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(04/16/12 2:04am)
____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.
(04/09/12 8:17pm)
Per his Twitter account, IU sophomore midfielder Nikita Kotlov has a fractured foot.
(03/23/12 2:27am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After walking off the field in Chapel Hill, N.C., this past November, the IU men’s soccer team knew it was coming. The devastating 1-0 loss in overtime in the round of 16 to the eventual NCAA tournament champion North Carolina men’s soccer team was only the beginning of a rough offseason that would include the loss of five seniors.And three of them — Alec Purdie, the team captain; Chris Estridge, an All-American; and Tommy Meyer, a regular four-year starter at defensive back — would move on to the MLS in January. The senior trio combined for 11 of IU’s goals during the year, along with more than a fourth of the team’s total points.But as the Hoosiers travel to Springfield, Ill., on Saturday to begin their spring slate of games, taking on the Saint Louis Billikens, sophomore Nikita Kotlov, freshman Eriq Zavaleta, and the rest of their teammates will begin to rebuild a team still recovering from a loss of leadership and offensive production.“It’ll be really tough replacing them,” Kotlov said. “Estridge was an All-American, Purdie was our captain and Tommy was one of the best center backs in the country, so it’s going to be difficult to replace them. But we do have some good recruits coming in for next season, and I think we should still be good next year.”IU Coach Todd Yeagley said these offseason months since the loss to the Tar Heels have been great for his players and his coaching staff, adding that the past two months have given him a chance to improve his team internally in hopes of filling the gaps left by Purdie, Estridge and Meyer with players already on his roster.“This first segment of the spring has been a great time to teach and get guys better — whether it’s speed and agility or technical work — it’s the time we get better,” Yeagley said. “And you want to be able to internally get better with your players, and we know there are going to be some impact guys coming in, but you look at last year with Purdie. For him to double his numbers in goals, we need that.“Some of our attacking players have to become more dominant and put up more goals and assists and physically get stronger. But I think all the pieces can be solved.”This first game of the spring will help give Yeagley an idea of where his team stands after the loss of his seniors. He said during this game, along with others this spring, he will focus more on playing guys a set amount of minutes or putting players in certain spots to see just what kind of team he has on his hands before the new freshmen arrive in the fall.“We always want to win when we play, but we will put in some players and manufacture some situations that, regardless of the score lines, that will have plans behind them,” Yeagley said. “We want to get results, but we’ll begin to reassert how we want to play and put players in spots that might be new to them because we have to see how they do.“But the gel won’t be complete until August. We’ve got a lot of good pieces right now, but the final pieces won’t come until the new guys show.”
(03/02/12 5:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Behind 15 points at halftime to Michigan State (20-10, 11-5), the IU women’s basketball team (6-24, 1-15) faced an uphill battle heading into the second half Thursday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.But five minutes into the half and five Spartan 3-pointers later, Michigan State blew open the game, ending in a 97-68 loss for the Hoosiers and an end to their 2011-12 season.After falling behind quick in the first half 8-3 in the opening minutes – including turnovers on the team’s first two possessions, senior guard Alisha Goodwin stormed back with two-straight baskets to move her team within one.It would never be that close again.The Spartans then took off, with all three of their first half 3-pointers falling amidst a 13-0 run to take the lead 21-7 with 10:37 left to go in the first half, setting the tone for a game that would fail to see a single-digit deficit the rest of the way.The Hoosiers would try to battle back to get within 10 points through the help of a 7-1 run, but Michigan State stepped on the gas again to close the half ahead 41-26 on Spartan Porshe Poole’s jumper at the first half buzzer.But after keeping the Spartans within 15 points during the opening minutes of the second half, Poole and her teammates exploded with six-straight 3-pointers without a miss during less than six minutes, and the Michigan State lead ballooned from 15 points to 29 with 11:43 left in the game, a run that IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack called “silly.”