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(12/30/08 3:04am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>While many are looking forward to the start of a New Year, the Hoosiers (9-2, 2-0) might want 2008 to last a bit longer. The Hoosiers raffled off their eight straight win in a 62-48 win against Michigan State. The win was also IU coach Felisha Legette Jack’s 100th win of her career. The Hoosiers opened up the game with a 6-0 lead and never looked back. Freshman Lindsay Enterline’s three point basket with 3:31 left in the first half capped a 12-0 run and had the Hoosiers up by their largest margin of the game, 20 points, leading 34-14. In the second half, the Hoosiers never lost their double digit lead. The closest the Spartans got was with 8:27 remaining, when Michigan cut the Hoosiers lead to 11, but the Hoosiers answered with junior point guard Jamie Braun’s jumper, and a lay up by senior Kim Roberson to put the Hoosiers back up by 15. The Hoosiers placed three players in double figures led by sophomore Jori Davis with 14 points. Senior Amber Jackson and Braun finished with 12. Another Hoosier approaching a milestone is senior Whitney Thomas. Thomas scored seven points in the game and is now just nine points shy of 1,000 career points. The Hoosiers return at 4 p.m. Sunday in Assembly Hall to face Iowa.
(12/21/08 1:11am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With five days until Christmas, the IU women's basketball team were in the giving spirit. The Hoosiers (8-2, 1-0) handed Northwestern its ninth consecutive loss against the Hoosiers with an 81-57 throttling of the Wildcats in their Big Ten opener. The win was IU’s seventh straight, tying the team's longest streak since the 2000-01 season.SLIDESHOW: IU-NorthwesternThe Hoosiers starters scored 71 of their 81 points, led by senior forward Whitney Thomas with 20 points. She is now 16 points away from 1,000 career points at IU. Thomas, who had struggled from the floor her last two games, finished 8-14 and hit all six of her free throws. Thomas credits a recent talk with IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack for her play on the offensive side.“I spoke to coach Jack and she told me I needed to start to play free and I took that to heart,” Thomas said. “I just went out their and took what they gave me.”The Hoosiers are now off for nine days when they will travel to East Lansing, Mich., to take on Michigan State. Legette-Jack said she isn’t worried about her team getting out of game shape in during the Christmas Break. “I’m not worried about these young ladies,” she said. “They will find open gyms and play pick up (games). Also the seniors will be doing a great job making phone calls to everybody making sure everybody is working out. We aren’t looking at it as time off. When we come back the 26th we will be ready for battle again.”
(12/20/08 10:03pm)
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(12/12/08 4:39am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Last season, playing on the road plagued the IU women’s basketball team, which only won five games. This year, the Hoosiers have already won four road games in a row and are looking to extend their total winning streak to six games. The Hoosiers compete against West Virginia at 2 p.m. Saturday in Morgantown, W. Va. After posting a 25-8 record last year and an NCAA Tournament berth, the Mountaineers came in 7-1.Sophomore Andrea McGuirt said the key to the five-game winning streak is the team’s unity. “Our main thing that Coach always tells us is to have good team synergy,” she said. “We are all on the same page together. We are all fighting as a team. I think we are all just playing outside ourselves and playing for the team.” Along with teamwork, senior forward Whitney Thomas said the team’s defensive focus is another factor.“I think we are making sure we do all the stuff we need to on defense, so that our offense will come to us,” Thomas said. “We really just picked it up a lot on defense and holding teams down in numbers. That’s what we’ve been focusing on.” Saturday’s game will be a rematch of last year’s, when the Hoosiers defeated the then-No. 13 Mountaineers 79-66 at Assembly Hall. Despite last season’s upset, IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack said the team’s four seniors add veteran leadership that was previously lacking. “This is a different group of kids, a different mindset,” Legette-Jack said. “We have such leadership now with our four seniors. Last year Whitney had to stand alone for the most part. This year Amber is doing a great job, Kim is doing a fantastic job, Lydia is really coming to their aid and Whitney is still her solid self.”The Mountaineers bring in two guards that both average double figures. Sophomore guard Liz Repella comes in averaging 15.4 points a game and with a 21-point, 12-rebound against Duquense. Her teammate, senior Takisha Granberry, adds 14.3 points a game. Legette-Jack knows West Virginia’s backcourt is talented. “They’re good,” she said. “They can shoot the ball. Liz can shoot the 3 like no other. She’s shooting 30 percent right now, but if we leave her open, she’ll hit it. The Granberry’s kid, she had eight 3’s (in a game). If we don’t defend the 3-point line, we’ll be in trouble.” Despite the talented duo, Legette-Jack said she trusts the Hoosiers’ game plan.“We are going to come out and do what we do, and if we hold people under 59,” she said, “then we’ll have a shot.”
