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(10/21/12 3:02am)
For the first time ever, the IU men's and women's basketball teams sold out Assembly Hall for the program's version of "Midnight Madness" as both programs got a chance to practice, scrimmage, and get the home crowd on its feet for the first time this year. From IU alum Sage Steele emceeing, to a surprise winner in the "long shot" competition, here are some highlights from Hoosier Hysteria.
(10/19/12 4:20am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Saturday evening, Hoosier basketball fans throughout IU’s campus, Bloomington and the country will have a chance to see the men’s and women’s basketball teams in-person. IU Coach Tom Crean’s men’s team is ranked preseason No. 1 in polls across the country. The women’s team enters its first season under new head coach Curt Miller. Both coaches will address the crowd.The event is a week later than it traditionally has been so as not to coincide with fall break. Potential recruits for both the basketball and football teams are expected to attend.“It’s always been exciting, going back to year one, but I’ve never heard it talked about like it is right now,” Crean said. “I think it will be huge for recruiting, I don’t think there’s any question about that. We moved it back a week with one goal in mind: to give every student at Indiana the opportunity to be at it because of the fall break (last week). I think we’ll have a lot of fun.”Here are a few tips to ensure IU basketball fans have a chance to enjoy Hoosier Hysteria to the fullest.Arrive earlyAssembly Hall’s doors will open at 4 p.m., and tickets are free. Fans will be admitted until all seats in the arena have been filled. The IU-Navy football game will be screened on the video board.Although the event is free, fans are encouraged to bring a canned food item to benefit Hoosier Hills Food Bank.AutographsHoosier fans can bring one item they wish to have signed by players during an open autograph session from 5 to 6 p.m. before the official event begins at 7 p.m.Sage Steele as emcee ESPN SportsCenter co-host and IU alumna Sage Steele will serve as emcee for Hoosier Hysteria, announcing activities including a dunk contest, a three-point contest and men’s team scrimmage. Participants for the dunk and three-point contests have not yet been announced.Student contestsBefore the event officially begins at 7 p.m., students will be encouraged to register for a Big Head contest and the Craziest Fan contest. The Crimson Guard will select students to compete and bring them onto the floor. The lists will be narrowed down for the finals, which will take place between the dunk and three-point contest. Winners will be awarded IU Varsity Shop gift certificates.
(10/16/12 9:40pm)
Below are screen shots of Knight's items which are now up for auction:
(10/16/12 1:54am)
After leading the IU men's basketball team to three national titles in 1976, 1981 and 1987 as well as coaching the USA team who won Olympic gold in 1984, former IU Coach Bob Knight has decided to sell off several pieces of hardware to help raise money for his grandkids' college funds.
(10/09/12 2:05am)
Honestly, I was more nervous going into last week's men's basketball Media Mania than I have been for anything in a while. I've taken handfuls of college tests, flown to five different foreign countries last summer and rode in the Little 500, and playing basketball for the first time in six years was just frightening.
(10/09/12 12:22am)
Yet another time, IU sophomore center Cody Zeller was named the 2012-13 Preseason Player of the Year, this time by CBS, on Tuesday.
(10/04/12 4:00am)
Take a look at the results of Homecoming football games since 2008.
(10/03/12 10:51pm)
Tuesday, the Sporting News released its preview guide for the 2012-13 NCAA men's basketball season, and sophomore center Cody Zeller, along with his team, graced the top of the preseason polls.