“I thought we played silly basketball because I thought that it was very easy to find [Taylor Alton] since she was coming up the trail,” Legette-Jack said. “And we needed to adjust to where she was. And she hit those first two 3s and it was like: Prove it. “She shoots 80 percent from behind the arc. She’s four of five from the free-throw line. She’s not coming in. That should have been an easy stop for us.”The Spartans would lead by as many as 35 in the second half, and IU would never make much of a comeback as the Hoosiers’ top scoring threat junior forward Aulani Sinclair was held to just one basket in the second half and four points on the night.“I know Aulani was hurting tonight,” Legette-Jack said. “I know she wants a do-over for this game, but there’s no do-overs in the game of basketball. It’s all about the next game, but there’s no next games all summer long.“I hope she’ll let this one burn a little bit because no one can stop Aulani but Aulani. She’s good enough. We had plays for her, and she didn’t come through as much as she should have.”Goodwin, playing in her last collegiate game, led Indiana with 16 points – her season high – including a 6-of-13 night from the floor with one 3-pointer.Indiana’s other senior, forward Danilsa Andujar scored two points along with one rebound in her final game in the cream and crimson.Freshman center Quaneisha McCurty tossed in 15 points along with a team-leading four rebounds and a 7-for-9 night from the charity stripe. McCurty’s freshman counterpart, guard Candyce Ussery tied a season high she set in the final regular season game of the season against Purdue, scoring 10 points, all of them coming in the second half, including two 3-pointers.Indiana finished the season on a 1-16 skid, and amidst the string of losses, Legette-Jack summed up the Hoosier’s final loss of the season simply.“We had a lot of things in our tank to throw at them, but everything we threw at them, they were ready,” Legette-Jack said.“Tonight, the best team won.”
(03/01/12 4:37am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s basketball team enters the Big Ten Tournament, which will take place at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, with a chance for its second conference win in three games after losing 14 straight to start the conference schedule. The No. 12 Hoosiers will face off against the No. 5 Michigan State Spartans tonight 25 minutes after the end of the 6 p.m. Minnesota vs. Wisconsin game. Here’s a look at the Hoosiers and their history in the Big Ten Tournament.Team• The team has a 14-15 all-time record in the tournament’s 17-year existence.• IU has won one tournament title, which was in 2002, when the Hoosiers took down Penn State in the final game.• Since losing in the semi-finals to Purdue during the 2005-06 season, Indiana has failed to make it past the second round of the tournament.IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack• This year’s tournament will mark Legette-Jack’s sixth Big Ten Tournament at the helm of the Hoosiers.• Legette-Jack’s teams have a 3-5 record in the conference tournament.• Since being named head coach, Legette-Jack has failed to take the Hoosiers past the second round of the Big Ten Tournament, and her team has fallen in the first round the past two years.Playing Against Michigan State• The Hoosiers have faced the Spartans twice during the regular season, falling 63-49 at home and 67-47 in East Lansing, Mich.• IU has played Michigan State just once in the Big Ten Tournament. The lone matchup came in 1999, and the Hoosiers lost 88-69.• Indiana is 1-1 in neutral site games this season. Both games were in the Caribbean Classic, where the Hoosiers first lost to Pittsburgh 77-72 in overtime before beating Colorado State 47-39.
