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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Seniors Will Sheehey, Evan Gordon, Jeff Howard and Taylor Wayer will suit up in cream and crimson at Assembly Hall for their final regular season home game Wednesday. The Hoosiers will play Nebraska at 7 p.m. in a must-win game for both teams in their pursuit of earning at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament.During Monday’s Big Ten Coaches Teleconference, IU Coach Tom Crean said there is no question that the Cornhuskers are playing as well as any team in the Big Ten.Nebraska (17-11, 9-7) won eight of its past 10 games to improve to fifth place in the conference.“They can beat you in a lot of different ways,” Crean said. “In watching game film today, they can win with the two-man game, the three-man game, defense, 3-point shooting.”The Cornhuskers are led by redshirt sophomore guard-forward Terran Petteway, who is tied with Michigan State’s Gary Harris for the highest scoring average in the Big Ten at 17.9 points per game. By limiting Petteway to five points during the first half Jan. 30, IU (17-12, 7-9) had a 13-point lead at halftime.The 6-foot-6 wing went on to score 13 points during the second half of the first matchup between the two teams.Petteway’s second-half performance helped the Cornhuskers rally in the closing stretch of the game to a 60-55 victory in Lincoln, Neb.“He can really drop his shoulders, and he has to see help before he starts his move,” Crean said. “When that team wins, they are really, really good at getting to the foul line and Petteway is a big, big part of that.”Petteway draws 5.7 fouls per 40 minutes, per kenpom.com, and averages 5.9 free throw attempts per game. He shoots 81.7 percent from the charity stripe.The Hoosiers will need to continue their offensive consistency to combat Petteway’s scoring. IU’s bench only contributed seven total points against Nebraska in January and Sheehey was 3-for-10 from the field.Crean said trying to build consistency was one of the biggest challenges the Hoosier coaching staff faced this season.“I think when you look at this season, whether it was the inexperience of guys in roles, whether it was the youth... you’re trying to get your team to be tough in so many areas but consistency really is the greatest form of toughness you can possibly have in a team,” he said. “It takes time to get that.”IU has solidified third and fourth scoring options in addition to team scoring leaders Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell and Noah Vonleh during the team’s most recent home stand.In the past two games against Iowa and Ohio State, Sheehey, the reigning Big Ten Player of the Week, scored 49 points. Graduate student guard Evan Gordon chipped in 21 points off the bench and the Hoosiers recorded 61 bench points.“He has really made a big difference in this program from the beginning of time that he got here and is playing his best basketball right now,” Crean said of Sheehey. “He is a big, big part of the leadership of this team and how the team is gaining confidence.”He said the Hoosiers will need to take the emotion from senior night and play with great energy and toughness against Nebraska.“And we are going to need our crowd to absolutely help carry us the whole way through,” Crean said.
(03/03/14 11:42pm)
The IDS' IUBB staff breaks down a critical week in IU basketball and discusses the NBA draft potential of Noah Vonleh.
(02/28/14 6:03am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In IU’s home reopener, the Hoosiers defeated another ranked opponent in Assembly Hall, topping No. 20 Iowa 93-86.It was the team’s third home victory against a ranked opponent this season and the win kept the Hoosiers from falling into a five-way tie for last place in the Big Ten.It was the Hoosiers’ greatest offensive outburst since scoring 102 points against Washington on Nov. 21.Ten IU players scored but two wing players were responsible for more than half of the Hoosiers’ points. Senior Will Sheehey and freshman Stanford Robinson recorded 30 and 17 points, respectively, which were career highs for both players.Sheehey said the team’s game plan was to run to the corners and space the floor, opening up the middle of the court.“I think our team from the start was built to run like this,” he said.The senior could have passed for a wide receiver Thursday night, consistently beating Iowa’s transition defense down the court.He said the key to his offensive success was his teammates finding him in transition.Sophomore point guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell threw multiple overhead passes to an open Sheehey and Robinson found him on back cuts.“I was scoring without the ball in my hands,” Sheehey said, crediting his teammates for finding him in transition.He got off to a hot start for the second consecutive game, scoring six of the team’s first eight points. He scored IU’s first seven points against Wisconsin but was held scoreless for the final 37 minutes in Madison, Wis., Tuesday.The senior didn’t let up against Iowa. He nearly matched his previous career-high in the first half, recording 19 points.Crean said Sheehey was fantastic against Iowa.“What an unbelievably ironic thing for him to have his career high on the night in which he was honored for his 1,000th career point,” he said. “I thought he was going for 2,000 tonight.”The pace of play in the first half could have given the scoreboard operator carpel tunnel as the teams combined for 101 points.The fast-paced nature of the game caused both teams to take advantage of their depth.