Morning After https://www.insidethehall.com/category/the-morning-after/ Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball news, recruiting and analysis. Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:11:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 The Morning After: Hey, That’s Doc Rivers! https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/11/17/the-morning-after-hey-thats-doc-rivers/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/11/17/the-morning-after-hey-thats-doc-rivers/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:52:50 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=4250 Did anyone else get a minor chill seeing Doc Rivers in Assembly Hall? I can’t explain this at all. I don’t really like Rivers. I’m not sure he’s a great NBA coach so much as a decent NBA coach who ...

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The Morning After: It’s a win, and I feel fine https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/02/05/the-morning-after-its-a-win-and-i-feel-fine/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/02/05/the-morning-after-its-a-win-and-i-feel-fine/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:39:24 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=2202 The Indiana Hoosiers have not been an easy team to root for this season. In their 11-game losing streak and Big Ten winlessness, they’ve struggled to inspire much of anything in the way of interest, or intrigue, or emotion, really. ...

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The Morning After: Minnesota https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/26/the-morning-after-minnesota-2/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/26/the-morning-after-minnesota-2/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:12:47 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=2065 All we are past the mopey part of the season now? I’ll admit, I’ve gone through some weird attitudinal shifts toward the 2008-09 Indiana Hoosiers — going from depression to blind faith to cheeriness and back again a couple of ...

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The Morning After: Staying positive https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/14/the-morning-after-staying-positive/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/14/the-morning-after-staying-positive/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:24:16 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=1999 There are only so many things to say from game to game about the way IU is playing. For example, what was there to say after Illinois? The Hoosiers were destroyed by a far superior (and still underrated) team. Michigan ...

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The Morning After: Illinois open thread https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/12/the-morning-after-illinois-open-thread/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/12/the-morning-after-illinois-open-thread/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:19:33 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=1976 After the massive disappointment last week against Michigan, I didn’t expect much out of Saturday’s game at Illinois — that’s a tough place to play, and Illinois has sneakily been really good this year. Their tempo-free numbers belie a team ...

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The Morning After: Michigan, or clapping alone https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/08/the-morning-after-michigan-or-clapping-alone/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/08/the-morning-after-michigan-or-clapping-alone/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:30:59 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=1926 Hey, so that was fun, right? Haha, just kidding! That wasn’t fun at all! That was precisely as much fun as a rusty ballpeen hammer to the eye socket, only less violent, so long as you don’t count “throwing an ...

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The M(onday) After: Iowa, or not so bad this time, actually https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/05/the-monday-after-iowa-or-not-so-bad-this-time-actually/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2009/01/05/the-monday-after-iowa-or-not-so-bad-this-time-actually/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:00:06 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=1871 Ah, the Hoosiers. Just when I thought I was out … they pull me back in. It’s not as though I had given up on the season in any sort of meaningful way. Actually, I’d given up on the season, ...

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The Morning After: Northeastern, or, Serenity Now https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/12/23/the-morning-after-northeastern-or-serenity-now/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/12/23/the-morning-after-northeastern-or-serenity-now/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:28:36 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=1771 At this point in IU’s young, ugly rebuilding year, I feel confident in a few assertions: IU is not a very good basketball team. IU is not going to be a very good basketball team. IU is not even a ...

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The Morning After: TCU https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/12/11/the-morning-after-tcu/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/12/11/the-morning-after-tcu/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:23:54 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=1667 Whoa, right? After a couple of bad losses to teams we didn’t even look competitive against, IU was given a coming-home gift Wednesday night. That gift, the TCU Horned Frogs, was about as inept a basketball team you’ll see all ...

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The Morning After: A brief time of sincerity https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/12/04/the-morning-after-a-brief-time-of-sincerity/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/12/04/the-morning-after-a-brief-time-of-sincerity/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:00:25 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/?p=1595 Usually, The Morning After is a combination of the following: 1. Me talking about basketball in a barely informed fashion, including but not limited to offensive sets, efficiency, tempo-free/possession-related statistics, and how irritating it is when people take too many ...

