New AD, new coach look to take IU Back to the Rose Bowl
The last time the Hoosiers had a former Miami of Ohio coach roaming the sidelines, they went to their first and only Rose Bowl.
The last time the Hoosiers had a former Miami of Ohio coach roaming the sidelines, they went to their first and only Rose Bowl.
After suffering two tough losses on the road to start Big Ten play, the Hoosiers were looking to salvage the three-game road trip with a win over archrival Purdue. Instead, IU got their worst-scoring night in school history, losing to Purdue 51-31. The loss keeps them winless in conference play.
The No. 25 women's swimming and diving program is off to a busy start this winter. In the first weekend of December the Hoosiers took on Big Ten rival Illinois in Champaign. IU pulled out a victory beating the Fighting Illini 155-145. Though the meet ended in close numbers, the Lady Hoosiers never lost their poise. The cream and crimson only lost the lead once when Illinois took all three top finishes in the 100-yard breaststroke.
St. Louis (8-8) at Seattle (9-7) 4:30 p.m. Saturday, ABC The Rams took both regular-season meetings, the first by coming from 17 points back in Seattle with 6 minutes left in the fourth quarter to win 33-27 in overtime, and the second game 23-12.
The IU women's track and field team won't waste any time in 2005 as the team sprints into the beginning of the indoor season Saturday at home. The main mission this season is improvement. In 2004 the team finished fifth at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and seventh at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships.
With strong showings during winter break, the IU wrestling team looks poised to enter Big Ten play on a high note.
IU's 2005 men's track team offers fans a number of top-notch athletes, including several All-Americans, Olympic Trials qualifiers, Big Ten Champions, and one NCAA Champion. With such a talented squad, this year's team has high hopes, looking to a national title.
Over the past couple weeks the Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball squad has amassed a 2-2 record, improving their overall record to 7-5. The Hoosiers' pushed their winning streak to four right before the new year before dropping two straight games to Big Ten opponents.
It would be difficult to find a team in the whole country who is having more fun than the No. 13-ranked IU men's swimming and diving team. And why shouldn't they be enjoying themselves? They've lost only twice all year, albeit to two ranked teams, and avenged their most recent loss to Kentucky with a win in the Indiana Invitational.
INDIANAPOLIS -- National Collegiate Athletic Association President Myles Brand has been a reformer from the start. Now he is taking on perhaps his biggest challenge: containing costs.
INDIANAPOLIS -- With a record 49 touchdown passes, 4,557 yards and only 10 interceptions, the annals of football history will record Peyton Manning's 2004 season as one of the greatest. Manning just hopes that's not all he is remembered for this year.
It's known as one of college basketball's shrines. With five national championship banners overseeing the floor, Assembly Hall has provided IU with a distinct homecourt advantage since it opened in 1972, where the Hoosiers have won more than 86 percent of their games.
CARSON, Calif. -- Jay Nolly hasn't missed a single minute of a single game since October 2002. But in all that time, which encompassed a national championship, All-Big Ten selections and 30 shutouts, Nolly saved his best for last. With IU leading 3-2 on penalty kicks against the University of California-Santa Barbara and the national championship on the line, the senior goalkeeper dove to his left, blocking the final kick and sent IU to its second straight national championship.
12-17-2004 -- The last time the Hoosiers had a former Miami of Ohio coach roaming the sidelines, they went to their first Rose Bowl.
Breathe in. Bring all that positive energy in. Breathe out. Let out all the negative energy. IU coach Mike Freitag led his troops into battle with a simple pregame exercise.
One more name can be crossed off the list for potential replacements of former IU football coach Gerry DiNardo. Late Sunday evening, Dick Neuheisel, father of former Washington coach Rick, said his son has not been contacted by IU athletic director Rick Greenspan or the athletic department.
CARSON, Calif. -- The National Soccer Coaches Association of America named IU senior midfielder Danny O'Rourke one of three finalists for the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy. The MAC Hermann Trophy is college soccer's equivalent to college football's Heisman Trophy.
CARSON, Calif. -- Two-thousand miles for two games might not seem like an even trade off, but try telling that to Charlie Teeple, or any of the more than 200 Hoosier faithful fans in attendance for the weekend's matches.
CARSON, Calif. -- Pure emptiness. That's what shot through Maryland coach Sasho Cirovski when the clock struck 48 seconds in the second overtime of Friday's semifinal match. Pure excitement.
CARSON, Calif. -- When IU coach Mike Freitag stood among his men in the locker room after winning his first national championship as head coach and the program's seventh, he singled out one player -- Mike Ambersley.