COLUMN: IU routs Savannah State, as it should have
It was pretty much what we expected out of Saturday’s game between IU and Savannah State. The Hoosiers earned a comfortable win with a final score of 95-49 in Assembly Hall on ?Saturday.
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It was pretty much what we expected out of Saturday’s game between IU and Savannah State. The Hoosiers earned a comfortable win with a final score of 95-49 in Assembly Hall on ?Saturday.
The IU men’s basketball team will briefly return to take a bite of the cupcake portion of its preseason schedule when it plays Savannah State on Saturday. Before previewing the Tigers, let’s look back at IU’s performance against Pittsburgh.
Much has been made of the importance of IU junior forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea’s role on this year’s team. IU’s only post player with any experience has to learn to control the paint and consistently alter shots.
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The IU women’s basketball team was handed its first loss of the season Sunday in Assembly Hall when the Indiana State Sycamores defeated the Hoosiers 65-61 in overtime.
The IU women’s basketball team defeated Morehead State in Assembly Hall on Friday night 98-57. The Hoosiers are now 3-0 on the season and averaging 98 points per game.
The IU women’s basketball team will seek its third win when it hosts Morehead State at 7 p.m. Friday in Assembly Hall.
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The game was over after five minutes.
IU Coach Teri Moren could net her first career victory for IU in Assembly Hall on Saturday, but that isn’t the only milestone she can achieve.
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IU Coach Teri Moren stepped into her job Aug. 7 this year.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team concluded its season Sunday by placing eighth in the Big Ten Tournament at the Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick Resort. The Hoosiers trailed the tournament winner, Minnesota, by 29 strokes by the end of the final round. IU Coach Mike Mayer said he was disappointed in the result, but that it was a good learning experience for the team.“We knew we were lacking strength going in to it,” Mayer said. “We only had one guy with experience here so I’m not too surprised we finished eighth.”The top performer for IU was junior Nicholas Grubnich, who tied for seventh with scores of 76-79-74-70 for a total of 299, 11 over par. Mayer said the most impressive of those scores was Grubnich’s two over par score in the third round despite fighting what Mayer called the worst collegiate golf conditions he’d ever seen.“There were 30 mile-per-hour winds all day,” Mayer said. “It was a battle the whole way through, and I guess the golf course won that battle for most guys.”Grubnich’s score in the third round was tied for the fourth-best in the field. “It’s funny because normally wind conditions are not kind to him,” Mayer said. “But we talked to him about keeping it in front of him and doing what the golf course allows him to do and he did just that.”Grubnich also said the key to that round was not trying to do too much.“It was so windy, you could barely stand up on the greens,” Grubnich said. “I just kept telling myself to keep it in the fairway and that pars would go a long way in that round.”Grubnich said despite being disappointed in the team’s overall finish, his own performance was at least some consolation. “Obviously I want the team to come first,” Grubnich said. “But it eases the pain slightly knowing that I did well. It gives a little confidence for me moving in to next season.”The next best scores for the Hoosiers came from the team’s two seniors, David Mills and Hugo Menendez. Both tied for 31st with totals of 306 during the course of the tournament.Mayer said Mills was battling more than just the rest of the Big Ten when he hit the links this weekend.“No excuses but David had to fight a bad case of bronchitis that really affected his game,” said. “I haven’t hid the fact that we’re only going to be as good as David is for us. I don’t mean to throw it all on him, but we knew if we wanted to have a great tournament, we needed him to perform.”Sophomore Max Kollin tied for 41st overall with a final tally of 308 strokes. Freshman Will Seger tied for 53rd with a 317. Besides Mills, no Hoosier golfer had any experience in the Big Ten Championship.The team won’t qualify for a regional this year, but Mayer said the season was beneficial for a young team. Grubnich said he’s already looking forward to what the team will do next year.“I thought it was a good learning year for us,” Grubnich said. “We lost a lot last year so there were some big shoes to fill. It was nice to see some of the younger guys step up, and I’m looking forward to seeing what we can accomplish next year.