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(11/14/11 5:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For the first time since IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack has been in control, the IU women’s basketball team lost its regular season opener.IU fell to the Central Arkansas Sugar Bears, 58-46, Friday in Conway, Ark. The Hoosiers kept a 30-21 lead with 14:20 remaining in the game and won the rebounding battle 40-31, but it wasn’t enough in a match that featured four ties and nine lead changes.Junior center Sasha Chaplin had a strong performance to return from last year’s knee injury, leading the team in scoring with 13 and completing a double-double with 10 rebounds, her first since Dec. 22, 2009, versus Toledo and the fifth of her career. She also added two blocks and two steals.“It was great to Sasha (Chaplin) back out there and playing well,” Legette-Jack said.Two of the five newcomers started in their first game, junior forward Linda Rubene and junior guard Jasmine McGhee.McGhee made an impressive start to her Division I career by putting up 12 points and eight rebounds. For a team that usually likes to fire away behind the arc, the Hoosiers only attempted three triples and made one, all of which were by junior forward Aulani Sinclair.IU kept the Sugar Bears to just six field goals on 20.7 percent shooting in the first half, but Central Arkansas ended up with a field goal percentage of 36 after shooting 61.5 percent from long range and 57.1 percent overall in the second half.“We just let it slip away late in the second half in a tough road environment,” Legette-Jack said. “They hit some open outside shots and were able to size the momentum. We’ll get back in the gym this weekend and get some work in to be ready for Murray State at home on Monday.”IU will come home for its regular season opener at 7 p.m. Monday against Murray State at Assembly Hall.This game will be only the second meeting between the two schools. The first game was in 1980. Murray State won by a score of 71-56.The Racers finished last year with a 9-21 record overall and posting a 5-13 record for their conference. After defeating Evansville by 15 in their regular season opener, Murray State will be coming to Bloomington looking to start the year 2-0.If IU falls to the Racers, it will be the first time since the 2005-06 season that the Hoosiers open their season with two straight losses. The last time they did so, they lost to Baylor and Notre Dame.Height will be a strength for IU on Monday. The Hoosiers’ roster includes nine players at least 6 feet tall compared to only six for Murray State. The Racers’ tallest player is 6 feet 3 inches, while IU has five members of at least that height, including Chaplin and Rubene.Murray State has a high-pressure defense that forced Evansville into 31 turnovers in its first game, but Legette-Jack is already preparing for it. She tweeted Saturday that IU was getting ready for 40 minutes of pressure Monday. She ended the tweet by proclaiming, “We will b ready.”
(11/11/11 4:18am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s basketball team has never lost in a regular season opener in the past five years IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack has been in charge. The Hoosiers look to extend that streak to six as the weekend begins.IU will travel to Conway, Ark., to face Central Arkansas at 8 p.m. Friday to officially begin the 2011-12 season. The matchup will be the first ever meeting between the two schools.The Sugar Bears are relatively new to Division I play. They joined the same year Legette-Jack became head coach at IU, the 2006-07 season. The Sugar Bears went 21-11 overall and 11-5 in the Southland Conference. They lost in their conference championship game, leaving them one victory away from clinching an NCAA tournament berth.Central Arkansas returns all five starters and 10 players overall from last year’s roster, including junior forward Megan Herbert, who averaged 17.2 points and 10.6 rebounds per game last season while shooting a whopping 56.7 percent from the field. She has been awarded with a Southland preseason First-Team All-Conference selection for this season.The Hoosiers won their two exhibition games against St. Ambrose and Indianapolis by a combined 56 points, but those don’t count as official wins or losses.Despite forcing 60 total turnovers, Legette-Jack wants her squad’s defense to improve for Friday’s matchup.“Our transition defense and boxing out has to get better,” she said. “They’re a scrappy team. They run the floor very, very hard, and we’ve got to match their intensity and surpass it.”Legette-Jack hinted that the starters for Friday’s game should be sophomore guard Andrea Newbauer, junior guard Jasmine McGhee and junior forward Linda Rubene, and senior forwards Danilsa Andujar and Georgie Jones.“I think we’ve pretty much got our lineup right now,” she said. “We’re going to go with our senior leading group and match their senior leading group.”
