Indiana Hoosier Basketball Player Injured In Accident by Teammate

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Devin Davis, a sophomore basketball player at Indiana University is in serious condition in a Bloomington, IN hospital after an early Saturday morning accident with a car.

Davis, according to reports, was injured by a car driven by teammate Emmit Holt as Davis was getting out of Holt's car.

No indication yet as to how Davis was so seriously hurt from an apparently slow-moving car. Holt was given a blood-alcohol test on the scene and charged with illegal consumption and operating a vehicle with a B.A.C of over .02. (.025).

Hoosier head coach Tom Crean spent the early morning with Davis at the hospital and the University has cancelled it's open practice and scrimmage, along with their annual Haunted Hall of Hoops event.

Here's the press release from the school:

  "Early this morning, an accident occurred on the Indiana University campus involving two of the school’s basketball players.  Based on preliminary information, sophomore Devin Davis was injured after being struck by a vehicle driven by teammate freshman Emmitt Holt, just moments after exiting that vehicle.  Davis was taken to IU Health Bloomington Hospital and is currently in serious condition. Holt was cited for illegal consumption and operating a vehicle with a BAC above 0.02.   Holt had a BAC of 0.025.     “First and foremost, our thoughts are with Devin and his family and we pray that his condition improves in the coming days,” said IU Coach Tom Crean.  “An injury to one of us is an injury to all of us and we are devastated by the news.  We will continue to support Devin and Emmitt in every possible way and I know the Hoosier family will come together to rally for these young men.  We are working to gather additional information on the accident.”

OSG CFB: Can We Put The MAC In The "Power 5" Now...???

((HT: Falcons Athletics their own selves))

Bowling Green had not hosted a Big 10/12 squad since 2008, and after today, it might be a long while before it happens ever again.

The Falcons beat a 10/12 team for the first time at home in their win over Indiana, 45-42.

QB James Knapke went 46-for-73 on the day and the Falcons had another 40 plays besides those involving their QB.
The two teams combined for 1,153 yards of net offense- 742 yards of that was passing yards.
Bowling Green only punted once...

Here's the highlights from BGSU's point-of-view


For the record, Bowling Green will continue their walk through the Big 10/12 Legends Division (or is it the Leaders Division???) with their trip to Madison to play Wisconsin next weekend.

Here's head coach Dino Babers discussing his walk through the power conference not called the MAC

Kelvin Sampson Resurfaces: Hired By The University of Houston

Alrighty then. Maybe you can still get a job as a college coach after getting in trouble with the NCAA.

First Bruce Pearl returns from purgatory to take over at Auburn and now, Kelvin Sampson, formerly ex-communicated from Indiana, is returning to his NCAA roots and is taking over the University of Houston.

You'll recall Sampson got in a heap of trouble with the NCAA for making impermissible phone calls to recruits (at a time he wasn't supposed to)...over and over again. That got hims 5-year "Show/Cause" penalty and he's been an assistant coach for 2 different NBA teams since 2008. (He's served his 5-years)

Sampson is taking over the job from James Dickey. Dickey had some success with the Cougars, reaching the NCAA tournament two years ago and going 17-16 this season.

Indiana Hoosiers No Respect For CBI

[HT: Indianapolis Star]

The Indiana Hoosiers finished 17-15 and will not be playing in the post season.  

It's not like they weren't wanted.

Yes Indiana didn't receive and NCAA Tournament bid which was expected.

The NIT didn't select the Hoosiers either.

The CBI?  Indiana athletic director Fred Glass killed that chance.

"Finances wouldn't be an issue if we thought it made sense." Glass told the Indianapolis Star. "But we're Indiana. We don't play in the CBI."

Got that.

Here's who is playing in the CBI.

March 18

Stony Brook at Siena

March 19 
Wyoming at Texas A&M
Morehead State at Illinois State

Fresno State at UTEP 

Princeton at Tulane

Radford at Oregon State 

South Dakota State at Old Dominion

Hampton at Penn State 

5 Top 25's Go Down In One Night...

It was not a night to be a ranked team in the world of college hoops...

Indiana fans wore hard hats at Assembly Hall as Indiana took care of 20th ranked Iowa 93-86
Will Sheehey scored a career-high 30
((HT: BTN))


And Penn State swept Ohio State with their win over the Buckeyes 65-63... and they stormed the court...
Surprising no one...
((HT: BTN))


Arkansas also got their season sweep over Kentucky with their overtime win IN LEXINGTON!!!

Which, the HQ is sure, has sent the entire Big Blue nation into some kind of histrionics
((HT: SEC on ESPN))
Houston's Danuel House scored 19 off the bench as the Cougars knocked off #21 Memphis 77-68 Mark Followill and Chris Walker discuss ((HT: CBS Sports Network))
And, finally, St. Louis' 19-game winning streak came to a screeching halt with their loss to Duquesne...
It was Duquesne's first over a Top 10 team since a 72-68 win over #9 Xavier on February 7, 2009, and it was DU's first road win over a Top 10 team since a 73-72 win at #6 Bradley on March 5, 1962...

B1G Review: Michigan Shatters Records, NW Season Shattered...