(10/03/12 3:44am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Monday night, after Jack Nicklaus served as the inaugural speaker in the Wilson Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics at the IU Auditorium, he sat down with members of the press, including Indiana Daily Student reporter Nathan Brown. Nicklaus talked further on why he decided to speak at IU, Team USA’s collapse in the Ryder Cup, Midwestern values and his last trip to Bloomington.Q: Why did you decide to speak in this series?A: Well, that would be my wife, who is good friends with Amy (Wilson) who said, ‘Will Jack do that?’ and Barbara said, ‘Jack, you will do this,’ and I said, ‘Okay.’ They asked me to do it, and I was going to be in Columbus anyways. I came up to do the Ryder Cup television yesterday, and tomorrow we are doing a breakfast and press conference for the President’s Cup, which is a year from now. We’re doing that tomorrow morning, so the captains are coming to Columbus. So I was here, and it worked out well.Q: Since you mentioned the Ryder Cup, talk a little bit about the finish there.A: I think the Americans played pretty darn good golf the first two days, but the Europeans are a good bunch of players, and they finally got on their game yesterday. They got into a roll, and they did it, and America didn’t finish very well. All they had to do was put away a few matches early — (Europe) won the fuckin’ first five matches, didn’t they? — and you win the first five matches when you’re behind 10-6, and all the sudden you’re ahead 11-10.Q: You talked about Midwestern values, growing up in the Midwest. The topic, I guess the theme, in the speech was sort of that. The discussion was integrity and ethics ... Why do you think Midwestern values instill so much of that in people?A: Most of the people that come to the Midwest have come from some European background. I think people came to this country to get away from oppression in Europe and for religious freedoms, and I think that a lot of those people settled in the Midwest, and so I think the family values in the Midwest are pretty good.Q: Can you compare and contrast trying to improve as a golfer to improving in another field, course design, which you apparently have taken to really well?A: When I first started working, I sold insurance. I didn’t believe that my fraternity brothers needed insurance, but I was trying to sell it to them. But when I started playing golf, it was something I had a goal for because I really liked it. It was something I really wanted to do. The goal in golf was to be the best I could be. I didn’t really care about being an insurance salesman, but I was actually making a fairly decent living out of it. I didn’t decide to golf because of a financial standpoint because I was a 21-year-old kid making $30,000 a year in 1961. I wasn’t sure I could make more money than that playing golf, but that was my interest. My interest was to be the best I could at what I wanted to do, so any kid no matter what field they pick, should be the best they can in that field. If you do, that’s your best chance to succeed. You’ll go through some years when it’s not comfortable, but if you really believe that and believe that’s what you really want to do, you’ll succeed. Just keep after it.Design is the same thing. I really got interested in taking what I learned and putting it on a piece of ground that will be here long beyond my golf game and my lifetime. I thought that was fun, to promote the growth of the game I love, but I knew someday I wouldn’t be able to play. But I would still have a field that I could stay into, which was something I really liked. And I still like it. I mean, I’m 72 years old, and I love to go out and see a piece of ground, and to me, the most fun is what I call unlocking that ground and helping it reach its potential.Q: Going back to the last time you said you were in Bloomington, when you won your Big Ten championship your senior year ... just talk a little bit more about that experience, how you were able to win by so many shots and what it was like to help your team win?A: I wish I knew that. All I know is that when my coach asked me, I just put my nose to the grindstone and shot a lot of low scores. When I got done, I said, ‘How did we do, Coach?’ and he said, ‘You won by a lot, and we won by one.’
(10/02/12 4:11am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The last time Jack Nicklaus stepped foot in Bloomington, he won a golf tournament.During the Golden Bear’s senior year playing No. 1 on Ohio State’s golf team, his coach, Robert Kepler, knew he didn’t have a very strong team behind Nicklaus. Kepler asked Nicklaus to “spread eagle the field” and win by as many strokes as possible to give the Buckeyes a shot at making it to the NCAA tournament.Nicklaus won by 23.His team won by one shot and went to the tournament.But since then, Nicklaus has won a record 18 major tournaments on the PGA Tour, nearly 120 professional golf tournaments and started an international golf design company, all while staying married to his wife Barbara for 52 years.Nicklaus didn’t come to Bloomington Monday night to blow the field away in another golf tournament or participate in the Nearly Naked Mile, he joked. IU’s Theta chapter of Delta Gamma brought Nicklaus to the IU Auditorium as a speaker in the Lectureship in Values and Ethics series. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Nicklaus and his wife both grew with a set of “Midwestern values” he said reach from western Pennsylvania to Denver, encompassing his alma mater at Ohio State as well as IU.