“We knew it was going to be a game where depth was key because of how good Iowa’s depth is,” Crean said.Thirteen Hoosiers saw action Thursday and IU recorded a season-high 42 bench points.Robinson said Crean frequently tells his players that they will never know when their time will come.Even though the freshman guard said IU is better when it is able to utilize its athletes in transition, Hoosier fans shouldn’t expect an encore of Thursday’s game, which may have been mistaken for a track meet or a high-flying Cirque de Soleil performance.Points will be hard to come by when the Hoosiers play host to No. 22 Ohio State Sunday. It would be an understatement to say the Buckeyes play stingy defense. Ohio State has the third-best adjusted defense in the country, according to kenpom.com.“Obviously there are teams in this league who have no interest in having any kind of pace,” Crean said.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Following IU’s 61-56 victory against Northwestern on Saturday in Evanston, Ill., Northwestern Coach Chris Collins brought up a topic that has been in the back of Hoosier fans’ minds all season — freshman forward Noah Vonleh’s stock for the 2014 NBA Draft.“I’m looking out on the floor and they got a guy who’s going to be a top 10 pick in this year’s draft,” Collins said of Vonleh, calling him a “monster.”Vonleh has been on the NBA’s radar ever since he started the season with four consecutive double-doubles.With a 6-foot-10, 240-pound frame and 7-foot-4 wingspan, Vonleh has been an elite rebounder since arriving on campus last summer. He grabs 27.5 percent of available defensive rebounds — the 10th-best mark in the country — when he is on the court, according tokenpom.com.The freshman leads the Big Ten in rebounds per game with 9.3, well ahead of Michigan State’s Adreian Payne, who sits in second place with 7.7 per game.Apart from his work on the glass, Vonleh has elevated his offensive game in Big Ten play.IU Coach Tom Crean said Vonleh showed outstanding aggression in IU’s 69-58 loss Tuesday at Wisconsin.“He’s getting better constantly,” Crean said.The freshman’s most notable improvements are in his 3-point shot and driving ability.“He’s getting more comfortable away from the basket with the ball not just with shooting the ball,” Crean said.Vonleh merged his low-post scoring with his jump shot by becoming better at dribbling. During Tuesday’s loss against Wisconsin, Vonleh orchestrated the Hoosiers’ offense on several possessions at the top of the key.In one offensive set, he was alone at the 3-point line. Senior forward Will Sheehey, junior forward Austin Etherington and graduate student guard Evan Gordon were on the left wing, drawing their defenders away from the lane. Sophomore point guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell was in the opposite corner.Wisconsin forward Frank Kaminsky was defending Vonleh and forced the freshman to dribble right by angling his body in that direction. Vonleh dribbled with his right hand, planted his right foot at the right elbow and utilized a spin move to get to the rim for an easy layup.“The game he had tonight was the driving game,” Crean said after the loss. “He’s getting better with not wasting dribbles. Cody (Zeller) went through the same thing.”IU’s sixth-year head coach said the Hoosiers emphasize constant improvement, even in walkthroughs on gameday.“We’re working on our driving game, splitting traps, working on getting to the rim, all the different things that go into making you a better ball-handler,” Crean said.Vonleh said the team has been focusing on its ball handling every day in practice with various cone drills.“We’ve been working on ... keeping the dribble low, pushing it out, (and) just getting to the rim,” he said.Crean said the next step for Vonleh is to master driving in a straight line to the basket. The Haverhill, Mass. native is bigger than most college players, which makes him difficult to defend.“He just needs to push the ball out in front, drop his shoulder and go,” Crean said. “When you’re driving to the rim, it’s not about one-on-one play — there’s not enough time.”Vonleh’s improved dribbling and driving ability led to him taking double digit shot attempts in consecutive Big Ten games for the first time this season. His new opportunities on offense have led to greater production from the freshman forward. In the past two games, he scored 30 points on 13-for-26 shooting.Crean said once IU’s players are able to comfortably add dribbling moves to their repertoires, the Hoosiers try to implement them in games to use to their advantage.“And that’s exactly what’s happened with Noah,” he said.Follow reporter Andy Wittry on Twitter @AndyWittry
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU fell short in its attempt to upset No. 14 Wisconsin for the second time this season, falling 69-58 to the Badgers in Madison, Wis.After entering halftime with a 10-point lead, the flood gates opened for the Hoosier defense during a second half in which Wisconsin (23-5, 10-5) outscored IU 50-29. IU sophomore point guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell said IU didn’t bear down and play defense in the second half.“We over-helped, and then they knocked down some crucial threes,” he said.During the first half, IU (15-12, 5-9) limited Wisconsin to 1-for-10 shooting from behind the arc in the first half — an uncharacteristic performance for a Badger team that made 37.1 percent of its 3-pointers entering Tuesday’s matchup. Wisconsin was 6-for-11 from 3-point range after halftime. Ferrell said the Hoosiers’ lack of communication on defense was probably IU’s biggest problem, and it led to the over-helping.