INDIANA RUMORS & GOSSIP

Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall. So go ahead, get your read on. + Dustin Dopirak of The Herald-Times recaps Tom Crean’s comments on his weekly radio show which included discussion of Indiana’s philosophy on defending ball-screens. + Sean Morrison of Inside Indiana profiles Ron Patterson and his growth into one of the toughest players in...

Indiana freshman forward Cody Zeller has been named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for a sixth time this season after helping the Hoosiers to their 19th win of the season last week.

Indiana fell in a tough one at home on Sunday afternoon as Illinois hit a field goal with under a second remaining to take the 61-60 win. The Hoosiers trailed by as many as eight points in the second half before the Illini scored the final five points of the game to top IU. Aulani Sinclair led the way for Indiana with 17 points as Sasha Chaplin scored 14 points and Jasmine McGhee added 11.

In the Big Ten, there are two centers 0f attention that have separated themselves from the pack. And that makes sense as there are just fewer and fewer true centers these days; especially at the NBA level. And where would the NBA get such beings? When college basketball is seeing the decline of the big man too. The two main big men in the Big Ten are Cody Zeller at Indiana, and Meyers...

Lost amidst the sea of free throws and the Cody Zeller vs. Meyers Leonard matchup was a strong disturbing game for Jordan Hulls. The junior from Bloomington had seven assists. Six of them came in the second half. A look at three in the final ten minutes of regulation in the latest edition of Film Session. NO 1) SNEAKY LOOK TO WATFORD Hulls has the ball on the right wing as Tom...

Overshadowed this week by UNC-Duke, the best rivalry in college basketball and Syracuse-Georgetown, the greatest in the Big East, is Illini vs. Hoosiers, a great rivalry in itself. The all time series was tied at 83 entering tonight. However, Illinois was 5-1 in their last 6 versus IU. And that one loss in Bloomington last year was extremely fluky to say the least. After tonight...

Christian Watford (18 points, five rebounds and two assists), Cody Zeller (22 points, five rebounds) and Jordan Hulls (15 points, seven assists and four rebounds) met with the media following Indiana’s 84-71 win over Illinois at Assembly Hall on Thursday. Watch the press conference in high-definition quality video in the embedded media player below:

Assembly hall in Indiana was packed for the Illinois-Indiana game. Going into this match up both teams were .500 in conference. Indiana coming in at (6-6) and Illinois at (5-5). The last time these two teams met, the Fighting Illini won in Champaign 72-48 on March 5 2011. Big wins have come at different times for both teams but who would take the match tonight? The series between...

Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. So go ahead, get your read on. · 2014 Ft. Wayne Luers guard and Indiana commitment James Blackmon Jr. is out for the season after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee over the weekend in a loss to Indianapolis Tech. Blackmon Jr. was averaging 25.1 points per game. · Indiana is a No. 4 seed in the East bracket...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — After coming off a tough road loss to Michigan on Wednesday night, the Indiana Hoosiers bounced back right away heading up highway I-65 to beat in-state rival Purdue 78-61. This was Tom Crean’s first win against Purdue since he took over Indiana in 2008. “Our guys did an excellent job of understanding that if you’re going to beat a really...

After a slow, decade-long erosion that saw Indiana fall below Purdue, Notre Dame, and even Butler in the Basketball State both in terms of on-court play and recruiting, we have now re-emerged as the recruiting leader in a state stocked with talent and beaten Purdue, Notre Dame, Butler, and Evansville this year to reclaim our place as the on-court leader as well. Hey, it’s called...

It just so happens that the NBA schedule has put the Dallas Mavericks in Indianapolis two nights before the Super Bowl. Seeing as team owners have no responsibilities for game preparation, despite what people may think about Mark Cuban, road trips are mini vacations. Unlike his fellow owners, Cuban isn't a stuffy old rich man who tucks himself into bed during the daylight. ...

Cody ZellerBy Paul Seaver (TheArenaPulse) This post is part of The Arena Pulse's Player of the Night feature.Each morning throughout the 2011-12 season, The Arena Pulse will select and name its "Player of the Night" from the previous evening's action.Just three days after being held to a season-low 50 points, Indiana's offense found themselves clicking on all...

Cody Zeller was never able to get into a rhythm in Indiana’s 57-50 loss at Wisconsin on Thursday night because of foul trouble. IU’s freshman center was scoreless in the first half and finished the game with only seven points and three rebounds in 19 minutes. He was the subject of some borderline foul calls that changed the game for the Hoosiers. Zeller picked up his...

MADISON, Wis. The shared sentiment reverberating around Big Ten country when this season began was that Indiana's basketball team couldn't possibly fare any worse. After all, the past three seasons had played out in front of a national audience with mostly calamitous results. When head coach Tom Crean left Marquette in 2008, he took over a storied Hoosiers program decimated...