“The values we have in the Midwest are really great,” Nicklaus said. “To come to IU, such a great school, it was a real privilege and pleasure to be here.”After leaving Ohio State with a Big Ten championship, a wife and a baby on the way, as he and Barbara were married during his junior year, Nicklaus pledged to his family that he would never be apart from them for more than two weeks.Some Fridays, he said, after his five kids, Jackie, Steve, Nancy, Gary and Michael, were out of school, Barbara packed up the kids and drove to wherever the Golden Bear was playing that weekend, stay for Saturday’s round and drive home Sunday.If that’s what it took for the kids to see their dad, Nicklaus said he and Barbara would make it work.“We both knew it wasn’t easy, but we thought it was important,” Nickalus said. “I wanted to make sure that when my kids went off to college that they knew who their father was.”The talk’s moderator, Inga Hammond, a sports journalist and IU alumna, said during his whole career, Nicklaus never was known to swear or throw a club, pointing at the ethics he developed while growing up in Ohio.Nicklaus said with journalists a little more laid back during his career and the lack of social media and the Internet, his actions simply weren’t monitored as closely.“We never had any of the social media, and thank goodness,” Nicklaus said. “I go to airports now, and they follow my plane in the air. You really can’t go anywhere.”Nicklaus, linked to Tiger Woods as he continues to chase Nicklaus’s illustrious 18 major titles, said he couldn’t imagine trying to play and win with today’s media as obtrusive and over-bearing as they are.“Everything he says and does is in the newspaper every day,” Nicklaus said. “When I played, you had trouble finding the recap of the golf tournament.”Even after Tiger’s personal struggles off the golf course, while dealing with a more critical media, Nicklaus said Tiger could still challenge his major championships.“Tiger has taken on my record and had it posted on his closet all his life, and so I wonder what kind of pressure he’s had on him to perform,” Nicklaus said. “Now he’s won 14 majors but hasn’t won any in four years. Tiger is an awfully good player, but he has to win five more majors. If he does, I want to be the first one to shake his hand.”Looking past all of Nicklaus’ wins throughout his career on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, he said he was drawn to golf because of its ethics. He said he didn’t want someone throwing the ball back at him because whatever effort he put into his game, like his life as a father and golf designer, he wanted to receive back.“It’s just finishing and knowing you’ve done it properly, that you can sleep at night,” he said. “I knew I could go out and practice, even if others didn’t want to play, and I could still go out and work on what I needed to work on.”
(09/06/12 8:19pm)
IU Coach Tom Crean announced Thursday that the Hoosier men's basketball team will play an exhibition game against the Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at Assembly Hall.
(08/28/12 6:54pm)
Written by Joe Popely
(08/21/12 3:22am)
Late this evening, former IU men's basketball recruit Ron Patterson announced via his Twitter account that he will be attending Brewster Academy in New Hampshire this upcoming year.
(08/16/12 9:42pm)
On August 15th, 2010, Ron Patterson, an athletic 6-foot-3 junior from Broad Ripple High School, committed to IU as the second member of 2012 men's basketball recruiting class. It was the moment "The Movement" began.
(08/16/12 8:38pm)
Ron Patterson and his family issued a statement today regarding his recent departure from IU:
(08/15/12 6:38pm)
Sophomore Eriq Zavaleta has a lot to look forward to this season. Coincidentally, he has many expectations to live up to as well.
(04/30/12 4:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In late November, the IU men’s soccer team did not know it would face and fall to the No. 1 team in the country. When the time came, the Hoosiers never achieved control against the Tar Heels when facing them on their home ground in Chapel Hill, N.C.Both teams totaled only five shots on goal — all from UNC — during the match that went into overtime tied 0-0. A single ball that rolled by IU junior goalkeeper Luis Soffner during overtime was all that separated IU from the end of a season and the defeat of the eventual national champion.On Sunday, IU faced a similar fate as the Mexican U-20 national team, a collection of Mexico’s finest young professionals, faced Indiana at Jerry Yeagley Field in an international friendly match. Indiana took a 1-0 lead early into the first half and kept going into the second, but the Mexican national team controlled the pace for much of the game’s 90 minutes and capitalized on two IU defensive lapses, leaving IU on the wrong side of a 2-1 defeat.After the game, both players and IU Coach Todd Yeagley agreed that with its professional experience, the Mexican team was simply on another level.“This is a different class,” Yeagley said. “It’s amateur versus pro. They are playing for their first team in Mexico and have had international experience at high levels.”IU freshman forward Eriq Zavaleta has had some international experience. During his sophomore and junior years of high school, Zavaleta left his home in Westfield, Ind., for the U.S. Soccer U-17 National Team Residency Program, for which he helped the United States advance to round 16 at the 2009 U-17 World Cup. He was named a Parade All-American twice, as well as a National Soccer Coaches Athletic Association All-American his junior year.This past season, Zavaleta was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and was part of several all-freshman teams across the country. He led the Hoosiers in scoring with 10 goals. But Zavaleta is one of few Hoosiers with much international experience, and as Yeagley said, the Mexican team’s whole bench is filled with international talent from around their home country.