By PAUL SIEGFRIED ISL Correspondent There will be a total of 254 players chosen over the three-day NFL Draft, which begins next Thursday in New York. Indiana colleges should be well represented, with the possibility of at least a dozen players from the state who could be selected over the seven rounds and another 20 […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Roughly 8,000 fans came to Memorial Stadium Saturday to see Indiana wrap up spring practice with its annual intrasquad spring game. Cream defeated Crimson 21-7 behind two touchdown catches from Shane Wynn and a scoring run by Tevin Coleman. To come out of spring and out of today […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor Fans would love college basketball players to exhaust their eligibility before they leave school, but that’s just not realistic in the day and age we live in if you’re talking about elite players. Despite what the minority may say, both Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo made the right decisions […]
By COLLIN O’CONNOR ISL Correspondent Just a few days removed from the NCAA Championship game that Indiana fans envisioned watching their team compete in at the beginning of the season, the Hoosiers’ biggest stars have decided that it is in their best interest to declare for the NBA Draft. Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo both […]
By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Founder Note: Cliff Brunt covered the Indiana Pacers for seven years for The Associated Press and Indiana University basketball this past season for The Sports XChange (Reuters) and his website, Indy Sports Legends. With Indiana’s Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo heading to the NBA, here is Brunt’s assessment of what their chances of […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent As the Hoosiers finish spring semester classes, prepare to say their goodbyes to three impactful seniors and chart offseason workouts at Cook Hall, two incredibly dissimilar views emerge as a program begins to reflect on a season that concluded sooner than expected. In one view, the season was a grand […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor WASHINGTON D.C. ” Let the speculation begin. Will Victor Oladipo and/or Cody Zeller opt to leave Indiana with eligibility remaining and head to the NBA? After IU lost to Syracuse Thursday night in the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament, both of the Hoosier stars were asked about their future […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Just like that, it’s over. The Indiana Hoosiers are going home for one big reason: They couldn’t hit shots. More to the point, Syracuse’s 2-3 zone defense prevented them from hitting shots. Three-for-15 from beyond the arc? While the Orange got their hands on the ball for 12 steals and […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor WASHINGTON D.C. — This was supposed to be the year for Indiana basketball. The year Indiana returned to the Final Four. The year it won its first national championship since 1987. The table was set for Tom Crean’s Hoosiers shortly after his 2011-12 team fell to eventual national champion […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor WASHINGTON D.C. ” When Indiana and Syracuse do battle tonight at the Verizon Center in the nation’s capital, many Hoosier faithful will fondly recall the last time these two college basketball Goliaths collided in the NCAA Tournament. Remember March 30, 1987? There’s not a Hoosier fan on the planet that doesn’t […]
By COLLIN O’CONNOR ISL Correspondent Ever since Jim Boeheim took over the Syracuse basketball program, his famous 2-3 zone has become synonymous with the program’s success. Through recruiting long, athletic players that perfectly fit into this defensive system, Boeheim has built up a program that features a team this season that he says is good as […]