Zach Osterman was a writer for Inside the Hall during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons.

Night of the Living Red: Talking Points

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 29, 2010 3
 

BLOOMINGTON | So no column tonight. I am robbed — devoid, even — of meaningful candor with regard to Night of the Living Red. Or, more specifically, you and I would both probably prefer we just throw some info out ...

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2010-2011 Player Profile: Daniel Moore

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 27, 2010 3
 

It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Daniel Moore. We will tarry not long on young Daniel Moore, for there is much to be said about the coming of Cody Zeller-palooza (and also ...

2010-2011 Player Profile: Matt Roth

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 25, 2010 3
 

It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Matt Roth. Suddenly, we’re talking about Indiana’s depth at guard, and how reliable it is less than three weeks from the start of the season. And ...

Verdell Jones suffers ankle injury

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 24, 2010 3
 

Tuesday, 8:00 AM Update by Alex Bozich: Tom Crean confirmed the ankle sprain on his Twitter account via this series of tweets: “Now we have to deal with different injuries. Verdell is suffering from a ankle sprain he got defending ...

Report: D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera commits to Xavier

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 24, 2010 3
 

This is coming from our friend Kyle Neddenriep at the Star. I would link to his tweets on the subject, but I’m blogging from friend’s iPhone and don’t know how to link. I will say Neddenriep didn’t mention IU as ...

2010-2011 Player Profile: Tom Pritchard

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 20, 2010 3
 

It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Tom Pritchard. Ah, the curious case of Tom Pritchard. Ah, the cliche of using odd, catchy movie titles as ledes. Which one shall we talk about ...

BLOOMINGTON — They came, as they always do, from all over the state, to see 16 college-age basketball players. They found a recovering record-setter, a 95-percent star and a 7-foot-1 giant born closer to Brazil than to Bloomington. Hoosier Hysteria ...

2010-2011 Player Profile: Verdell Jones

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 15, 2010 3
 

It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Verdell Jones. So about a year and a half ago, I wrote a column that I cannot currently locate, which said that I thought Verdell Jones ...

Baylor in hot water over Perea recruitment

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 12, 2010 3
 

This one comes from our friend Jeff Goodman at FoxSports.com. According to this report, Baylor assistant coach Mark Morefield “sent dozens of texts to Hanner Perea’s AAU and high school coaches in July while they were coaching events,” a violation ...

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Hoosier Hysteria is on the horizon and it’s time for Inside the Hall’s preseason All-Big Ten team. Today: Purdue’s E’Twaun Moore. It’s been three years ago now that I was sitting in my mother’s dining room reading the Lafayette Journal ...

2010-2011 Player Profile: Jordan Hulls

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 12, 2010 3
 

It’s time for Inside the Hall’s player-by-player breakdown of the 2010-2011 Indiana Hoosiers. Today: Jordan Hulls. How much pressure rests on Jordan Hulls this season is a matter of opinion, depending upon whom you believe. Conventional wisdom said that his ...

Pale, and freckled, and sore all over

  • Zachary Osterman Oct 6, 2010 3
 

BLOOMINGTON — For those who are unaware, I rode in the Little 500 for four years in college. We took it pretty seriously — year-round training, races in the summer, suicides up all 11 floors at Ballantine, a curtailing of ...

Indiana fans can thank their sellout crowd for keeping Gary Harris from IU’s open gym on Saturday — he was stuck in traffic. Harris eventually made it down to Bloomington in time for the IU-Michigan game, and got to take ...

If there’s anyone qualified to talk about Denard Robinson’s incredible footballing ability, it’s Basil Smotherman. The 2013 wing has now seen Michigan’s elusive quarterback — and probably Heisman front-runner — twice this season: first at Notre Dame, where Robinson rolled ...

On Facebook, Twitter and tweeting

  • Zachary Osterman Sep 30, 2010 3
 

Following up on good friend Dustin Dopirak’s quick hit earlier today on the Scoop, I thought it prudent to bring a little bit of further attention to this notion of social media and recruiting. By now, most of you have ...

Lyles adds his name to Indiana’s 2014 class

  • Zachary Osterman Sep 26, 2010 3
 

In 2014, I will be 27. Barack Obama, should he be re-elected, will be less than three years from his constitutionally-mandated removal from office. And Trey Lyles will begin his freshman year in Bloomington. The 6-foot-9 forward from Indianapolis’ Tech ...