IU looks for 5th straight home win
Now at the season's halfway point, IU goes into Saturday's match-up against Purdue a completely different team than when it started.
Now at the season's halfway point, IU goes into Saturday's match-up against Purdue a completely different team than when it started.
Coaching During the entire offseason, IU coach Mike Davis had doubters and critics in his face at all times.
The storied IU-Purdue rivalry will continue Saturday as the No. 18 women's swimming and diving team welcomes its arch-rival, the No. 14 Boilermakers, to the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center on senior day. The Hoosiers will honor seniors Kristin Bradley, Heather Chapman, Doherty Colgin, Lauren Lubus and Lauren Torpey.
Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr once compared an upcoming football season to climbing Mt. Everest. If Carr thinks that's tough, he must never have looked at a Big Ten wrestling schedule.
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands -- Indiana freshman forward Lee Nguyen signed a 3 1/2-year soccer contract with PSV Eindhoven.
PITTSBURGH -- Colts quarterback Peyton Manning's arm-waving, finger-pointing and nonstop gesturing at the line of scrimmage seemed especially frantic against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and for good reason.
SEATTLE -- The road to the Super Bowl never leads through Carolina. Instead, it leads the Panthers all over the map. Two years ago, the team went to St. Louis and Philadelphia in the playoffs, won both times and made its first NFL championship game appearance. This winter, the stops have been in the Northeast (23-0 over the Giants), the Midwest (29-21 over the Bears) and, now, the Pacific Northwest, where the Seahawks await Sunday in the NFC title game.
Last Thursday, the IU women's basketball team won its third Big Ten game of the year in a game at Northwestern. After the win, IU coach Sharon Versyp gave her team three days off before they would come back and prepare for their game with No. 7 Ohio State. In the early moments of last night's game with the Buckeyes, it seemed that the extra rest had backfired for Versyp and the Hoosiers as Ohio State jumped out of the gates strong, taking an early 12-2 lead.
For many Big Ten teams, winning conference games on the road is difficult. And winning more away games than home games is almost unheard of. Except for the IU women's basketball team. The Hoosiers (9-7, 3-2 Big Ten) have earned all three of their conference victories on the road. However, their two losses have both occurred in Assembly Hall.
FORT WAYNE -- A massive $34.5 million renovation at the Memorial Coliseum has helped the building's value nearly double in four years. A new appraisal released this week shows the arena's value jumped from $36.6 million to $66.6 million. Meanwhile, the value of the Coliseum's property -- including Memorial Stadium and equipment -- climbed from $76.9 million to $121.9 million, assessors told the coliseum's board of trustees Tuesday.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Students from Atlantic Coast Conference rivals Duke and North Carolina completed their two-and-a-half day basketball game Monday, finishing with an expected world record for the longest continuous game. The Duke student won 3,688-3,444. The game began at 8 a.m. Saturday and ended at 6 p.m. Monday, marking 58 straight hours in Fetzer Gymnasium on the losers' Chapel Hill campus.
A Bloomington court storming was long overdue. Gray-haired women standing courtside, holding strands of yellow string were no match for more than 17,000 fans after a 62-60 upset of No. 7 Illinois.
INDIANAPOLIS — Colts president Bill Polian is going right back to work. After his team's latest playoff failure, Polian is spending this week evaluating what went wrong, what must be corrected and how to turn the Colts from Super Bowl contenders into Super Bowl champions.
After missing last season to take a sabbatical, IU hockey coach Rich Holdeman is coaching in his 13th and final season behind the bench for the Hoosiers. As the Hoosiers' all-time winningest coach in IU Hockey history, compiling 243 victories and a .685 winning percentage, Holdeman has served as a fixture for the IU hockey program and has developed it into one of the elite Div. II club teams in the nation.
Good things came in pairs for the IU women's tennis team Sunday in its season opening double-header at the Varsity Tennis Center.
Former Hoosiers Tom Coverdale and Kyle Hornsby always told junior guard Rod Wilmont to wait his turn. And Tuesday night, his turn finally came.
The two teams atop the Big Ten's scoring margin category will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in Assembly Hall. No. 13 IU ranks second in the Big Ten averaging 15 points more than their opponents, while No. 7 Illinois sports a conference best 17-point spread. Both teams are 2-1 in conference play with their lone losses coming on the road, but beyond that, the similarities cease. IU maintains its lopsided margin on the offense. The team shoots a Big Ten-best 53 percent from the field and a nationwide-best 47 percent from three. They average 80 points a game and have only been held below 70 points twice, both of which were losses.
INDIANAPOLIS -- At 5 p.m., the jersey came off. The emotional tornado that had been the Colts' season dwindled down to deafening silence in the locker room. The eye of the storm culminated in one corner of the room. While disappointed Colts' players dressed to go home, kicker Mike Vanderjagt sat facing his locker, uniform still on, head buried in his hands, tears in his eyes, surrounded by the first wave of prodding cold microphones and tape recorders.
A record-breaking performance from junior Lindsay Weigle helped the IU women's diving team defeat UCLA 39-18 at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center Saturday. In the three-meter competition Friday, Weigle amazed the crowd with a school-record string of dives. The Bloomington native nailed all six dives on her list to post a 357.75. That effort surpassed the previous standard of 354.00 set by teammate Christina Loukas on Jan. 29, 2005.
With a Big Ten conference that features nine top-25 teams and five in the top 10, the IU wrestling team knew it had to make the most of its non-conference schedule in preparation for the Big Ten season. Consider the mission accomplished. The No. 15 Hoosiers went 4-0 in this weekend's Virginia Duals, winning the championship and taking a 9-0 dual record into the conference season. IU coach Duane Goldman said while this weekend's duals won't do anything to help the team's Big Ten record, he still feels that it will give team members confidence heading into the tough road ahead.