(02/27/12 4:51am)
The Indiana women's basketball team, slated as the No. 12 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, will face off against No. 5 seed Michigan State Thursday night in the second game of the second session of the tournament held in Indianapolis, Ind. at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
(02/27/12 2:33am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The winning streak was short-lived.After taking Wisconsin down to the wire and pulling off a 62-60 victory Thursday — the team’s first win in 15 Big Ten games this season — the IU women’s basketball team (6-23, 1-15) fell 90-58 to Purdue (21-8, 11-5) on Sunday at Mackey Arena during its final regular season game.The Hoosiers found themselves behind early, as the Boilermakers had a 9-2 lead fewer than four minutes into the game. IU tried to battle back, staying within 12 points until 6:43 in the first half.The Boiler defense kept IU nearly scoreless for four minutes while it went on a 12-point run, extending the lead to 22 and putting the game out of reach at 41-19.IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack said she felt Purdue’s runs during the game were due to the added energy at Mackey Arena for the Boilermakers’ senior night, but she thought it was a great experience for her team to play in.“You want that kind of environment,” she said. “With a young team like that, you don’t run away from that. That’s the best it gets. You don’t avoid that kind of atmosphere. You want that so we can know what it’s supposed to feel like, so when we get in that kind of atmosphere, it’s not going to scare us.”Junior forward Aulani Sinclair led IU with nine points in the first half, and freshman guard Candyce Ussery scored a seven, more than double her season average of 2.6 points per game.Indiana opened the second half by trading baskets with Purdue, cutting the lead to as few as 19 points. But the Hoosiers again fell victim to a scoring drought as Purdue scored 11 straight points during about a two-minute span, pushing the team’s lead to more than 30 for the first time in the game.IU’s deficit would rise to as many as 36 before a seven-point IU run sparked by two straight baskets from junior center Sasha Chaplin. After a Big Ten season that included only one win, Legette-Jack said the struggles of this season’s conference play happened for a reason.“God is such a special God that he blessed us with a special opportunity with this situation,” Legette-Jack said. “He believes we can handle it, and we’re doing it with dignity and as much grace as we can.“We certainly are here to win, and I came to IU to win and pursue championships, but if you can’t win, you’ve certainly got to do what you can to build the program.”Chaplin led the Hoosiers in scoring with 15 points during only 17 minutes of playing time. Sinclair, who played the entire game, added 14 points, along with 10 from Ussery, her career high. In the last regular season game of their careers, seniors Danilsa Andujar and Alisha Goodwin each scored a single basket and, along with Goodwin’s three free throws, combined for seven points.With their regular season schedule complete, the Hoosiers will now move on to the Big Ten postseason tournament in Indianapolis, where they will play the conference’s No. 5 seed in the tournament Thursday.
(02/24/12 4:45am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After an 82-60 drubbing at home to its in-state rival, then-No. 13 Purdue, more than a month ago, the IU women’s basketball team was 0-6 in the Big Ten and struggled to compete in a conference with four teams ranked in the top 25.But now, after their first win in almost two months on Thursday night, the Hoosiers hope to extend their win streak against Purdue.The Boilermakers have dropped nine spots in the AP poll and lost three of their last four games when they face off in Mackey Arena on Sunday at noon.The tough news, though, is that the Hoosiers must fight for a win against Purdue without their leading scorer after the team’s second season-ending injury.The team announced Tuesday that its leading scorer, junior Jasmine McGhee, will sit out the remainder of the regular season, as well as the Big Ten Tournament, with a stress fracture in her foot.IU will now have to rely on the rest of the team, particularly junior forward Aulani Sinclair, to make up for McGhee’s scoring load, an average of 12.6 points per game.IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack said the key to keep Sinclair, who has averaged 19 points the past four games, a powerful scoring threat is a strong inside presence from the Hoosiers’ forwards and centers.“If our post players get a little bit better in the next couple games, you’re going to see Sinclair score about 30 points,” Legette-Jack said. “She can flat-out score, and we’ve never denied that, but when you’ve got two or three people on you, it’s very difficult to score.“But if you’ve got a player one-on-one, like Sinclair, she can easily go for 30, and that’s our hope. That someone can show up under the post so they can’t double up on Aulani.”Legette-Jack added that all season long, she’s liked the way her team has performed in practice, yet when it has come to game time, the Hoosiers have faltered, until Thursday night. In several games, Indiana has stayed close or even led at halftime, only to fall victim to a long scoring drought or allow one conference opponent or another to go on a big run.Junior center Sasha Chaplin said what she thought was her team’s biggest flaw: not being able to play a full game.“I think to get a win, we need overall effort from everyone on the team: the guards, post players, the bench, the whole coaching staff, just the team as a whole to give us that overall effort and just bring that energy for us to have that momentum going into our last game,” Chaplin said. “We just have to go out there and play a consistent 40 minutes of basketball.”