“We had some tired legs out there, and when they get changes, they’re bringing on another pro, so they don’t drop much,” Yeagley said. “If anything, they had a few in their back pocket that they brought in who were as good as anything. When they make changes like that when they’re six or seven deep, it really challenged us physically.”Even before the two teams began their match, the fans who filled the stands — those decked out in cream and crimson and those in their green Mexican jerseys, running around the stands waiving the Mexican flag — had turned the game into a different atmosphere the players said was unlike any college soccer game they had played in the fall.But aside from the Mexican National Anthem, the huge flags and rowdy, chanting away crowd, Zavaleta and his teammates knew they were up against a different task. Although IU ended on the wrong side of the result, the Big Ten Freshman of the Year said he was proud of his team for keeping its composure in such a crazy atmosphere.“What I was really pleased with was that from the beginning of the game, especially in the first half, we didn’t seem scared,” Zavaleta said. “We seemed like we wanted to take it to them.“Quite frankly, we have some players on our team who have some experience there, and that showed. But they’re a great team, both technically and tactically. They’re some of the best players we’ll ever play against, and I thought we took it at them.”Yeagley echoed his star freshman, saying although a loss might not look as great on the team’s record, his players had something to learn from the defeat.“There are so many nuances that our guys can walk away saying, ‘Yeah, I got something out of this game,’ but until you play against it, you can’t understand that fully,” Yeagley said. “You can talk about it, but until you feel it, it’s different.”Zavaleta said, in the end, the game simply came down to the teams’ different natures. He and his Hoosier teammates play soccer for fun, some to try to get a chance to move on to the next level, but soccer for a Mexican national player is much more serious.“It’s a completely different thing in this country,” Zavaleta said. “You can see that experience there, and that’s why they win games, and that’s why they won today.”
(04/27/12 3:12am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After going 3-1-1 against college soccer talent from around the country, the IU men’s soccer team will prepare to face some of the best soccer talent Mexico has to offer. The Hoosiers and the Mexican U-20 National Team will square off at 2 p.m. Sunday at Jerry Yeagley Field as Indiana finishes its spring schedule.Since 2005, the Hoosiers and Mexico have played five international friendly matches with Indiana holding a 2-3 record against the Mexican national team.The teams last faced off in the spring of 2010 when IU pulled off a 2-0 victory off of goals from then-fellow sophomores midfielder Tyler McCarroll and forward Will Bruin. Indiana’s only other win in the series was another 2-0 shutout during the 2006 spring season against the defending FIFA U-17 World Champions.This spring, the Hoosiers are 1-1-1 in Bloomington, including shutouts against in-state rival Butler and Lindsey Wilson College. The team’s only loss came in a 5-3 shootout against Bradley at home. — Nathan Brown
(04/17/12 3:41am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>As Bill Naas’ three young boys flip through a book titled “101 Cool Science Experiments” and pick out a way to entertain themselves for the afternoon, Naas isn’t worried. He’s received reassurances that his curious trio of young scientists isn’t attempting to construct a bomb. He knows that with a little guidance from him, his children can follow directions to their simple goal: imploding a Diet Coke can by boiling water in its interior. Naas is their coach.About 60 miles away inside the towering brick house on Third and Hawthorne in Bloomington live the Kappa Kappa Gamma cyclists who also call Naas their coach. After two years of racing in the IU Little 500 for Sigma Alpha Epsilon in the mid-1990s, Naas had run the fastest qualifications lap in Little 500 history, yet he left without a championship to his name. After bitter disappointment from his racing days, Naas reluctantly dove into coaching his future wife’s KKG team. He has produced five championship teams since 1996 but none since 2006. Even with the men’s single-lap qualifications record, along with six total titles as a coach, Naas continues to seek more success in the realm of the Little 500, and he hopes his experiences as a racer — both triumphs and hardships — will take his riders to the checkered flag April 20.***After Naas’ bike slid out from underneath him in turn three during SAE’s first attempt to qualify for the 1995 Little 500, Naas refused to slow down. After tossing his shattered helmet and borrowing one from a Dodd’s House rider, Naas got back on the bike for the team’s second attempt, riding as both the first and last leg for his teammates. Even after the crash, which was one more mishap putting the team’s entry into the race in jeopardy, Naas flew across the finish line for a 31.3-second last lap — good enough to put SAE on the outside of row one for race day.It wasn’t until race day that Naas — as he, his brother Jeff and their other teammates strolled around the track in the third position, bike in tow — learned of his accomplishments during his qualifications run. As he was introduced, the words “...and the men’s single lap qualifications record holder, Bill Naas...” reverberated throughout Bill Armstrong Stadium. A surprised Naas looked at Jeff, smiled, then refocused on the task at hand. Although the record was an honor, Naas could only focus on hoisting the Borg-Warner replica trophy after a Little 500 victory, which he hoped was just a few hours away.But even his new record couldn’t prepare Naas for what the race had in store for him that April day. After a Sigma Chi rider flew off his bike and rolled down the cinder track, Naas found himself in first place with enough energy to distance himself from the defending champion and the rest of the pack. Without a coach that day, though, Naas had no clue what to do.