((HT: BTN))

Kinda hidden in all the numbers yesterday was the day that Michigan QB Devin Gardner had playing pitch and catch...

584 yards of total offense with 503 of them in the air...
Jeremy Gallon caught 14 passes for 369 yards receiving...
Evidence below...


The HQ knew that Indiana could score points and rack up yards on their own, as they're now 3-4 and could handle Penn State earlier in the year, but much like a lot of other teams they can't stop anyone when it matters...

Michigan, by the way, is 6-1 after winning 63-47...

Brady Hoke was quoted as saying that all he cares about was winning the game... that is accurate these days in the current state of college football...

Elsewhere... Minnesota knocked off Northwestern, who only two (three?) weeks ago was the darling of everyone... Ohio State had issues early with Iowa before winning their 19th straight, and Illinois proved they can't stop anyone either in their 56-32 loss to Illinois...

The Journey To Omaha: A Hoosier Walk Off

Indiana's Chad Clark

Indiana sophomore Chad Clark committed a critical error in the top of the ninth allowing a couple of
Valparaiso runs to score and it looked like an upset.

Clark had a chance to redeem himself in the bottom of the ninth during a Hoosier rally.

Clark crushed the hanging slider from Crusader closer Karch Kowalczyk over the left field wall and it was a walk off winner for Indiana 5-4.


“That’s never happened to me in my life,” Clark said. “Never even had a walk-off hit.”

Indiana Head Coach Tom Crean Confronts Former IU Assistant: "You Helped To Wreck This Program."

IU Head Coach Tom Crean Confronts Mich. Asst Coach Jeff Meyer

Moments after Indiana clinched it's first Big Ten championship in twenty years by defeating Michigan 72-71 Hoosier head coach Tom Crean confronted Michigan assistant coach Jeff Meyer on the court. 

Meyer was an Indiana assistant coach when Kelvin Sampson was the Hoosier head coach when IU was hit with NCAA sanctions. 

The NCAA said Sampson and Meyer engaged in an impermissible recruiting contact during a two-day sports camp held at Assembly Hall in 2007.  Sampson was forced to resign.

Here's the video evidence of the confrontation.  (Thanks WRTV, Indianapolis)



UPDATE:
In Monday's Big Ten teleconference Tom Crean said he has apologized to Jeff Meyer. 

"I apologized for that and in retrospect, I wish I would not have addressed anything in the heat of battle. But it’s done,” Crean said.

Crean added, ""End of story. We move onto to the Big Ten tournament."

By the way the Hoosiers has never won the Big Ten Conference tournament. 

This Is Indiana...

Another theme song for the B1G...

IU students Brice Fox and Daniel Weber came up with this little ditty that has its moments of catchiness...

The HQ just hopes that they don't get in trouble with the video police for all of the file tape they use...

Enjoy...


Okay... it classifies as cute...
And the HQ will be chasing the t-shirts...

TWTW: The WTF Games- Cal Poly, Ball State, Fresno State

The Wyoming Cowboys dropped to 0-3 losing 24-22 to Cal Poly. Wyoming had to start Colby Kirkegaard for the first time, and it showed.

The Mustangs put up 208 rushing yards in the first quarter to just 44 total yards for the Cowboy offense. And, since the highlights seem to be at a premium, here's the Mustangs singing instead.
((HT: fansmanship))


The HQ has no idea what has happened to Indiana since the unfortunate loss of Terry Hoeppner to brain cancer. He had the "Play 13" mentality installed, but since he's been gone- so has the mentality...

Ball State took out IU yesterday, and Hoosiers head coach Kevin Wilson had to explain how his team lost a 41-39 heartbreaker...
More MAC-tion for all of us...
((HT: InsideIndiana))


And the last one the HQ will cover is the continuing downward spiral of Colorado University as they got blown out by Fresno State...

35-point first quarters will do that for you...
((HT: KFSN-TV))


The 55 points is a Montain West record for a first half and Coach Embree still looks like his dog got kicked... again...

Hoosier Neil Reed Dies At 36

((HT: CNN))

Former Indiana basketball player Neil Reed, who was choked at an IU practice by then-head coach Bobby Knight, died at his home in California from "heart complications" at the age of 36.

When video of the incident leaked to the media, IU President Myles Brand put Bobby Knight under a "zero-tolerance" policy which lasted all of a few months after Knight grabbed a student by the arm on campus as one was walking past the other.

Here's the incident from 1997...


Reed had just started coaching at the high school level in California and had been welcomed back into the Indiana family by head basketball coach Tom Crean.

Indiana takes care of tOSU

You can arguably call the Indiana Hoosiers this years "Giant Killers".

After struggling mightily for the past several seasons, the Hoosiers have come back this season with a vengeance.

Saturday, they beat the #2 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes 74-70, raising their record to 13-1 and undoubtedly improving their #13 ranking. Indiana made news earlier this season when they beat then #1 Kentucky back in early December.

Christian Watford dropped a couple of free throws with just under 3 seconds to go to seal the deal against the Buckeyes and this time, the fans in Bloomington showed restraint...and didn't storm the floor.

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