(12/10/08 5:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For most of the first half, the Butler Bulldogs were a pest the Hoosiers couldn’t get rid of. The eventually overmatched Bulldogs (3-5) stayed within single digits until 3:35 left in the first half when senior Amber Jackson’s layup put the Hoosiers (6-2) up by 10.The Hoosiers then went on a 14-1 run to end the half. They led at halftime 39-20, and went on to win their fifth in a row defeating Butler 63-41.SLIDESHOW: IU vs. Butler“This was a team effort, team win and it’s really exciting to see our team play together,” IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack said. “We put in subs today, and you really couldn’t tell the starters from the subs because everyone really contributed.”However, all wasn’t pretty for the Hoosiers a few minutes into the game when senior leader Whitney Thomas was pulled.“She didn’t have the intensity we are accustomed to seeing,” Legette-Jack said. “We had to jump on her right away to change her intensity. I think that she was focused, but she wasn’t showing the intensity. Once she understood what we wanted out of her, she changed up real quickly, and we fed off her energy.” The dooming stat for the Bulldogs was their inability to shoot the 3. Butler only made 2-of-21 from behind the arc. Senior guard Kim Roberson said their team defense contributed to the Bulldogs inefficiency.“We practiced all week with our defense,” she said. “We want our defense to dictate. On the perimeter we want to be there on the next pass and be there in their face so the ball doesn’t get into the post.”Butler’s coach Beth Couture had high praises for what Roberson brings to the table defensively.“I’ve known Roberson. I’ve known her since she played at Cathedral (High School), and she’s like a one-man press,” she said. “She can really anticipate, which she did in high school. I figured we have a tough time. I was a little disappointed in our other guards for not stepping up to bring the ball up the floor and allowing her (Kim) to do that.”The second half the Hoosiers came out much like they did to finish out the first half. The Hoosiers extended their lead to 48-25, their largest of the night, after Roberson’s 3-point basket with 17:10 remaining. IU once again had a balanced scoring attack, with three Hoosiers in double figures. Jackson led all scorers with 18 points. Roberson finished with 15, in part from her 3-for-5 shooting behind the arc. Thomas notched her 26th career double-double, finishing with 13 points and 12 rebounds.One scary moment for the Hoosiers was the fall freshman Sasha Chaplin took after a layup in the first half. Chaplin seemed to come down awkwardly on her left leg and was helped off the court. “Well, we’re a family and we care deeply for one another,” Jackson said. “When Sasha went down that definitely put something in us to play harder. It gave us that momentum to keep playing hard and do it for her.”The Hoosiers return to the road having just finished a five-game road streak prior to Tuesday’s game. The matchup will be at 2 p.m. Saturday against West Virginia.
(12/08/08 3:02am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Despite senior forward Whitney Thomas and sophomore guard Jori Davis going a combined 3-for-19 from the field and combining for just 15 points, the IU women’s basketball team overcame a four-point halftime deficit to defeat Miami (Fla.) 69-54 in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge. In the second half, the Hoosiers (5-2) outscored the Hurricanes 41-22 and shot 52 percent from the field. IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack said she thought the Hurricanes played their best in the first half.“I felt they gave us all they had” Legette-Jack said. “I thought they gave us their best punch. I told our team coming into the second half just to be ready and to play our game.”After winning MVP honors at the Hilton Concord Classic in San Francisco last weekend, senior forward Amber Jackson continued her string of strong performance, leading the Hoosiers with 17 points and 12 rebounds, the sixth double-double of her career. Senior guard Kim Roberson and junior Jamie Braun also finished in double figures for the Hoosiers. Roberson ended with 15 points and six rebounds, a Braun added 10 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. After a meager offensive performance in the first half, Jackson said she knew her team would come out better in the second.“We shot very poorly in the first half,” she said. “We played our worst basketball all season, and we were only down four. We knew we could get better, we just needed to match their intensity.”The Hoosiers matched that intensity by using an 8-0 run to start the second half and took the lead. They also had another run of 8-0 and a run of 14-0 to put them up 18 points with 4:08 left. The Hoosiers held Miami’s Shenise Johnson to just eight points – more than five points below her average – on 3-of-16 shooting from the field. After the Hurricanes shot 47 percent from the field in the first half, they only shot 21 percent in the second. The Hoosiers finished their five-game road trip winning four of five and on a four-game win streak. Playing on the road was something that troubled the Hoosiers last year, but so far they have gotten off to a successful start. Legette-Jack said this was a growth experience for her team.“I think our ladies became women on this road trip,” she said.Jackson added that the success can carry over into the rest of the season.“It’s fantastic what we’ve done so far on the road,” Jackson said. “We just have to keep focusing on the task at hand.”After taking care of business on the road, the Hoosiers will play at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Assembly Hall against in-state foe Butler.“We did what we wanted to on the road,” Davis said. “Now we must come back and protect our home court.”