(11/09/11 5:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s basketball team won Tuesday night in Assembly Hall versus the University of Indianapolis by a score of 50-47 for IU’s second victory in as many exhibition matches.The team’s first exhibition win was against St. Ambrose when they prevailed 92-39.The Hoosiers were outrebounded by UIndy 43-42 and committed 19 turnovers. Their shooting was also down this game, as they connected on 20 percent of their three-point attempts, 27.3 percent of free throws and 36.1 percent from the floor overall.While some might see this as a sloppy game, IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack said the main problem was not connecting on shots.“We shot the ball 55 times last game,” she said. “We shot 61 times tonight, and the ball doesn’t always want to go in. Those are the same shots we’ve made.”Senior forward Georgie Jones lead IU in scoring with 11 points on a perfect 5-5 shooting from the floor. She led the Hoosiers with 8 rebounds and provided several put-backs late in the game to help IU hang on for the victory.“Everything I do is just for the success of the team,” Jones said. “When I was out, I just begged to be put back in so I could get those critical rebounds. I was telling the other post players just to get in position to rebound, and that was the main thing we should have focused on, and to just be strong when we get the ball to look to score.”Another key contributor was freshman center Quaneisha McCurty. At 6-foot-6, she was at least five inches taller than anyone on the UIndy roster. She tallied eight points, six rebounds, four blocks and three steals in her first collegiate start. Two of those blocks came late in the second half when UIndy was trying to extend a one-point lead. The defensive stop led to a three from sophomore center Kristiana Stauere to put the Hoosiers back on top for good.“I was just kind of in the right place at the right time,” McCurty said. “Me and my teammates communicated well on the defensive end. I was just focusing on keeping my hands up and focusing on my timing.”IU will next face Central Arkansas on the road Friday in its first regular season match. While Legette-Jack is happy with a win, she said the women must play cleaner if they want to start the regular season with a win.“We’re going to have to get our rhythm again,” she said. “We played our first game with all that energy and all that time to prepare. We didn’t have rhythm tonight, but we had resiliency at the end.”
(11/03/11 4:01am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s basketball team will have to overcome the loss of four seniors, including the program’s eighth-leading scorer of all time, as it begins its season with an exhibition game against St. Ambrose at 7 p.m. today in Assembly Hall.“We’re going to try different things,” IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack said. “What you see on Thursday is not what you’re going to see on Tuesday. I’m trying to figure out who can start, who can finish, and who can play in the middle.”The lost seniors from last year’s squad are Jori Davis, Hope Elam, Whitney Lindsay, and Andrea McGuirt. They combined to supply IU with 68.7 percent of its points, 79.4 percent of assists, 77.9 percent of free throws, and 54.6 of minutes in the 2010-11 season.The remaining cast is a young one and the game will mark the beginning of a third year or more at IU for only three players.Despite IU’s lack of experience, senior forward Georgie Jones said she sees the glass as half-full.“I look at it more as fun,” she said. “I think a lot of the freshmen that came in kind of keep me motivated and energized because of their energy, and they’re so young. It gives me a chance to lead them more and give my two cents on some of the things I’ve experienced.”Legette-Jack said she has a plan to compensate for such a loss of production and experience. Rather than having a predetermined scorer, she said she wants her team to spread the ball as much as possible.“We don’t have a good go-to player, so if I’ve got the ball, I’ve got to really get myself a look and see if I’ve got an opportunity to score,” she said. “Do I have an opportunity to drive it? Do I have an opportunity to pass it? If we all have that mindset, I think we’re going to get a lot more fluidity in our offense, and the offense is what’s really hurt us. I thought we did a pretty good job defensively as a team.”Legette-Jack noted that her squad is already showing their youth in practice. The past few practices, she said she has been harder on them because she wants to prepare them for the game.“At the beginning, we were having a lot more fun,” she said. “Now everyone’s getting tight because the games are going to be taking place. Eventually, as we move forward and I get adamant like that, my hope is that they understand.”Legette-Jack said she knows growing pains come along with coaching so many young players, but she remains confident that eventually they’ll get past their learning curve starting Thursday.“It’s just a different team,” she said. “It’s always exciting, it’s always fresh, and there’s always good energy behind that.”
