Back in Gold and Black

All week long, IU women's basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack avoided questions about Sharon Versyp.\nShe was trying to keep her team focused on Iowa, not Versyp, the former IU and current Purdue head coach. After Thursday's 71-67 loss against the Hawkeyes, Legette-Jack still wasn't ready to look ahead to the Boilermakers.\n"It's a 24-hour window," Legette-Jack said. "(Friday) we're going to get back to work. We'll start working on ourselves for a day, and then we'll start thinking about Purdue maybe Saturday."\nThe Hoosiers (13-5, 2-3 ) travel to West Lafayette on Sunday to take on the No. 13 Boilermakers (15-3, 4-1) and their former coach, who left IU after one season to take the coaching job with her alma mater.\n"That's in the past; that's her decision," junior guard Nikki Smith said about Versyp in October. "We hold no grudge. We're just looking forward to the future."\nVersyp led the Hoosiers to a 19-14 record last season as IU advanced to the quarterfinals of the WNIT Tournament. Her success was enough to get her hired by Purdue after former coach Kristy Curry left West Lafayette to take over at Texas Tech. IU wasted no time in searching for Versyp's replacement, and Legette-Jack was hired as its new head coach last April. \n"Rarely do you meet an individual with the energy, enthusiasm, purpose, work ethic and kindness that coach Jack has demonstrated," IU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan said when he introduced Legette-Jack. "Under her leadership ... we will build a strong staff of assistants that will recruit in- and out-of-state aggressively, effectively and with purpose."\nFrom the beginning Legette-Jack was able to leave that same impression on her new players.\n"I really like her," senior guard Leah Enterline said the day Legette-Jack was introduced. "I really like her personality. She is very personable. She came in and talked with us. It wasn't like she stood up and laid down the law. She sat down and told us a little about herself, and then we had a chance to converse with her. It was really nice."\nAgainst Purdue on Sunday, the Hoosiers will face the stingiest defense in the Big Ten. Not including Thursday's game against Michigan State, the Boilermakers have held opponents to an average of 52.4 points per game.\nIn addition to cracking a tough defense, the Hoosiers will need to shut down a high-powered attack. Purdue ranks third offensively the Big Ten, averaging 74.1 points per game. Leading the way for the Boilermakers is guard Katie Geralds, who is averaging 18 points per game.\nSunday's game is the first of two consecutive games for IU against their archrival. The Hoosiers will have a week off before taking on Purdue once again, at Assembly Hall on Jan. 21.\n"I don't think we have to do a lot of stuff about Purdue," Legette-Jack said. "I'm from New York, so I can't say I have experience with the Indiana-Purdue rivalry. But I know the emotions are certainly going to be all jacked up ... I'm not going to go there with this team. If they're going to have those emotions and get excited about it, it's going to be in their own internal way"