“You can’t give too much, especially with Wisconsin, with them being a great 3-point shooting team,” he said. “They were running all the same sets ... we just broke down defensively.”IU Coach Tom Crean said in the Big Ten, defenders can’t be caught over-helping because there are too many good shooters who can take advantage of defensive miscues.“Once we start getting beat off the dribble, your natural defensive rules come in.” he said. “We’re rotating to help and they hurt that.”Wisconsin sophomore forward Sam Dekker led the Badgers with 16 points, and all five of their starters reached double figures in scoring. “All their starters can shoot the ball, but they can all pass the ball,” Crean said. “A lot of times, you’re ready for one or two guys that are very good passers. Their whole team is.”After shooting 25.9 percent in the first half, Wisconsin was 13-for-21 shooting after halftime.“They got hot,” Crean said. “The basket started looking pretty big to them.” Nearly one-third of Wisconsin’s points came from the free throw line, where the nation’s No. 14 team converted 91.7 percent of its 24 attempts Tuesday. Ferrell and freshman forward Noah Vonleh scored 42 of IU’s points on 17-for-34 shooting. “We were getting the ball to the guys who could score,” Crean said.Vonleh made a season-high eight field goals and showed his offensive versatility. The 6-foot-10 forward was 2-for-3 from 3-point range and was able to attack Wisconsin off the dribble.He said was able to score by keeping his dribble low, pushing the ball out in front of him and getting to the rim.In addition to Ferrell and Vonleh, only three other players scored. The rest of the team was 7-for-23 from the field. The Hoosiers out-rebounded Wisconsin 33-29, but Crean said IU wasn’t able to get the putbacks it needed.He said the team’s offense also suffered because of its lack of defensive pressure during the second half.“Because we weren’t getting stops, our break wasn’t as effective in the second half,” Crean said. “We were going against a set defense more, which they’re very good (at).”Crean said it’s important for IU to control its emotions at this time of the year with two matchups against ranked opponents in the next five days.“It’s gonna be two teams that are coming off a loss that are gonna be really hungry to win,” he said. “We need our fans to understand that these guys are working at an incredible level and they want it.”@AndyWittry
(02/25/14 5:28am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Hoosiers travel to Madison, Wisc., Tuesday with hopes of winning consecutive games for the first time since IU’s victory against the Badgers on Jan. 14.Tuesday marks the first of three games against ranked opponents in a six-day stretch for the IU’s men’s basketball team. After playing No. 14 Wisconsin, IU (15-11, 5-8) will return home to play host to No. 20 Iowa Thursday and No. 22 Ohio State Sunday.With a weeklong gauntlet looming on IU’s schedule, IU Coach Tom Crean said Monday on the Big Ten Coaches Weekly Teleconference that IU is focusing entirely on Wisconsin.“They are obviously hot for a reason,” Crean said. “They are playing both ends of the court with great confidence and we have our work cut out for us. There is no doubt about it.”Wisconsin has been a streaky team all season. Similarly to January’s matchup in Assembly Hall between IU and Wisconsin, the Badgers enter Tuesday’s game on a winning streak.They started the season on a 16-game winning streak before IU ended their undefeated run. It was one of the Badgers’ five losses in a six-game span. Wisconsin has since righted its ship, winning five consecutive games and defeating three top-15 opponents in the process.Crean said Wisconsin is playing with extreme confidence.“They are shooting the ball at an amazing rate right now, with the way they are shooting it from three, the way they are getting to the foul line,” he said.During their current win streak, the Badgers are shooting 39.2 percent from behind the arc and are averaging eight 3-pointers per game.IU sophomore point guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell said Wisconsin is always a threat to score, no matter who is on the court.“They have shot the ball extremely well, especially from the outside so we have to take away their open jump shots,” he said.Forwards Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker carry the offensive load for Wisconsin and create matchup problems because of their size and ability to score from anywhere on the floor. The duo averages 26.8 points and 12.6 rebounds per game. Kaminsky stands at 7 feet tall and shoots 41 percent from behind the arc. Dekker is 6 feet 8 inches tall and is a 36.8 percent 3-point shooter in his college career.Crean said Kaminsky is able to score off the dribble, at the rim and from behind the arc.“He’s literally taking the ball from the 3-point line and getting all the way to the basket,” Crean said. “The shooting is there, the post-up is there, without question, but the driving game is something that obviously they are spending a lot of time on. They have always been a very, very good isolation, one-on-one, get-the-matchup-that-they-want team, whether it’s in the post or on the perimeter.”While the Hoosiers held Kaminsky in check in January — limiting him to 11 points and no 3-point attempts — en route to a victory and a court-storming at Assembly Hall, Crean said IU is living in the present. He said he is pacing his team during the entire season, and it wouldn’t serve a purpose to reflect on the past.“You’re trying to get them to the point where they are playing good basketball deeper into the season, where they’ll continue to improve, and I think you just can’t get away from improvement,” Crean said.
