are going to celebrate our
29<sup>th</sup> birthday for like the 200<sup>th</sup> time and, as such, we
can afford to be a little mouthy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Sorry. Maybe we’ve spent too much
time around Will Sheehey, who has been known to incite, say, Purdue’s Paint
Crew, among others, with his passion and energy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Crean is cool with that, by the
way, as long as Sheehey doesn’t go over the top with it and, say blow $10
million with Heidi and Spencer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">See how it all connects.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, IU played its most
complete game of the season Wednesday night. Granted, Purdue helped by playing
submission basketball, but that misses the point, which is the Hoosiers sustained
their level of play throughout the game. They’ve struggled to do that this
season, especially against Big Ten teams. Remember that awesome first half they
played against Minnesota, only to almost give the game away in the second?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, there was none of that at
Mackey Arena, and Crean, for one, was pleased.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Our guys never took
their foot off the gas pedal, so to speak, which is really, really important
for us as a team to take the next step,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">IU knows all about
getting buried by teams. The Hoosiers were everybody favorite patsy in the
aftermath of the Kevin Sampson era. It took Crean three years to turn it
around, and now he has a squad powerful enough to contend for was a victim off
that</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“We have had enough
of a viewpoint of some of the great teams in this league like (Purdue coach
Matt Painter’s) have been when you had guys like JaJuan Johnson, E'Twaun Moore,
Robbie Hummel, Lewis Jackson, all those guys that just kept going and going and
going and getting better as the game went on,” Crean said. “When you see enough
of that over a period of time, you either become that or you keep getting it
done to you.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Our guys have
really learned to become that type of team, and the growth process for us
continues, but I loved how they approached this game, and we got a really good
result because of it.”</span><br />
<br />
Indiana wants another good result during Saturday’s heavily hyped game courtesy
of ESPN and its PR machine. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">IU is 19-2
to Michigan’s 20-1, which is the Wolverines’ best start in school history. They
are tied for first in the Big Ten with Indiana, both at 7-1.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">IU has lost once at
Assembly Hall, last month to Wisconsin. There’s no way it loses twice.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No way.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Heidi and Spencer,
by the way, couldn’t agree more.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black;">*****</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Here are some more honors for Cody
Zeller, Victor Oladipo and Yogi Ferrell.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Zeller and Oladipo are among 12
players mentioned in a mid-season watch list for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, a
national player of the year award presented by the U.S. Basketball Writers
Association.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ferrell is one of 12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>players on the Wayman Tisdale Memorial Trophy
for freshman of year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Oladipo, as you know, has put
himself into position to be a first-round draft choice next season, perhaps in
the top 20 (although not a lottery quick). He thrives all over the court, and
has a passion for the game that will translate well at the next level.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">*****</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So what’s up with Peter Jurkin? If
a guy can’t play in the 37-point win over Purdue, when you think you’d want to
empty your bench to give everybody a chance, when can he play?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Against the Boilers Raphael Smith
played. Jeff Howard played. In all 13 Hoosiers played.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But not Jurkin.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Now, Jurkin might be hurt. He’s
wearing an air cast on his left leg, and Crean has mentioned some minor injury
issues, but nothing specific.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">The 6-11 freshman has played in
only three games since returning from a nine-game suspension for impermissible
recruiting benefits. He’s played a total of seven minutes and his stat line
consists of one missed field goal attempt. Everything else is zeroes. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">A more likely reason for Jurkin’s
lack of playing time is that he’s just not ready. Yes, he is tall and runs well
and has athleticism, but he struggles to catch the ball during pre-game
warmups. You can only imagine how much more magnified that is in practice, and
would be in games. He lacks the fundamentals necessary to compete in the Big
Ten.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">He might someday be able to help
the Hoosiers in a reserve defensive role, but at this stage it doesn’t seem
likely it will get beyond that.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">*****</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">If you believe the Indianapolis
Star’s Kyle Neddenriep, and there’s no reason not to since he does a great job
in recruiting, Indianapolis Bishop Chatard’s Joe Fagan will be a preferred <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>walk-on next season. A separated shoulder has
limited the 6-4 guard to eight games. He averages 14.1 points and 7.0 rebounds.</span></div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-31715262363251721922013-01-29T19:02:00.001-08:002013-01-29T19:02:47.356-08:00Bottom line – Indiana has to beat Purdue tonight <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Brian Evans and Joe Hillman know.
