This is a release we just got from IU Athletics: Indiana University Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass has announced that the expanded 11,000 student seats for Saturday night's home football game against #9 Ohio State are sold out.
According to a report from Mike Pegram, Ge-Lawn Guyn, a 6-foot-3-inch combo guard out of Georgetown, Ky., will be visiting for Hoosier Hysteria on Oct.
FoxSports.com's Jeff Goodman has released his Big Ten preview on the web site. One of the top storylines/questions he poses is whether or not IU will take "the next step back to respectability" this year with the addition of transfer Jeremiah Rivers and the six freshman. He also listed Maurice Creek and Christian Watford among the five freshman to watch this season.
The sixth episode of "Here's Something from Mary" features guest host, sophomore libero Caitlin Cox, preparing a meal for her teammates and throwing a karaoke party at her house.
IU field hockey goes to Iowa City to play the Iowa Hawkeyes for their second Big Ten game on Friday and the Cal Golden Bears on Saturday. Currently, the Hoosiers are 5-4 with 0-1 in the Big Ten Conference. Last year, the Hawkeyes beat the Hoosiers twice, once at home in the season, 1-6 and once in the Big Ten Championships, 2-5. The Hawkeyes are 3-5, with their first Big Ten win of the season against Michigan last Friday. The last meeting between the two teams was two years ago, when Indiana won 2-0 in Berkley, CA. Cal is also 3-5 on the season, but they won their first Northern Pacific Conference win at home against Stanford last Sunday. Last year, Cal went 13-5 on the season with a 5-1-conference record.
Jim Tressel addressed several items at his weekly press conference, including the suspension of starting safety Kurt Coleman and his opinion of the IU football team.
Here's an article by Kevin Armstrong of Sports Illustrated about Kyrie Irving's fallout with IU fans after dropping the Hoosiers off of his prospective school list.
Here is a link to the Big Ten Guide, our first sports publication of the year. Take a look, and let us know what you think.
The IU men's club soccer team has one aspiration this year - to repeat as national champions. Throughout the past three years, the team has the best overall record in the country with 44 wins, seven losses and eight ties. Read more here.
Rejoice Fantasy Nation, for your prayers have been heard; your dreams have been realized; and yes, now your questions will be answered. I have gathered all of the questions sent to my email this week and have answers for all who are desperate for them.
The Indiana men's soccer won their first home game of the season when they defeated the Kentucky Wildcats 3-0. Junior midfielder Any Adlard scored the first two goals of the game, and Nick Blevins netted the final ball for the Hoosiers. IU improves to 5-2-1. This post has been fixed to correct an error.
As per The NCAA News: The NCAA, in conjunction with Indiana University, will host a tribute for former President Myles Brand on October 28 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The NCAA and the university are providing friends, family and colleagues the opportunity to pay tribute to the significant leadership and vision Brand provided to higher education, college athletics and student-athletes throughout his life as an educator and executive. The 6 p.m.
Here are some notes and quotes from the Tuesday afternoon press conference. Lynch, as usual, took questions for about 30 minutes. For the first time I can remember this season, Lynch did not talk about the previous game in his opening comments as he focused solely on Ohio State, although he took several questions about the Michigan game. Michigan interception Lynch took several questions on the controversial interception in the Michigan game at the end of the press conference, although he didn't really talk much about it. Asked if he hit anyone on the sideline with his gum: "I haven't been called by any lawyer or anything at this point," Lynch said jokingly. After seeing it on film, did Lynch have any different thoughts?
The Hoosiers nearly upset Michigan in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1967, but it may have come at a price. On his Monday night radio show, IU coach Bill Lynch talked about how he pulled out all the stops in their upset bid last week. I thought the offensive staff and defensive staff put together great plans.
We've mentioned this before in passing, but we've been receiving a lot of questions about it lately, so here you go: Hoosier Hysteria (aka Midnight Madness) will kick off Friday, Oct.
If students plan to attend the Oct. 3 game against Ohio State and participate in the dedication of the North End Zone, they have to act fast. Less than 1,000 student tickets remain and just over 5,000 reserved seats are available for Saturday's contest, slated to kick off at 7 p.m. "We are encouraging everybody to get their tickets in advance," said J.D.
Following a line of suspensions for flagrant personal fouls, the Big Ten conference suspended Ohio State safety Kurt Coleman for the Indiana game following a helmet-to-helmet hit on Illinois backup quarterback Eddie McGee. Ohio State coach Jim Tressel and athletic director Gene Smith issued a joint statement about the suspension: Obviously, we will abide by the one-game suspension from the Big Ten Conference, but we feel as if there was poor judgment throughout...We concur that Kurt's hit was late and a result of poor judgment; he was thus penalized and removed from the game by his coaches.
With all the debate surrounding Ben Chappell's final pass on Saturday against Michigan, I would like to add a very interesting article from ESPN Big Ten blogger Adam Rittenberg. He interviewed Wolverine cornerback Donovan Warren about the call--ruled an interception rather than a simultaneous catch--and whether he indeed picked off Chappell. In the piece, Warren said: "I tried to bait the quarterback and back up a little bit, but I knew I was going to time the route," Warren told me.