(02/24/12 12:04am)
Wisconsin: Davis, Wurtz, Paige, Thomas, Covington
(02/21/12 2:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Runners’ Council of the 2012 Little Fifty race, the event set to kick off this year’s week of Little 500 festivities, will have a callout meeting Thursday for those interested in participating in the 10th anniversary of the inaugural Little Fifty.At the meeting, which will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Kelley Business School 223, the council will discuss qualifications, the team registration process and deadlines, runner eligibility and a new blog at littlefiftyblog.blogspot.com set up to help fellow runners communicate about training plans and running routes.This year’s meeting and race will center around one big change: the move of the race from the normal spot of Thursday night to the Sunday before Little 500 week.Junior Jarrett Smith, a veteran Little Fifty racer and now a member of the Little Fifty Runners’ Council, said the change was made to avoid the other festivities of the week and with the hope of boosting attendance.“We’re trying to get as big a turnout as possible, and we thought it would be great to kick off the Little 500 week with this race and set the tone,” Smith said. “We didn’t want to compete with different concerts and other events going on that week, and we’re hoping this Sunday-night time will allow for as much participation as possible, both by the athletes and the fans.”Smith, who ran both track and cross country in high school, encouraged past competitors and prospective racers to come to the meeting in hopes they will find the type of camaraderie Smith found last year while training for the race.“It was just another avenue where I found I could get involved in the week,” Smith said. “I missed the team atmosphere and that aspect of organized sports, and this has allowed me to train with the team while competing against other teams and kind of get some of that camaraderie and structure back that I loved with sports.”
(02/19/12 5:01pm)
IU Starting Lineup: Goodwin, Newbauer, Chaplin, Sinclair, McCurty
(02/16/12 4:32am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Losing on a last-second shot in front of a home crowd could be seen as devastating to some teams. But for the IU women’s basketball team, it’s only one loss in a season filled with 20, including 12 straight to conference opponents and a winless Big Ten record.Even as the Hoosiers travel Thursday night to Columbus, Ohio, to take on the No. 9 Ohio State Buckeyes, who are currently second in the Big Ten standings, IU women’s basketball Coach Felisha Legette-Jack’s players sound as positive and as confident as ever.“Our effort and heart is there more now than it’s ever been, despite our record,” junior forward Aulani Sinclair said. “We come out with the hunger we need to have, and whether it’s with rebounding, which we’ve improved on the whole year, or whether it’s getting a defensive stop everyday in practice, it means more every day.“We have more hunger and more resilience to get the next win than ever.”The Hoosiers put up a fight in the first half of their first meeting against the Buckeyes on Jan. 26 in Assembly Hall. IU led by as many as eight points in the first 20 minutes, and it still had a one-point lead at halftime.But Ohio State scored the first 13 points of the second half, all but destroying any hopes of the Hoosiers stealing an upset win as the Buckeyes went on to win 73-55.Though the Hoosiers were shut down during those opening minutes of the second half during that game, Legette-Jack said the Hoosiers might have recently played against a more challenging defense. After the Illinois loss Sunday, Legette-Jack touted the Fighting Illini as one of, if not the best defensive team in the Big Ten, which she said could be good preparation to face the Buckeyes.“They (Illinois) are one of the best defensive teams in our conference,” she said. “It’s going to be fun to play our next Big Ten opponent in Ohio State, but we aren’t going to see that kind of pressure from any other team,” Legette-Jack said.But whether the Hoosiers pull off an upset victory Thursday against the Buckeyes or fail to win another game this season, Legette-Jack said her team will continue to fight just as hard every day, both in practice and during the rest of its battles in the Big Ten.“I couldn’t be more proud of my team than I am today,” Legette-Jack said. “They play with such resiliency, and they fight to try and get better every single day. No one would ever know that we’ve lost 20 games already by the way we practice every day.“I don’t know what this mess is all about, but I do know one thing: There is no quit in us.”
