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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Before the season started, IU men's soccer coach Mike Freitag challenged his team to accomplish four things.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Before the season started, IU men's soccer coach Mike Freitag challenged his team to accomplish four things.
No one told Rod Wilmont that Sunday's game was supposed to be an exhibition. In the first game under his new coach, Wilmont was his old self -- jumping at steals, flying into the stands, even careening into Kelvin Sampson as he raced down the sideline in hot pursuit of a loose ball.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The IU men's soccer team advanced to the Big Ten tournament final by defeating Penn State 1-0 Friday night.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The IU men's soccer team won its 11th Big Ten tournament title by defeating Ohio State 1-0 Sunday afternoon.
MINNEAPOLIS -- With a chance to become bowl eligible with a win Saturday, the IU football team fell 63-26 at Minnesota.
Before the Hoosiers began their quest for their 11th Big Ten Tournament title, six members of the team were honored at the Big Ten soccer awards banquet on Thursday.
With his team just one win away from clinching its first bowl game berth in 13 years, junior fullback Josiah Sears knows IU's focus has changed. "If it hasn't, I think there's something wrong with us," Sears said. "Because we have (a bowl game) within our grasp. We're going to have to screw up to not go now."
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady. The unbeaten Indianapolis Colts versus the New England Patriots, who have only one loss. The hype versus the reality. There are plenty of subplots to Sunday night's game between two of the NFL's best teams -- Adam Vinatieri's first against the team for which he kicked two Super-Bowl-winning field goals, Manning's struggles against the Patriots and Brady's growing comfort with his new receivers.
The IU men's swimming and diving team will travel this weekend to Austin, Texas, to challenge No. 4 University of Texas and No. 6 University of California in a dual meet. The Hoosiers, coming off a weekend during which they split meets against Northwestern and Arizona State, are looking to build on their 2-1 record.
The IU women's swimming and diving team has gotten off to a hot start, racing out to a 3-0 record. The No. 17 Hoosiers will put their unblemished record on the line as they travel to Austin, Texas, to face No. 11 Texas Saturday. The Longhorns are 1-1, with a loss to No. 6 Stanford University Oct. 27 and a win against the University of Nebraska Oct. 12. Texas finished second in the Big 12 Relays Oct. 13.
Three second-place finishes in a row leave the Hoosiers hungry for a first. The No. 12 Hoosiers (14-4, Big Ten 4-2) finished second in the regular season and the Big Ten Tournament last season.
The IU men's soccer team will look to win its 11th Big Ten Tournament title in program history this weekend when the Hoosiers travel to Columbus, Ohio.
This is the most important game of the season, period. It is so important that I had to emphasize the period ... period.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Adam Vinatieri is ready for anything he might encounter Sunday night in New England -- cheers, jeers, chants and taunts, even a last-second kick. He's content with it.
The IU women's soccer team exited the Big Ten Tournament early Thursday night after losing to Michigan 2-1 at Jeffrey Field in University Park, Pa. The Hoosiers got on the board first with a goal in the 16th minute of play; however, the Wolverines rallied to overcome the deficit, spelling the end of IU's 2006 Big Ten season.
Kellen Lewis never thought he'd put up such big numbers so soon. Coming into the season, the freshman quarterback was not even expecting to play. "When I came here, Blake was only a redshirt sophomore," Lewis said, referring to junior quarterback Blake Powers. "I envisioned having to wait in line and maybe junior year come in and take control of the offense. But eight touchdown passes in two home games? I definitely wasn't expecting that." Lewis didn't have to wait in line. In IU's second game of the season against Ball State, with Powers on the sidelines nursing a leg injury and senior Graeme McFarland knocked out with a shoulder injury, the Hoosiers turned to their third-string quarterback. And in his first collegiate game, Lewis did not disappoint. With his team down 23-7 at halftime, the redshirt freshman led IU all the way back from the deficit, throwing for 228 yards and a touchdown with 88 rushing yards and a rushing score.
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- John L. Smith will not return next year as Michigan State's football coach but will complete the rest of this season.
The IU women's golf team had one last task to complete Tuesday before ending its season: Compete in the Edwin Watts/Palmetto Intercollegiate tournament in Kiawah Island, S.C. Unfortunately for the Hoosiers, the team placed a season-low 11th in the 19-team field.
The IU women's soccer team was unstoppable Oct. 1. That day, the Hoosiers defeated Michigan 2-1 to win game 10 of a 13-game unbeaten streak. "I just think that overall as a team, we played really well that game, defensively and offensively," said freshman forward Kristin Arnold, who had a goal and an assist in the game. "We defended really well as a team, We were able to win the 50-50 balls in the midfield. I think that because of that, we had a lot more opportunities."
As far as IU men's soccer coach Mike Freitag is concerned, scoring goals is the hardest thing to do in soccer. Apparently, this year it's a little tougher than others. The 2006 IU men's soccer team is the lowest scoring team in the 34 years of the Hoosier program. In the 18 games played thus far, IU has averaged 1.61 goals per game. At the same point last season, the team averaged 2.72 goals per game.