(02/24/14 11:15pm)
IDS men's basketball staff writers discuss the past week in IU basketball and preview a testing slate of games.
(02/21/14 5:51am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Hoosiers will travel to Evanston, Ill., Saturday with hopes of earning a payback victory against a Northwestern team that forced the first domino to fall for IU in its string of recent struggles. Four days after the Hoosiers knocked off No. 3 Wisconsin at home, the lowly 8-10 Wildcats took all of the wind out of IU’s sails with a 54-47 victory at Assembly Hall. Since defeating the Badgers, IU has lost six of its last eight games, fallen off the NCAA Tournament radar, had a player arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and had its home temporarily jeopardized by a piece of metal plating. Starting at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, the Hoosiers have an opportunity to make amends and climb up the Big Ten standings.Northwestern, which is on a four-game losing streak, is ninth in the conference, one place ahead of IU. The Jan. 18 meeting between the teams was a defensive struggle, with 101 total points scored on a combined 34-of-111 shooting performance. IU shot 4-of-18 from 3-point range.“No question, when you don’t have as many outside shooters, the defense dictates so much of how the offense is going to look,” IU Coach Tom Crean said on Monday’s Big Ten coaches teleconference. The Wildcats came into Assembly Hall and controlled the pace of the game, limiting IU to only four fast-break points. Northwestern, the worst team in the Big Ten in rebound margin, held IU to a one-rebound advantage on the boards.Despite freshman forward Noah Vonleh’s 17-point, 12-rebound performance, Crean said Vonleh isn’t as aggressive as he needs to be with the ball.“Some of that is the offensive rebounding, some of that is taking advantage of driving opportunities when they’re there, some of that is being ready to shoot, some of that is not looking to pass the ball as soon as he catches it,” Crean said. The Hoosiers have the opportunity to set the tone in Welsh-Ryan Arena. Through Wednesday, IU is 62nd in the country in adjusted tempo, according to kenpom.com. The Wildcats are the 334th-slowest team in the nation. Crean said defenses can’t dictate how the Hoosiers move on offense. “A person in movement has constantly got to be trying to create a look, trying to create an opportunity for someone else,” he said. “That’s why transition is good for us. That’s why transition pick and rolls are good for us because the game’s in movement and the defense isn’t set yet.”IU will have a clear advantage if it turns Saturday’s matchup into a track meet, because of its depth. Ten Hoosiers played against Northwestern in January. Northwestern Coach Chris Collins used an eight-man rotation against IU, but only six Wildcats played significant minutes. Senior guard James Montgomery III played less than a minute and senior forward Nikola Cerina, who played four minutes at Assembly Hall, is suspended for Saturday’s game after throwing a punch against Ohio State Wednesday.At IU’s press conference Tuesday, after the IU vs. Iowa game was postponed after a metal plating fell from Assembly Hall’s ceiling, Crean said the team was ready to play but the Hoosiers would have to adjust to the schedule change.“It’s all part of resiliency, you just get ready to go do what you have to do when it’s time to do it,” Crean said. It has been nearly three weeks since IU’s last win and only six regular season games remain for the Hoosiers. If IU is going to make a run towards an NCAA Tournament berth in the home stretch, the time is now.Follow reporter Andy Wittry on Twitter @AndyWittry.
