No. 3 Texas beats No. 2 Duke
WEST LAFAYETTE -- Nina Norman and Tiffany Jackson scored 15 points apiece Sunday to lead No. 3 Texas to an 85-77 win over second-ranked Duke in the Women's Tip-Off Classic.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- Nina Norman and Tiffany Jackson scored 15 points apiece Sunday to lead No. 3 Texas to an 85-77 win over second-ranked Duke in the Women's Tip-Off Classic.
With only two juniors on the active roster, the one thing the IU women's basketball team lacks is experience. All five freshmen garnered substantial minutes in Friday's 73-62 win over the Reebok Lady Stars, gaining much-needed experience.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- IU received the opening kickoff Saturday against Penn State and promptly marched downfield on a 13-play, balanced-scoring drive and an early 7-0 lead.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Amid another blowout loss for IU, a bright spot emerged on the Hoosier horizon in the form of freshman running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis.
After 28 years of service at IU, finance professor Robert Klemkosky will retire next August to create a new business graduate program at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. "I am excited, it is going to be a real challenge," Klemkosky said. "It's a big change in my life."
The NCAA selection committee will reveal its decisions today regarding which teams will participate in the NCAA tournament. After beating Penn State in the Big Ten championship game, IU will surely be selected. But it is unlikely that junior All-American Ned Grabavoy and sophomore Drew Moor will be playing with them. United States Under-20 Men's National Team coach Thomas Rongen announced his 20-player roster that will represent the United States at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates from Nov. 27 through Dec. 19.
Whenever Penn State makes a big play, the Beaver Stadium PA plays the sound of a mountain lion roaring/growling/hissing (The sound can be best described as "Rraaaaow!"). There were some 43 growls in Penn State's 52-7 victory over IU. (I keep track of the really important stats.) I'm not sure if that's a record, but it certainly must come close.
A junior involved in the Oct. 31 death of another IU student turned himself in to authorities Friday on a charge of reckless homicide, a class C felony, according to officials at the Monroe County Jail.
There were somber moments Saturday at the celebration of Frank McCloskey's life, but the Buskirk-Chumley Theater was not all tears.
Three IU professors have been awarded Fulbright grants to lecture abroad. Professor of education Charles Allen Swanson Bankart was awarded a grant to go to Korea, business administration professor Robert Klemkosky will go to Croatia and linguistics professor Steven Franks will travel to Italy. Franks said he is excited about his trip.
The drama continued for the men's soccer team in the championship match of the Big Ten Tournament Sunday. Top-seeded IU outlasted No. 6 seed Penn State on penalty kicks, 4-1, in the championship of the Big Ten Tournament at Armstrong Stadium.
Once again IU men's soccer team dominated the Big Ten annual awards led by coach Jerry Yeagley, who took home his eighth Big Ten Coach of the Year award. The unanimous decision was the legendary coach's third consecutive honor.
EAGLE, Colo. -- Kobe Bryant made his first court appearance Thursday before the judge who will handle his sexual assault trial, saying nothing as the parents of his accuser sat just a few feet away.
Men's swimming and diving added five recruits to its historic program Thursday.
The moral of the story about the tortoise and the hare is that slow and steady wins the race. Last weekend, Vijay Singh and Matt Kenseth proved to be their respective sports' head tortoises.
The IU volleyball team hits the road this weekend for a pair of Big Ten matches against Iowa and Minnesota. The Hoosiers head west still searching for that elusive first road victory. Last weekend the Hoosiers (10-15, 3-11 Big Ten) fell to then-No. 17 Penn State before dispatching Ohio State in four games at home, halting their losing streak at 11 matches.
The fall season for the Hoosiers comes to a close this weekend as the Hoosiers will travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., to participate in the Big Ten Singles Championships Saturday through Monday at the Varsity Tennis Center on the campus of University of Michigan.
The IU women's cross country team travels Saturday to compete in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet on the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute.
The women's basketball team will look to grab its first win of the preseason at 7 p.m. tonight in Assembly Hall against the Reebok Lady Stars in its final tune-up before regular season action begins next Saturday against Cornell.
You might not know it, but the IU football program has made a major impact on why college football is what it is in this day and age.