(02/13/12 2:12am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Indiana women’s basketball team fell 61-60 to Illinois (10-16, 4-9) on a last-second lay-in by the Fighting Illini’s Lydia McCully Sunday. But on “THINK PINK” day at Assembly Hall, IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack said she had the bigger picture in mind.“At the end of the day, it’s a one-shot situation,” Legette-Jack said. “If we get the rebound, we’re celebrating, and if we don’t get the rebound, we’re celebrating because we’re fighting breast cancer.”The loss was especially hard to take for Legette-Jack, though, who lost her father 10 years ago this month after a bout with throat cancer, she said. But despite the team’s loss, she and her players said they’re just playing a game, but other people might be out there fighting for their lives.“It’s not about a win or a loss or who had 61 or who had 60,” Legette-Jack said. “We’re bringing attention to something deadly and totally unforgiving in breast cancer.“I know how hard these survivors have to fight, and I know how tough it can be, but my energy is toward that more than anything.”IU (5-20, 0-12) jumped to a 12-6 lead off of two baskets each from senior forward Danilsa Andujar and junior forward Aulani Sinclair. The Hoosiers would then stretch their lead to as much as 11 off an 11-6 run.But Illinois would go on a 14-2 run of its own to take the lead at 26-25 with 4:06 left in the half. The teams would then trade baskets for the final four minutes of the half before Illinois’s Karisma Penn hit a last-second floater in the lane to take the lead 33-32 into the locker room. Penn led all scorers with a game-high 23 points, including 13 in the first half.After a slow start to the first half that saw both teams turn the ball over twice in their first two possessions, Indiana tied it up 38-38 with more than 14 minutes remaining.Illinois followed with a 10-2 run, during which the Hoosiers failed to connect on a single field goal in 5:15. Down 48-40, they didn’t give up.Off of three-straight baskets from Sinclair, the Hoosiers tied it up again 48-48 with 6:07 left in the game, and IU would build as much as a four-point lead with 56 seconds to go.Sinclair said with such a quickly changing game, they knew the lead could change at any second, but she and her teammates had to continue fighting to keep the lead.“Coach called a timeout and said that it was going to be a back-and-forth, back-and-forth game, so we just had to keep it up,” Sinclair said. “(Coach said) we might be up six at one point and then we might get down three, but we’ve just got to play our hardest till the end, and it will be what it is.”But in the final minute, the Fighting Illini battled back, as Adrienne Godbold hit a contested layup along with a foul shot to move her team within one point.And they would get one more shot. Although the Hoosiers dominated all day on the boards, out-rebounding Illinois 47-32, McCully grabbed the last board off a missed jumper by Penn and laid the ball in with just 0.6 left on the clock. A Hoosier hail-mary heave failed to connect, and Indiana lost its 12th-straight conference game of the season.Sinclair led the Hoosiers with 17 points and seven rebounds, along with junior Sasha Chaplin, who scored 14 points along with seven boards.But both, along with Legette-Jack, said they wished they could have had just one more rebound.“The fight for that last rebound was the same, just like the fight for the other 47,” Legette-Jack said. “There’s no gift about it. You just have to have a knack for rebounding, and we have that knack. But sometimes you just don’t pull them down.”
