Rookie team battles to qualify for race
Achtung, a team of four rookies hoping to qualify to compete in the Little 500, faced obstacles even before peddling one lap around the Bill Armstrong Stadium track.
Achtung, a team of four rookies hoping to qualify to compete in the Little 500, faced obstacles even before peddling one lap around the Bill Armstrong Stadium track.
The IU baseball team is taking its game on the road for the second consecutive weekend. This time, the Hoosiers will compete in the Winthrop Tournament in Rock Hill, S.C. IU will meet three teams, facing Eastern Kentucky and Wagner Friday and Winthrop Saturday. It will finish the weekend in the consolation or championship game Sunday.
Fresh off a heartbreaking loss to Miami (Ohio) for the Midwest Collegiate Hockey League conference championship, the hockey team plays host to its final home series of the season against Chicago's Robert Morris College at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday at the Frank Southern Center.
For the fourth consecutive week, the women's tennis team will take to the road. Protecting their 7-2 record, the Hoosiers will travel for a clash with Tennessee 11 a.m. Sunday.
The men's tennis team had its four-match winning streak broken last weekend at Minnesota, dropping the team out of the Top 25. But, with a win Monday against Brown, the No. 31 Hoosiers are looking to start a new streak.
The women's track and field team won't win this year's indoor Big Ten championships with 150 points like it did last year, coach Randy Heisler said. The Hoosiers will likely win more than the one event they did last year, but they won't win the meet by 38 points like last year.
Throughout the season, the men's indoor track team has shown signs of promise and has left talented opponents in its dust. This weekend, the men's Indoor Big Ten Championships present something different for the Hoosiers.
Time is starting to run out on the IU men's basketball season. With three conference games and only one guaranteed Big Ten tournament game, each battle grows exponentially in importance.
Jenn Brown stepped in for track coach Randy Heisler last week while his wife recovered from a seizure and surgery to remove a brain tumor. In Heisler's absence, Brown guided her teammates to season-best throws at Saturday's Hoosier Hills invite.
Bright lights shined through a darkened Assembly Hall Thursday as seniors Rainey Alting and Rachael Honegger, and the rest of the Hoosiers, were introduced in the final home game of the season.
Senior basketball player Rachael Honegger was allowed to play her final game in Assembly Hall Thursday night, after serving a five-game suspension for pleading guilty to forgery. Thursday's 54-50 loss against Illinois was the final home game of the 2000-01 season for the Hoosiers. Honegger did not speak to the press after the game, but did address the crowd during the ceremonies honoring the two IU seniors.
Until Wednesday, senior basketball player Rachael Honegger had little hope she would be allowed to play during her last game in Assembly Hall today. Honegger has been suspended from playing since Feb. 7, when athletics director Clarence Doninger sidelined her pending investigation into her guilty plea to forgery.
Senior Night is always special. But with an NCAA Tournament berth and a first-round bye at the Big Ten tournament on the line, tonight's game cannot be much more important.
The men's swimming and diving team has experienced some inconsistencies this year. This weekend it will face its biggest test -- the Big Ten Championships at the University of Minnesota. There, the team hopes to redeem this season's disappointments in a good showing in the conference's most important meet.
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Junior center Kirk Haston is the leading scorer in the Big Ten and the Hoosiers' go-to man. He's interim head coach Mike Davis' choice for Big Ten Player of the Year and one of the top post players in the conference. Michigan State coach Tom Izzo recruited Haston and called him the most improved player this season. But it takes more than one man to defeat No. 5 Michigan State, especially when he's playing with four fouls and held scoreless for the last 19 minutes of regulation.
Four high school seniors -- all players of the year in their respective states -- have signed letters of intent with the IU men's soccer team, coach Jerry Yeagley said.
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State freshman center Zach Randolph won the Class 4-A IHSAA state championship at Marion High School last year, but his friend, IU freshman forward Jared Jeffries, won the Mr. Basketball award. Apparently, that didn't sit well with Randolph. He banged, bruised and muscled his way to 14 points against Jeffries and the Hoosiers in Michigan State's 66-57 victory Tuesday.
Tuesday's baseball game started the home season off with a bang for IU. On the first pitch of the first inning, redshirt freshman Mark Calkins drove a home run over the center field fence. "I just saw a good pitch and hit it well," Calkins said. "I wasn't trying to hit a home run. I was just trying to get on base."
When women's soccer player Wendy Dillinger graduated from IU in 1998, she played in soccer leagues across the country and competed in Europe, but the hope of a professional soccer league in the U.S. was a distant hope. With the formation of the Women's United Soccer Association, Dillinger's hope is becoming a reality.
There is no question men's basketball interim head coach Mike Davis has his heart set on postseason play, and time is running out to get there. There are four games left in the regular season, and if Davis wants to reach 19 wins, the Hoosiers must win three of them. But with No. 5 Michigan State, Wisconsin and intra-state rival Purdue left on the schedule, Davis said the Hoosiers are entering the toughest part of the season. The Spartans are first on the list. The Hoosiers (16-10, 7-5 Big Ten) will face Michigan State (20-3, 9-3) at 7 p.m. in the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Mich.