(12/06/08 2:44am)
The Hoosiers improved to 5-2 on the season after they defeated the University of Miami 69-54. Senior Amber Jackson continued her strong performances recording her sixth double-double of her IU career with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Kim Roberson finished with 15 points, 6 rebounds and 5 steals. Point Guard Jamie Braun was the other Hoosier in double figures with 10, 8 rebounds and 7 assists.
(12/05/08 4:37am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The women’s basketball team enters the Big Ten-ACC Challenge on a three-game winning streak and look to close out their five-game road trip with a win against the Miami Hurricanes at 7 p.m. Friday at the BankUnited Center. Both teams come into the game on winning streaks of their own. The Hoosiers (4-2) come off a trip to San Francisco where they won the St. Mary’s Thanksgiving Classic by defeating two teams by margins of 27 and 17. As for the Hurricanes (5-2), they come into tonight’s matchup currently on a four-game winning streak.Currently the Hoosiers are 3-1 on the road, and IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack said she is pleased with her team’s play away from Assembly Hall, because road games are something that plagued the team last season.“We couldn’t have planned it better with the Big Ten-ACC Challenge being on the road,” Legette-Jack said. “We really concentrated on having a lot more games on the road, because that was a nemesis for us in the Big Ten. We are going to continue to do what we are doing and be excited about going up against an ACC team that’s playing really good basketball right now on their home turf.”In games two and three of the road trip, usual starter and sophomore co-captain Jori Davis did not start, but in their championship game last weekend, Davis earned starting position back and responded well.“It was a calculated decision to find Jori, and I think we did with her 19 points and 14 rebounds,” Legette-Jack said. “I think Jori understands as a captain that you just don’t play the game, you have to play the game at a higher level of everyone else on the court, not just scoring points and rebounding, but intensity and passion. She realized that we aren’t messing around here. We are playing at a certain level, and she has to maintain and sustain that passion. I think she gets it now.”Davis said the benching was an eye-opening experience.“It was a little bit of a wake-up call,” she said. “It also gave me time to look back and see what I need to bring to the team. Rebounding was one of them and just overall giving more, and I bought into it next game.”Friday’s game will also be the first for senior Amber Jackson since being named co-Big Ten Player of the Week, for her two 25-point performances, which were both career highs, last weekend. She also won MVP in that tournament. Before her 50 points in two games, Jackson combined for just 14 points in IU’s first two games of the road trip. Although Jackson said she is pleased with her stellar performance last week, she said she knows no matter her point total she must play as intense as she did last weekend.“I think for anybody, that would be a confidence booster, but those games are over now,” she said. “All I can look forward to now is Miami and playing hard. Against Radford and St. Mary’s, I just played my hardest, and it came out in my favor. Whether I score 25 points or 2 points, I’m going to play just as hard.”
(12/04/08 1:28am)
The Hoosiers (4-2) will play the Hurricanes this Friday night at 7 p.m. as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Hoosiers lost their only meeting to Miami in 2006, losing 79-70. Miami comes into this came 5-2 and on a four game win streak.
(11/24/08 4:07am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A tale of two halves is the best way to describe the IU women’s basketball team’s 65-59 loss Saturday night against Middle Tennessee State. Despite out-shooting the Blue Raiders from the floor 52.1 percent to 37.5 percent and going on a 19-0 run in the first half to gain a 30-10 margin at one point, the Hoosiers (1-2) were not able to hold their 36-22 halftime lead. In the second half, the Hoosiers were out-scored 43-23 and only shot 37.5 percent from the floor, which contributed to the disappointing six-point loss.Four players managed to finish in double figures for the Hoosiers, led by junior point guard Jamie Braun’s 16 points, 14 of which came in the first half as she hit all six of her shots from the floor and her two free throws. Also in double figures was senior guard Kim Roberson (14), senior forward Amber Jackson (11) and sophomore guard Jori Davis (10).Down 14 points at the half, Middle Tennessee coach Rick Insell saw something in the Hoosiers’ defense he thought he could expose.“They were in a matchup zone,” he said in a statement. “They play it very well. They were cutting lanes and didn’t have anyone inside. We weren’t having any success offensively so we had to go to something else. We went back to something we had in the bag to deal with that zone. We first put it in at one of those timeouts, but we really talked about it at halftime. We wanted Emily Queen to really play hard in the post, and when she did, it opened up our outside shooters.”It was the Blue Raiders’ pressure IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack said her team couldn’t overcome in the second half. “We were attacking,” she said in a statement. “We didn’t worry about the press. In the second half, we decided to look at their press. It was a big monster. It was just five people out there still. This is a lesson we can learn, and I think we will be better for it.”A huge key to the Blue Raiders’ success was their ability to shoot and make the three. Middle Tennessee State hit 11-of-31 from beyond the arc, opposed the Hoosiers just going 1-of-6.“We knew they were going to shoot it a lot, we just needed to defend it better,” Legette-Jack said.Another factor in the loss was the disparity on the offensive glass. The Blue Raiders pulled down 19 offensive rebounds. By contrast, the Hoosiers only recorded six, and they were out-rebounded 38-27 overall.“We need to get better,” Legette-Jack said. “Our goal is always to get at least 40 rebounds. Twenty-seven just isn’t enough.”Although the Hoosiers shot 52 percent from the field, Legette-Jack was still disappointed with the Blue Raiders’ comeback.“You can complain when you lose,” she said. “We are losing. We don’t like moral victories. And we are not a team that is trying to do that. We are trying to scrape our way past Middle Tennessee, a team that is vying to get into position for the NCAA Tournament. We will continue to scrape and claw, and we won’t allow anyone to give us a moral victory.”The Hoosiers are back in action at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Missouri.