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>David Mills is not done with collegiate golf yet. The senior will compete in his final Big Ten Championship this weekend, where he hopes to win the tournament that has intrigued him his whole career at IU.Mills has competed in every tournament since first arriving on campus in 2010, an accomplishment few players under IU Coach Mike Mayer have done. But Mills’ Hoosier golfing experience started long before that.Ranked the top Indiana junior golfer in his class, Mills was on Mayer’s radar before even starting high school.“I went to a camp in Bloomington as a little kid and that’s where we first met,” Mills said. “He really started recruiting me in eighth grade when I would play tournaments at the course here all the time.”Mayer said the reason he was drawn to Mills was his passion for the game.“There was something different about him than most recruits,” Mayer said. “I could just sense and tell that he wanted to play. I can’t sense that in everybody but I sure sensed it very early on in David Mills.”When the time to make a college decision came, Mills said he knew IU was the place for him. He had seen what Mayer did with IU golf legend Jeff Overton, who went to the same high school as Mills. Mills viewed IU as a place he could further develop his golf game.He marched through his freshman year with the second-lowest freshman scoring average in school history.“After David’s freshman year I knew I had somebody who was determined, passionate and talented,” Mayer said. “I had somebody who wanted to do it all.”However, when it came time for his first Big Ten Championship, Mills struggled. A strong finish of 73 was too late to recover from opening rounds of 78-80-80. IU finished fifth.But Mills was still young, and the team was returning its top five players the next year. Another successful season saw Mills lower his scoring average and post five top-10 finishes. It was once again time for the Big Ten Championship, and the Hoosiers were ready. The tournament would be at the French Lick Resort’s Pete Dye Course, a course Mills was familiar with.After three rounds, the Hoosiers were seven strokes back of tournament leader Illinois. IU then shot the lowest round of the tournament by any team. But, it wasn’t enough. Illinois held off the Hoosiers and won by three strokes.“We nearly pulled off a miraculous comeback,” Mayer said.Mills finished fourth. And at one point, IU was up by four shots, only to see the lead slip away.“It was heartbreaking,” Mills said. “To come up just a little bit short is hard, but it was a huge team effort. I felt like that was a point in time where I played my best though, and I really enjoyed it.”Mills was named First Team All-Big Ten after that season, and his finish in the conference championship earned him a place on the All-Championship Team.Heading into Mills’ junior year, expectations were high for the now-seasoned golfer. Mills still played in every tournament for the Hoosiers, but he took a step back in scoring average over the course of the season.When it came time to return to French Lick for the Big Ten Championship, Mills was eager to succeed. Mills shot consistent rounds of 74-74-74-73 (295) to lead the team and tie for eighth individually. But it still wasn’t enough. IU’s supporting cast just wasn’t strong enough to keep up with the Big Ten leaders, and they finished in a tie for fourth.When his senior season began, Mills said he saw himself as a leader of an inexperienced Hoosier team. Entering the year, he had played more collegiate rounds than the rest of the team combined.But Mills learned just because the team hadn’t proved itself, didn’t mean the players needed his guidance.“I just don’t think they need too much leadership,” Mills said. “They all know what they’re doing out there and don’t need a kick in the butt too often.”Each golfer on the team has shown the ability to shoot low rounds, just not together. When freshman Andrew Havill tied for seventh at the Snowman Getaway in February, the rest of the team struggled. The same goes for freshman Will Seger at the Boilermaker Invitational two weekends ago. While he tied for 11th, three other IU golfers finished ranked in the fifties or worse individually.“That’s something we’ve definitely been lacking this season,” Seger said. “I think we’ll be ready this time, and we can count on all five guys instead of just two or three.”During the Big Ten tournament this weekend, the Hoosiers have more at stake this time as well. “As it is right now, we’re not going to make regionals unless we win this tournament,” Seger said. “So our goal is definitely to win the tournament.”Mills has proven he’s capable of excelling in the Big Ten Tournament, and he’ll be asked to do that one more time this weekend.