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IU, Minnesota hold on to tourney hopes with today's bubble-busting game

By John Rodgers · Friday, March 11,2005 1:07 a.m.

While the IU men's basketball team currently sits atop the NCAA Tournament's bubble, many Hoosier fans and some college basketball analysts predict that a win against Minnesota would get the Hoosiers into the Tournament.

'Small but mighty' squad travels to Purdue's pool for NCAA Championships

By Doug Klausen · Friday, March 11,2005 1:05 a.m.

Of the 22 women on the roster, five swimmers and four divers will carry this year's team motto of "small but mighty" to the NCAA Championships in West Lafayette. The Hoosiers will bring to the stage junior Kristen Bradley, junior Doherty Colgin, sophomore Annica Lofstedt, senior Erin Smith, sophomore Leila Vaziri and four divers yet to be determined.

Hoosiers lose in close match to No. 20 Texas Christian

By Andy Romey · Friday, March 11,2005 1:03 a.m.

The final score was 5-2 in favor of No. 20 Texas Christian University Thursday afternoon at the IU Varsity Tennis Center, but scores don't always tell the whole story. This was the case for the No. 27 Hoosiers.

Trying to find the spirit in St. Louis

By Andrew Petersen · Friday, March 11,2005 1:01 a.m.

Beginning Thursday, fifth-year senior Pat DeGain will step out into the circle, his fiancée and family watching from the stands, and try to outlast the toughest heavyweight competition in the country. Once the NCAA Championships for wrestling are all over, he will become just another student on campus.

Rubber match

By John Rodgers · Friday, March 11,2005 12:58 a.m.

IU coach Mike Davis and Minnesota coach Dan Monson are the managers. Bracey Wright and Vincent Grier are the teams' aces. D.J. White and Jeff Hagan are the big clean-up batters. Minnesota has beaten IU once. IU has beaten Minnesota once.

IU students bring 'Madness' to the Web

By John Wustrow · Friday, March 11,2005 12:58 a.m.

The NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket will be announced Sunday, and teams across the country will be crossing their fingers. Millions of Americans submitting their brackets into various pools will inevitably follow this Monday.

Wilson leads fleet of 5 Hoosiers to NCAAs

By Rob DeWitte and Rob eWitte · Friday, March 11,2005 12:56 a.m.

Typically, an NCAA title is won by a team with a large number of athletes entered in various events, including relays. Every once in awhile, a team comes along with the potential to win on the strength of just a few athletes. This year, the Hoosiers are that team. With just five athletes entered, IU is one of four teams with a chance to take this year's team title.

Will you read this?

By Matt Glenesk · Friday, March 11,2005 12:53 a.m.

Today's pre-spring break paper ranks as the equivalent of the journalism world's neglected ugly duckling. With thousands of IU students flocking to regions far away ranging from Uruguay to Park City, Utah, the pre-spring break paper sits in the newsstand yearning to be read.

Team grabs its blades, ready for Clemson opener

By Bill Meehan · Friday, March 11,2005 12:26 a.m.

IU crew was cheerfully afloat when the fall season ended. A win against Notre Dame, Michigan and Northwestern while sharing a bronze medal with Purdue in October was IU's best-ever performance. The Hoosiers, still buoyant and full of muscular enthusiasm, are raring to go this spring. They said they know they are faster, stronger and smarter.

10-run lead not enough to ensure IU win

By Andrew Shaffer · Friday, March 11,2005 12:25 a.m.

At the end of the fifth inning, the Hoosiers had a 10-run lead over the Butler Bulldogs. Three innings and 11 unanswered runs later, IU found itself down by one to its instate rival. That is how the score remained as the Bulldogs, with a nine-run sixth inning, came back and defeated IU Thursday at Sembower Field.

IU looks to shut down top offenses, heads out west

By Kevin Dwire · Friday, March 11,2005 12:24 a.m.

The IU softball team will see some of its toughest action of the season as the team heads to California for a week-long trip that will match the Hoosiers against some of the nation's top teams.

Hoosiers optimistic for tournament debut

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Friday, March 11,2005 12:23 a.m.

Despite a slow start to the spring campaign, the Hoosiers will head west to Las Vegas to make their University of Nevada-Las Vegas Spring Invitational debut with not only their golf clubs, but also a positive attitude and optimistic outlook for the tournament.

All-American senior leads team to nationals

By Evan Harris · Friday, March 11,2005 12:20 a.m.

While awaiting a contingent of IU divers for the NCAA Championships, the other half of the 13th best team in the country might be the biggest cheerleaders this weekend. No squad in the nation understands the importance of its springboard counterparts than the IU swimmers.

Being a public panelist

By George Lyle IV · Friday, March 11,2005 12:16 a.m.

When college-age men put on their nice cargo pants and tuck in their button-ups, they're either going to a job interview or owning up to a problem. Yesterday, our Editor in Chief Josh Sanburn and columnist Warren Christopher Freiberg wore their cargos and button-ups to a panel sponsored by the Ashton and Wright Quad Community Educators.

Gall stands tall as IU's lone women's track competitor

By John Fischer · Friday, March 11,2005 12:15 a.m.

If one is the loneliest number, then Jessica Gall is the loneliest athlete. The junior distance runner will be IU's only representative at the 2005 edition of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships today at the University of Arkansas. And she's pumped.

Project teaches future educators about diversity

By Alyssa Reed · Friday, March 11,2005 12:14 a.m.

The student-teaching requirement challenges all education majors to tackle the daunting classroom environment, but some IU students are adding to the challenge by choosing a culturally diverse setting for their student teaching.

AIs: resourceful, yet crux of complaints

By Chelsea McDonnaugh · Friday, March 11,2005 12:13 a.m.

Some students see Associate Instructors as discussion leaders, paper graders and a waste of their tuition, while other students and faculty view AIs as an asset to the educational process at IU. No matter which stance a person takes, there is no doubt that AIs are a crucial part of the University.

47 killed in mosque bombing

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, March 10,2005 11:56 p.m.

MOSUL, Iraq -- A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shiite mosque during a funeral Thursday, killing 47 people, an attack that came as Iraq's main Shiite party and a Kurdish bloc said they reached a deal that sets the stage for a new government to be formed.

Around The state

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, March 10,2005 11:49 p.m.

Vigo County limits sale of cold medicine used to make meth TERRE HAUTE -- Authorities say merchants have been cooperative in the first weeks of a new Vigo County ordinance aimed at limiting the sales of cold medicines that can be used to make methamphetamine.

Spoiled milk

By Joanna Borns · Thursday, March 10,2005 11:45 p.m.

I've always gotten the impression that if you don't drink enough milk, you will die. When I was growing up, drinking milk was just as important as staying in school. Not drinking enough milk was worse than selling yourself into prostitution or smoking crack-cocaine. Milk was ambrosia. It made you immortal. If you didn't consume the recommended three 8 oz. glasses per day, you were doomed to develop osteoporosis by the age of 12. And you would be short.