“I remember thinking to myself, ‘Oh my God, do I go?’” Naas said as his eyes widened. “I wanted to go, but I didn’t know if that was stupid. I remember going by the pit saying, ‘What do you want me to do?’”Instead of breaking away, Naas sat up and let the others reel him back in.“I was the fastest bike on the track, and so this is where not understanding racing at the time, for the lack of a better word, screwed us because you might be the fastest sprinter, but ultimately you don’t want to have to sprint to win the race,” Naas said.That year, Naas and his teammates would have to settle for third place and wonder what help an experienced coach could have brought them.***Naas now tries to be exactly the coach he needed 17 years ago.“Part of me believed that during my last two years of racing, even though we did okay, I really think we had a shot to win,” Naas said. “Physically, we could have, but we lacked on the strategic side. So part of me felt like, ‘Hey, if I could give a team a little bit of that so they don’t have to worry so much about the race strategy and can just be out there racing,’ I wanted to do just that.”Junior Megan Gruber and sophomore Jackie Stevens said Naas has provided that and much more. Even though both Naas’ coaching role and riding time is constricted because of his job as assistant principal at Westfield High School in Westfield, Ind., he’s instilled a few important teachings that he followed in college that they take with them every practice on the track and every ride on the road.“He would just go out and ride as hard as he could because he knew it wasn’t all about doing all these intricate, crazy workouts,” Stevens said. “It’s just about putting all your heart into your ride — it’s about putting everything you have, every inch of your body into what you’re doing and not half-assing it because that’s how you’re going to win the race.”Although fitness was Naas’ strong point while he was competing in the Little 500, both he and his veteran riders agree that’s not where his coaching expertise lies. Naas and the KKG riders chat on Skype once every other week during both the fall and spring semesters in addition to the small handful of times he can make it down to Bloomington. Whatever time the team finds to chat with its coach, the riders spend on developing their racing strategy, an area that is now a strength of Naas’ because he doesn’t want his riders to experience uncertainty and disappointment on the track in April.“Whatever plan we set up and have, you’ve got to be flexible because as much as you want everything to go how you planned, there’s crashes, people try to do break-aways, you could have a bad exchange, and you have to react to those,” Naas said. “You only have so many chips you can play, and you have to think about when you’re going to use them.”Naas added, as his expression stiffened, that he went into the last turn of the race senior year with a chance to win, knowing he was the fastest guy on the track, but that he failed to play his chips right, and it cost him in the end.“I thought, ‘I should be pulling away here,’ but somewhere I lost a gear. It was just too many laps, too much effort and too much time in the saddle during the race. So I know we have to make sure that we’re using those chips and using them right.”***Back in Naas’ kitchen, as his three young protégés parade around the house, waiting for their mother to come home and see how they made the Diet Coke can implode, Naas leans back in his rickety wooden kitchen-table chair with a small grin beginning to form. One small success achieved, one disaster avoided. He looks on, as he can only hope for the same as April 20 inches nearer.
(04/16/12 3:25am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After a scoreless first half, the IU men’s soccer team cruised to a victory against the 2011 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics champion, Lindsey Wilson College, 2-0 Friday night at Jerry Yeagley Field.The Hoosiers and the Blue Raiders combined for only one shot during the first 45 minutes of the match, as Indiana junior forward Tim Wylie forced the LWC goalkeeper Yuta Nomura to make a save with just fewer than 13 minutes left in the first half.But the Hoosiers’ offensive attack sprung quickly in the second half, as junior midfielder Joe Tolen scored in the 53rd minute on a play set up by a pass to the middle of the 18-yard box from sophomore defender Matt McKain.Indiana added another goal in the 78th minute when sophomore midfielder A.J. Corrado capitalized on a mistake from Nomura. After Nomura came out of the box to steal the ball and clear it, he failed, and Corrado dished the ball into the open net for the easy goal.After finishing the final game of a three-game home stand, the Hoosiers will travel to Fort Wayne, where they will face Notre Dame in the National Soccer Festival at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Parkview Field.