Throughout the now 15 game 2017-18 Indiana basketball season we’ve heard various perspectives from head coach Archie Miller on the team’s apparent inability to piece together complete games: “We were, to be honest with you, soft on the glass,” Indiana coach Archie Miller said. “In the second half, the game really changed on second shots.” (Wisconsin game) “Give Louisville credit, they did some good things in the second half,” Indiana first-year coach Archie Miller said. “We had some turnovers the last six minutes that really hurt us.” “Really disappointing game for our team,” Miller said. “Give Fort Wayne a lot…
Author: Mike Schumann
Indiana University men’s basketball head coach Archie Miller joined IU legend Don Fischer on January 4th, 2018 at the Bloomington Holiday Inn for their weekly radio show. The full video is provided below: Posted by Indiana Basketball on Thursday, January 4, 2018 Video credit – Indiana University Athletics
Indiana senior guard Tyra Buss became the all-time leading scorer in Indiana University women’s basketball history on Wednesday night. She broke the 34-year-old scoring record with her 14th point which came early in the second half. The previous record of 1,817 points was held by Denise Jackson, which was set in the 1983-84 season. Unfortunately for Buss and the Hoosiers, IU came up short at Penn State, 77-74. After falling behind early, the Hoosiers outscored the Lady Lions 24-17 in the fourth quarter but it wasn’t quite enough. Buss led IU with 27 points and Amanda Cahill added a season-high…
The consensus criticism of the 2017-18 Indiana men’s basketball team seems to be centered on a lack of passion, energy, discipline, and vocal floor leadership from the players. The vulnerability of this team due to those issues really seemed to crystallize on Tuesday at Wisconsin as the Hoosiers were outworked and less fundamental than a group of mostly unheralded and inexperienced Badgers. Archie Miller hasn’t hidden his frustrations either, referring to the team at various times as “soft”, “lacking energy”, and “not fully understanding what it means to wear Indiana across their chests”. Most observers seemed to agree that based…
Make that 16 in a row at the Kohl Center, where Indiana has not won a game since 1998. This was clearly not your typical Wisconsin team. Beyond All-American Ethan Happ, the Badgers put a lineup of unknown and unrated players on the floor. Indiana appeared to be the more talented team athletically and on paper. But raw talent doesn’t always win games at this level, not even against depleted teams like Wisconsin. Final score: Wisconsin 71, Indiana 61. Overall: D A couple weeks ago we said that this team needed to develop an identity. Well, it turns out they do…
Final box score from a 71-61 Wisconsin win over Indiana: Indiana led 33-30 at the half: Photo – ICON SPORTSWIRE/GETTY
As you likely know by now, we have an unusual men’s Big Ten basketball schedule for the 2017-18 season. Each team played two games in early December, and thus we are now resuming conference play in early January. With the pre-conference schedule now fully behind us and Big Ten play ready to continue at full throttle, it is time to take a quick look at where the teams stand and then make our predictions for the final conference standings. REVIEWING THE TEAMS Illinois (10-5, 0-2) – It looks like it’s a rebuilding year under first year coach Brad Underwood. They’ve lost…
Game Notes: The Indiana Hoosiers (8-6, 1-1)) resume Big Ten play on the road against the Wisconsin Badgers (8-7, 1-1) at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM EST on Tuesday, January 2nd. The game will be broadcast on ESPN with Dave Fleming and former Indiana guard Dan Dakich on the call. Greg Gard is in year three as the Wisconsin head coach. His overall record is 50-25 since becoming head coach at Wisconsin and he is 4-1 against IU. Indiana leads the all-time series against Wisconsin 96-73. Wisconsin is a 5.5 point favorite to win the…
Below is our monthly summary of former Indiana University men’s basketball players registering statistics in the NBA during the 2017-18 season. Thomas Bryant is a new addition to the group in December. All statistics are season to date and through December 31, 2017: OG Anunoby Games/Games Started – 34/22 Points – 6.7 Rebounds – 2.2 Assists – .9 Blocks – .1 Steals – .9 FG% – .480 3FG% – .415 FT% – .630 Thomas Bryant Games/Games Started – 2/0 Points – .5 Rebounds – 0 Assists – 0 Blocks – 0 Steals – 0 FG% – .000 3FG% – .000…
Nine former Indiana University football players registered at least one snap during the 2017 NFL season. Here is our summary of their performance during the season: TEVIN COLEMAN, RB, ATLANTA FALCONS Att – 156 Yards – 628 YPC – 4.0 TD – 5 Rec – 27 Rec Yards – 299 TD – 3 Notes: Appeared in 15 games, starting 3. Finished 29th in the NFL in rushing yards. Continued to share RB duties with Devonta Freeman. DAN FEENEY, G, LOS ANGELES CHARGERS Games/Started – 15/9 Notes: Feeney started the last 9 games of the season for the LA Chargers. JORDAN…