They’ve been through the Indiana-Purdue basketball wars, winning their share,
losing a few.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Forget the blather about treating
every game the same. Rivalries are never the same, whether it’s IU-Purdue,
Duke-North Carolina, Kentucky-Louisville and more.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">IU coach Tom Crean knows this. He
also knows his freshmen won’t really understand what they’ll face tonight until
they experience Mackey Arena in all its gold-and-black passion. The students,
called the Paint Crew, end every timeout at every game with a chant certain to
come with the Hoosiers on the floor:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“IU sucks!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Still, Crean wanted to give his young guys
an edge. He had Evans and Hillman talk to the team Tuesday afternoon before
they boarded the bus for the trip to West Lafayette.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">The message, senior guard Jordan
Hulls, was clear:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“It’s a rivalry game. Throw
everything out the window. You’ve got to bring it no matter who you’re playing.
It will be hostile out there.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Teammate Will Sheehey knows that
hostility. He’s made two trips to Mackey Arena, with a 1-1 record to show for
it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">What Evans and Hillman had to say,
he said, was a plus.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“Those guys have been there, done
that. They’re a huge part of this tradition. They have the wisdom because been
there. They give us advice, and we make sure we listen. We have our plan. It’s
icing on the cake for those guys talking to us.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">The No. 3 Hoosiers are eight- to
10-point favorites depending on where you look. They are 18-2 overall and tied
with No. 1 Michigan for first in the Big Ten, with 6-1 records.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Purdue is trying to recover from a 7-6 non-conference record, a brutally difficult task given the strength of the
Big Ten. The Boilers are 11-9 overall, 4-3 in the conference. They have won
four of their last five games since going to a starting lineup that includes
three freshmen -- Ronnie Johnson, A.J. Hammons and Rapheal Davis -- along with
veterans Terone Johnson and D.J. Byrd.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">But this game, Sheehey said, goes
way beyond that.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“We all know it’s our biggest
rival. The game will be tough, hard fought. It’s the same level of intensity
every year.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“They’re a physical team. They
rebound well. They like to pressure full court. Those are some things we’ve
been working on. It’s just a tough game.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Associate head coach Steve McClain
did the scouting for this game. He knows, as well as anyone, the challenges IU
faces.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“There’s no question they’re
playing a lot of young guys,” he said, “and their veterans are also stepping it
up and playing well.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“With Rapheal and Ronnie and
Hammons starting and getting games under their belts, they’re getting better
every time they play.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“Every team creates a different
challenge. Terone Johnson is one of the better wings (in the Big Ten). Ronnie
Johnson as a freshman point guard is doing a great job for them.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">McClain down played the fact many
of the players on both teams are familiar with each other because they either
played high school or travel ball against each other growing up.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">For instance, Jordan Hulls and Derek
Elston played on the same AAU team as Purdue forward D.J. Byrd, that Yogi
Ferrell and Purdue’s Ronnie Johnson played with and against each other during
their high school/travel ball days, that Hanner Perea played at La Lumiere in
northern Indiana with Purdue’s Rapheal Davis and Jay Simpson, Cody Zeller’s
Washington team beat Travis Carroll’s Danville squad in the semistate, and that
Carroll and Donnie Hale played against Zeller and IU’s Austin Etherington in
the Indiana senior-junior All-Star series.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“The kids probably think about it
more, but once the game starts, I’m not sure who they played with in AAU ball
has a lot to do with it.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">What does mean something is that
the Hoosiers want to be 7-1 in the Big Ten entering Saturday night’s showdown with
Michigan. ESPN has been hyping that game almost as hard as Ray Lewis denied
performance enhancing drugs allegations.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Bottom line -- if IU wants to win
a Big Ten championship, it has to win this game.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">******</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">If you saw the latest Scout.com
rankings, you know IU’s recruiting class for 2013 remains outstanding.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Noah Vonley is the highest-rated
player, at No. 7. Then comes No. 59 Stanford Robinson and No. 66 Troy Williams.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Tom Crean will never rival, say,
the Rodney Dangerfields of the world. He’s an intense guy with a serious
mission – coach the best basketball he possible can.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Sometimes that leaves him grumpy.
