Category: Student Work

By Joe Spears | @joe_spears7 Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – The development of young basketball players for competition in college, the professional level and international play is an initiative that may soon become influenced significantly by the NCAA. When an independent Commission on College Basketball led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced …

By Jon Sauber Sports Capital Journalism Program “You see people in positions of power who think this isn’t a big deal because there are people who think you’re only hurt if you’re pulled off the street and violently raped in the bushes,” ESPN investigative reporter Paula Lavigne said to Pam Laucella’s graduate class at IUPUI …

My week in San Antonio could not have gone any faster. It seems like just yesterday I arrived in the Alamo city, a serene town that was still days away from being the center of the basketball universe. I awoke Tuesday morning, hardly able to believe that just the night before I had reported on …

I am sitting in my hotel room the day after the national championship and the day before the end of what’s been an amazing journey. And I remembered that as I was writing about other college students living their dream, I was living my own. I think I realized that when interviewing Loyola’s Clayton Custer …

By Aidan Wilkins | @AidanJWilkins Sports Capital Journalism Program SAN ANTONIO — Villanova head coach Jay Wright had just cut down the net. He smiled as he gazed toward the crowd. He pumped his right fist just once, as if signaling that the job was done. His Villanova Wildcats had just captured their second national …

By Mike Williams | @MikeWritesSport Sports Capital Journalism Program SAN ANTONIO — Covered in confetti and a piece of the nylon net tied to his backwards championship hat, Donte DiVincenzo, the unlikely Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four, was still standing on the court where he had just led his Villanova Wildcats to a …

He did it. Ray Allen will be enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2018. This is obviously a much-deserved honor as Allen is, in my opinion, the greatest pure shooter in the history of basketball. However, when I hear the name Ray Allen, I am still …

By Mike Williams | @MikeWritesSport Sports Capital Journalism Program SAN ANTONIO — The United States Basketball Writers Association inducted four sports journalists into its Hall of Fame during the annual honors luncheon on Monday. Lew Freedman of the Cody (Wyo.) Enterprise, David Jones of the Harrisburg Patriot-News, Charles Pierce of Esquire, Sports Illustrated and Slate …

By Mike Williams | @MikeWritesSport Sports Capital Journalism Program SAN ANTONIO – When Michigan attempts to win its second national championship Monday night, fifth-year senior Duncan Robinson and senior Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman will appear in their final game together. The two have been teammates since the 2014-2015 season when Michigan went 16-16 and failed to make …

IUPUI students will cover the NCAA men’s basketball championship game for a seventh consecutive year, longer than any sports journalism program in the nation. Aidan Wilkins and Mike Williams made their picks for the last night of the college basketball season. The Villanova Wildcats will be national champions on Monday night. Fresh off hitting a …