By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – While chatting with reporters after a Hoosiers training camp practice earlier this month, third-year coach Kevin Wilson heard the shrill ringing of a cell phone emerge from a table in the corner of the room. Stopping in mid-sentence, Wilson turned his head and asked a media relations […]
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By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent The Indiana Hoosiers kick off a new year on Thursday. Here’s Part I of our season preview: Five things to know 1. The run defense should be better: One of the Hoosiers’ biggest problems the past three seasons was the run defense. It was shredded on a regular basis. Improving […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Victor Oladipo sang and hollered through the halls of Assembly Hall so loudly that his voice reached the office of his old coach upstairs. Back at Indiana to serve as a counselor in Tom Crean’s youth camp this weekend, Oladipo wasted no time making his presence known. […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Calbert Cheaney, one of Indiana’s all-time greats as a player, is leaving his post as director of basketball operations to join Saint Louis as an assistant coach. Hoosiers coach Tom Crean confirmed late Tuesday night that Cheaney had stepped down from the role in which he served […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Shane Wynn, a prankster, is keeping a straight face as he gets a dose of his own medicine. Speaking with three reporters after practice, Wynn offers no response to the sight of teammate Kofi Hughes grinning childishly and doing an uncoordinated jig a few feet away. Finally, […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Kevin Wilson really doesn’t know what type of season will emerge from seven months of hard work. But at least he and his coaching staff have a plan to revive Indiana Hoosiers football. After going 5-19 in Wilson’s first two seasons, the cream and crimson are thinking […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor The Big Ten’s annual football Media Days have come and gone, and as we brace for the start of fall camps over the next couple weeks, there was plenty of food for thought that came out of Chicago. Despite a couple of off-the-field issues with two of its stars, […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor If you’re like me, you’re beginning to think more and more about the college football season. Sure, we haven’t even arrived at the Fourth of July or endured the dog days of summer. But in about a month conferences across the country will hold their annual media days and […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor The Big Ten has to be sick and tired of hearing about its lack of recent success in college football. It knows Ohio State’s 2002 national title was the last time the conference was king of the sport. In fact, the Big Ten has had just two national champions […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Indiana’s season came to an end Wednesday night with a 1-0 loss to Oregon State in the College World Series. Lefty Matt Boyd baffled the Hoosiers with 11 strikeouts in his complete-game shutout, making a tough-luck loser of Big Ten Pitcher of the Year Aaron Slegers. Indiana never really came […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Hoosiers closer Ryan Halstead blew an eighth-inning lead, and two batters later, lefty reliever Brian Korte allowed a game-winning, two-run single as Indiana fell 5-4 Monday night in its second game of the College World Series. The Hoosiers’ storybook season is on the line Wednesday against Oregon State. Josie Janavicius, […]
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