Before the 2020-21 season, Arizona had been to the Sweet 16 exactly once in the history of its women’s basketball program, and when it got there in 1998 it lost to Connecticut. Since then, it has won a total of three NCAA Tournament games and hasn’t been to the event since 2005. However, the Wildcats are reaching new heights with their current coach, they’re two years removed from a WNIT title and had one of their best seasons in school history stopped at the brink of the tournament by the COVID-19 pandemic last season. They are enjoying their first Elite…
Author: Dustin Dopirak
History is generally not made easily, and so it was perhaps strangely fitting that at the same time Indiana was sitting on the verge of doing something it had never done before, it was also on the brink of what would have been a devastating late-game collapse. The No. 4 seed Hoosiers had a 14-point lead over No. 1 seed North Carolina State in the third quarter of Saturday’s NCAA Mercado Regional Semifinal and a 10-point lead with just 2:51 to go in the game. But the Wolfpack scored eight straight points in under 90 seconds to come within two…
Indiana took a day to bask in the glow of history. The schedule of the NCAA Tournament provides for that, but not much more. On Wednesday, the Hoosiers became just the second team in Indiana women’s basketball history to reach the Sweet 16 and the first to do so since 1983 when the field was just 36 teams and IU only had to win one game to get there. It was a milestone not only in the careers of the players on the current roster, but for the Teri Moren era, which is already by far the most successful coaching…
Khristian Lander decided the day after Archie Miller was fired that he would do this, and on Friday morning he decided it was time to make it official. According to his father Keith, the Indiana freshman point guard called him Friday and then called IU athletic director Scott Dolson to inform him that he would be entering the transfer portal. However, he also told Dolson that like four of the other five players Indiana players who have entered the transfer portal since Miller’s firing, he too would consider returning to Indiana if he considered himself a good fit with the…
This is the eighth in a series of profiles on potential candidates for Indiana basketball’s head coaching vacancy. Candidate: Calbert Cheaney Age: 49 Current Position/Tenure: Indiana Pacers assistant coach since 2020. Previous Jobs: Erie Bayhawks/College Park Skyhawks assistant coach, 2018-20; St. Louis assistant coach 2013-16; Indiana director of basketball operations, 2011-13, Golden State Warriors assistant coach, 2010-11. Career Accomplishments: Helped St. Louis to the NCAA Tournament in 2014; was part of back-to-back Sweet 16 staffs at Indiana with a Big Ten title in 2012-13; scored a Big Ten record 2,613 points at Indiana from 1989-1993. Played 13 seasons in the…
After just 20 appearances with the Houston Rockets following his mid-January trade from the Indiana Pacers, former Indiana All-American guard Victor Oladipo was traded again Thursday to the Miami Heat for Avery Bradley and Kelly Olynyk as well as a draft swap, according to multiple reports. Oladipo spends much of his off-seasons in Miami, so it was a destination for him. The trade moves him from a team that was going nowhere quickly to a team that is in playoff position. The Heat are currently fifth in the Eastern Conference at 22-22. The Rockets just snapped a 20-game losing streak…
This is the seventh in a series of profiles of potential candidates for Indiana’s vacant basketball head coaching position. Candidate: Porter Moser Age: 52 Current Position/Tenure: Loyola-Chicago head coach since 2011. Previous Jobs: Saint Louis assistant coach 2007-11; Illinois State head coach 2003-07; Arkansas-Little Rock head coach 2000-03; Arkansas-Little Rock assistant coach 1998-2000; Texas A&M assistant coach 1996-98, 1991-95; Milwaukee assistant coach 1995-96; Creighton assistant coach 1990-91. Career Accomplishments: Has Loyola in the Sweet 16 this season as a No. 8 seed with a 26-4 record. Took Loyola to the Final Four in 2018 with a 32-6 record. Missouri Valley Conference Coach…
Indiana freshman forward Jordan Geronimo will enter his name in the NCAA transfer portal according to a post on his Instagram page, though he said on the post that there is a possibility he will return to Indiana. Geronimo is the fifth Indiana player to put his name in the transfer portal since season’s end, joining senior guard Aljami Durham, sophomore guard Armaan Franklin, redshirt junior forward Race Thompson and transfer guard Parker Stewart. Of those Durham, who played four years for Indiana and may simply move on from college and play professionally, has indicated that he will definitely not…
Indiana cancelled its spring football practice Thursday “out of an abundance of caution” according to an IU spokesman but wouldn’t describe the reason for that caution. No decision has been made regarding Saturday’s practice or any other practices going forward. The spokesman would not confirm or deny if the cancellation is related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teri Moren stepped to the dais at Bill Greeheny Arena in San Antonio looking like she’d just gotten out of the shower with her hair soaked and matted down and wearing a hooded sweatshirt different than what she’d worn during the game. But the water that had drenched her hair had apparently not come from a shower head but had been dumped on her in the locker room by her players and coaching staff members as they celebrated a win that took them someplace they’d never been before. “We made some history tonight,” the Indiana women’s basketball coach said. “Our…