Women forget past, focus on future skills
Thursday night, IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack and her players will travel to East Lansing, Mich., to try to end their conference losing streak against the team that started it.
Thursday night, IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack and her players will travel to East Lansing, Mich., to try to end their conference losing streak against the team that started it.
After a loss Sunday at home to conference foe Northwestern, the IU women’s basketball team now stands at 5-12, including a 0-4 start in the Big Ten. But even with only two wins thus far in Assembly Hall, the Hoosiers do seem to show an advantage when playing on Branch McCracken Court. They’ve won by almost six more points when in Bloomington, and their losses have been much closer as they lose by seven points fewer on average. Here’s a look at the IU women’s basketball team’s home court advantage so far in the 2011-12 campaign.
The latest Associated Press poll has IU at No. 7, marking the first time the Hoosiers have cracked the top 10 since Jan. 21, 2008. While the rest of the season has yet to be determined, recent history has not been on IU’s side. Here’s a look at how IU has fared in post-Bob Knight seasons in which they’ve cracked the AP top 10.
The Hoosiers are lucky their magic carpet ride has been caught in this nationwide updraft. In the past week, eight ranked teams, including four in the then-top 10, suffered upset defeats.
The polls are out, and IU men's basketball team has made it to the top ten.
Penn State held IU junior guard Jordan Hulls to just one 3-pointer in the final 19 minutes of the game after he had already knocked down six. Unfortunately for Penn State, the team forgot about Matt Roth.
Hulls and Roth combined to go 12-of-15 with 3-pointers Sunday against Penn State (9-8, 1-3) as No. 12 IU (15-1, 3-1) notched its third road win of the season in beating the Nittany Lions 88-82.
After trailing by 17 points to Northwestern with just more than nine minutes remaining in its second Big Ten home game of the year, the IU women’s basketball team went on a surge for the next eight minutes of play to close the gap to three points.
After winning last week’s Big Ten Freshman of the Week award, IU freshman center Quaneisha McCurty saw only nine minutes of action during IU’s (5-12, 0-4) Sunday loss to Northwestern (11-5, 1-2) at Assembly Hall 69-61.
The IU men’s basketball team came into Sunday as the nation’s leader in three-point field goal percentage at 45.6 percent.
The IU men's basketball team played five games during winter break. The team went 4-1 during that stretch.
In its first meeting as fellow Big Ten opponents, the Indiana women’s basketball team fell to No. 19 Nebraska on Thursday night 62-48. The loss for IU gives it a three-game losing streak to begin Big Ten play and drops its overall record to 5-11. Its 11 losses tie the team with Wisconsin for the most in the conference.
The IU women’s basketball team (5-10) suffered four losses while grabbing only two wins during winter break and has started off its Big Ten conference play 0-2.
The IU men’s basketball team took down its third ranked foe of the season, knocking off No. 13/16 Michigan (12-3, 2-1) 73-71 on Thursday night at Assembly Hall. IU is now 11-0 at home and will look to go undefeated at Assembly Hall for the first time since the 2006-07 season.
IU should make these new year's resolutions to continue to improve its performance.
Every time Michigan made a run at Indiana on Thursday night, the Hoosiers answered. In a game where the Hoosiers never trailed, IU (14-1, 2-1) made numerous crucial plays down the stretch in earning a 73-71 victory against Michigan (12-3, 2-1) at Assembly Hall.
The Hoosiers have never trailed thanks to a 16-of-29 performance from the field.
Just as they did with Kentucky, the Hoosiers proved that no one really knows what this team’s limit is after a 74-70 victory against No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday in Assembly Hall.
Three weeks to the day after No. 13/15 IU shook the college basketball world by beating No. 1 Kentucky, the Hoosiers had one more upset left in them in 2011.
The IU men's basketball team pulled off another upset, this time it was a No. 2/2 Ohio State 74-70 at Assembly Hall.