Led by a Dumes off the bench and Watford's board-crashing, the Hoosiers held off Talor Battle and the Nittany Lions, keeping Penn State winless in the Big Ten.
Halfway through the season, the Hoosiers have seen almost everything. A victory at Madison Square Garden. A loss to a nationally ranked opponent. And this past Sunday, an overtime conference win. But an away win? That’s yet to happen.
When IU fans last left the Assembly Hall stands in the 2006-07 season, a D.J. White-led team had defeated the No. 2 Wisconsin Badgers.
Unlike most other teenage basketball prospects, Capobianco was never a kid of just a few words.
Following Sunday’s 81-64 loss at No. 5 Ohio State, IU women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack said her team wasn’t where it needed to be defensively.
Multimedia editor Sean Morrison talked with the Centre Daily Times' Jeff Rice about Penn State's Big Ten woes, Talor Battle and the Lions' plan of attack against the Hoosiers here.
IU coach Tom Crean said his team will look to improve its frontcourt defense against Penn State at 7 p.m. today in University Park, Pa.
IDS sports editor Ryan Winn responds to your comments and votes on the IU men's basketball team from the past week.
"My primary goal in all this is to get as many people in Assembly Hall as possible," said Athletics Director Fred Glass. "What this does for us, is the people in and around Assembly Hall, primarily students and faculty and staff, can watch pretty much the entire Colts game, and still get to our game. So hopefully that's significant. We appreciate the cooperation of the Big Ten Conference, the Big Ten Network and the University of Iowa."
Verdell Jones: “If the fans tried to do what they want, but I felt like it was a game that we didn’t need to.”
It was a familiar story line, but this go-around had a different ending for the Indianapolis Colts.This time, there was no rust. There were no timing issues. And, most importantly, there was not another early, unexpected exit for a team that has faced more controversy in the last month than any other all season.
Senior Ashley Rhoades, a high jumper on the women’s track and field team, has set lofty goals. Luckily, she’s used to leaping great heights.
Sophomore guard Verdell Jones seemed as if he prayed in a free throw to trim Minnesota’s lead to 78-74, contorting his body as the basket prolonged IU’s shot at what would eventually be an 81-78 victory.
IU senior wrestler Nate Everhart showed on Saturday why he is on the shortlist of contenders for a heavyweight national championship.
IU’s big men controlled the Gophers in its 81-78 overtime win.
One of the team managers probably should have slipped some 5-Hour Energy into Verdell Jones’ water bottle late in the game, as Jones played the entire second half and overtime, finishing the game having played 40 of the 45 minutes.
A team boasting a 15-0 home record is typically hard to beat. Add in a 21-game win streak at home and figure that it has lost only five times at home since 2004-2005, and beating this team seems downright impossible.
The IU track team continues to push the record books, women's tennis starts strong and the men's swimming and diving team falls again.
OWENSBORO, Ky. — A spokesman for Southern Indiana said Friday he was not aware of any existing medical conditions that may have caused 21-year-old center Jeron Lewis to collapse during a game and later die at a hospital.
The IDS sports editors give you their view of the court in an unadulterated take on the IU men's basketball team, exclusively for idsnews.com/basketball.