And sometimes, like after a REALLY significant victory, he jokes around.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Take, for instance, beating
Michigan State.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Spartans arrived at Assembly
Hall as the Big Ten’s hottest team. They had beaten Ohio State and won at
Wisconsin. They were physical and tough-minded and stifling on defense. They
had also owned the Hoosiers in recent years, having won seven of the last nine
meetings.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Beyond that, Tom Izzo is one of
the nation’s top coaches. He’s built a perennial Big Ten and national title
contender. He also was once Crean’s boss.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">All those were factors in Crean’s
good post-game mood, but the biggest was the fact IU had thrived in crunch
time, making the plays it had to make to pull out a 75-70 victory.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Victor Oladipo was an
all-over-the-court beast. Christian Watford battled. Yogi Ferrell showed grit
and a rapidly improving offensive game. Will Sheehey was once again an
off-the-bench factor. And even without his best offensive game, Cody Zeller was
a major factor.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">So Crean kidded with a reporter
for his soft-spoken questions. It wasn’t make-you-laugh-till-you-cry stuff, but
that misses the point, which is Crean is pumped about where his team is right
now.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Can you blame him?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">The Hoosiers are tied with
Michigan for first place in the Big Ten. Both are 6-1. If they sweep this week,
they’ll be in first place alone and ready for what looms as the nation’s most
brutal February schedule.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">But that’s getting ahead of
ourselves. IU has to win at rival Purdue on Wednesday night, and while the
Boilers have struggled, they are rounding into dangerous form. Youth cost them
in the non-conference season, but even with an 11-9 record, they have visions
of a NCAA tourney berth with a strong Big Ten showing. They are 4-3 in the
conference.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Then comes Michigan on Saturday.
The Wolverines will likely be the nation’s No. 1 team at that point. They are
19-1 overall and blessed with talent and, in Trey Burke, perhaps the Big Ten’s
best point guard.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Beating Michigan State showed the
Hoosiers (18-2) are ready. You do not beat the Spartans with finesse and good
will to men. You win by being tough and nasty and ruthless (all within the
rules, of course). You also do it by being smart, passionate and focused.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
"This was a game of adjustments, and that's what it was
the entire game," said Crean. “The one thing that never needed to be
adjusted was our energy, our attitude towards winning and our spirit. They were
high-level the entire way."<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">IU had to be. It never led by more
than seven points in the second half.</span></div>
<br />
"This is a big game; it's definitely going to help us down the
road," Watford said. "I feel like Michigan State is a great team,
they never stop fighting. That's definitely how it's going to be in the (NCAA)
Tournament, the Big Ten Tournament; teams are definitely not going to give up.
It was a great team win for us."<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">And now, in the relentless world
of Big Ten basketball, the Hoosiers have to do it again.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">“A</span>fter the game with the
CBS interview, Greg Anthony said that this game had the feel and the execution
of a Final Four game,” Crean said. “And I hope he’s right, because I think
(Michigan State is) really, really good. For us to get this win in this
environment, for us to make the plays that we made, especially at the end, for
us to make the defensive stops that we made to get the buckets that we needed
to get, I thought that was huge.</div>
<br />
“You’ve got to be in some fights. We’ll get better from this, and I’m
certain Michigan State will get better from this. If you’re going to win over
the long haul, you’ve got to find ways. Our guys had great will.”<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">And that’s no joke.</span></div>
Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-25446752133422531502013-01-26T22:43:00.000-08:002013-01-26T22:47:12.350-08:00Is IU's Zeller Ready for Michigan State Bruising<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black;">Michigan State is coming to
Assembly Hall and Cody Zeller is gonna have his hands full.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Is he up to it?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">The odds say yes, but odds don’t
equal guarantee.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Here’s what we know.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Zeller is listed as 7-foot and 240
pounds. He is coming off, by offensive standards, perhaps the worst game of his
career. In 21 minutes against Penn State he was 0-for-4 from the field for two
points. It was the first time in his two-year career that he didn’t make a
field goal. He also was just 2-for-4 from the line. His four turnovers tied his
season high.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">That doesn’t mean Zeller didn’t
make a positive impact. He had eight rebounds, three assists and three blocks.