(10/25/11 12:40am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Hoosier Nation’s injury woes have been focused on junior Maurice Creek since the announcement of his third, season-ending injury in as many years. However, another Hoosier is going through a similar situation.IU junior Sasha Chaplin of the women’s basketball team is looking to come back for a strong 2011-12 season after missing a total of 61 games the past three years. Chaplin’s IU basketball career did not begin well. She was able to play in only the first eight games of her freshman campaign after hurting her knee, but qualified for a redshirt to extend her collegiate career.Her next season showed much more promise as she played in 20 games and started 16 of them. That season, Chaplin averaged seven rebounds, .95 blocks and .95 steals per game.Last year, Chaplin faced another setback. She missed the first 10 games of the season because of a toe injury. She then was able to play in only two games before hurting her other knee, forcing her to sit out the remainder of the year.So many injuries could easily discourage anyone, but Chaplin said she remains positive. She said she sees her struggle to stay healthy as a learning experience.“It just showed me to embrace every moment I have on the court and give it my all, regardless of the situation,” she said. “All these injuries have shown me to just enjoy every second you have on the court. You could be tired, you could be hurting, but this is the game that I love, so every moment I have I’ll be trying to embrace as much as possible.”While Chaplin acknowledged that the natural reaction when coming back from a serious injury is to turn the aggressiveness down a notch, she doesn’t intend to let up on the gas.“I’m trying not to have (an unaggressive) mindset in my mind as I’m playing,” she said. “I’m just trying to not worry about getting it hurt again, not worrying about being injured, just going out and playing basketball with my teammates and having fun.” Chaplin will indeed need to remain healthy and aggressive to help the Hoosiers this season. After losing four seniors who accounted for 68.7 percent of the team’s total points a year ago, Chaplin is one of four active players who have been at IU for at least three years.Her teammates know of her importance, whether it’s producing on the court or being a leader off it. “Once we can keep her healthy, it’s going to be a great thing,” senior guard Alisha Goodwin said. “She definitely has a lot to do with this team’s success, whether she’s on the court or off the court. Just her voice and her passion for the game is very important for this team.”IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack is trying to retain Chaplin’s value. With a roster full of depth in the frontcourt, Legette-Jack mentioned experimenting with moving Chaplin to the three spot, away from her normal center position, so that she doesn’t get beat up too much down low. “She’s an old lady now,” Legette-Jack said. “She can’t be battling every possession, so I don’t mind putting her at the three and letting her shoot some threes.”Legette-Jack also intends to limit Chaplin’s minutes to ease her back into the rotation. Regardless of where and how much Chaplin plays, Legette-Jack said she knows her junior guard is ready to go.“She’s not thinking about injuries,” Legette-Jack said. “She’s thinking about championships.”
