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For Minnesota Basketball, Excuses Are Mostly Legitimate
Four years later, Tubby Smith's honeymoon is officially over in Dinkytown. Welcolmed by Minnesotans as a savior of its long moribund and scandal-laden program, Smith is now learning that Golden Gopher fans want results, not excuses. During Minnesota's recent four-game losing skid (this was written...
Recruit barnstorming; Holman eligible
Jody Demling of the Louisville Courier Journal has been all over the recruiting world, including this article about the IU recruits' game in New Albany. Gordon scored 38 points, but the most encouraging nugget was buried in the article:Eli Holman, a 6-10 forward from Richmond, Calif., played better...
Wonked off.
As I have mentioned before, John Gasaway, f/k/a Big Ten Wonk, along with fellow stat-head Ken Pomeroy, have launched a promising new website called Basketball Prospectus. In many quarters, including from Inside the Hall and in ITH's comment threads, Gasaway is taking quite a bit of heat from IU...
Terry Hutchens, M.D.
Sometimes, the fewer words, the better. Hutch's most recent blog entry would have been much better if it ended after the first sentence:I have yet to hear anything new on Eric Gordon today.That would have been true, concise, and worth reading. Unfortunately, Terry kept writing, and were all worse...
Gordon injury.
More on the game later, a lackluster 12 point win by what must have been a tired IU team. The main story, of course, is the injury to Eric Gordon, who left the game in the first half and returned to the sideline with an ice pack on his low back, but never returned to the game.Terry Hutchens,...
What is Mike DeCourcy talking about?
I mean that in two ways, both the "huh?" way and as a sincere question. Has there been some incident that escaped my attention and the attention of the local media? DeCourcy wrote a column untitled "Winning is always a group effort." No controversy there, and the substance is what you would expect:...
Gordon probably out and Bassett definitely out.
Per the Hoosier Scoop, Armon Bassett apparently has been suspended. I suppose it's possible that he is hurt, but in any event, they report from Assembly Hall that Bassett is there in a tie. Also, Seth Davis, at halftime of the Duke-Michigan game, just reported (citing Sampson) that Gordon will...
Illinois, take two.
Illinois Fighting IlliniCurrent record: 10-13Big Ten record: 2-8Current RPI: 123Current Sagarin: 872006-07 record: 2006-07 RPI: 302006-07 Sagarin: 51Series: IU leads 82-77Last IU win: 1/13/08, 62-58 in BloomingtonLast Illinois win: 3/9/07, 58-54 (OT) in Chicago (BTT quarterfinals)Last IU win in...
Indiana 83, Illinois 79 (2OT).
As I said last night, I can't believe IU won. I wasn't confident going in, the atmosphere was even worse than expected, and IU ended up down 10 in the second half, thanks to the Illini's uncharacteristically good performance from behind the arc. Eric Gordon struggled, scoring only one point in the...
The plot thickens.
Like NBC's ER, the melodrama gets ever more unrealistic, except this is really happening. Hoosier Scoop (see sidebar and below for the link, I'm rushed) reports that six Hoosiers (DJ White, Armon Bassett, Deandre Thomas, Brandon McGee, and Jordan Crawford) are not at practice. If my math is...
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