He also had a steal. He drew in as many as three Nittany Lions, which opened
things up for the rest of the Hoosiers in what became an easy 72-49 victory.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">For the season Zeller leads IU in
scoring (16.4), rebounds (8.2) and blocks (27). No big man in the country runs the
floor better than he does. Every defense has to account for him, often with
double teams, which means somebody is open if Zeller can find him.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">He usually does.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Here’s what else we know. Michigan
State has as big, as strong and as physical a front court as there is in the
Big Ten. It has the 1-2 combination of 6-9, 270-pound Derrick Nix and 6-10, 240-pound
Adreian Payne. It has 6-6, 230-pound Branden Dawson. It can bring 6-9,
245-pound Alex Guana and 6-9, 245-pound Matt Costello off the bench.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: black;">The Spartans will try to pound
Zeller into irrelevance in today’s Big Ten showdown. They tried it twice last
year. The first time, an IU loss at the Breslin Center in what was Zeller’s Big
Ten baptism of fire, he was held to four points and three rebounds in 23 mostly
ineffective minutes. The second time, an IU win at Assembly Hall, he totaled 18
points and four rebounds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In other words, he learned and
adjusted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Zeller understands what he’s up
against, coach Tom Crean said, and how to counteract it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“It’s movement,” Crean said. “He
has to c</span>onstantly move. We learned a lot from that game last year. That
was his indoctrination into physical high-level basketball. He handled it
well.”</div>
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Zeller likely will have to handle it better to lead the No. 7
Hoosiers (17-2 overall, 5-1 in the Big Ten) to a victory over No. 13 Michigan
State (16-3, 6-1).</div>
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“The key is movement and spacing,” Crean said. “It’s up to
us to put him in some different situations, but it’s up to him to be very
aggressive and keep building on what he’s doing.”</div>
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Zeller is a factor even when he’s not a factor, and if that
sounds confusing, well, work with us. </div>
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Okay, work with Crean.</div>
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“Cody is impacting the game in so many diffent ways,” the
coach says. “He leads (the Big Ten) in free throws attempted (140) and made (101).</div>
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“What about fouls drawn? He and Christian are up there. They
have to be.”</div>
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For the record, IU sports information director J.D. Campbell
indicated nobody keeps track of fouls drawn.</div>
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“Cody attracts a lot of attention in so many ways,” Crean
said. “He’s helping get us in the bonus that much quicker. Look at the shots
he’d be getting if there were not fouls. Our trick is to make sure we get him
in space, get him moving and let him be the attack player he’s trying to be.”</div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Hoosiers are trying to get
separation from the rest of the Big Ten. Beating Michigan State would be a big
step in that direction. Given that they are 10-point favorites -- what’s up
with that considering the Spartans have won six straight games and have owned
the Cream ‘m Crimson in recent years -- and have the Assembly Hall advantage,
figure a strong IU performance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Crean wants his players fresh for
this game, and for the grueling five-games-in-13-days stretch that begins with
the Spartans. That means dialing back all the non-stop practicing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“</span>We cut back practice,
physically,” Crean said. “We can’t cut it mentally in how you prepare. When you
go to the film room, it’s not a taxing situation, but you’ve got to enjoy it
while looking for those things. The best teams are doing that. Our mental
approach has to be phenomenal, not just the physical approach. There are a lot
of different things to look for. We analayze so many different things.”</div>
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Analyze is one thing. Execute and out-perform are another.
There’s no reason the Hoosiers can’t do both, staring with Michigan Sttate.</div>
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No reason.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">*****</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Trevon Bluiett remains a big
target in IU’s Class of 2014 recruiting plans. He took yet another unofficial
visit to Indiana by attending Wednesday’s win over Penn State along with many
of his Indianapolis Park Tudor teammates.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The 6-5 forward is having a
monster junior season for one of the best teams in the state. He averages 28.5
points, 9.7 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 2.0 steals for Park Tudor, which is 14-1
and ranked No. 1 in Class 2A. It is the defending state champs, last year’s
title coming courtesy of Yogi Ferrell, now a standout Hoosier freshman point
guard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As you can imagine, he’s got a ton
of scholarship offers. Besides IU, Purdue, Notre Dame, Butler, Michigan,
Louisville, Florida, Illinois, Kansas State, Iowa and more.</span></div>
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Since he won’t sign until next fall and won’t cut his final
list until the summer, he has plenty of time to see a bunch of great games this
season – for free and with great seats.</div>
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Yes, there are a lot of advantages to being an elite
recruit.</div>
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This is the time of year when college football coaches
sweat. Will their committed recruits stick to their word and actually sign?