(02/19/14 10:09pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After an eight-foot piece of steel plating fell from the ceiling of Assembly Hall onto seats in Section F on Tuesday afternoon, IU brought in engineers to examine the structure of the arena. IU Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Fred Glass and Tom Morrison, Vice President of Capital Planning and Facilities, met with the media Wednesday afternoon to provide an update on Assembly Hall's status.IU brought in two cranes WednesdayIU Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Fred Glass said the first crane’s wheels weren’t broad enough to absorb the weight of the crane. In order to avoid damaging Branch McCracken Court, the engineers switched to a second crane. IU utilized its own in-house engineers as well as external engineers from Arsee Engineers in the evaluation of the structure of Assembly Hall. “It’s (a) 135-foot crane from our friends at MacAllister Machinery,” Glass said. “They’ve been very cooperative with us. They brought it down from Indianapolis so we got it here at 12:15.”Glass said the engineers took up the wooden floor and laid down “rubberized sub-flooring” to protect the surface of the court.The engineers confirmed the initial speculationGlass said there’s an “intentional design valley” in the roof of Assembly Hall. “Snow collected in there and as snow melted, it slid in and created sort of a super load in that area,” he said. “They speculate that it was the biggest load this ceiling, the roof has borne.”The load on the roof caused pressure that forced the metal facing to pop off Tuesday around 2:30 p.m., according to Glass. Engineers found loose steel plates in other areas of the ceilingGlass said IU officials and the University’s engineers believe they understand the cause of the steel plate falling. He said the engineers were able to make a complete visual and physical inspection both internally and externally.He said the inspection revealed there were two or three other places where the steel plating was loose. “None of which was eminent to fall,” Glass said. “I want to emphasize that there weren’t any plates that they thought were in any kind of short-term danger of popping off but there were some that were loose.”Engineers will continue to exam the purpose of the steel platesGlass said engineers are working to examine the purpose of the steel plates, whether they are part of Assembly Hall’s structure or merely exist for cosmetic reasons. “We have been told that they are confident that they’ll be able to completely assess and remediate…the plating and give us a 100 percent all clear and confirmation that the plating is secure and Assembly Hall is safe,” Glass said. IU expects to host Ohio State on March 2Glass said the engineers are confident that they will be able to repair Assembly Hall and confirm its safety before IU is scheduled to host Ohio State on March 2. He said IU is also confident the repairs will be done in time to hopefully reschedule the Hoosiers’ game against Iowa at Assembly Hall at a time that is mutually convenient for both teams. Follow reporter Andy Wittry on Twitter @AndyWittry
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery’s third-place Hawkeye squad doesn’t have the ranking, résumé or hype of the 2012-13 Hoosiers, but the Hawkeyes have a similar makeup to IU’s Sweet 16 team from a year ago. IU Coach Tom Crean said McCaffery has recruited a versatile team that is as experienced as any in the country.“It reminds me when we watch them — and it has been this way all year — of what we had last year with our team with the experience, shooting, scoring and guys that have been there in a lot of hard games,” Crean said. “And also some young fire power that brought some energy to the table.” The Hawkeyes returned virtually every player from last year’s team, which won 25 games before losing in the National Invitation Tournament Championship to Baylor. Eleven players average at least 10 minutes per game and as a team, Iowa has the nation’s fourth-tallest average player height, which creates matchup problems for opposing teams.“They are extremely unselfish with one another and cause so many issues with their versatility,” Crean said.Iowa has an NBA prospect in senior guard Roy Devyn Marble, who averages 16.4 points per game, but the balanced Hawkeyes lack the surefire NBA lottery picks that IU had in Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo last season. However, Iowa is statistically similar to the Hoosier team that lost in the Sweet 16 to Syracuse last March.No. 15 Iowa (19-6, 8-4) is fourth in the country in adjusted offensive efficiency and 30th defensive efficiency, according to kenpom.com. In 2012-13, IU finished third in offensive efficiency and 28th in defensive efficiency. McCaffery said sophomore point guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell, IU’s only returning starter from last season, has been impressive in his expanded role for the new-look Hoosiers.“His role was different with Zeller, Oladipo, Watford etc.,” McCaffery said. “They had so many weapons. Now this year, he is ‘the guy.’”Ferrell and senior forward Will Sheehey start alongside three freshmen, a lineup that is virtually the opposite of last year’s Hoosiers and McCaffery’s current Iowa team. The Hoosiers had four 1,000-point scorers on last year’s team, and their starting lineup featured a player from every academic year.“Little by little, you are seeing these young guys that Indiana has to develop,” McCaffery said. “They are able to do that because they know they have one of the best players in the country with the ball.”Crean acknowledged IU is as young as any team in the Big Ten and said his team occasionally shows its youth. With the exception of Sheehey, graduate student guard Evan Gordon and senior forward Jeff Howard, IU’s “older” rotation players are sophomores.“What happens is, when you are young and you don’t have the experience, you don’t have the consistency,” Crean said. “What we have is a consistency in work habits and work ethic, which is good and part of the process. But we don’t have that consistency of what it takes, physically and mentally, to win the games.”While the versatility and depth of the Hawkeyes could overwhelm the young, inconsistent Hoosiers, anything can happen at Assembly Hall, where IU has already defeated a pair of top 10 opponents in Wisconsin and Michigan. Follow reporter Andy Wittry on Twitter @AndyWittry.
