IU coach Mick Lyon has never missed a Big Ten Conference tournament since he began coaching the Hoosiers, but this year he and his team are in danger of breaking the streak.
With two consecutive wins against top-15 teams, the IU men’s soccer team hopes to continue the momentum when it travels to Ohio State in a critical conference battle Sunday afternoon.
This weekend, the 6-0 IU club hockey team will take on the team that beat them in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II National Championship game last season. The Hoosiers will face off with Davenport, a team that heads into Friday’s game with an 11-0 record.
On Wednesday, the Indiana Daily Student had the chance to sit down and talk to IU’s first-year coach Tom Crean. Here is the interview in its entirety: Q: What are your plans for homecoming this weekend?
This weekend, the 6-0 IU club hockey team will take on the team that beat them in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II National Championship game last season. The Hoosiers will face off with Davenport University, who will head into Friday’s game with an 11-0 record. Both Friday’s and Saturday’s games will take place in Grand Rapids, Mich. The game is the first between the two teams since the title game.
Every day for the past week and a half, junior quarterback Kellen Lewis’ high-ankle sprain has listed him as questionable. Improvement in the injury has given the Hoosiers a case of optimism, but for now, they stick to the alternative: Ben Chappell. The sophomore and Bloomington South product started against Illinois last week and has filled in occasionally for the oft-injured Lewis. For most teams, the loss of a dynamic player and leader like Lewis can be irreparable. But having Chappell at the reigns is not new to this team.
I did it. Guilty as charged. I take all the blame. It was 100 percent my fault. I know what you are thinking, and you’re wrong. No, I didn’t rob a bank. Nor did I shoot the sheriff. I didn’t even cause the IU football team to lose again. Rather, I am guilty of planning a party I should have never planned.
NASCAR instituted the Chase for the Sprint Cup system to determine the season champion in 2004 in an effort to create more excitement in late-season races. At the time, no one would have expected a single driver to dominate the system as handily as Jimmie Johnson has. After last Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway, which Johnson won, the No. 48 is in prime position to score his third-straight title thanks to a commanding 149-point lead over second place Greg Biffle.
IU’s student section at men’s basketball games could be getting smaller, and its fate rests in the student body’s wallets.With the first home exhibition game just more than two weeks away, IU coach Tom Crean expressed concern about student season ticket sales in a one-on-one interview on Wednesday with the Indiana Daily Student.AUDIO: Tom Crean interview
Thanks to a late penalty conversion by sophomore midfielder/forward Andy Adlard, the IU men’s soccer team took care of its second-consecutive top-15 opponent with a 1-0 victory against No. 14 Louisville on Wednesday night. After senior forward Kevin Noschang was tripped in the box with a little more than eight minutes remaining, Adlard sent a shot to the lower left part of the goal to put the Hoosiers ahead for good. The win allowed the team to push its record to 8-4-2 on the season and extend its unbeaten streak to 3-0-2 against top-25 opponents. Adlard said his mentality on the penalty shot was no different than in practice. “I can go both ways, but I felt most comfortable (going left),” he said. “The keeper went the wrong way. It ended up working out.” Despite sloppy play from both sides in the first half, Louisville dominated the amount of shots on goal with a 7-2 advantage.The Cardinals’ best opportunity came in the 18th minute, when a cross into the box was headed off of the crossbar. The Hoosiers had a prime chance in the 26th minute that saw freshman forward Will Bruin one-time a ball that went just wide right of the goal. Sophomore forward Neil Wilmarth’s long throw-in at the 32nd minute created havoc in front of Louisville goalkeeper Andre Boudreaux, but the Hoosiers couldn’t get off the mark, as the first half ended in a 0-0 defensive stalemate.
IU kicker Austin Starr used to be automatic. Last season especially. Experts tabbed him as one of the nation’s top kickers. A 40-yarder, a chip shot, it didn’t matter. Every boot was destined to split the uprights. This year, though, Starr’s golden foot has vanished.How could a finalist for the Lou Groza award – given to college football’s top kicker – meld into a Mike Vanderjagt? It’s perplexing, I know.
It’s about time. The men’s and women’s soccer teams turned in some of the best performances of the season last weekend, but it remains to be seen whether the teams can use these results to turn their campaigns around.IU women’s coach Mick Lyon and the Hoosiers face a near-impossible road to repeat last season’s round of 16 appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Heading into the weekend, IU was 0-6 in conference play with games against in-state rival Purdue and No. 25 Illinois.
Only five games remain before the Big Ten tournament, but the No. 22 Hoosiers aren’t about to look ahead. Coming off a 3-1 upset win against then-No. 9 Notre Dame, IU (7-4-2) wants to build off its victory going into the match against No. 14 Louisville (9-3-2) at 7:30 p.m. today. Sophomore forward Andy Adlard said a key component to the win was a good week of practice preceding the match. Leading up to the Notre Dame game, every Hoosier showed up motivated and prepared, Adlard said.
The search for IU’s next athletics director has been narrowed to at most five people, IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said Monday. But it could be some time until IU President Michael McRobbie picks Rick Greenspan’s successor.“There’s no timetable,” MacIntyre said.
The only thing better than starting something new is starting it and being successful, too. The IU golf club team has found instant success this fall after being founded last spring. “I was really surprised to find that there was no club team,” said founder and current club president, junior Preston Linville.