(02/10/12 4:07am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In the team’s past 25 Big Ten regular season conference games, the IU women’s basketball team has managed only one win, dating back to last season.When the Hoosiers go for their first win in the conference this season Sunday, they’ll have a chance to play the only team they’ve beaten in those games: Illinois.After losing to the Fighting Illini in the teams’ first meeting at Bloomington’s Assembly Hall last season 74-67, the Hoosiers traveled to Champaign, Ill., and knocked off Illinois 59-52, ending a nine-game conference losing streak very similar to the team’s losing ways this season.Since that win Feb. 10, 2011, Indiana has gone more than a year without a conference win. With only five games left in the regular season, IU must face two teams, Ohio State and Purdue, ranked in the top 25 in the country.Even with both teams in the bottom of the Big Ten in wins this season — Illinois stands at 2-9 in the Big Ten, just one spot ahead of the last-place Hoosiers — junior forward Aulani Sinclair said she and her teammates won’t get too hyped up about this game and will treat Illinois like any other conference opponent.“It’s just another Big Ten game,” Sinclair said. “We don’t overlook anyone or underlook anyone, we’ve just got to go out there and play. It doesn’t matter if they’re (in) the number one spot or right above us — we’ve just got to play every game like we know we can.”After this season’s 11 straight conference losses, Legette-Jack said some teams might throw in the towel, but she’s convinced that her players continue to give every game their all, down to the final seconds.“We’re always talking about life lessons and staying steadfast,” Legette-Jack said. “We’re going to be competitive because that’s who we are, but we can’t always predict the score. We certainly want to win, and we’re playing and practicing hard to win, but that’s just not happening right now.“Those who quit become losers, and you won’t find that anywhere in Indiana, especially not on the IU women’s basketball team.”Down the stretch, Legette-Jack’s players have, at times, let games get out of hand. After staying close through the first half in several of their conference losses — including a one-point lead at halftime against now-No. 10 Ohio State — the Hoosiers have gone on to lose seven Big Ten games this season by at least 15 points.But Legette-Jack said that when it comes down to it, her team isn’t concerned with getting a win on Sunday but simply improving in a few key areas. And if they do so, she thinks the wins will follow.“We don’t play for the win, we play for the journey of the success and the succession,” Legette-Jack said. “We’re trying to continue to fight hard on defense and improve our offense — trying to get better on the box out, make layups and free throws and take care of the ball. If we do that, we’ll have a better chance of having success, and the score will take care of itself.”
(02/07/12 4:34pm)
IU Coach Todd Yeagley announced Tuesday that Richard Ballard (Louisville, Ky./duPont Manual), Derek Creviston (Atlanta, Ga./Milton), Alex Hadley (Dayton, Ohio/Carroll/Cincinnati), Femi Hollinger-Janzen (Goshen, Ind./Bethany Christian), Zach Martin (Avon Lake, Ohio/St. Ignatius) and Andrew Oliver (Indianapolis, Ind./Southport) will join up in Bloomington next fall as the 2012 men's soccer class.