(10/12/11 3:11am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Two more years simply weren’t enough for IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack. She wanted to keep the cream and crimson on for a little bit longer.IU Athletics Director Fred Glass announced in July that the women’s basketball head coach agreed to a contract extension for an additional two seasons.Legette-Jack’s original contract was scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2012-2013 season. The extension, however, will keep her at IU at least through the 2014-2015 school year.“I couldn’t be more pleased that Felisha has agreed to this new contract with its extended terms,” Glass said in a press release. “I have a high degree of confidence in her ability to succeed here, and I believe that this will simply be the first of many extensions we sign together.”In addition to a longer stay, the extension also raises Legette-Jack’s compensation. Each year, her base salary will be raised by $5,000, and she will receive an additional $5,000 per year for marketing income, the same as in her previous contract.Legette-Jack led the Hoosiers to a post-season birth in her first three years at IU and led the team to 21 wins in the 2008-2009 season. After compiling 14 and nine wins in her last two seasons, respectively, Legette-Jack said she believes that her added time will help build the program back up.“When you’re trying to change the culture and build that foundation, there’s going to be some valleys and there’s going to be some opportunities there for success,” Legette-Jack said. “It was real neat to know that we’re real serious about our women’s program, and our administration understands that it’s just going to take a while to change the culture. It’s on its way. ... The wins are going to come.”She said she is also excited for the potential recruiting power the extension brings.“I think the recruits really are into that, knowing that the person that recruited them is going to be their coach,” she said.Legette-Jack has also led her student athletes to off-court success. During her tenure as IU’s head coach, 21 of her players have received Academic All-Big Ten honors, including six last year. In 2009, Whitney Thomas won the Big Ten Medal of Honor, the first time an IU women’s basketball player has received it.“If you’re here for a day or two days, a year or ten, I think it’s your obligation as a leader to make certain that these student athletes recognize student is first,” Legette-Jack said.Despite her accomplishments, Legette-Jack said she is always looking to improve and hopes this opportunity allows her to continue growing. She said she knows even with an extension, nothing is guaranteed, so she must continue working hard while she is here.“If they don’t want me here, then I’ll walk away,” she said. “But in the meantime, I’ve got some work to do.”
(08/24/11 2:56am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Summer and the true off-season for IU women’s basketball are approaching their final hours as the team prepares for a new year. The past few months provided the Hoosiers time to rest and recover before the hard work of a new season begins. The dormant summer season didn’t keep the team from making headlines, however. Here are some summer highlights, followed by IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack’s thoughts on them:May 19 – The team announced they will face Virginia in Big Ten/ACC Challenge. “What another great opportunity to showcase the talent of the Big Ten Conference. We are very excited to be a part of this challenge again.“We will face a tough Virginia squad who played well at home last season, but hopefully we can repeat what we did last year on the road in our challenge game.”May 31 – The team announced their participation in the Caribbean Classic Dec. 20 through 21.“We are thrilled to be going to Cancun to play some unbelievable competition in Pittsburgh and Colorado State. Our young ladies play over the course of two semesters, and it is really neat to extend an opportunity for them to play in great weather at a beautiful resort during winter break.“We are excited, thrilled and humbled by this opportunity that our administration is allowing us to partake in.”June 1 – Former IU forward Whitney Thomas is hired as an assistant coach.“The family atmosphere is very important to the growth of our program and building that foundation, and bringing Whitney back in a full capacity as an assistant coach is a tremendous get. We are excited that Whitney will be a part of this program moving forward, and I think the Hoosier Nation is going to see that we are committed to keeping our Hoosiers home in every capacity that we can.“So we are thrilled that Whitney will continue to be a part of our Hoosier family.”June 27 – Former six-year Tulsa coach and Auburn University player Charlene Thomas-Swinson is hired as an assistant coach.“We’re excited to have someone of Charlene Thomas-Swinson’s caliber. She played and coached the game at the highest level, coached in the SEC, coached in the Big East and Conference USA.“And now, having her in the Big Ten is a slam dunk. We’d like to welcome her family to Bloomington, and she is a perfect addition to our women’s basketball family.”July 14 – The team announced they will face Oklahoma State in Big 12/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge.“This is another great opportunity for our program to compete at the highest level. It gives our team, as well as everyone in the conference, a chance to showcase the talent the Big Ten has on a national stage.”July 26 – Legette-Jack signed a two-year contract extension through 2015.“I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to be the head women’s basketball coach at Indiana University for five years now, and I’m excited to be able to continue that journey leading this program.“Hoosier Nation has embraced my family, and I can’t wait to keep building this program with student athletes that represent Indiana with great character, who are excellent academically and bring excitement to the basketball court to create a winning tradition.”Aug. 3 – Wittenberg University graduate Jimmy Colloton, who served as a four-year student assistant coach, is hired as a graduate assistant.“I am thrilled that Jimmy has joined our Hoosier family. After meeting him the first day, he just seemed like a great fit for our staff. He is hungry to learn and is very humble and willing to do whatever he can to help us get better.“His last coach, whom I have great respect for, thinks he is one of the hardest workers he has encountered. We welcome Jimmy to Bloomington with open arms.”
