The IU women's basketball team lost to No. 14 Penn State 69-55 in State College, Pa. on Sunday in front of the third largest crowd ever at the Bryce Jordan Center.
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The IU women's track and field team came up with several impressive performances in Champaign, Ill., this Saturday in their win against the Illini, Missouri and Eastern Illinois. IU won the meet with 178 points. Illinois, Missouri and Eastern Illinois had 156, 154 and 54 points respectively.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Eight minutes of anguish. That was the feeling for the IU men's basketball team and their fans after the No. 19 Hoosiers let a lead as large as 16 points dwindle to zero as IU gave into the No. 8 Louisville pressure in the second half. The Hoosiers lost the lead, their shot and, for the second time that week, the game. Louisville won 95-76.
LOUISVILLE, Ky -- It was still halftime and the No. 8 Louisville Cardinals (16-1, 6-0 Conference USA) had already listened to coach Rick Pitino's locker-room speech and were back out on the floor warming up. But before they took the court for the second half to attempt a comeback against the No.19 Hoosiers (14-6, 4-3 Big Ten), they would hear from one more source of motivation: John Belushi.
One of the tougher road trips facing the IU wrestling team this season will come to an end tonight in Ann Arbor, Mich. when the Hoosiers face the No. 10 Michigan Wolverines at 7 p.m. at Michigan's Cliff Keen Arena.
The road to a regular season Great Midwest Hockey League championship will be an uphill one for IU, but the Hoosiers are ready to climb it. IU (12-7-1, 2-3-1 GMHL) will begin the home stretch of the GMHL season this weekend with a pair of road games against Ferris State University and Michigan State University.
Despite last Saturday's win against Big Ten opponents Purdue and Ohio State, women's track and field coach Randy Heisler remains convinced that the team's best performances are yet to come.
The Hoosiers' fast success and 3-0 start so far this season has surprised even themselves. After stunning both Notre Dame and Middle Tennessee State this past weekend, the men's tennis team's confidence level must be high. "We knew we had a very good chance of beating them," sophomore Ryan Recht said of the team's matches against Notre Dame and Middle Tennessee State. "We went in with the intention of winning."
A team that once won six National Championships and 23 Big Ten titles only finished 32nd overall in last year's NCAA's. But that has not discouraged first year IU men's swimming coach Ray Looze in the least. Looze accepted the job looking ahead to the future of the program.
The No. 14 track and field team has struggled in the early part of the indoor season with team mentality, Coach Marshall Goss said. But for junior sprinter Ryan Sarbinoff, taking the team to a Big Ten Chamionship is one of his goals, he said.
Saturday the No. 19 men's track and field team travels to Illinois for their third dual meet in as many weeks. The team cruised to victory in their first meet at Michigan but fell to No. 13 Purdue and Ohio State last weekend. Coach Marshall Goss said he expects a challenge similar to last weekend. Though unranked, he said Illinois is still a dangerous team.
After a week of good practices, the women's basketball team was still unable to pull off a win at Iowa. They lost the game 78-62 and are left with the record of 9-9, 2-6 in the Big Ten. The Iowa Hawkeyes improve to 11-7 (3-4).
Thursday's practice for the IU men's basketball team was not lacking intensity. Loud vocals from both the players and the coaches could be heard throughout the two-hour practice. And there was enough emotional static in the air that there was almost a fight between two players.
WASHINGTON -- A Bush administration advisory commission on Thursday rejected several proposals for overhauling a landmark gender-equity law that substantially increased the number of female athletes.
Michigan State, Michigan and Wisconsin are the three teams that have stopped the Hoosiers from winning their last four games. The Hoosiers (9-8, 2-5) will try to end that streak as they look for their first Big Ten road win of the season against the Iowa Hawkeyes (10-7, 2-4) at 7 p.m. tonight in Iowa City. It's a game that could set the tone for the rest of IU's season. There's a lot to learn with so many young players, senior forward Lisa Eckart said, but the team isn't walking away from any losses without learning a lesson. "I think we've learned from each of our losses," Eckart said. "We're preparing as much as we can for each game we play from here on out."
The IU wrestling squad started the Big Ten season on the wrong foot. Penn State came to Bloomington last Friday and overpowered an injury-depleted Hoosier squad 37-4. But the next day, the Hoosiers went to Indianapolis and swept a four-team dual meet. This three-meet winning streak should provide the Hoosiers a morale boost going into meets against No. 3 Ohio State tonight and No. 10 Michigan Friday.
With the Big Ten season quickly approaching the halfway mark, here is a rundown of some of the conference's top stories so far. The Michigan Wolverines have seen their share of drama this year. The Iowa Hawkeyes also jumped out to a surprising start, beginning the season 10-3. While most coaches will say that experienced players are the key to a successful team, it doesn't hurt to have ultra-talented freshman either.
During the cold winter months many people count down the days until sunny warm weather. But no one is looking forward to warm weather more than the riders competing in the Little 500 bike race.
No, Bracey Wright and Jeff Newton have not been suspended from the IU basketball team. A hoax Web site meant to be an office joke gave several Hoosier fans quite a scare Tuesday.