(02/15/14 1:12am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU sophomore forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol at 3:28 a.m. Friday by officers of the IU Police Department, according to a Monroe County Sheriff’s booking report. Officer Hutchens of the Monroe County Correctional Center told the Indiana Daily Student over the phone that Mosquera-Perea was arrested on charges of two Class A misdemeanors — OWI Endangerment and OWI Per Se. He received the endangerment charge for having one passenger in his car and the OWI Per Se charge is a result of his 0.15 blood alcohol content at the time of his arrest. He was held at the Monroe County Jail on $1,000 bond with a $500 surety, according to the booking report. Sergeant Link of the Monroe County Jail told the IDS over the phone that Mosquera-Perea was released Friday afternoon.IU Associate Professor of Law Ryan Scott said reports indicate the government has a “pretty good case,” based on the reported blood alcohol test administered to Mosquera-Perea. He said the vast majority of defendants in criminal cases, including OWI cases, generally plead guilty.Scott teaches criminal law and procedure, as well as federal courts and jurisdiction in the Maurer School of Law. “What I expect will happen in very short order is that he’ll meet with an attorney and he’ll talk about pleading guilty,” Scott said. “In operating while intoxicated cases, pleading guilty has some advantages because the suspension of your license is shorter.”He said in theory, both Class A misdemeanors could carry up to one year in jail and up to a $5,000 fine. “That would be very surprising though,” Scott said. “My sense is that for a first-time OWI that jail time is very unusual. Usually it’s a fine and a probationary sentence and a suspension of license for some period of time.”Scott said Mosquera-Perea’s 0.15 BAC is the dividing line between a Class A and a Class C misdemeanor. The sophomore was charged with the more serious of the two charges.The Maurer School of Law professor said it’s tough to predict what Mosquera-Perea’s legal ramifications will be because every case is different. He added that the judge and the prosecution will have some discretion in what charges to press. He said Mosquera-Perea could strike an agreement with the prosecution to agree to plead guilty to a lesser sentence. “There’s still a possibility that by the time this case moves to the punishment stage, it looks very different,” Scott said. “The charges may be different or it might be a condition of a guilty plea that the sentence will be less serious so it’s hard to say (what his sentence will be) given that there are so many important decisions yet to be made in a case like this.”Follow reporter Andy Wittry on Twitter @AndyWittry
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>He couldn’t figure out why his players weren’t as sharp as normal. The No. 39 IU women’s tennis team was on the road against Western Michigan in Kalamazoo, Mich. Friday and the Hoosiers fell behind early in the match after losing the doubles point.“They were tight as a drum,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “I couldn’t figure it out.”IU rallied to win the next four points en route to a 5-2 victory against the Broncos. It was Loring’s 800th career victory, the most in NCAA Division 1 women's tennis history.When the team returned to its hotel, he figured out why his players were on edge.“They had done a few surprises for me, which they couldn’t have done if they had lost the match,” he said. His players gave him donuts with “800” painted in red icing as well as 800 customized red and white M&M’s — on one side it said “800 wins” or “IU women’s tennis.” Loring’s face was on the other side. “I had no idea you could do that to an M&M,” he said, laughing. “It’s pretty unbelievable.”Senior Kayla Fujimoto said it was a cool experience to be a part of the team for Loring’s milestone victory, adding that it's hard for her to wrap her mind around how many matches he has won.“It’s such a big number," she said. "And if you think about how many matches we play a season, it’s pretty incredible what he’s done.”Not only is Loring the winningest coach in NCAA history, but he has achieved most of his victories at the same university — Indiana. Loring, who is in his 41st season coaching and 37th year at IU, has stood the test of time in a profession that he described as a "high-burnout sport."“You seldom see anyone in it for the long haul," he said.He said coaching is like most jobs, meaning you have to switch employers if you want a raise in salary. Coaches leap frog from one university to the next until they land their destination jobs or burn out entirely. Loring said coaches jump schools every four or five years looking to better their lot. Or they get fired or retire.“It’s a really, really high turnover profession and it’s hard for people to put together a career like that," he said.Loring could have been one of the coaches who climbed the coaching ladder. After four seasons coaching at the University of California-Santa Barbara, he became the head coach of the IU women’s tennis team in 1977. After only three seasons in Bloomington, Stanford University came calling.Loring described the position as the head coach of the Cardinal as “arguably the number one job in the country.”Stanford, who has won 17 national championships since 1982, was on a quarter system, compared to IU’s semester-based schedule. The university wasn't going to name its coach until the first week of October and by that point, IU would have been in session for five weeks. Loring said he couldn’t walk out on his team that far into the school year. “People would tell