With the signing period set to begin Feb. 6, the drama builds.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">It’s building more than usual for
IU in the aftermath of Mark Hagen’s departure to Texas A&M. He was the
Hoosiers’ defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator, which means he had a
major impact in many of the 16 committed players, especially defensive players.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There is a buzz that some of those
commitments might reconsider now that Hagen is gone. For instance, Texas
defensive tackle Jacobi Hunter has decided to visit California, which has
caused Indiana to actively keep recruiting defensive tackles in case Hunter
changes his mind.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Nothing is sure until the players
sign that national letter of intent. In the end, you want a guy who is fully
committed to your program.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">On Feb. 6, we’ll know who those
guys are for Indiana.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Remember basketball player Devan
Dumes, who played in 2009 and 2010, averging 9.5 points in 57 games. The Indianapolis
Star reported that the 25-year-old Dumes was charged with criminal recklessness
and carrying a handgun without a license after firing multiple gunshots into a
house where his 1-year-old nephew and brother were inside. The incident
happened on Jan. 9 in Indianapolis.</span></div>
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This is the Will Sheehey we’ve come to expect – the off-the-bench
difference maker, the sweet-shooting catalyst who can turn what has recently
been an unproductive bench into a basketball force of nature.</div>
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The Hoosier dude who disappeared – offensively, at least –
against Minnesota and Wisconsin is gone.</div>
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Indiana is, by far, better for it. That’s a very good thing
going into Sunday’s smack down against Michigan State in a battle for Big Ten
supremacy.</div>
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But first, though, let’s look at Sheehey.</div>
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In Wednesday night’s throttling of way-over-matched Penn
State, Sheehey thrived. He had 12 points, two rebounds, two assists and a steal
in 24 minutes. He went 3-for-3 from three-point range, which was a very big
deal to Penn State coach Patrick Chambers, whose defensive strategy was predicated
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“Usually he’s a good middle-range jump shooter,” Chambers
said. “(Indiana) has a lot of talent and you can’t take away everything. You
have to pick your poison. Sheehey hit some threes to open everything up.”</div>
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Sheehey had been 0-for-4 from three-point range in his
previous three games. In fact, he’d scored a total of 14 points in his last
four games, and failed to score at all against Minnesota and Wisconsin, going a
combined 0-for-7 from the field.</div>
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Did that weigh heavily on his mind?</div>
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Not a chance, he said.</div>
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“I never think about that. As long as I’m playing hard on
the defensive end, it’s fine. If you ever see me not playing hard on the
defensive end, that’s when you know something is wrong. That will never happen.”</div>
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For most of the season Sheehey has been a consistent
offensive factor, which is reflected in his 10.4-point scoring average. He has
scored in double figures 11 times this season, with a high of 19 (against Ball
State and North Carolina).</div>
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He plays with confidence, relentlessness and an edgy aggression
his teammates appreciate.</div>
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“It’s big for our team (when he plays like this),” Victor
Oladipo said. “Ever since he came here he’s made an impact. It impacts winning
when he comes off the bench like that. It impacts both ends of the floor. Hopefully
he continues doing it.”</div>
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Sheehey has every intention of doing just that.</div>
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“The offense will come,” he said. “The ball finds movement.