“For David to have the kind of career he’s had is already a hell of an accomplishment,” Mayer said. “This weekend, we need him one more time. And I think he can do it. He likes the golf course, he believes in the golf course. I think he can win this championship.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team is in a win-or-go-home situation this weekend, as the Hoosiers compete in the Big Ten Championship at the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort in French Lick, Ind.The Hoosiers did not post a strong enough regular season to qualify for regionals and will have to win their conference championship to earn a postseason berth.“As it stands right now, we’re not going to make regionals unless we go out and win this tournament,” freshman Will Seger said. “So that’s our expectation, that’s our goal.”The four-round tournament will feature each of the Big Ten teams competing at the Pete Dye Course May 2-4. Senior David Mills will spearhead the attack as the only Hoosier with Big Ten Championship experience.The other four golfers in the lineup are sophomore Max Kollin, Seger, junior Nicholas Grubnich and senior Hugo Menendez.Mills has historically played well at both the French Lick Resort course and in the Big Ten Championship. He finished individually in the top 10 the last two years, fourth in 2012 and tied for eighth in 2013. “This golf course fits him,” IU Coach Mike Mayer said. “He needs to focus every shot of the tournament, which is easy to say, but hard to do. If he can keep that gas pedal pushed down, I think he can win this championship.”Kollin and Seger have been two of the more consistent golfers on the team all year.The biggest surprise in the lineup is Menendez, who has only played in the Hoosier starting five once, at Northern Intercollegiate, but has improved steadily during the course of the year.Mayer said he believes Menendez’s experience will pay dividends for the Hoosiers at the Big Ten Championships.“Hugo is a senior and has a lot of experience,” Mayer said. “He’s been on the cusp this year and did really well in the first couple rounds of a couple different tournaments. He might give us a round we don’t like, but he also has the ability to give us that spark we may need.”Mayer and Seger said the two biggest obstacles the team has faced all year have been the lack of a low score to carry the team and a strong fourth score to keep the numbers consistent.“Two things we’ve been missing this year is we’ve been missing a fourth scorer, and we haven’t really had a real low round that we’ve been able to count on,” Seger said. “But, I think everybody will be ready for this tournament and we’ll be able to count on all five guys instead of just two or three.”The Hoosiers have historically been successful the past two years at the course, finishing second in 2012 and tied for fourth in 2013. But the Hoosiers enter this tournament as heavy underdogs in a strong Big Ten conference.“To beat all these good teams at the same time may take a herculean effort, but we’ll see if we have that effort in us,” Mayer said. “We’re in a situation where we don’t have much to lose right now so hopefully we can free-wheel a little and have some fun.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team struggled to find a rhythm in a talented field at the Boilermaker Invitational in West Lafayette this weekend. They finished in a tie for ninth place out of 15 teams.The invitational included seven Big Ten teams competing against each other just two weeks before the Big Ten Championship.IU hovered around the middle of the pack all weekend. After the first round, they sat in a tie for 10th. But by the end of the second round, they had moved up to a tie for eighth. At the end of the tournament, they were in a tie with Michigan State for ninth place.“I don’t think we played our best,” IU Coach Mike Mayer said. “We have to start getting all our guys going at the same time if we want to contend.”Freshman Will Seger was the top golfer of the weekend for IU. His scores of 73-71-74 totaled a 218 (+2) and placed him 11th place individually.“I played pretty well all weekend,” Seger said. “I can definitely build on this, and I think I’ve made some improvements in the last few tournaments.”Seger started Sunday’s final round tied for fifth and was sitting at -1 overall through 51 holes. But he splashed a shot into a water hazard, resulting in a triple bogey on the par-3 which set him back. He finished the round at +2.“I just have to be more cautious, I guess,” Seger said.Mayer said Seger worked hard for the team, and his teammates don’t look at him as a freshman anymore.