(02/06/12 3:31am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After staying toe-to-toe with the Iowa Hawkeyes (14-10, 6-5), the Indiana women’s basketball team (5-19, 0-11) again fell short in its conference matchup, losing 83-64 Sunday afternoon in Assembly Hall.IU, a nearly 32-percent 3-point shooting team during Big Ten games thus far this season, shot only 2-for-14 with junior forward Aulani Sinclair, one of the team’s best 3-point threats, failing to connect from behind the arc.“Just because you can shoot the ball from behind the arc doesn’t mean you can always do that,” IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack said. “If we hit those shots, we have an opportunity. They hit their shots, and it gave them some momentum, and we didn’t hit ours, and it took away some momentum from us.”After Iowa’s Melissa Dixon started the game with one of her five 3-pointers, IU started strong, going on an 8-2 run, including four points from junior guard Jasmine McGhee.Iowa then countered with a run of its own, scoring 12 of the game’s next 14 points to gain a seven-point lead. IU would pull within as close as just one point of the Hawkeyes before going into the locker room facing a four-point deficit, 35-31.The Hoosiers continued to stay close as they traded baskets with Iowa during the opening minutes of the second period. But with Iowa’s Dixon and Kamille Wahlin shooting well from behind the arc, a combined 8-for-19, the Hawkeyes were able to stretch out the Indiana defense and lengthen their lead.“Just knowing that 21 (Dixon) hit a couple threes in the first half kind of made us be cognizant of what Coach Jack had been saying in the previous days of practice about staying on the shooter,” junior center Sasha Chaplin said. “We would rather give up a two than a three, so we’d try to get out there as fast as possible and tried to defend the 3-point shot, but because of that, they were able to get inside.”Chaplin tried to battle her team back, scoring a season-high 20 points — including 12 points in the second half — but said her team continued to struggle with defending Iowa’s shooter.“At that point, we’re just trying to play basketball to the best of our ability,” Chaplin said. “Yeah, they’re up, but you have to keep playing how you know how to play basketball. But we kept not knowing where their shooters were, not knowing where 2 and 21 were while we were in transition defense, and we were helping inside too much and giving them the outside shot.”McGhee scored 14 points to go with eight rebounds, and sophomore forward Milika Taufa added eight, along with a team-high nine rebounds.Sophomore center Simone Deloach saw her first start of the season Sunday, scoring six points — her most since her first appearance of the season against Pittsburgh on Dec. 20.The Hoosiers will continue to look for their first Big Ten conference win of the season next Sunday, Feb. 12, when they play another home game against Illinois. The game will tip-off at 2 p.m. and will be broadcast on BTN.com.
(02/02/12 7:13pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Even with an 0-9 conference record, the IU women’s basketball team has had its chances.In both games against Northwestern, the Hoosiers were within as little as three points late in the second half before falling first by eight and then by seven points.Against Ohio State at Assembly Hall, one of the top teams in the Big Ten and the country, IU was up by one point going into halftime after leading in the first half by as many as eight points. The Buckeyes would go on to score the first 13 points of the second half and win by 18.On Thursday, IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack will take her squad to University Park, Pa., to take on Penn State in hopes of both breaking the team’s conference losing streak and building some confidence by winning games down the stretch — a feat they haven’t been able to accomplish in their recent several tries.“I think that we did a really good job at taking shots available to us, but I thought we could have attacked the basket more late in the Northwestern game,” Legette-Jack said. “All things are different, but under pressure (other teams) have come on and we backed off instead of attacking. They’re going to either win the game or take it away from us, but we’ve watched some film and learned that lesson.”In four of the Hoosiers’ last five games, dating back to their first game against Northwestern on Jan. 8, Indiana has been outscored more in the second half than the first half. Legette-Jack said a lack of focus handling the ball has hurt the Hoosiers down the stretch and prevented some late-game comebacks.“We’ve gone from 21 (turnovers) to 19 to 16 to 15, and if we can get that number to our goal, which is 11, I think we have a better chance if we can protect that ball a little bit more,” Legette-Jack said. “If we can keep the ball in our possession longer, we’ll have more opportunities to have success.”Three of IU’s last four games against Penn State have come down to a single-digit deficit, but if her team is close in the last few minutes Thursday, Legette-Jack said she already knows what to tell her players to keep them focused on the task at hand.“You’ve got to trust your gut and take a deep breath and push forward and try to make something happen,” Legette-Jack said. “Every game is a different scenario — we’re going to come up with different plays for different situations — but at the end of the day, it’s just about believing in what you’ve worked on and that your work ethic is just as good as the next person. Take a deep breath and attack.”The game will tipoff at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Bryce Jordan Center and will be broadcast on BTN.com.
