Big Ten Football Championship, Crossroads Classic, Super Bowl. Check, check and check.
Now, Indianapolis turns their focus on the Big Ten basketball tournament, held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. For the fourth year in a row, Indy has been the home for the conference tournament and done a terrific job. Next year it will return to Chicago as the two sites will alternate serving as host.…
While their future team was battling it out in Bloomington, two top Indiana high school basketball stars hit game-winning shots to keep their team alive in the postseason.
Indiana recruit Jeremy Hollowell (right) and Michigan State recruit Gary Harris each opened sectional play Tuesday night and both games went down to the final second, literally.
Here’s the situations:
Lawrence Central had the ball with five …
Another top-five team entered Assembly Hall Tuesday night and another went home with a loss. Playing possibly their most well-rounded game, No. 20 Indiana defeated No. 5 Michigan State 70-55.
Some Indiana students began lining up at 5 a.m. to watch their team. In a stripe-out at Assembly Hall, the place was sold-out and electric all game long.
Draymond Green finished with a game-high 29 …
If there was ever a night to be in multiple places at one time, tonight is the night. Hoosiers are known for their hoops, and there plenty of that going on Tuesday night in the basketball state.
Four games in four different venues, all beginning at 7 p.m.
No. 5 Michigan State at No. 18 Indiana
Assembly Hall is the best place to be tonight. …
The Daytona 500 had already rained out for the first-time ever. NASCAR moved the race to Monday in prime-time for the first time ever and it got plenty of attention, for the wrong reasons.
During the 53rd-running of ‘The Great American Race’, Jimmie Johnson wrecked on lap two, in an accident involving Danica Patrick. Later, with 40 laps to go on a yellow flag, something …
ESPN announcers Dave O’Brien and Dan Dakich got twitter buzzing during the Indiana-Minnesota broadcast after a tease that a special guest would be at Indiana’s game Tuesday against Michigan State. Immediately, most IU fans tried to connect the dots to former IU coach Bob Knight.
As Dakich said on his radio show Monday, “IU fans lost their mind.”
Coach Knight wouldn’t come back to be …
The Hoosiers are in the final stretch of the regular season. Three games in a week. One on the road (Minnesota), one against the best team in the Big Ten (Michigan St), and another against a rival (Purdue).
1-0. On to the next.
Indiana went into ‘The Barn’ at the University of Minnesota, came out with a toughness and put the pedal down, 69-50. IU …
In non-conference tilt in the middle of Big Ten play, Indiana passed the test, beating North Carolina Central 75-56. Best of all, they made it through without injuries and doing anything stupid.
49ers head coach and Tom Crean’s brother-in-law, Jim Harbaugh, was on hand for the game and spoke with the team both before and after the game.
There was a great exchange in Coach …