There isn't a lot of focus on college basketball during the month of July, but if there is any news, it usually involves recruiting. And with no game reports to read, a couple of recruiting stories caught my eye this morning (okay, it's 1:30 PM). First, ESPN.com's Pat Forde wrote a great article on how college coach's recruiting targets are getting younger and younger.
For the past four months while the Basketblog has been in hibernation, the Hoosier's basketball team has been quite the opposite.
It's been nearly four months since this has been updated and we here at the Indiana Daily Student have noticed that the blog was receiving a lot of traffic.
The Hoosiers dropped their ninth straight game Friday as they hosted Penn State at Sembower. The Nittany Lions won the series opener 6-4. IU designated hitter Jon Fixler got the Hoosiers on the board in the first with a two RBI single up the middle.
In a sprint to the finish, the Cutters earned their eighth all-time championship. Cutters junior Alex Bishop beat out riders from Phi Kappa Psi, Dodds House, Black Key Bulls and Team Major Taylor to take the checkered flag. Those five teams stayed in a pack for the majority of the second half of the race, setting up the final sprint.
In the first game of Friday's four-game set with Ohio State, the Buckeyes came out on top 6-4. OSU struck first, scoring a run in the third. The Hoosiers took the 2-0 lead with RBI singles from senior shortstop Keith Haas and freshman left fielder Brian Lambert.
Just got back from the track after a great day of racing. Kappa Delta won the women's race with ease after sneaking away from the pack with about 30 laps to go. Teter out-sprinted Kappa Alpha Theta for second place.
It came awfully quickly, didn't it? Looks like perfect conditions for the women's race -- high '60s, sunny skies.
Well, the weather was really nice, but that may have been the bright spot for the Hoosiers and their fans today. IU fell 9-7 to Indiana State today over at Sembower in ten innings.
So, it's officially Little 500 week, and before three-fourths of campus becomes inebriated, we wanted to know who you think will win the Little 500. Can Kappa Alpha Theta build on a strong spring showing?
Friday at West Lafayette, IU coach Tracy Smith got some of that power he's been looking for in recent weeks, but it wasn't enough as his Hoosiers fell 4-2 to Purdue. Sophomore right fielder Chris Hervey hit his first career home run, just IU's second dinger of the year, in the third inning to deep left to give them the 1-0 lead. But as soon as the Hoosiers scored, the Boilermakers responded with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning. Knotted up at one, sophomore second baseman Evan Crawford hit an RBI single to left that brought Hervey home in the fifth, IU 2-1. But it wasn't to be for the Hoosiers as Purdue scored two more runs in the sixth and one more in the seventh, claiming the 4-2 win. The loss dropped IU to 13-15 overall and 3-6 in conference.
So The Weather Channel is predicting sunny and (relatively) warm days for both the men's and women's races.
In case you didn't know, or you're so busy laughing about the Big Purple Pimp you can't focus, the IU baseball team has a pretty big series this weekend. The Hoosiers travel to arch-rival Purdue to open a four-game set Friday.
Thanks to a quick Wikipedia search, I found an entry about Evansville's mascot, the Purple Ace. Here's what I found. The story goes back to the 1920s when Evansville was actually the Pioneers, not the Aces.
What exactly is a Purple Ace? I'm not really sure, but I do know they have the ugliest purple uniforms with orange trim.
Everyone, especially Mike and I, are excited that there are less than two weeks remaining until race day (10 for the women's and 11 for the men's to be exact). Things went smoothly today as the riders did a practice start.
Thanks to this weekend's awesome weather, IU's schedule got pushed back and moved around a few times in the last four days.
that these guys are going to bite it when they land. Besides, aren't American flags not suppossed to touch the ground? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXYQTNmej3g]
So, as you can probably imagine, IU's scheduled game with Northwestern today is postponed. They will play doubleheaders Sunday and Monday starting at 1 p.m.