The ball finds activity. If I keep moving, these guys will find me. I’m not
worried about it.”</div>
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Neither is coach Tom Crean.</div>
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“That’s who Will is. That’s what he brings. That’s his game
-- his energy and passion. He was very good defensively. He was good on Sunday against
Northwestern. Not a box score good, but it was a very strong game for him.”</div>
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For the record, Sheehey had six points and four rebounds in
19 minutes against Northwestern.</div>
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shooter. He reads the game well. That showed in the way he played (Wednesday
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-43335563397599258802013-01-23T01:05:00.003-08:002013-01-28T17:49:50.998-08:00IU’s Ferrell Defends Beyond His Years; Football News<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Yogi Ferrell as defensive stopper.</div>
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Could that be right?</div>
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When you think of Indiana’s freshman point guard, you think
of offense. No, not scoring. He only averages 6.6 points on 34.9 percent shooting, just 24.2 percent on three-pointers.</div>
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But Ferrell runs the Hoosiers’ push-the-pace show as
evidenced by his assists (86) and turnovers (36). He’s second in the Big Ten in
assists per game (4.8 to Michigan’s Trey Burke’s 7.4) and sixth in
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Remember, he’s doing that as a freshman.</div>
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Still, he can play a mean form of defense, and while he can’t
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For instance, he had a huge role in IU’s 74-51 win at Penn
State earlier this month. He defended Nittany Lions guard D.J. Newbill into 3-for-15
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Anyway, Ferrell likely will get that assignment again
tonight when Penn State (8-10 overall, 0-6 in the Big Ten) arrives in Assembly
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“He’s gotta do that not only against Penn State, but for the
rest of the year. When he plays like that, it helps us. It slows down their
guard, their point guard. It makes it tough for them to run their sets. We’re
going to need him not only against Newbill, but for the rest of the year as
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Is that asking too much of Ferrell? Not if you believe IU
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“Yogi is a very good defensive player,” Johnson said. “His defensive prowess
is going to bare out as we go further and further into this season. Especially
where we’re trying to go.<br />
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“His ability to pick up where our philosophy is on defense and his ability
to dive into the scouting report, and if not take away his opponents strengths,
limit them or force them into a high volume of shots to get their numbers,
is very important for us.<br />
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“Yogi is someone who works at it each and every day. He has that great
ability to move on to the next play very quickly, whether it be a good play or
a bad play. He’s shown a maturity beyond his years as far as his willingness to
take on the opponents, on certain nights the best player on the team.”<br />
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The No. 7 Hoosiers (16-2 overall, 4-1 in the Big Ten) need a
victory tonight to keep pace with No. 13 Michigan State (6-1 in the conference)
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Figure they’ll cruise to a victory. After what happened the
last time they played at home, last week’s loss to Wisconsin, there’s no way
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It's WAY earlier, but ESPN's Joe Lunardi has come up with his NCAA tourney predictions. For now, he has IU as the No. 2 seed in the South Regional opening against Long Beach State in Lexington. He has Kansas as the No. 1 seed in that regional.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Could IU defensive tackles coach
Mark Hagen be headed to Texas A&M?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">If you believe reports, he is.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">While nothing official from IU has
been released, 247Sports.com’s Texas A&M’s site has reported Hagen is going
to be the linebackers coach at Texas A&M.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">If true, that means Hagen is
leaving a struggling Hoosier program in a yes, struggling Big Ten, for a SEC
powerhouse that includes Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Johnny Manziel. (EDITOR'S NOTE: This post originally had CHARLIE Manziel because of massive lack of sleep generated by the announcement that Manti Te'o's girlfriend didn't actually exist. Or, perhaps, because of stupidity. We're too sleepy to tell the difference)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Texas A&M is likely to contend
for a national title next season. Let’s just say, Indiana will not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, Hagen is a former standout
linebacker at IU who has coached on Kevin Wilson’s staff the last two years. His
duties also included special teams and recruiting coordinator. Before that he
coached at Purdue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It almost certainly would be a
step up in salary and opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">IU released a football video with Kevin
Wilson talking with assistant athletic director Jeremy Gray about a variety of
topics. The Hoosiers are in the middle of winter conditioning and preparing for
spring practice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">IU returns 19 starters from a team
that won four games last season, and could easily have won two more to become
bowl eligible. Fourteen of those starters, by the way, are freshmen or
sophomores.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Hoosiers also have 16 recruiting
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<span style="color: black;">Wilson talked about recruiting on
