Team ready to win title
Many question marks exist as to what this weekend's Big Ten Championships will bring for the women's track and field team, but coach Randy Heisler is confident of one thing.
Many question marks exist as to what this weekend's Big Ten Championships will bring for the women's track and field team, but coach Randy Heisler is confident of one thing.
At halftime of the Hoosiers' game against the Iowa Hawkeyes Saturday night, IU's 1953 National Champion basketball team will be honored in a ceremony commemorating their 50th anniversary.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- One IU player who will never give up regardless of the score is sophomore guard/forward Jenny DeMuth. Even though the IU women's basketball team (11-14, 4-11 Big Ten) dropped a 74-48 game against Purdue (22-5, 11-4) on Thursday in West Lafayette, DeMuth again displayed her determination and never say die attitude.
The No. 42 men's tennis team snapped its one match losing streak when they defeated No. 60 Ball State 4-3 in Muncie yesterday. Ball State had won five straight coming into the match. IU is now 9-1 for the season.
The No. 22 IU men's swimming and diving team (8-1, 5-1 Big Ten) is traveling up to Ann Arbor, Mich., this weekend for the second time this season to compete at the Big Ten Championships. Earlier this year, IU was defeated by Michigan in a dual meet 174.5-122.5.
A long-standing rivalry adds another storied chapter tonight in West Lafayette. The IU women's basketball team squares off with the No. 12 Purdue Boilermakers at 7 p.m. at Mackey Arena. The Hoosiers (11-13, 4-10 Big Ten) will look to spring the gigantic upset when they travel north in the state to take on their old conference nemesis. IU has struggled away from Assembly Hall this year, compiling a 1-6 conference record on the road. Purdue (21-5, 10-4) is positioning itself to make another run at a Big Ten title.
The men's tennis team's winning streak has come to a small bump in its road. IU lost last weekend's match to No. 26 Vanderbilt 7-0, its first loss of the season. The team will try to get back on the winning side of things 1 p.m. today when it travels to Muncie to square off against Ball State.
The winter weather claimed yet another victim this week. The No. 19 IU women's golf team was unable to get back into its groove after flying high from its hot fall start in which the team won two team championships and placed well in every tournament.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- What the IU men's basketball team didn't need in the midst of three games on the road was exactly what they got -- a six-day break that only helped the Hoosiers forget their revitalizing performance during the win at Iowa last Wednesday.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Two towering forwards couldn't be ignored in Tuesday's men's basketball game. While the Hoosiers (16-10, 6-7 Big Ten) suffered yet another road loss 80-54, senior Jeff Newton's role in the game was to step up for the Hoosiers in guarding Illinois (19-5, 9-4 Big Ten) senior Brian Cook.
The IU men's basketball team is set to take the floor at 9 p.m. tonight in Assembly Hall against the University of Illinois. Unfortunately for the Hoosiers, it's not the Assembly Hall that is home for them. Instead, IU travels to Champaign-Urbana to face the No. 18th ranked Fighting Illini (17-5, 7-4 Big Ten) in the like-named stadium. The game, which is set to be aired on ESPN, is a rematch between two of the 2002 co-Big Ten season champions. IU and Illinois first faced each other this season on Jan. 18 in Bloomington. At the time, the Hoosiers were ranked in the top-20 and the Illini were enjoying a top-10 ranking.
Over a four game span at last weekend's Princeton Invitational the women's water polo team scored a total of 35 goals en route to a tournament championship. With all the goals being scored it could be easy for the Hoosiers to simply credit their offense for their four game win streak. Yet the defense is stepping up at the right time and has become a dominant force for the Hoosiers.
Inheriting a program with a dismal 13-31-1 record in 2002, including a winless 0-17 conference record, is no easy task, but new softball coach Sara Hayes said she is confident she can bring change to the ailing program. With IU recently pulling off a seven run extra inning tear, Hayes might be on the right track.
After a loss a team can say they lost because they didn't play well, they struggled or just didn't get the job done. But in most cases like Saturday's match at No. 11 ranked Tennessee (7-2), the better team wins.
IU ended its regular season on a high note this weekend with a sweep of Robert Morris College. The wins were the Hoosiers' last home games of the season before leaving for Anaheim, Calif., this week to compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division-II National Championship tournament.
IU ended its regular season on a high note this weekend with a sweep of Robert Morris College. The wins were the Hoosiers' last home games of the season before leaving for Anaheim, Calif., this week to compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division-II National Championship tournament.
Coming off of four straight losses in only two days, the Hoosier softball team had a big hill to climb for Sunday's game. Luckily the "hill" was the 0-5 Radford Highlanders.
A crowd of nearly 500 people, the largest crowd of the season, arrived at University Gym for the IU wrestling team's final home meet of the year on Friday night. The raucous group loudly cheered every Hoosier point, but even the largest crowd of the season could not stop IU from going 0-2 against Iowa and Minnesota this weekend.
Saturday the No. 11 men's track and field team competed in the Hoosier Hills as their final tune-up before the indoor Big Ten Championship meet, which takes place next weekend at the University of Illinois.
With the Big Ten Championship meet just a week away, the IU women's track and field team showed that they're on the right track Saturday at the Hoosier Hills Open.