you my one trait has always been loyalty to my friends and my players and the school,” he said. In addition to his loyalty to his players and the staff, Loring said the allure of Bloomington grew on him and ultimately kept him at IU. “I thought it was a nice town to raise a family," he said.Loring said IU’s athletic director at the time told him that he had displayed the kind of loyalty he wanted in a coach. His commitment to the University has paid dividends during his tenure. By remaining in Bloomington, Loring led the Hoosiers to 104 consecutive Big Ten victories from 1978-1985. In total, he has had 12 undefeated conference seasons, 16 Big Ten titles and one national championship. Junior Katie Klyczek said his win total shows how great he is as a coach. “No one has even come close to it,” she said. “It just shows how much passion he has for this sport and for his team and what a great job he does.”Loring has provided stability and consistency for the program, which has largely allowed IU women’s tennis to avoid long rebuilding periods. Every time a university changes coaches, the program loses recruits and has to spend several years reloading and rebuilding. Loring said he hasn't had to endure many of those down periods at IU.“You can kind of see what our basketball program went through every time they changed coaches and part of the 800 (wins) is due to the continuity our program has had," he said.Despite having the most career Division 1 women’s tennis victories in NCAA history, Loring said he has never been about the wins and losses. He said he didn’t know he was on the verge of winning his 800th career match until three days before the Hoosiers faced Western Michigan. Instead, his greatest reward is the connections he has made over the course of several decades as a coach. He said the relationships he has developed are more important to him than the wins.Loring attributes the milestone to a lot of great assistant coaches, academic counselors, strength coaches, sports medicine personnel, and most importantly, athletes who have contributed to his hundreds of victories.“I’ve always been more about the people involved and the connections that you make, (the) Christmas cards you get back every year from my former players with their family pictures," he said.Junior Alecia Kauss said the players look up to him almost as a second father, and she said it's because of who he is off the court just as much as it is who he is in the heat of a match. “It’s not just the on-the-court stuff either,” she said. “It’s him as a person. It’s everything." With seven returning players from last year's NCAA Tournament team and only three seniors, the No. 40 Hoosiers (4-1) are in position to add to Loring's career win total in the next few seasons.When asked how many wins Loring would finish with in his career, junior Shannon Murdy joked that he would reach 1,600, given his long and successful tenure in Bloomington. The realistic consensus among the players is that he should aim for 1,000 career wins.“I would hope that he stays coaching for as long as possible so that as many people could have him because he does great for the program and he’s helped all of us individually,” Klyczek said. Follow reporter Andy Wittry on Twitter @AndyWittry
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Last week, IU freshman Matt Schwartzer was named Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week for his performance in the three-kilometer run.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A fresh coat of snow blanketed the field at Memorial Stadium. It was better suited for a snowball fight than a football game.Inside the stadium sat Zander Diamont, the Los Angeles native who left behind beaches and boardwalk to play football more than 2,000 miles away in Bloomington.The three-star quarterback prospect said he always wanted to do something different for college. Diamont, an experienced snowboarder, said the weather in Indiana was irrelevant in the decision-making process.“I wanted that Big Ten college, university pride,” he said. “I wanted all that.”Diamont said he felt the presence of those traits at IU when he arrived in Bloomington on a visit, and he knew it was where he wanted to be. He said the distance from home won’t be a problem for him, adding that he’s not really a “homesick kind of guy.”The recently-enrolled freshman found reassurance in the move from California to Indiana from IU sophomore quarterback Nate Sudfeld, a native of Modesto, Calif.Diamont said he frequently talks with Sudfeld, who told him that he will adjust to the weather in the Midwest.“I’ll have to grow accustomed to throwing in the cold a little bit,” Diamont said. “That’ll be new, but it shouldn’t be a problem.”By enrolling at IU, he joined an already cluttered quarterback competition. Sudfeld and redshirt sophomore Tre Roberson split time under center in 2013.IU Coach Kevin Wilson announced Jan. 15 that junior quarterback Cameron Coffman, who started for the Hoosiers in 2012 after Roberson suffered a season-ending knee injury, will transfer from IU.With Coffman out of the picture for the Hoosiers’ 2014 season, Diamont could be in the running for IU’s third-string quarterback, or he could take a redshirt season because of the depth in front of him.“It’s not my call,” he said, “and I’m not looking to make the call.”He said the decision is up to the coaching staff but that his ability to gain weight could affect the outcome.Listed at 6-foot-2 and 175 pounds by national recruiting websites, Diamont said he played at 168 pounds during his senior season but is currently down to 163. He said his goal is to add upwards of 10 to 15 pounds in the offseason in order to be competitive as a quarterback at the collegiate level.This isn’t the first time IU Coach Kevin Wilson has coached a quarterback in Bloomington who needed to gain weight in order to play in college.Wilson said Roberson weighed 163 pounds when he arrived at camp.Wilson said the Hoosiers are getting a good player, even though Diamont will have to get bigger and stronger to play in the Big Ten.