Column: Scouting the Aggies
New Mexico State really has nothing to lose. It's the classic NCAA Tournament storyline of big-time program plays favorite to little known school playing with a chip on its shoulder.
New Mexico State really has nothing to lose. It's the classic NCAA Tournament storyline of big-time program plays favorite to little known school playing with a chip on its shoulder.
As the No. 13-seed New Mexico State Aggies (26-9) head into Thursday night’s NCAA Tournament matchup at the Rose Garden against the No. 4-seed Indiana Hoosiers (25-8), the team from Las Cruces, N.M., isn’t lacking any confidence.
As 11 swimmers and two divers have reached their goal of qualifying for the NCAA Championships, the Hoosiers will have ample opportunities to score points and improve on last season’s 15th-place finish.
Two years ago, New Mexico State was one possession away from stunning Michigan State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Four Hoosiers will make one last journey of the season as they travel to St. Louis to compete in the NCAA Championships. The action will start at noon on Thursday and will end with the last session starting at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The IU women’s basketball team is looking for a new leader. IU Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Fred Glass announced Monday he has fired the team’s head coach, Felisha Legette-Jack.
IU Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Fred Glass announced Monday he has fired the team’s head coach, Felisha Legette-Jack.
Despite tearing his right ACL in IU’s first round win against Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament, Jones celebrated with his teammates yesterday when the Hoosiers were announced as a No. 4 seed on the NCAA Tournament selection show.
This is not the end of the journey. Rather, it could be the beginning of one.
For the first time in the Tom Crean era, the IU men’s basketball team will play in the NCAA Tournament. The No. 4-seeded Hoosiers will take on No. 13 New Mexico State on Thursday at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore.
This weekend the Hoosiers (9-10) head to Norman, Okla. for the OU Spring Festival. The Festival will feature two games against Wichita State (6-11) and three games against No. 8 Oklahoma (15-3).
On to Selection Sunday. The Hoosiers ran into one of two Big Ten teams it has not beaten this season and lost in a way nobody expected, as IU fell 79-71 against Wisconsin.
Wisconsin and Nebraska represented the only two Big Ten teams that the IU men’s basketball team had yet to defeat this season. Wisconsin hadn’t won a Big Ten Tournament game since 2008, when it won the title.
For the second straight meeting, IU shut down Wisconsin’s All-Big Ten guard Jordan Taylor, but once again the Hoosiers let a Badgers bench player go off.
A career-high effort by Wisconsin’s sixth man ended IU’s run at the Big Ten Tournament on Friday afternoon.
Despite a blitzkrieg of 3-pointers from Wisconsin, IU only trails 36-31 at the half.
The Hoosiers take on the Wisconsin Badgers in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Join the conversation with the IDS basketball reporters here.
The IU men’s basketball team was unfamiliar with winning a postseason game in Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Jordan Hulls and Cody Zeller were not.
What formula should the Hoosiers follow for a Big Ten victory?
Not the wheelchair. Screaming in agony, his right leg useless, Verdell Jones III had one request. Not that wheelchair.