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The Morning After: Your 2008-09 Indiana Hoosiers, I think https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/11/16/the-morning-after-your-2008-09-indiana-hoosiers-i-think/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/11/16/the-morning-after-your-2008-09-indiana-hoosiers-i-think/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:07:47 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/11/16/the-morning-after-your-2008-09-indiana-hoosiers-i-think/ It goes without saying that the beginning of this Indiana basketball season is unlike those that have come before it. It is the second year in the last three that have seen IU with a brand new basketball coach, but ...

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The Morning After: Tom Crean https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/04/01/the-morning-after-tom-crean/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/04/01/the-morning-after-tom-crean/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:39:05 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/04/01/the-morning-after-tom-crean/ Or The Night Of: Tom Crean … It’s over. The speculation, the rumors, the top five lists for coaching candidates — it’s over. Tom Crean is IU’s next coach. And really, I think it’s a great fit. I was infatuated ...

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The Morning After: That’s that https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/24/the-morning-after-thats-that/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/24/the-morning-after-thats-that/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:40:33 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/24/the-morning-after-thats-that/ College basketball seasons are long and dynamic things. They’re not like college football seasons, which require drilled excellence from the outset and where a midseason loss can kill your chances at winning a truly screwed-up national championship. They’re not like ...

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The Morning After: Penn State https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/10/the-morning-after-penn-state-2/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/10/the-morning-after-penn-state-2/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/10/the-morning-after-penn-state-2/ Bad decisions. If you can boil down IU’s entire struggle with injured little meek please-govnah-don’t-hurt-us Penn State yesterday, that was it. Bad decisions. Bad decisions from the three-point line. Bad decisions in the post. Bad decisions on defense. Whatever bad ...

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The Morning After: Minnesota https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/06/the-morning-after-minnesota/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/06/the-morning-after-minnesota/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:30:18 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/06/the-morning-after-minnesota/ Judging by the comments in our game thread last night, this was not a game most of you were stressing. That makes sense: It’s a late-season Big Ten game against Minnesota, the conference is now fully out of reach, and ...

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The Morning After: Michigan State https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/03/the-morning-after-michigan-state-2/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/03/the-morning-after-michigan-state-2/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:02:36 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/03/03/the-morning-after-michigan-state-2/ There are two ways to view yesterday’s debacle at Michigan State, and both depend on interpretation. The first interpretation relies on the notion that IU has some hand in everything that happens to them on the basketball court. As a ...

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The Morning After: Ohio State v.2.0 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/27/the-morning-after-ohio-state-v20/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/27/the-morning-after-ohio-state-v20/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:46:39 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/27/the-morning-after-ohio-state-v20/ Ugh. Whatever that was last night, it was not pretty to watch. Eric Gordon’s game was way off, D.J. White had his share of struggles, and the Hoosiers oftentimes looked discombobulated and confused. Also, for whatever reason — partially because ...

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The Morning After: Northwestern https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/24/the-morning-after-northwestern/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/24/the-morning-after-northwestern/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:34:58 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/24/the-morning-after-northwestern/ Should IU ever be happy about squeaking things out against Northwestern? Probably not. Given that the Hoosiers are 12-2 in the conference and the Wildcats are 0-14 (!), a sloppy, grind-it-out win in Evanston is probably not something anyone at ...

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The Morning After: Purdue https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/20/the-morning-after-purdue/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/20/the-morning-after-purdue/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:20:38 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/20/the-morning-after-purdue/ This is weird. Isn’t it? Isn’t it strange to be in this position right now? To gather, as I did last night, with friends at a bar, to celebrate another game with a Fat Tire and a sandwich, and to ...

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The Morning After: Michigan State https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/17/the-morning-after-michigan-state/ https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/17/the-morning-after-michigan-state/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:05:05 +0000 https://www.insidethehall.com/2008/02/17/the-morning-after-michigan-state/ We’ve all been guilty of it. We are finished with Kelvin Sampson, done, finito, that’s it. As you read this, Sampson could win the Big Ten, blow out Purdue by 40, capture a national title, and cure lupus (does lupus ...

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