“He’s got a big arm, (he) can throw it,” Wilson said, adding that Diamont can “move a little bit.”Despite being buried in IU’s depth chart behind two proven quarterbacks, Diamont said he can worry about only himself.“If you get caught up in the day-to-day of what the other guy next to you is doing ... then you’re going to lose yourself in that and it’s going to hurt you,” he said. “I think just focusing on what you do and kind of taking care of what you can control is the way to handle it.”Despite the return of IU’s quarterback tandem, which led to the Hoosiers being No. 17 in the nation in passing yards per game, Wilson said it was important for IU to sign Diamont.“Even though we’ve had some offensive success ... it’s kind of nice to have these guys here,” Wilson said on Jan. 9 when the team introduced its six mid-year enrollees, all of whom play on the offensive side of the ball.The Hoosiers didn’t sign a quarterback last year, creating a need for IU to restock on quarterback talent for the future. By the time Sudfeld and Roberson exhaust their eligibility, Diamont will be a rising junior with two years of experience in the Hoosier program.In the meantime, he said he isn’t discouraged by the competition, and he believes it will bring out the best in him. “I think I can play with anybody,” Diamont said. “Cam Newton can walk in the room and I’m gonna be like ‘I can play with Cam Newton,’ regardless of whether or not I can. That’s just my mentality and I think that I take that in every aspect of my life.” Follow reporter Andy Wittry on Twitter @AndyWittry
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IDS Sports' IU basketball staff breaks down a topsy-turvy week in on-the-court action and rank every Big Ten team from No. 1 to No. 12.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU, welcome to Pinnacle Bank Arena — Nebraska’s $179 million basketball facility that opened for the 2013-14 season.The Hoosiers lost their only road game against Nebraska since the Cornhuskers joined the Big Ten in 2011. In January 2012, the then-No. 11 Hoosiers left Bob Devaney Sports Center on a three-game losing streak after squandering a 13-point lead in a 70-69 loss.Two years later, Nebraska (10-9, 2-5) has a 9-1 home record to go along with its new arena.IU sophomore point guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell said the Cornhuskers are one of the hardest-playing teams in the Big Ten.“Nebraska plays very hard, especially at home,” he said. “They’ve gotten a lot better over the years, so it’s definitely going to be tough to go in there and play in that environment.”The Cornhuskers have been a different team at Pinnacle Bank Arena.After losing by 31 points at then-No. 3 Ohio State on Jan. 4, Nebraska upset the Buckeyes 68-62 at home Jan. 20.The Cornhuskers’ lone home loss this season was a one-point defeat at the hands of Michigan, who is undefeated in the Big Ten and hasn’t lost since Dec. 14.Senior forward Will Sheehey said Nebraska doesn’t do anything differently schematically when playing in Lincoln, Neb. Instead, he attributes the Cornhuskers’ success to their comfort level at home.“A majority of teams would say they play better being at home than they do on the road,” he said. “They’re a hard-playing team, they shoot the ball well — so obviously being at home helps your shooting percentages a little bit.”Offensively, sophomore guard-forward Terran Petteway paces Nebraska. The transfer from Texas Tech averaged 3.1 points per game off the bench for the Red Raiders in the 2011-12 season. Now he’s the third-leading scorer in the Big Ten at 18.2 points per game.Petteway recorded the best stat line of his career on Sunday against Minnesota. He scored 35 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out three assists in an 82-78 victory against the Golden Gophers.IU Coach Tom Crean described Petteway as a versatile scorer.“He is a wrecking crew when it comes to having the ball in his hands and he can find people,” Crean said. “He can really get to the rim and he can shoot threes.”On Monday, Nebraska dismissed its third-leading scorer, junior guard Deverell Biggs, for disciplinary reasons. The team used Biggs on more than 30 percent of the Cornhuskers’ possessions, according to kenpom.com.When he was on the floor, the guard ended almost one-third of Nebraska’s possessions with a shot attempt or turnover.Without Biggs, even more of the offensive load will fall on Petteway’s shoulders.Petteway has been a nightmare to defend because of his 6-foot-6 frame and outside shooting ability.“There’s not a single spot on the court that he can’t score from, so he’s got the confidence as well,” Sheehey said. “When we got a guy who can score from all over, it makes it tough to defend.”Sheehey, who is arguably IU’s most versatile defender and will be assigned to defend Petteway on Thursday, said the best way to defend a talented scorer like Petteway is to make his touches hard.The Stuart, Fla., native is the only player on the Hoosiers’ roster who played in IU’s loss to Nebraska in 2012. Sheehey said Cornhusker fans had the Bob Devaney Sports Center “packed and jumping for us” and that he expects a similar environment Thursday.“The atmosphere is going to be big time, as it should be,” he said.Follow reporter Andy Wittry on Twitter @AndyWittry.