Indiana’s OG Anunoby to Return Saturday vs. Butler
Indiana sophomore OG Anunoby will return after
Jordan Tucker, the 6-foot-7 wing from Marietta (GA) Wheeler, is now focusing primarily on two schools and hopes to commit sometime in the next couple of months.
Tucker, who ran with the NY Rens on the Nike EYBL circuit last summer, took an official visit to Indiana on Nov. 30 for the North Carolina game and will head to Villanova on Dec. 13 for the Temple game.
“I loved the atmosphere [at Indiana],” Tucker said Sunday by phone of his trip, which included watching No. 10 Indiana take out No. 3 UNC, 76-67. “I got to go for a national game. Usually people go for football games and stuff, I wanted to switch it up, come for a basketball game. So I saw how they prepared for UNC and what they did and what they’re going to take away from them. Coach [Tom] Crean makes his players feel comfortable and always lets them know what they have to do to secure a ‘W.'”
By MICHAEL MAROT
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — OG Anunoby scored 16 points, James Blackmon Jr. had 14 and Robert Johnson added 11 Wednesday night, leading No. 13 Indiana past No. 3 North Carolina 76-67 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
The Hoosiers (5-1) have won two straight since last week’s stunning loss to little-known IPFW.
In that game, Johnson struggled, Blackmon injured his knee and Anunoby tried to play through an illness. This time, they helped Indiana start fast and fend off the Tar Heels’ second-half charges to close it out. Anunoby was injured at the end of the game and needed help to get to the locker room.
North Carolina (7-1), which trailed for a total of 16 seconds during its four-game trip to Hawaii, never led and spent most of the game trailing by double digits.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana coach Tom Crean walked into his postgame news conference and got right to the point.
The third-ranked Hoosiers were outplayed Tuesday night.
The quick, precise ball movement was missing. The energy Indiana needed to handle a preseason conference favorite, on its home court, also was absent. And the stunning result was the biggest upset of this young college basketball season: IPFW 71, Indiana 68.
“The bottom line is they executed better than we did, and that’s disappointing to me,” Crean said. “They passed the ball faster and better than we did.”
Clifton Moore , the 6-foot-10 Class of 2017 small forward from Hatboro-Horsham (Pa.), committed to Indiana after his official visit this weekend.
Moore, whose stock exploded this summer at the Elevate Hoops events in Philadelphia and Ardsley, N.Y., also considered Ole Miss, Lafayette, Temple, St. Joe’s and Northwestern.
I want to thank all my coaches and schools that recruited me. I am proud to announce that I will be committing to Indiana university #iubb pic.twitter.com/ePjI4VmCkN
– Clifton Moore (@CliftonMoore16) October 2, 2016
Moore has already taken unofficials to St. Joe’s, Drexel and Lafayette, and planned to visit Temple and Northwestern as well.
