IU goes 2-1 in Northwestern weekend series
IU (5-26, 1-5) appeared to be outmatched by No. 8 Northwestern (22-7, 8-0) going into Saturday’s doubleheader.
IU (5-26, 1-5) appeared to be outmatched by No. 8 Northwestern (22-7, 8-0) going into Saturday’s doubleheader.
The IU men’s track and field team proved they were the top squad this weekend by taking out recent indoor national champion Oregon to win the Pepsi Team Invitational in Eugene, Ore.
On a cold and rainy day last week, IU coach Tracy Smith paced back and forth on the diamond as his players looked on, eagerly awaiting the game-3 start of their first Big Ten series against Minnesota. The opposing dugout was empty. The umpire’s hands fought the wind as he announced the cancelation of the March 29 game.
Today is Tom Crean’s 370th day on the job as IU men’s basketball coach, which isn’t all that long – unless you consider the tenures of his immediate predecessors. Speaking by phone Thursday, the first-year coach reflected on his first full season in Bloomington, one that was perhaps more important for what it wasn’t – full of controversy – than what it was.
Kristi Hewitt of Wing It and David Richardson-Rossbach of Delta Upsilon claimed the title of Miss N' Out champion today.
Given the fallout from Sampson's messy exit from IU, he has accepted the idea that his exile from college basketball probably is permanent. So as he winds up his first year as an assistant to Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles, Sampson has a new goal in mind: To become a head coach in the NBA.
Miss N’ Out, a contest in the Little 500 spring series, is set to take place Saturday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. It is a heat-based elimination event in which riders make their way around the track, with the last rider of each lap after the warm-up falling out of the race until a certain number of riders remain.
Who’s the favorite to win this weekend’s Final Four? Well, you might have better luck throwing four eggs in a basket, drawing one and declaring that team the winner, because frankly, the 2009 edition of the NCAA men’s basketball championship is up for grabs.
A tough three-game road trip begins Friday for the IU baseball team, as the Hoosiers face conference-leading Illinois at 7:05 p.m. in Champaign, Ill.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Jay Cutler got his wish Thursday: a ticket out of Denver. And the Chicago Bears have a franchise quarterback for the first time in decades.
It's been one year since Tom Crean took the reigns of the IU men's basketball program following the Kelvin Sampson recruiting scandal.
Wing It rider Jaime Boswell injured her hip at today's Little 500 practice. Boswell was involved in a crash and was the only rider injured.
Wing It rider Jaime Boswell injured her leg at today's practice.
Wing It senior Kristi Hewitt set a new track record and the Cutters’ Eric Young posted the fastest men’s time.
The Hoosiers (5-24, 1-3) lost in the toughest fashion – via a walk-off home run in extra innings.
After his team’s 3-2 win against Minnesota last Saturday, junior catcher Josh Phegley said his biggest concern was a lack of early scoring in games. His teammates responded against Cincinnati on Wednesday night, as the Hoosiers scored five runs in the first inning en route to a 16-4 victory. The win was IU’s third in a row and brings their season record to 10-15.
Christian Watford looks like a basketball player. He’s 6-foot-8, weighs 215 pounds and some say he resembles a young Tracy McGrady. But looks alone didn’t net him a scholarship to play at IU, nor did they help the high school senior average 26 points, 15 rebounds and five assists per game this year for Shades Valley High School, located in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala.
Despite the grueling nature of Little 500 individual time trials, Wing It senior Kristi Hewitt set a new track record, and the Cutters’ Eric Young posted 2:18.25, the fastest men’s time since 2006 on Wednesday at Bill Armstrong Stadium.
INDIANAPOLIS — IU commit Jordan Hulls of unbeaten Class 4A champion Bloomington South heads The Associated Press All-State basketball team for 2009.