the IU video. While he couldn’t get into specifics, he did provide insight into
how the Hoosiers will approach these final couple of weeks. He said they could
sign between 20 and 25 players by the time everything wraps up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“We’ve got a good class on paper,”
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<span style="color: black;">“We’re being a little selective,”
he said. “You’ve got to be smart down the stretch and make sure you’re not
being sold a bill of goods. Is he a good enough player? Academically does he
fit? Is he a good fit for you? We’ve got a very good class on paper if holds
true. We believe it will.”</span></div>
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Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719122004661496164.post-15937289177164095522013-01-20T21:08:00.003-08:002013-01-21T05:09:00.685-08:00Tom Crean, Star Trek and Grumpy Times<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black;">Tom Crean was grumpy. Or was he
provoked? Or, well, does it matter?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ah, these are the questions of our
lives in an era in which girlfriends sometimes don’t exist, Tour de France
champs can be frauds and the only thing we know for sure is that one Crean-related family,
the Harbaughs, are Super Bowl bound.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, Crean was not the happiest
coach in America in the wake of his Hooisers’ 67-59 victory over Northwestern. He
was a bit edgy, perhaps because his team didn’t play like a juggernaut, perhaps
because of some of the criticism directed his way, and that of his players,
after last week’s Wisconsin defeat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Or, perhaps, because he’s an
intense guy and if you’ve seen Big Ten action this season, you know how intense
that can be, and in the few minutes after a game it’s hard for that intensity
to cool off.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, IU is 16-2, and spent a
big part of the season ranked No. 1, but those two losses weigh heavily on fans’
minds. They see half-court vulnerability, poor second-half adjustments and
coaching weakness. Some anger is directed toward Crean, who before the Butler
loss could walk on water and who now, after the Wisconsin loss, is seen as
mortal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There is a famous Star Trek line –
“Behold, the god who bleeds!” – that reflects this kind of thinking, but we don’t
want anyone to think we base ALL our philosophy on a 1960s Sci-Fi TV episode.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anyway, elite coaching is
rewarding for a number of reasons, including the mega-million-dollar salaries,
but with it comes off-the-charts pressure. Lose once and you’re a bum. Lose
twice and, well, reap Kim Kardashian notoriety. Sometimes not even winning is
enough. In 2002 Ohio State went undefeated and won the national football championship,
but won a lot of close games, in part because of a great defense and mediocre
offense. Fans grumbled about the failings of then coach Jim Tressel right up
until the time the Buckeyes claimed the national title trophy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">With that in mind, and submitted
for your approval (yes, that’s a reference to another 1960s’ Sci-Fi TV show –
do you know which one?), is an excerpt from Crean’s Sunday post-game press conference.
The Hoosiers held Northwestern to 30.4 percent first-half shooting to build a
14-point halftime lead, more than enough, as it turned out, to secure their
third straight Big Ten road win.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our key is that we've just got to stay locked in to what we're doing, and
try to stay away from all of the clutter and noise and all those things that
can distract you from…and there is so much of it…you just have to stay locked
in to what's important, and that is how do you improve and how do you make your
teammates better…and what is your recipe for winning. Our guys have done a
really good job the last couple days of really understanding that again.
They've been very locked in to this game, and I think it showed in our defense.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I thought our guys really defended…I think…one thing I had to remind them
of, because they never read about it or hear about it, is that they are in the
top 10 in field goal percentage defense…and they are in the top 10 in field
goal percentage defense and offense…and nationally. I think they needed to be
reminded when we do those things we're pretty good.”</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And then a young reporter from a
college publication tried this question:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Coach, against
Minnesota you guys scored I think 52 points in the first half and then you fell
back in the second half. It was kind of a similar thing today but maybe not to
the same degree.. Northwestern was able to claw back in the second half. Was there
any similarities?”</span><br />
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it. Claw back? What do you mean?"</span><br />
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“<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">They were able to narrow the deficit
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Crean: “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Well, they played pretty
well…those teams played well. We actually…we won both of those games…make sure
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And then, well, Indiana has another intriguing week, which
is what Big Ten basketball is all about. On Wednesday struggling Penn State
comes to Assembly Hall and the Hoosiers figure to win decisively. Then Michigan
State, which leads the Big Ten with a 5-1 record, comes to town next Sunday. That
will be a real chance for IU to show its championship mettle.</div>
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walking on water. But as we know from the early Big Ten season, nothing is sure
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<span style="color: black;">Indiana’s junior guard and
defensive juggernaut embraces the challenges opposing gyms bring -- hostile