“It’s the end of his freshman year, and he’s seen action in every tournament,” Mayer said. “He’s very mature, and I would not be at all surprised if he was a big time factor in two weeks.”After Seger, sophomore Max Kollin’s rounds of 73-75-72 netted a +4 at 220. That score tied him with five other players for 16th place.“I felt like I played pretty solid, for the most part,” Kollin said. “I got away with a couple shots, and I hit some that didn’t turn out fantastic. I feel like it all balances out in the end.”The other three Hoosier golfers, senior David Mills and juniors Andrew Fogg and Nicholas Grubnich, were less consistent. Mills, normally IU’s top golfer, could not come back from a rough start. His scores of 78-75-75 totaled an uncharacteristic 228 (+12). Mills tied for 52rd in the tournament.“David has been fighting through some issues lately,” Mayer said. “And he’s so close to breaking through. It’s frustrating. He’s so close.”Fogg and Grubnich finished tied for 65th and 76th, respectively. Grubnich started hot and was -2 through his first nine holes of the tournament, but fell away and finished the round at +5 and the tournament at +22.The Hoosiers next hit the links in two weeks for the Big Ten Championship in French Lick, Ind. Mayer said the team will use the week off to focus on fundamentals.“We made some mistakes we haven’t been making this tournament,” Mayer said. “We saw some fundamental mistakes, and we’re not a strong enough team to make fundamental mistakes. So we have some things to work on.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team will travel to West Lafayette for this weekend’s Boilermaker Invitational, its last regular season tournament.Fresh off their first win of the season in their home tournament last weekend, IU Coach Mike Mayer said the team has been steadily improving the last several weeks.“I think we’re definitely moving in the right direction,” Mayer said. “We’re playing better, but golf is a fickle sport, so we’ll see.”The Hoosiers will start the same five golfers they used last week. Senior David Mills, sophomore Max Kollin, freshman Will Seger and juniors Nicholas Grubnich and Andrew Fogg form the lineup. Mills is coming off his best finish of the season, a tie for second, and Mayer said he is firmly secure in the number one spot in the lineup.Just as he did in the NYX Hoosier Invitational, Kollin will golf from the second position. He said the team finally showed what they can do last weekend.“I feel like we have a lot of confidence moving forward,” Kollin said. “We finally put together three solid rounds back to back.”Seger, Grubnich and Fogg round out IU’s top five. They tied for third, tied for fifth and tied for 19th last week, respectively.One team that lineup will try to beat is the host school, Purdue. While Grubnich and Kollin said the instate rivalry is extra motivation for the Hoosiers, Mayer said he doesn’t worry as much about his competition.“I like to beat everybody,” Mayer said. “It’s irrelevant for me whether it’s Purdue or anybody else. We just have to do what we have to do. We have to take care of ourselves first and foremost.”The Boilermakers won’t be the only familiar face in West Lafayette. With seven Big Ten teams competing this weekend, Grubnich said the tournament will be a good lead into the Big Ten Championship in French Lick, Ind., in two weeks.“It should be a good little preview,” Grubnich said. “The Purdue course as well as the French Lick course are designed by Pete Dye, and they are very similar.”The Hoosiers will have to perform well this weekend and in the Big Ten Championship if they hope to make the postseason this year.No IU men’s golf team has missed the NCAA Tournament since 2007, a six-year stretch of postseason appearances. Mayer said his team’s performance in the 2013-14 season has put that streak in jeopardy, though he sees opportunity to bolster the Hoosiers’ resume. “We’ve kind of put ourselves behind the eight ball,” Mayer said. “But this is a tough tournament with a tough field, and it’ll give us an opportunity to move up in the rankings. If we do well these next few weeks, I think we got a good shot of getting in.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team secured its first victory of the season this weekend in the NYX Hoosier Invitational on the IU Championship Golf Course. The Hoosiers won the tournament for the second consecutive year.IU was a shot back of Michigan going into Sunday’s final round but ran away from the field to win by 12 strokes. Its combined score of 853 (+1) is the lowest of the season for IU.“We accomplished what we wanted and just did it out there today,” IU Coach Mike Mayer said. “We played well today, and we knew if we played well we’d be damn hard to beat.”Mayer said the key to victory this weekend was limiting mistakes. The Hoosiers played consistently well across the board — the highest score counted against IU’s total was a 74 (+3).