(04/12/11 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After 20 years, IU physicist Charles Horowitz has been recognized for his anonymous yet crucial work in the world of physics.The American Physical Society has awarded Horowitz with a lifetime award as an Outstanding Referee for his work with peer-written manuscripts.“I was glad they chose to recognize my time spent writing referee reports,” Horowitz said of his achievement. “Good referee reports are important for the scientific field.”Horowitz, a professor in IU’s physics department and researcher at the Nuclear Theory Center at IU’s Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, regularly edits manuscripts sent to the APS by other physicists. It is his job to check the accuracy and overall quality of the work. He also helps decide what journals the manuscripts should be published in or whether it should be published at all. After the manuscript is edited, it is sent back to the original author who never knows who the referee is.“That’s got pluses and minuses,” said Herb Fertig, a fellow IU physicist who previously won the same award. “It gives the referees freedom to say very honestly what they think, but it also means that people who might not want to spend that much time on it might not do such a good job. In a way it’s also thankless. When you’re an anonymous referee, if you’re doing a good job nobody would know. This is a way to let the community know that there are some people out there trying a little harder.”The award is not very easy to come by. Only 143 out of 45,000 active APS referees from 22 different countries were selected to receive the lifetime honor.The APS selects the recipients based on quality, number and timeliness of the reports with no regard to country of origin or field of research.“The selection of Outstanding Referees was made based on over two decades of database records on over 50,000 referees, some no longer in active service, who have been called upon to review manuscripts,” Amy Halsted of the APS said, according to the press release. “These referees are to be congratulated and thanked for their outstanding service to the physics community.”It might have taken a couple of decades, but even the most anonymous of work has gained its proper international recognition.
(04/04/11 1:41am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>While first place is sweeter than second, IU rowing coach Steve Peterson was more than satisfied with the taste of a second-place finish after the team was host to its third annual Dale England Cup on Friday and Saturday.Following a first-place finish in last year’s cup, IU finished second to nationally ranked Michigan State’s 120 points with a total of 100 while beating out Boston University and Gonzaga’s 78 and 62, respectively.“Going into it, we knew Michigan State was going to be the biggest challenge,” Peterson said. “They’re top 10 in the country and arguably the best in the Big Ten. They swept us, but we were really close to them in all of the races, which is by far the best Indiana has ever done against Michigan State or a nationally ranked opponent.”IU was matched against Gonzaga in Friday’s session, Boston in Saturday morning’s and Michigan State for Saturday afternoon. After a strong performance of sweeping both Gonzaga and Boston, IU found itself tied with Michigan State for first place heading into the final session. It could not hold on to defend its 2010 title, however, after Michigan State pulled away in a series of competitive contests. The race with the highest point value featured IU’s first Varsity 8 team, which was recently named Big Ten Boat of the Week. The race ended as one of the closest in the entire event with Michigan State winning by a mere 4.1 seconds.Peterson said the second half of the race is where his team must improve the most to become a stronger unit. “The first half of the race we’ve kind of got mapped out in how we want to do it,” he said. “But in general the next phase we need to work on is becoming more aggressive through the second half of the race and definitely the sprinting at the end.”Ultimately, Peterson said the cup’s results gave his squad optimism and confidence as it prepares for more competitions and the Big Ten battle at the end of the year. “That’s going to continue to prepare us better and better as we move toward the Big Ten,” he said. “We’ve got good competition over the next few weeks, and I think it’s going to help us develop and prepare.”