crowds, hyped home teams, calls that don’t always go the Cream ‘n Crimson way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Hoosiers will get all of that
on Sunday when they head to suddenly dangerous Northwestern, which is coming
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<span style="color: black;">“(Going on the road) brings us
together because that’s what you have to be in order to win on the road in the
Big Ten. We’re looking forward to it. We’re definitely looking forward to
playing at a high level and playing at Indiana basketball.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Indiana basketball, or at least
the perception of it, took a hit with the Assembly Hall loss to Wisconsin. If
the No. 2 Hoosiers (15-2 overall, 3-1 in the Big Ten) are no longer unbeatable at one of the most intimidating arenas in
college sports, does this mean they’re vulnerable elsewhere?</span></div>
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pick up its level of play, especially in the second half. The last couple of
days of practice, Oladipo said, were designed to reinforce that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“We’ve been emphasizing a lot of
things. Getting back on track and playing Indiana basketball. The last couple
of games we’ve been losing that. We’re getting back into the groove of things
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<span style="color: black;">“It’s been really competitive with
a different edge. We’re trying to build back that mindset that we need in order
to win. Focus on defense and rebounding.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Unlike Assembly Hall, Northwestern’s
Welsh-Ryan Arena is small and intimidate, but it can get loud. Still, given the
large number of IU fans in the Chicago area, it wouldn’t be surprising that a
lot of them attend the game.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“It’s a little bit of a different
environment,” Hulls said. “It’s a smaller gym, but it gets pretty rowdy. You
have to have the same mindset that you have when you play in every other gym.
Play together, communicate and make sure we’re doing all the things we can to
win.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Northwestern (11-7 overall, 2-3 in
the Big Ten) has adjusted to the loss of standout guard Drew Crawford behind
guards Reggie Hearn (14.1 points, 4.9 rebounds) and Dave Sobolewski (11.5
points, 76 assists against 32 turnovers). It thrives with a patient Princeton
offense and trapping defense.</span></div>
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“I think anytime you play a Northwestern team, you
understand their system, what their system brings to the game,” associate head
coach Steve McClain said. “This is a team that continues to get better. They’ve
had to go through the injury phase and new guys getting into the system.
There’s no question, they showed at Illinois the other night that this group
looks like they’re getting more and more comfortable in the system and running
the system to what it gives them to each individual.</div>
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“They are a team that’s coming off a big win at Illinois.
You look at their wins on the road – at Illinois, at Baylor – they’ve been to
some tough places and came away with wins, so going to their place, we know
it’s a game where you’ve got to go in and be sharp defensively.”<br />
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McClain understands the challenges present by Hearn and
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“Hearn is a guy who’s a veteran. He’s a veteran in the system. You saw a year
ago when they have five veterans out there running that system, it creates
unbelievable problems. Reggie is a guy who is a senior and feels like it’s time
to step up and he definitely did that the other night at Illinois and has shown
the ability to step up and have big games.</div>
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“(Sobolewski) played a lot of minutes last year, so he got a
year of understanding and running the Northwestern system, so he can direct
everyone. He can tell people when they are in the wrong spot and he’s such a
good driver, he’s a good reader and he finds a way to get to that rim. So
you’ve got to do a great job on him or he can have a big night.”</div>
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One of the biggest challenges when playing Northwestern is
dealing with all the backdoor cuts. Lose your focus for just a second and you
give up a layup.</div>
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“They have a lot of back doors that we have to be aware of,”
Hulls said. “They can all shoot, so they definitely make it a little bit
different in that regard, just different than most teams in the style of play
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Added Oladipo: “It’s hard because they are a very good team,
especially on their home court. They run that offense where they move a lot and
they won’t stop moving, so we have to come with our defensive hats on and be
prepared and stay focused on both ends of the floor.”</div>
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IU’s relatively light schedule, where it basically just
played one game a week, is over. It will basically be two games a week the rest
of the way. That’s good, McClain said.<br />
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“You can prepare both mentally and physically for it. It helps your players. I
think the other side of it is that this league has already shown that playing
at home isn’t a given that you’re going to win, and going on the road doesn’t
mean you can’t win. I think that’s what this league has always been about and
we’ve got enough guys that should understand that every team is one big win
from feeling good about themselves and Northwestern is coming off a big road
win at Illinois, feeling good about themselves coming home.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I know this, our veteran guys will be prepared to go
in and know that you’re going to be at your best in this game.”<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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</span>Pete DiPrimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708535351401703425noreply@blogger.com0