“I think we continue to get better,” he said. “We’re improving on little things. We’re not making as many basic mistakes, and we did a good job of that this tournament. We’re going to see if we can take that momentum going forward.”All five Hoosier golfers placed in the top 20, and four of them finished in the top 10. Senior David Mills led the team and was the individual runner-up after shooting rounds of 70-70-71 for a tournament total of 211 (-2). It was Mills’ best finish of the year.“It feels great to get a team win, first off,” he said. “Individually, I’m a little disappointed I couldn’t get the win, but second place is a good finish in this field.”Freshman Will Seger finished two strokes back of Mills with rounds of 70-72-71 to finish at 213 (E) and earn a share of third place. He said the good performance by the rest of the team helped him golf well this weekend.“We kept our foot on the gas all day,” Seger said. “You have to be accountable for your score and know that everyone else is counting on you. It also helps to know that someone has your back if you slip up.”He said this season the team has had three good scores and two that were iffy, but the Hoosiers fixed that problem this tournament.Junior Nicholas Grubnich also shot his best score of the season, propelled by a first round 69. He followed that with a 73 and 72 in the other rounds to wind up with a 214 (+1) and tied for fifth.“What is gratifying is that we threw out a score of 73 today,” Mayer said. “And that means everybody’s in the equation. And that’s what enabled us to win.”The other Hoosier golfers included sophomore Max Kollin and junior Andrew Fogg. Kollin finished with a 216 (+3) and tied for ninth, while Fogg shot a 220, earning him a share of 19th place.“We needed this win,” Mayer said. “It’s hard to win a college tournament. Everything has to be going right for you. We needed this win, and it’s extremely gratifying.”Next weekend the Hoosiers will travel to West Lafayette for the Boilermaker Invitational. Seger said the team will try to carry the momentum from this win into tournaments moving forward.“I feel like this could kind of start something here,” Seger said. “I think we can make a run to finish the season.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>On a weekend during which the country’s golf fans are focused on the Master’s Golf Tournament, the IU men’s golf team won’t be idle. The Hoosiers will be host to the NYX Hoosier Invitational this weekend on the IU Championship Golf Course.IU won the tournament last year and will attempt to defend its title with two rounds Saturday and a final round the next day.IU Coach Mike Mayer’s teams have won a tournament in every season since the 2003-04 campaign. The Hoosiers have yet to take a title this year, but Mayer said this is a tournament they can expect to win.“It’s a little better field than last year,” he said. “But this is our home turf, our home ground. If we play the way we are capable of playing, I think we will win again.”IU junior Andrew Fogg said it’s important to the team to keep Mayer’s streak alive.“We need to at least win our home tournament,” Fogg said. “I think this tournament sets up really well for us to win. If we go out there and play well, we should be able to come away with a trophy.”Fogg won the individual title at this tournament while competing as an individual last year by posting a career-best 208. He cracked the top five for this year’s tournament, so his rounds will contribute to the team’s score.“Regardless of whether I’m in there, I’m just going to go out there and do what I did last year,” Fogg said. “Last year it kind of propelled me for the rest of the year and in to the postseason.”Each Hoosier golfer will compete this weekend. Five of them will contribute to the team score while the other three will play as individuals.IU’s top five will be senior David Mills, sophomore Max Kollin, freshman Will Seger, junior Nicholas Grubnich and junior Andrew Fogg.Those golfers also competed last week at the Irish Creek Collegiate in Kannapolis, N.C. As a team, the Hoosiers improved each round, moving up on teams after the second and final rounds of the tournament. “It’s been a long spring and a tough spring weather-wise but I see this team getting a little better and a little better,” Mayer said. “And obviously we want to peak at the right time and that’s the Big Ten Championship.”He said he positioned this tournament at this point in the schedule with purpose. It gives IU an opportunity to win a tournament near the end of the year with the postseason bearing down on them.“It’s moving back to the Midwest too,” Mayer said. “We’ve been south, we’ve been west, but at the end of the schedule here, we move back closer to home. And I think that’s going to help us compete because I want this one as bad as I’ve wanted anything.”