(11/23/08 2:26am)
IU lost tonight 65-59, after being ahead 36-22 at halftime. Junior point guard Jamie Braun led IU with 16 points. The Hoosiers drop to 1-2 on the sesaon.
(11/16/08 6:07pm)
1st half
(11/16/08 5:49pm)
Ok, so earlier I posted about Indianapolis natvie and current Xavier junior stand-out Amber Harris. Well after getting back from the media room, I've seen Harris will not play today. Harris is out until at least Febraury with a knee injury. So the possibility of her dunking this afternoon will not be relevant.
(11/16/08 4:11am)
While in high school I got the opportunity to travel and watch a lot of Indiana high school basketball. One thing I remember was, then North Central stand-out and now Xavier junior, Amber Harris dunking in a game against my old high school.
(11/15/08 2:27am)
As I reported during the game, junior starting point guard Jamie Braun, did not play at all in IU's win over Ball St. Last week at practice, Braun took herself off the floor due to some criticisms from IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack. Filling in for Braun was sophomore Whitney Lindsay. Lindsay finished with 11 points, six rebounds and most importantly ZERO turnovers.
(11/14/08 11:15pm)
1st half
(11/14/08 10:50pm)
About 10 minutes from tip off of the first round of the WNIT. IU will take on Ball St. The winner will face Xavier, after they defeated earlier todya Robert Morris 79-49.
(11/05/08 6:57am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s basketball team was once again impressive last night. This time, they showed their talents off to the Indianapolis Greyhounds in an 82-56 victory.The Greyhounds scored at the 15:04 mark in the first half to make it 7-2 in favor of the Hoosiers. After, Indianapolis did not score until 6:58 left in the half. A scoreless drought of more than eight minutes. The Greyhounds’ next bucket made it 30-5, and the rout was on. IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack said defense is the foundation for her team.“Well that’s what we try to put our staple on, is the defense,” Legette-Jack said. “Everyday we kind of get better at it. I thought we showed great sprints, especially when Kim was at the point of it.”Senior guard/forward Kim Roberson did not miss a shot in the first half, hitting all six of her attempts, including two from beyond the arc. Roberson finished the half and the game with 14 points, and has yet to miss a field gold attempt. “My teammates have been setting me good screens and giving me enough time to get my feet set for the shot,” she said. “Little Whit (Lindsay Enterline) and Jamie (Braun) were passing me the ball, and Amber (Jackson) and Whitney (Thomas) were down low with Jori (Davis) setting great screens. So I have to finish it off after they did all that work.”The second half was much more competitive, as the Greyhounds out-scored the Hoosiers 37-35, but the defecit from the first half was too much to overcome. In the second half, the Hoosiers were able to get a lot of easy baskets from senior forwards Thomas and Jackson. Thomas said the baskets came from teammates quickly dumping the ball inside to the post.“We were just posting hard and calling for the ball,” Thomas said. “Like coach says, we got to build it from the inside out, and that’s what we were focusing on. Our guards came in shooting well from the outside and that opened a lot for us inside the post.” IU had four players in double-figures, led by Davis’ 19 points, as she was 7-11 from the floor. Despite two lopsided wins, Legette-Jack said her team still needs to improve before heading into its regular season opener Friday, Nov. 14 at home against Ball State.“We need to find out how effective our defense can be,” Legette-Jaack said. “I think that we are a better defensive team. If we can continue to get better on the defensive end, I think you will see a lot more fun.“A fun basketball team because we will put more points on the board, but it starts from the inside out. We were getting that, and when we got a lead I thought we kind of lost our focus, we kind of stretched out defense, and they got buckets inside.”
(11/05/08 12:15am)
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(11/02/08 5:17pm)
Here's some quotes from Coach Legette-Jack and Haylie Lynn in their 93-49 over Southern Indiana.