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Restoring pride

The windows had been boarded up for weeks. The paint, once a vibrant crimson, had now faded and was chipping away on the exterior. The roof, deteriorated. The walls inside of the building were in equally bad shape, a combination of neglect and lack of maintenance.

Season of '69

Like so many stories, this one begins in the summer of ’69.

Hoosiers face tall tasks on the road

Fans know well the low expectations for the IU men’s basketball team in the Big Ten; most experts predict them to finish toward or at the bottom of the conference.

IU blasted by Purdue squad on Tiller’s final day as coach

WEST LAFAYETTE – On fourth down and two, Purdue running back Dan Dierking was tripped up just short of a first down by IU defenders. BLOG: Under the Rock

Basketball team to face Notre Dame in 1st round

KA’ANAPALI, Hawaii – After facing Notre Dame three times last season at Marquette, Tom Crean is well aware of the task at hand for the IU men’s basketball team Monday.AUDIO: Crean in Maui

Club soccer team bests Colorado State to win national title

Club soccer team bests Colorado State to win national title

IU defeated Colorado State 1-0 Saturday afternoon at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association’s National Soccer Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to win its first national title.

Disappointing season marred by inconsistency, injury, comes to close

WEST LAFAYETTE – No player, no game plan, not even a little prayer to the football gods could reverse the 180-degree turn IU football has taken in the past 12 months. At Ross-Ade Stadium on Saturday, that sentiment was as evident as any of the other low points this season. SLIDESHOW: IU at Purdue

Tourney Time

Born in St. Louis and having played soccer for St. Louis University High School, IU defender Tommy Meyer knows what to expect in his first NCAA tournament game more than most freshmen typically would. “Luis (Soffner), Chris (Haffner) and I were all recruited by St. Louis University,” Meyer said. “There is one kid from my club team that is on SLU and a bunch of older kids on that team that are on SLU too, so I know most of them. Ever since coming here I looked forward to playing St. Louis because it has always been such a big game. I’m not really nervous yet, but we’ll see.” Seeded No. 6 in the tournament, the Hoosiers (12-6-3) will face the Billikens (12-4-5) at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The matchup against St. Louis is especially intriguing for a couple of reasons. For one, IU coach Mike Freitag and five players hail from the Gateway City. In addition, the Hoosiers have competed against the Billikens 30 times, posting a 17-9-4 advantage. SLU senior midfielder Kyle Patterson, a MAC Hermann Trophy candidate for the nation’s top college soccer player, is the best offensive threat for the Billikens. He leads the team with 29 points on the season, including five game-winning goals. Another player the Hoosiers will need to focus on is SLU senior defender Calum Angus, who returned for the final 12 games after being injured earlier in the season. Last year, Angus was named second-team All-America by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and the Atlantic-10 Defensive Player of the Year.

Senior weekend triumphs keep IU volleyball's NCAA dreams alive

The 2004-06 seasons saw five combined Big Ten wins for the IU volleyball team. The 2007 season saw an improvement with six Big Ten wins. Now in 2008, in IU coach Sherry Dunbar’s second year, IU sits at eight wins and in NCAA Tournament contention with a week to go in the season. Thanks to two huge 3-1 victories on senior weekend against Wisconsin and Northwestern, IU sits at 8-10 in the Big Ten and possibly in the driver’s seat for a berth to postseason play.

IU women's basketball team stumbles in the preseason WNIT

A tale of two halves is the best way to describe the IU women’s basketball team’s 65-59 loss Saturday night against Middle Tennessee State. Despite out-shooting the Blue Raiders from the floor 52.1 percent to 37.5 percent and going on a 19-0 run in the first half to gain a 30-10 margin at one point, the Hoosiers (1-2) were not able to hold their 36-22 halftime lead. In the second half, the Hoosiers were out-scored 43-23 and only shot 37.5 percent from the floor, which contributed to the disappointing six-point loss.

IU men's swimming posts strong weekend showing at home Hoosierland Invitational

The IU men’s swimming and diving team hosted six other teams for the Hoosierland Invitational this weekend at the Councilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. IU welcomed the swimming teams of Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh and Truman State, while the diving team hosted Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Wright State and IU-Purdue University Indianapolis. Several Hoosiers posted personal bests and made NCAA B Cuts.

Story doesn’t end for IU football yet

Even Hollywood’s award-winning writers could not have scripted a better ending to Purdue coach Joe Tiller’s career. For a guy who has spent 12 seasons pouring his heart and soul into a seesawing program, it was fitting his finale was a drubbing of IU. The 2008 Old Oaken Bucket game was so pain-free Saturday it was over in the first quarter. Somehow, some way, the Boilermakers scored on every offensive drive until late in the fourth as if they were trouncing on a peewee team.

Learning with a lei on

Even a little rain can’t damper the feeling that Maui’s got to be a great place to spend Thanksgiving. So it wasn’t what the pilgrims had in mind – you can’t sleep on highs above 80 and beaches within spitting distance. You also can’t spit in the face of the competition the Hoosiers will ween themselves against this holiday week. Tom Crean’s team is going to have to learn itself against some of the toughest teams it will face all year, and yes, they will likely get beaten up in the process. But Crean has said so often you can’t say “no” to Maui, and it’s true. The tournament-level experience gained from flying halfway around the world to play three games in three days against three quality opponents can’t be duplicated.

Dumes beats Notre Dame’s Harangody ... in video games

KA’ANAPALI, Hawaii – On paper, it might look like a mismatch, but junior guard Devan Dumes was dominating Notre Dame standout Luke Harangody.Each basket Dumes scored seemed to humble the 6-foot-8, 255-pound All-American more and more. By the time the final horn sounded, the Hoosiers had already begun celebrating. IU pulled off the huge upset with ease, coasting to a 33-20 victory.The win didn’t come in the first round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational, but instead the Xbox 360 Players’ Party hosted by the Maui Sheraton on Saturday night. Click here for a photo slideshow from the event in Maui All eight teams playing in the preseason tournament gathered in the ballroom to play EA Sports’ March Madness ’09 against one another. Two players participated in the tournament from each team, with North Carolina’s Mike Copeland beating out teammate Ty Lawson in the final to win the tourney championship.

IU suffers worst loss to Purdue in more than a century

With more than nine seconds remaining the game, IU made its first defensive stop of the day. In the 84th annual battle for the Old Oaken Bucket, IU was dominated in every facet of football en route to a 62-10 pounding. The Hoosiers managed just 214 total yards as their defense let up 596.

At stake: pride

This year’s 84th annual battle for the Old Oaken Bucket won’t feature any bowl-bound teams. Instead, pride will be the only thing at stake for IU (3-8, 1-6), something that is just fine with IU coach Bill Lynch. “Any time you have a rivalry game like this the last week of the season, no matter what has gone on before it, it’s a big football game,” the second-year coach said during his weekly press conference.

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