(01/30/12 4:58am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With 47 seconds left in Sunday’s game at Northwestern, the IU women’s basketball team was down by only three points. The team’s first conference win this season was only a couple shots away.IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack said she had her team change its defensive strategy.“We were trying to defensively blitz them and make them go faster than they wanted to go,” Legette-Jack said. “But they have good players and kept their focus and their poise.”Northwestern forward Dannielle Diamant didn’t crack down the stretch, hitting all four of her final free-throw attempts en route to Indiana’s ninth-straight conference loss this season, 68-61. Another tough shooting day plagued the Hoosiers (5-17, 0-9), who shot 22-for-68 from the floor.It was junior forward Aulani Sinclair’s 3-pointer that got the Hoosiers on the board first after a slow start that included five missed shots in the opening two minutes.Both teams went on small runs of their own, with Northwestern (13-9, 3-6) holding as big as a 20-12 lead in the first half. IU stormed back to take a 30-29 lead with just a few minutes remaining, and the Hoosiers would go into the locker room down two, 34-32.The Wildcats scored the first nine points of the second half.IU trailed by as much as 12 in the second half, but powered by a Sinclair 3-pointer and five-straight points by junior center Sasha Chaplin, IU closed to within two, 52-50.Northwestern would then go on a 10-5 burst of its own, and the Hoosiers were never within more than three points the rest of the game.“You can’t give a team like Northwestern a lead because they aren’t going to relinquish it,” Legette-Jack said. “But we’ll continue to get better.”Legette-Jack said she saw huge improvements from Chaplin after the Hoosiers’ last game against Ohio State.“I think the kid (Chaplin) grew up today,” Legette-Jack said. “I think she came out and did some really aggressive things down the stretch.”Sinclair scored 11 points, including a 3-8 outing from behind the arc, and sophomore forward Milika Taufa was the fourth IU player in double-digit points with 10.The Hoosiers will try to keep from starting 0-10 in the Big Ten Thursday when they take on Penn State in University Park, Pa. The game will tipoff at 7 p.m. and will air on BTN.com.
(01/27/12 5:52am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Even with losses in the last eight games — all to Big Ten conference foes — the IU women’s basketball team has seen consistent scoring support from three juniors.The trio of forwards Sasha Chaplin and Aulani Sinclair and guard Jasmine McGhee have averaged almost 60 percent of the Hoosiers’ points during the last eight games.IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack said having three players share the scoring attack depends on how regularly they can contribute.“We have got to have them consistently,” Legette-Jack said.And even with her trio scoring threat, Legette-Jack has yet to see it lead to a conference “W”, and she said it’s going to take better defense to get over the hump and secure wins in conference play this season.“You can’t give up as many points as we have been,” Legette-Jack said. “With better defense, and if we make our free throws and get some layups, the game is different, and it changes the whole dynamic. The kids are relaxed, and there’s no sense of urgency.”On Sunday, the Hoosiers travel to Evanston, Ill., in hopes of securing that win.Indiana will face Northwestern in the teams’ second battle this season. The Wildcats prevailed in the first matchup this season, a 69-61 win Jan. 8 at Assembly Hall.The game was the closest IU has come to winning a Big Ten game this season. Poor second-half shooting (8-of-33 from the field) and 20 total turnovers were the only issues that kept IU from grabbing that elusive first conference victory.Both Sinclair and McGhee shone in the first matchup, scoring 17 and 14 points, respectively, as Sinclair led the team in points and McGhee tied for the team lead in rebounds with eight.Sinclair said she, along with her teammates, will listen to their coach and fill in whatever role they can to take down the Wildcats, who are 12-9 on the season and only 2-6 in Big Ten action.“I’m just trying to do whatever we need for us as a team to win,” Sinclair said. “If that means scoring, I’ll score, and if that means rebounding, I’ll rebound. I’m just here to do whatever Coach tells me to do.”The Hoosiers and the Wildcats will tip off at 3 p.m. Sunday, and the game will air on BTN.com.
(01/27/12 1:05am)
Starters for Indiana: Danilsa Andujar, Aulani Sinclair, Sasha Chaplin, Andrea Newbauer, Jasmine McGhee